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Man it would have been nice if we had hired this guy. Stanford hired him the same year we went with a certain TE coach. He took over a 1-11 Stanford team and has beaten USC three times.

I'm sure we could have gotten him four years ago to coach in the Big Ten and a new stadium. No way we do now. If I were him, I'd look at how Rich Rod messed up a good thing in WV and stay right at Stanford even when Michigan comes calling (Harbaugh went to high school across the street from Standford's stadium).

When you look at the other guys who interviewed for the job (Pelini, Kiffen, and Charlie Strong - whose Louisville team was a 56-point winner yesterday), the guys suggested to him by prominent alum (Dungy endorsed Leslie Frazier), and the guys hired by other programs that same year (Harbaugh) it is amazing that we ended up with who we did.

And don't say this was a decision based on money and salary. We just spent nearly a quarter billion dollars on a stadium. An extra million a year on a coach wouldn't have been a deciding factor. We even made Glen Mason one of the highest-paid coaches in the entire country at one time. This was just a miss. A terrible, terrible miss.
 

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Man it would have been nice if we had hired this guy. Stanford hired him the same year we went with a certain TE coach. He took over a 1-11 Stanford team and has beaten USC three times.

I'm sure we could have gotten him four years ago to coach in the Big Ten and a new stadium. No way we do now. If I were him, I'd look at how Rich Rod messed up a good thing in WV and stay right at Stanford even when Michigan comes calling (Harbaugh went to high school across the street from Standford's stadium).

When you look at the other guys who interviewed for the job (Pelini, Kiffen, and Charlie Strong - whose Louisville team was a 56-point winner yesterday), the guys suggested to him by prominent alum (Dungy endorsed Leslie Frazier), and the guys hired by other programs that same year (Harbaugh) it is amazing that we ended up with who we did.

And don't say this was a decision based on money and salary. We just spent nearly a quarter billion dollars on a stadium. An extra million a year on a coach wouldn't have been a deciding factor. We even made Glen Mason one of the highest-paid coaches in the entire country at one time. This was just a miss. A terrible, terrible miss.
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Great post! We can get a great coach if we do it right.
 


Let's figure out what it would take to get him. Assuming, of course, we might need to do a coaching search some day.

Does he have a price? Does he have demands? I propose we find out.
 

Jim Harbaugh? You must be joking! The guy is totally classless.

He was up by 27 points over a heated rival with 6:47 left in the game and went for a 2 point conversion. That's not the classy kind of coach Minnesota wants...
 



Great post - I missed it first time around. Harbaugh strikes me as the kind of guy who would, sooner or later, have a mad moment that would shock "Minnesota Nice Nation." Kind of like Bo Pelini, but more intense (Bo has learned to be more diplomatic and self-disciplined with help from Dr. Tom). Nevertheless, Harbaugh would drastically improve our program in four or five years, I'm sure - then, a divorce following a big explosion? My dream remains Tony Dungy coming in for a limited run (say, five years) to build the program and bring along a staff for the long haul. If not that, Chris Petersen, a perfect fit for Lake Wobegon environs.
 

Great Plains, I believe Pelini would have not done as well here. There's no question that he's an excellent football guy, but the press would have been all over him the same way they were all over Brewster (maybe not quite as adamantly) and instead of texting Reusse, Pelini probably would have gone after him with a baseball bat. Pelini is in the perfect situation at Nebraska with Dr. Tom as his sponsor and mentor.

The shifting sands and expected retirement of Maturi, the new guy will be walking into some uncertainty. It's Maturi's job to promote and manage the entire athletic program and he does a good job. Minnesota has not been "Football U" since the early 1960s and it was an entirely different universe back then. Osborne and Alvarez don't have as wide-ranging programs in many ways. Brewster has made his own bed, but Maturi has done a lot of shoulder-shrugging throughout the process. His defense of Brewster has always been a bit tepid in my estimation. If Brewster was Maturi's guy, he certainly didn't make it seem that way.

I think Jim Tressel is the perfect FBS coach in a lot of ways. Professional and determined. Problem is, there aren't a lot of guys like him out there. It would have been interesting had Mason gotten the OSU job and we had gotten Tressel way back when.
 




Good points, 50-lb Head. Pelini has a friendly press in Nebraska - hard to see that changing, especially now that he'll be a legitimate contender for the national title as long as Martinez is around - and maybe longer. Tressel at Minnesota is an interesting take.
 

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