Exiting the Harbaugh train

[MHS831]

Especially in college where style points matter. Stanford is playing for the #2 position in the final polls as much as they were an Orange Bowl title. They went there to prove a message and VT should have known that going in. I could have told you weeks ago Harbaugh was going to try to make it ugly.....

Very good point

[rayzor]

all of that stuff is the reason i have been wanting him as a coach here since fall of '09.

he's smarter and better than the guys across the field and he's going shove that down their throat and smile the whole time. he reminds me of sean payton and belicheck.

i've been pimping him for over a year now. my only regret is that he got this popular nationally (not taking credit for that popularity, btw). he became the hottest ticket around and it was deserved. i'm still hoping something happens and he shows up here, but i've pretty much accepted that it won't happen.

right now i just plan on being disappointed with who we select and a large part of that has to do with a lack of faith in hurney. i just don't trust him to find the best HC possible. i don't trust him to do much of anything right at this point.

[Chaos]

Like I said in another thread. Harbaugh = expensive bait, Luck = prized catch. We'll have to get our fish with different bait.

[Stroupe-a-loop]

You shouldn't be in any kind of hurry to pay a guy who has proven nothing in this league 6 million or so a year. He might be a good coach and his team played very well in the Orange bowl, but Va Tech isn't really a big game team anyway. I think they are an eternally overachieving mid level program. Hopefully we can get the quarterback; somebody else can have the coach.

[g5jamz]

I'm a bit reserved about Harbaugh after what we saw happened with Nick Saban and Bobby Petrino. Sometimes the comfort zone is college. I'm fine with established OC/DCs, but I want spark in the offense. So if the HC is defensive minded, he'd better have an offensive star sitting there at OC.

[Jangler]

balls are for the other guy, not Panthers.

Looks like JR wants a balless yes man for coach, so be happy with years of the same only at a higher level.

[Pimpdaddy]

I'm a bit reserved about Harbaugh after what we saw happened with Nick Saban and Bobby Petrino. Sometimes the comfort zone is college. I'm fine with established OC/DCs, but I want spark in the offense. So if the HC is defensive minded, he'd better have an offensive star sitting there at OC.

Thats what im talkin bout.... Butch Davis, Spurrier....etc. OC would be a good logical step but think he will be replaced in a few short years if he is a HC.

We aren't going to play the odds with a retread why do it with a college coach....

This is the only train to be on....

[Happy Panther]

You shouldn't be in any kind of hurry to pay a guy who has proven nothing in this league 6 million or so a year.

Luck?

[SorthNarolina]

Harbaugh is a prick. He snubbed reporters after the Orange Bowl, He blitzed and ran up the score on VT and has a history of doing so. He was showing off when he traded the entire right side of the line with the left vs. VT.

Now, I don't think the reporters are right to ask him about his future plans over the PA system in front of Stanford fans right after the Orange Bowl. Still, the networks pay a lot for that opportunity, so his "us against the world" attitude is usually a short-lived ploy in college and pro sports.

I can't disagree more with this it doesn't matter how much the reporters pay for their opportunity to ask him about his plans is incredibly inappropriate like you said.

I think he snubbed the reporters to get the spotlight back on his players who fought hard for him instead of himself. It doesn't seem like a prick at all.

[Stroupe-a-loop]

Luck?

Well we have to draft a guy. That's a little different. We don't have to hire a college coach.

[AntiBuc]

You shouldn't be in any kind of hurry to pay a guy who has proven nothing in this league 6 million or so a year. He might be a good coach and his team played very well in the Orange bowl, but Va Tech isn't really a big game team anyway. I think they are an eternally overachieving mid level program. Hopefully we can get the quarterback; somebody else can have the coach.

Move that price a little north of $6mil?

http://www.fannation.com/truth_and_rumors/view/259050-harbaughs-asking-price-north-of-6-million?eref=sihp

[Davidson Deac II]

Fwiw, after losing to Wake last year in Winston, he whined like a little kid about having to travel to the East Coast and play.

I am ok with him not being here. IMO, he will go somewhere, have a couple of good years, then fall off quickly.

[MHS831]

I can't disagree more with this it doesn't matter how much the reporters pay for their opportunity to ask him about his plans is incredibly inappropriate like you said.

I think he snubbed the reporters to get the spotlight back on his players who fought hard for him instead of himself. It doesn't seem like a prick at all.

I considered your points and it was probably the case. However, I just perceived it as arrogant and think it could have been done without demeaning someone trying to do her job. The reporter at the end was told to ask that question to Luck and Harbaugh, but the timing was terrible. He too was doing his job--I was happy to see Harbaugh react that way at that time, but Tafoya was asking him about the game.

We have limited means with which to make character assumptions and I am trying to dislike him, so please allow a little latitude here!!

[Stroupe-a-loop]

Move that price a little north of $6mil?

http://www.fannation.com/truth_and_rumors/view/259050-harbaughs-asking-price-north-of-6-million?eref=sihp

Wow. I'm sure he could probably get that with all the hype swirling around him now. I'm aware that salaries always get higher, but I wouldn't be to excited to toss the guy 7 million a year when Bellicheck is making 7.5

http://www.forbes.com/2010/05/21/phil-jackson-belichick-mike-shanahan-business-sports-coaches_slide_3.html

Especially when there are other proven winners you could try and talk into coaching for money in that range (Dungy, Holmgren, Cowher, etc.)