Happy Thanksgiving!
Reports are starting to leak out that Jim Hackett maybe have the interim tag taken off him and get the role full time.
Here are my thoughts:
- This is good news from a timing perspective, someone needs to fire Hoke on Monday and hire the next head coach. Having stability in the AD role should help in the hiring process.
- From a potential bad news standpoint, Jim doesn't have any experience being an AD and we just got burned by a former CEO that ran the athletic department like a 1998 dot com.
- CEO's are known to have big egos and a my way or the highway mentality.
- Jim played for Bo and a staff with Jack Harbaugh on it.
- Local real estate executive "Sailboat Bill Martin" did a nice job as AD before be botched replacing Lloyd Carr.
Everyone is different and he could be a great leader and lead this program to where it needs to be. He seems to have a relationship with the Harbaughs, which is a huge positive. The one thing I know for sure is, he is going to start his term with the two most important decisions he will make as AD.
I would have preferred a guy with AD experience but Jim seems to be worth the risk. He can prove his worthy-ness in a couple days and in the next month or so.
6 comments:
Ask the Steelcase employes that he got rid of and shipped their jobs overseas. What a joke for an AD. Just another Dave B.
A president and now an AD who are clueless.
"Ask the Steelcase employes that he got rid of and shipped their jobs overseas."
Whether or not he would run the department well is certainly up for discussion, but that comment has nothing to do with being an AD.
I have been going to games since 1977. I graduated LSA in 1986. I have had season tickets since 1994. If Hackett is not gone by January, I am no longer a fan of this fiasco. Everything about this program has changed for the worse. We are not talking about a pizza shop or a furniture warehouse. Michigan officially sucks. And so do their fans, who are all suckers. You asses have no idea how great we really were and how sad we have become.
Seemed like intelligent discussion until now, as it generally is in this blog, Great job Bob! I went to M for the "Leach years" and have had season tickets then, and ever since. I remember groups of us watching the "Bo show" and always commenting on his "archaic" offensive strategy, how he couldn't win bowl games, or beat a passing team. Then the Lloyd years with top 5 recruiting classes, that rarely finished in the top 10, his ultra conservative offense, and not playing the last couple minutes of the first half because he had to get to the locker room to pee, or something like that.....Not to mention his use of that Tom Brady guy.....wow, that was all odd......had to be the affair he had with Mrs Henson and the pictures she had. M has been a frustrating team to watch for a long time with the exception of just a few years (Actually like Moellar the best)......Yet, most of us remain fans through the up's and downs, and that lessons are learned. Recently there have been many lessons, so let's hope the the leanings start to appear and be thankful that the basketball team is filling the gap!
It really frustrates me how low the program has been allowed to go....
1. Not having a replacement for Lloyd before he retired.
2. The Circus of a coaching search, see above.
3. The RR experiment.
4. The Brady experiment.
Yeah, in the Lloyd Carr years it was always a disappointing season to to end up with a 9-3 or 10-2, expecting to play for a National Title every year. Well, I'd take those days back in a second! Lloyd, love'm or hate'm was 6-7 in bowl games, averaged 9-3 over his 13 year run and won 5 Big 10 Championships as well as the 1997 National Chamionship.
The '06 loss to on the last game of the season.. (how are those kids not motivated to EAT the opponent, the day after Bo passes away?)
and the Appy state mess '07 stick in most people minds, but the body of work was solid....
Whomever is hired, I hope they get back to disappointing us with 9-3 and 10-2 seasons.
The last 10 years are behind us, nothing we can do about that now. What Michigan can do now, is get the best coach. Michigan has to hit a home run. Anything other than that will kill off season ticket sales and really set the program back. It has to be Jim Harbaugh, the best option.
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