I get that you want to ignore that Harbaugh has never won a conference championship
I get that you want to ignore that Haraugh has nevre won a national championship
I get that you want to ignore that Harbaugh has really never won anything of significance in CFB
I get that you want to pretend that NFL Football is the same as CFB
Unfortunatley, none of these things are true
You've randomly chosen certain metrics and decided that these make Harbaugh great
(for some reason winning a BCS game is more important than going undefeated, winning a confernece, etc......at least in your mind)
You've randomly started throwing out assertions that Harbaugh will be great at Michigan (far from a guarantee) and start winning meaningful games (something he's never done anywhere) and won't leave or get chased out of town (something that's happened to him everywhere)
You've also randomly decided, based on your own arbitary metrics, that Harbaugh is much greater than Kelly.............though you can't (or won't) even try to debate the point that Kelly's team would SMEAR Harbaugh's team if they actually played this season..........which is again all that matters
You can keep trying to worhsip someone who is the #3 CFB Coach in his own division (based on accoplishments) and is likely to finish even lower than that this year (again, all that matters)........but until you can provide something meaningful for your sloberfest, don't expect anyone who's actually watched his history and isn't just getting the Michigan rendition of it to really care
Harbaugh is a good coach, but he's never won anything of significance, and is a mile from the god-like figure you're trying to pretend he is
"You've randomly started throwing out assertions that Harbaugh will be great at Michigan (far from a guarantee) and start winning meaningful games (something he's never done anywhere)"
Oh it's guaranteed as long as the um hierarchy stays out of his way. Yes, he's that good. It may take a bit to ramp up, but he'll get it done.
Yeah, his knocking off #1 southern cal was meaningless. Has kelly ever beaten a number 1 team? Hint no. Has kelly ever won a bcs game? Hint no.... The big east conf champ accolade is insignificant. The conference was so worthless it dissolved.
Did you see what happened to the pats undefeated season? It kind of went up in smoke when the Giants beat them. That left former all pro Junior Seau uttering, "we didn't accomplish anything." It's not called undefeated. It's called a one loss season. Keep the rose colored glasses on though....
Let me try this another way.
Of the 12 head coaches w/ a min 5 yrs tenure at ND kelly (.692) is outperforming Brennan (.640), Faust (.535), Davie (.583) and Weis (.562).
Factoid: "No Coach" from 1887-1893 tied Davie and beat Weis and Faust.
8-5
8-5
12-1
9-4
8-5
Notre Dame has lost 5 or more games 23 times in 127 years.
We have done it 9 times this century.
14 of the 5 loss seasons are:
Kuharich (4)
Faust (4)
Weis (3)
Kelly (3)
Here are the 23 years of 5 plus losses:
1933 Andersen (coached 3 years)
1956 Brennan (coached 5 years)
1959 Kuharich (coached 4 years)
1960 Kuharich
1961 Kuharich
1962 Kuharich
1963 Devore (coached 2 years)
1981 Faust (coached 5 years)
1983 Faust
1984 Faust
1985 Faust
1986 Holtz (coached 11 years won NC)
1994 Holtz
1999 Davie (coached 5 years)
2001 Davie
2003 willingham (coached 3 years)
2004 willingham
2007 weis (coached 5 years)
2008 weis
2009 weis
2010 kelly
2011 kelly
2014 kelly
What's fascinating is listening to folks tout kelly's 8 win per year streak. When I bring up his loss record the fall back is, we play more games now. Well doesn't that take away from the 8 win per annum bragging too?
Harbaugh dwarfs kelly in every facet of the game. That includes finishing third in the Heisman, being a first round NFL pick and spending 14 years in the league.
kelly has one undefeated season at Grand Valley period. He also sucker punched cinci and tried to sucker punch us.
Starting a season with 12 men on the field when the 12th guy who isn't supposed to be on the field is your O captain is bizarre. Not knowing basic football math against NW was worse. I could go on and on, but rest assured Harbaugh knows more about football in his pinky than kelly ever will.
I guess kelly's and harbaugh's head to head game was also meaningless. Harbaugh played with kelly like a cat does with a mouse much like sarkisian this year.
We are the defending music city bowl champs. That gives us zero bragging rights. We're staring right down the Texas barrel. They have everything to gain and will try to make a statement. We better be careful. "kelly ball" intimidates no one. Until he understands physical dominance we're toast.
Please feel free to share any component of this team that has shown consistent statistical competence over kelly's tenure. Hint, there are none.
Yeah, winning the big east will go down in the annals of sports as well nothing. However, Harbaugh's 3 consecutive conference championship appearances to start his NFL HC career will stand the test of time. His beating southern cal as a 41 point dog record will too....
Harbaugh knows what he's doing...kelly not so much....
You still haven't answered my question, who would you take for HC kelly or Harbaugh?