The 49ers have gotten to the Super Bowl during Harbaugh's tenure. What do you mean by "track record" for a HC if not team success?
I'll be pissed if Woody keeps Idzik around for another year. The guy is nothing more than a bean counter and has no football intelligence. Idzik evaluating talent = Rex knowing offense = SHIT!
If you know anything about sports a coach is only as good as his talent is. A coach may win you 2 games a year but talent wins you most of them.
The people that don't want Harbaugh remind me of the people that didn't want Manning. The excuses go...1) He is not available, 2) he is no longer good, 3) what we have is better, 4) he is not worth it, 5) he doesn't want to come here, 6) he can't win here. And then, like Manning, he will go somewhere and dominate. In other words, if he is available, Woody should pay him literally whatever the fuck he wants.
Harbaugh would be perfect for this organization. His teams play disciplined for the most part, something the Jets are lacking in severely.
A coach in basketball makes no difference. A coach in hockey makes no difference. A manager in baseball makes little difference (I will get flak for this, but apart from playing match ups, managers don't mean jack shit unless players perform). However, in football, a coach makes all the difference. Apart from QB, no person is more important than the coach.
As a Michigan fan I have been following this story very closely. This is where the situation stands at the moment. Harbaugh is allegedly realizing that dealing with NFL players is not as easy as he thought it would be. Jim has a very high competitive urgency and expects all his players to be the same. Some of his players don't like his strong personality and there have been several reports of friction in the locker room. Michigan has not fired its coach yet. There is a very vocal minority on his side that want him retained. Most believe that even if he wins out, he will be fired at seasons end. Gregg Henson claims that several sources close to Jim have told him that if Michigan offers the job he'll accept it. John U. Bacon who is very close to the university is echoing this. Harbaugh and Baalke don't get along at all and that's no secret. SF could easily offer Jim up to an NFL team for whoever will give up the most in draft compensation. SF can unload him without owing him anything and get value in return and Jim will have no control over his destination, a scenario I assume he doesn't like. Some folks think the Raiders are in play because Harbaughs wife wanted to stay in the Bay area which is why he wound up in SF after Stanford. His wife has now agreed to leave the area should an opportunity arise. If Jim is in fact ready to go back to college he'll wind up at Michigan. Aside from owning the Dolphins, Steven Ross is Michigan's largest donor and loves Harbaugh. Ross is not alone. The large majority of the community wants him and Jim has said it's his dream job. Hard to say what's going to happen but I think it's safe to say he won't be back in SF and that's nuts they let him walk away. 3 years as the coach with a SB appearance and 2 additional NFC title game appearances tells you he is a helluva coach.
With a stacked team. In my opinion Rex has accomplished more with less. If Rex went to a team like Atlanta or San Fran after getting canned here they are immediate Superbowl contenders. Harbaugh comes here? Not so much.
It's a no brainer. Ya flush this thing down the toilet and bring him in forthwith The team of Woody, Rex, & Idzik is a fucking embarrassment. They suck Yet there's still people out there that still believe the Rex Myth.... concocted by Rex himself.
Harbaugh took over a team that was 5-11 and hadn't had a winning record in many years. He accomplished far more than Rex has who took over a very talented roster.
Harbaugh has had a stacked team from day 1. The hardest choice he had to make was to bench Alex Smith for Kaepernick. Some tough choice there. Rex got handed Revis and a bunch of question marks and took us further than any Jets coach has in 40 years. Anybody with a brain who doesnt look at numbers and nothing else could see why Rex is more suited for an NFL job. Harbaugh's act would wear thin after half a season here. When reports come out that say your out of a job even if your team wins the Superbowl maybe stop and think that maybe there's something wrong with this guy. Look at the whole picture sometime.
