by Kevin Schroeder
After Ohio State’s victory in the National Championship Game Monday, it was easy for the Michigan fan base to get down. After all, their biggest rival had just won a championship, and Michigan themselves are coming off a 5-7 season without much of a recruiting class to speak of yet. The excitement about the hiring of Jim Harbaugh seemed to have worn off and most people’s thoughts turned to the uphill battle Michigan will be fighting.
But to my fellow Michigan fans, don’t worry. A storied program that’s fallen on hard times can absolutely right the ship even with Urban Meyer putting together great teams in the same conference.
How do I know this?
Because it’s happened before.
In 2003, Alabama was looking for a new coach, and focused on candidates with ties to the university. One might say that they were looking for an “Alabama man” (No, not the action figure from South Park). The Crimson Tide hired Mike Shula, who managed to win more than six games only once in his four-year tenure at the school, going 10-2 in 2005. In 2006, the Tide went 6-7 and Shula was fired. (The 16 wins from 2005 and 2006 would later be vacated.)
Enter Nick Saban.
Saban had made a name for himself as an assistant before getting his first shot as a head coach at Toledo in 1990. In his lone season there, he took the Rockets from 6-5 to 9-2. Following this, he spent the next four years as Bill Belichick’s defensive coordinator with the Cleveland Browns before returning to the college ranks as the head coach at Michigan State. After four lackluster years there, Saban led the Spartans to a 9-2 record, and then left to take the head coaching job at LSU. (Michigan State would win their bowl game after Saban’s departure.)
At LSU, Nick Saban took over a 3-8 team and won a National Championship in his fourth year there. He would coach one more year after that before leaving for the NFL, where he would go 15-17 in two years with the Miami Dolphins.
Saban, despite facing an uphill battle at Alabama, turned the program around and won a National Championship in his third year there. After in-state rival Auburn won the title the following year, Saban and the Tide won the next two.
Now, in 2015, Michigan is coming off a 5-7 season and Urban Meyer’s team are National Champions.
Enter Jim Harbaugh.
In three years at San Diego, Harbaugh went 29-6 and won two conference titles. Following this, he took over as head coach at Stanford, who had gone 1-11 in the year prior to Harbaugh’s arrival. Four years later, the Cardinal went 12-1, won the Orange Bowl, and finished the season as the #4 team in the country.
Harbaugh then left for the NFL, and was successful there as well, playing in three NFC Championship games and one Super Bowl in four years with the San Francisco 49ers.
So don’t worry, Michigan fans. Things may look tough, but things looked tough for Alabama in 2007, too. And just like Alabama, we’ve got a great coach who can turn programs around. So why can’t Harbaugh do what Saban did at Alabama? Why can’t Michigan become a dominant program again? Why can’t we compete for National Championships?
Why not us?
After all, who’s got it better than us?
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