Updated Coaching Search List: Our Top Candidates

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  • Top Choice: Jim Harbaugh - Until he definitively says no I can't take him off this list. Personally, I am not completely sold on him as a long-term answer for the program, but lord knows every other UM fan and their brother have him as their favorite. Hell, even Lloyd Carr publicly announced that the former Wolverine QB was his favorite too. I believe he is the most interesting of the candidates (outside of Tressel), but I really don't see him in Ann Arbor...ever!
  • Extreme Longshot: Jim Tressel - Hey, why not?! I know this is a near impossibility to happen but if it did it would instantly upgrade THE Rivalry and restore some order within the football program. Let's face it, there will be no Harbaughs coaching in Ann Arbor next year and there is no clear-cut favorite to win the job as of late. A Tressel hire is almost as likely to happen as anything, particularly when you factor in what's at stake for the program. The big things keeping it from truly being a reality is that the former Buckeye coach is still under NCAA sanctions through 2016 and is only several months deep into his new job as the President of Youngstown State University. 
  • Secret Candidate: Bret Bielema - Bielema fielded a fairly competitive Arkansas team in the ridiculously tough SEC West this year. Not sure he would want to come back to the Big Ten after only two full seasons down south, but the Michigan job would probably be the one to lure him back. He possesses everything the program would want in a new skipper.
  • The Safety: Greg Schiano - Schiano looks like a good fit and probably represents the guy most-likely to take the job if it were offered to him. At the very least, he is a very good backup plan that would continue to instill discipline into the program. He has always shown loyalty to his guys. Just look at how many of his former Rutgers players were on the Bucs' roster. That kind of loyalty goes a long way with kids at the high school and college level.
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