The 40% attrition rate can never be ignored – its not simply about ability to play vs sitting on the bench for 4 years.
I don’t care if you have 5 OL who are the 2nd coming of Jake Long. you never know when 1 of them suffers a career ending injury.
you never know when 1 is guna get drunkt up one night and start sending nudy sexybits.
You never know when 1 of them is going to have a few drinks; cut in a bar line and end up in fight with a women & the cops…….
You never know when 1 of them walks in your office and says coach I just wana move back closer to home…….
So at some point 40% of those guys are going to NOT be there for their full term of elgibilty and when you build a Team you have to account for the reality that as soon as 5 OL enroll, 2 of them are already gone…….
And of course, now I’m talking about Building a Team; vs Coaching a Team..
We all a well aware that Harbaugh can coach a Team. Hell I think he’s a Coaching Idiot Savant…… but no where has he Built A Team. He hasn’t done this yet.
3 yrs at USD – never Built it
4 years at Stanford – never finished the build job – Shaw did it.
49’ers is different as its NFL but Jimmy coached Singletary’s players – again did not build it.
Michigan – just entering 3 years and the school is still out as to whether jimmy can Build a Team as well as Coach it.
Just because you are a world class race car driver doesn’t mean you can build a world class race car……. School is still out on whether Harbaugh can Build a Team as well as Coach one.
IMHO……….INTJohn
