Sad news: after quarrelling with the star player official suspended the head coach for 7 year immediately….
Institutions fall when leadership struggles. Your timeline witnessed that when Lloyd Carr retired in 2007.
It opened the doors to nearly a decade of insignificant football in Ann Arbor, a depleted football program and fanbase, and the need for monumental changes.
Jim Harbaugh succeeded in restoring the greatness at Michigan after nine seasons, winning the 2023 National Championship.
It took years to re-establish the hard-nosed toughness the Wolverines once possessed, and it led them to being champions once again.
But what if there was never a need to fully restore the program? Let’s explore a timeline where an up-and-coming head coach with ties to the Michigan Wolverines came to Ann Arbor much sooner than your world.
It’s early 2007, and Lloyd Carr’s Wolverines had just lost their two most important games to end the 2006 season. Most frustratingly was The Game, where No. 1 Ohio State topped No. 2 Michigan in Columbus.
They answered that game with a loss in the Rose Bowl to No. 8 USC, where the offense scored just three points in the first three quarters of action.
It was the most disappointing finish imaginable for the Wolverines, and there was pressure on the administration to make a change sooner rather than later.
