Fox College Football lead analyst Joel Klatt today lent his analytical and voice talents to the broadcast radio medium, making a sit down on The Herd program to offer an opinion on everyone’s favorite college coaching obsession, Jim Harbaugh of the Michigan Wolverines.
Cowherd is known across the country for his flaming hot takes fired scattershot across the American sporting spectrum. Klatt arrived in time to offer grist for the Herd’s mill on coach Harbaugh, one of the radio program’s most frequently addressed subjects
Klatt was up to the challenge, and called the home loss last Saturday to a reeling Michigan State team a bottoming out of sorts, and suggested beating everyone consistently except Michigan’s most ferocious rivals won’t cut it in Ann Arbor.
“In particular, with the way Michigan State had a coaching staff that came in late, a lot of new players. It does not look good,” said Klatt.
From there Klatt moved into Harbaugh’s $9-million dollar a year contract and how the Wolverines are not getting an elite return on that spectacularly high number.
“I will tell you this,” said Klatt. “A lot of the hate that Harbaugh gets is deserved because a lot of people think, and his contract suggests, that they should be at the very top end of college football…and they’re just not that type of program. If you’re just looking for Michigan to get back to doing Michigan things, they’re actually doing that.”
Klatt went on to suggest—in defiance of the statistical record—that the Wolverines have not traditionally had the kind of football program to stack up with the elite schools across the country.
“If you look at their history. They’re just not that type of program,” Klatt said.
Things have reached such a state in Ann Arbor, that according to Klatt, he would not be surprised to see Harbaugh move on from coaching all together to begin touring the country like some kind of traveling Wilbury in khaki pants.
“I wouldn’t be shocked if he stepped away. I would not be surprised at all if, in a matter of a few years, Jim Harbaugh is not coaching anywhere and is just driving around the country in an RV,” said Klatt. “And I’m not joking. I’m not being sarcastic there, that’s not a joke or knock. I’m dead serious. If it’s not going to work at Michigan, Jim’s not gonna go anywhere else. He’s going to drive around the country in an RV.”
