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Pretty sure Stanford went to 4 consecutive BCS bowls while USC was signing 5 star recruits.  Maybe a bad quarter against Oregon from winning a national championship.  What ever happened to bowing to no program?  Be the team that wins. That also  means you don't worry when some midwestern school you never play gets a good coach.  I see very little impact to Stanford.  I don't really care, but it would be fun to see Harbaugh stay at Michigan long enough to throw down with Urban Meyer, Mark Dantonio, James Franklin, and, and.... (see how boring the Big Integer became with Bo Pelini out of the way? Jim is their new Bo.*) on a regular basis, eventually punching out some player from Clemson in a low level bowl to end his career.  Or more likely return Michigan to the cusp of winning it all, without winning it all, and move on.  Basically repeat his last three stops.  (Can't figure out why the 11-1 USD Pioneers weren't in the FCS playoffs in 2005 - maybe they were transitional?)

And in this era of schedule strength and conference reputation, you want to be in a strong conference rather than be the king of the weaklings.

*Probably could have held a drinking contest to the number of times Harbaugh mentioned Schembechler in his presser.

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Pretty sure Stanford went to 4 consecutive BCS bowls while USC was signing 5 star recruits.  Maybe a bad quarter against Oregon from winning a national championship.  What ever happened to bowing to no program?  Be the team that wins. That also  means you don't worry when some midwestern school you never play gets a good coach.  I see very little impact to Stanford.  I don't really care, but it would be fun to see Harbaugh stay at Michigan long enough to throw down with Urban Meyer, Mark Dantonio, James Franklin, and, and.... (see how boring the Big Integer became with Bo Pelini out of the way? Jim is their new Bo.*) on a regular basis, eventually punching out some player from Clemson in a low level bowl to end his career.  Or more likely return Michigan to the cusp of winning it all, without winning it all, and move on.  Basically repeat his last three stops.  (Can't figure out why the 11-1 USD Pioneers weren't in the FCS playoffs in 2005 - maybe they were transitional?)

And in this era of schedule strength and conference reputation, you want to be in a strong conference rather than be the king of the weaklings.

*Probably could have held a drinking contest to the number of times Harbaugh mentioned Schembechler in his presser.