Justin has his hair on fire about this. While I'm not happy with the current state, I have a couple of hot takes that to me are relevant.
1. Remember where we were. Even under Carr our performance had graduated to the mean of a 9 or 10 win season. My problem was the avoidable way in which we'd lose. The handling of his replacement falls on the AD at the time, but it's not relevant to the hot takes. If you take into consideration where we were with a realistic expectation, then we're right at or slightly ahead in some of our goals. This doesn't mean we are perfect, but it doesn't mean Harbaugh should be on the hot seat after 1 game into the season or that we should be lighting our hair on fire just yet. Remember, we were one fluke play in his first year from making the B1G tournament. Fluke plays happen yadda yadda yadda. But considering where we were the year before, there's no question he over-exceeded expectations. Then we lost a ton of talent to the Draft and graduation. Year 2 was the Speight show till he got bent in half. He never recovered which left us year 3 with a broken QB, a washed up QB from down south, and a QB who never saw the field. All of which were again hurt or performed to the expected level. The outcome was predicted by most as an 8 or 9 win season, which it was. This year, we're starting with a new QB again. Everything to this point has been a late buy in via transfer, or a Brady Hoke QB. Maybe, our problem is that Brady sucked at assessing QB talent. I saw Mcafferty out there and he looked good, poised, precised. Green for sure, but he looked good. That's a Harbaugh recruit.
2. This season is reminding me of Harbaughs first. Short of the curb stomping OSU put on us, we were a great team that year that lost on a once in a lifetime fluke play. Still a loss, but it was a good year. A new transfer QB worked to get up to speed and did it well. Now if we get to the end of this season and we've lost to PSU, WI, MSU, and OSU, then by all means let's start the seat heater. Otherwise, settle down. There's reasons we are the way we are today and it's not going to be fixed overnight. Lighting our hair on fire isn't helping anything till it's proven that he's a problem.
That said, there are areas of concern for me. His holding onto Pep Hamilton this year is a problem. The O-Line recruiting is a problem (And direct cause of some of our problems), Playcalling has been predictable (problem I had with Carr, though more on the defensive side).
