Are cracks starting to spread in the Michigan football foundation under Jim Harbaugh? At least one former Wolverine is not happy with what he's seeing in Ann Arbor.
Amani Toomer, who earned All-Big Ten honors as a wide receiver for the Maize and Blue under Lloyd Carr and Gary Moeller, was asked for his thoughts on the Michigan head coach at the National Football Foundation Banquet in New York last week and he didn't pull any punches.
“I'm really upset at how Harbaugh is doing at Michigan. 1–5 versus Michigan State and Ohio State. He's only beat Michigan State once, last year. The rest of the times have been losses.
“I think that he has not performed as well as I thought he should. He hasn't turned the program around. Him and Brady Hoke are neck-and-neck with records. He's a guy who hasn't won anywhere.”
Harbaugh is 28–10 in three seasons with the Wolverines, never finishing higher than 3rd in the Big Ten East. His team stumbled to a 5–4 conference record this year.
“I haven't been back [to Ann Arbor]. I'm not upset that I haven't been back. The fact that we're mired in mediocrity and accepting it... that's not what I think of Michigan. I don't think of Michigan as an 8–3 team and being excited because we have Michael Jordan shoes. I don't care about the shoes, going to Rome, all that stuff. We're an also-ran team in the Big Ten and it's embarrassing.”
Michigan will face South Carolina in a battle of unranked teams on Jan. 1 in the Outback Bowl.
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