Michigan Football: Jim Harbaugh the college football version of Taylor Swift
San Diego is to Joe Jonas
Jim Harbaugh cut his head coaching teeth at a little Pioneer League school named San Diego. The Toreros had limited success under head coaches Brian Fogarty and Kevin McGarry before the former long time NFL quarterback Jim Harbaugh took the top spot on the coaching staff.
Harbaugh took a program that won around six games a year on average and in three seasons at the helm took them to seasons of 7-4, 11-1, and 11-1 before moving on to the Stanford Cardinal. Since Harbaugh, the Toreros strung together nine-win and even two ten-win seasons but haven’t been able to win eleven games without Harbaugh as head coach.
When Taylor Swift began dating Joe Jonas, she was the lesser known entity. Her album Taylor Swift and her hit single “Tim McGraw” took off much in the same way that Harbaugh took off with San Diego and their two eleven-win seasons. Swift left Jonas for greener pastures like “Speak Now” and eventually “1989.”
Jonas has had success with DNCE and their top 10 song “Cake by the Ocean” but his post-Swift career has more been about his time on the Voice and the Voice Australia than his own recordings. While it wasn’t a total disaster post-split with Ms. Swift, Jonas has been successful but not in stardom, much like the San Diego Toreros after Coach Harbaugh.