Not everyone is happy with how the Michigan Wolverines look at the beginning of year five under head coach Jim Harbaugh. Some are still believers and think patience is key in Harbaugh’s success this season. Others are jumping off the ship and believe that someone else deserves to be given the reigns.

Former Notre Dame quarterback and current FOX football analysis Brady Quinn went on The Herd with Colin Cowherd and spoke about how Harbaugh and the Michigan football program and if he should be criticized if he doesn’t win the Big Ten conference this year now that Ohio State’s former coach Urban Meyer is gone.

“Well I think that story isn’t done yet,” said Quinn. “I think it’s fair to give him criticism, because everyone’s looking at their team now and looking at the fact that this transition at Ohio State, from Urban Meyer to Ryan Day, like if you don’t do it now, when right? And that’s fair, so it’s fair to criticize.”

Quinn then would go in about Harbaugh and how his skills are being underappreciated just because he hasn’t beaten Ohio State or won many bowl games yet.

“But I also think that he’s probably the most underappreciated coach in college football,” said Quinn. “When you look at really what he’s done since he’s got there, seven years prior to Jim Harbaugh, they’re averaging six and a half wins a year. They’re averaging nine and a half now. I think part of the reason why he’s underappreciated is because around the time when Jim Harbaugh gets hired Urban Meyer was hired. So you got these big names now that are entering the Big Ten.

Growing up in Columbus, Ohio, you were always comparing Ohio State to Michigan and Michigan to Ohio State, that was what it was. I remember when John Cooper was there and he didn’t beat Michigan enough, he didn’t win enough bowl games, and eventually, that was his demise even though had some good football teams. But again you got to beat the team up north and you got to win more bowl games and so Jim Tressel came in and he did that.”

Quinn then explained why he believes that Harbaugh is underappreciated in Ann Arbor.

“But the unfair part I think for Harbaugh in this whole comparison between the two is, Jim Harbaugh took over a program that was in an entirely different circumstance then what Urban Meyer took over,” said Quinn. “I mean look at the success Jim Tressel had. He won a National Championship in that 2002 season. Recruiting was great. He went to back-to-back National Championship games. Urban beat them in 2006 then in 2007 they went again, lost to LSU. But they were still right there.

The cliff that Michigan fell off of, through the Rich Rod to Brady Hoke years, was significant. You had seven years where they just weren’t really competitive, at least not consistently. And now he’s brought them to a point where nine and a half is the standard. They’re probably playing at a New Year’s Six game pretty much every year. This year I think, could very well be the year that they compete not only to win the Big Ten but end up making a run for the College Football Playoff.”

Quinn finished off his rant about Harbaugh by reiterating how much Harbaugh has done for the university so far.

“National exposure. He came up with the idea to take these kids over to Europe and let them travel and all that,” said Quinn. “He’s brought Michigan, one of the blue-bloods in college football back to the forefront and that’s something that I think has been underappreciated in all of this just because he hasn’t beaten Ohio State and because he hasn’t won enough bowl games.”

Harbaugh and the Wolverines have the week off this week but return to action on Saturday, September 21 against No. 14 Wisconsin at Camp Randall Stadium.