At a certain point you have to deliver.
A short timeline of Jim Harbaugh's three-season Michigan odyssey has seen him go from impressive to funny to insane to annoying to very annoying to kind of boring and finally to "meh." Meh is bad. Meh is the face of a football team that has slipped from football relevance in the past... oh, I don't know, two decades or so, to the present day where they are just one more 8-5 season from being another seven-second clip in a depressing 60 Minutes montage about the Rust Belt.
8-5 (wow, what a coincidence!