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<blockquote data-quote="TJV" data-source="post: 447541" data-attributes="member: 4300"><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="color: #000000">Harlan became President before the 1989 season and in November of 1991 he hired Wolf and put him in charge of football operations. '89 was the "Majik" season and the Packers rebounded from 4-12 in Infante's first season to 10-6, just missing the playoffs. After that season I remember a poll (either radio station or newspaper) which asked Packers fans who the best HC in Packers history was and Infante won. Obviously it wasn't a scientific poll and apparently it found a lot of Packers fans without a sense of perspective or history. But I bring that up to make the point that Packers fans were extremely optimistic going into the 1990 season. I'm not making excuses for Harlan - along with a couple of huge accomplishments he made a couple of significant blunders IMO - but I understand if he wanted to give Infante time to succeed in Green Bay. Infante's 1990 Packers went 6-10 and in '91 as the Packers were lurching back to 4-12, Harlan decided enough was enough and he radically "re-made" the organization with about a month left in that season. So yes Harlan wasn't successful until he hired Wolf. But he did recognize the flaw in the organization and fixed it. If either of his predecessors, Parins or Olejniczak, had done that I would be lauding them instead of Harlan. And if it took Harlan two or three more years to fix I'd still be praising him for doing it. Better late than never. </span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TJV, post: 447541, member: 4300"] [FONT=Tahoma][COLOR=#000000]Harlan became President before the 1989 season and in November of 1991 he hired Wolf and put him in charge of football operations. '89 was the "Majik" season and the Packers rebounded from 4-12 in Infante's first season to 10-6, just missing the playoffs. After that season I remember a poll (either radio station or newspaper) which asked Packers fans who the best HC in Packers history was and Infante won. Obviously it wasn't a scientific poll and apparently it found a lot of Packers fans without a sense of perspective or history. But I bring that up to make the point that Packers fans were extremely optimistic going into the 1990 season. I'm not making excuses for Harlan - along with a couple of huge accomplishments he made a couple of significant blunders IMO - but I understand if he wanted to give Infante time to succeed in Green Bay. Infante's 1990 Packers went 6-10 and in '91 as the Packers were lurching back to 4-12, Harlan decided enough was enough and he radically "re-made" the organization with about a month left in that season. So yes Harlan wasn't successful until he hired Wolf. But he did recognize the flaw in the organization and fixed it. If either of his predecessors, Parins or Olejniczak, had done that I would be lauding them instead of Harlan. And if it took Harlan two or three more years to fix I'd still be praising him for doing it. Better late than never. [/COLOR][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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