Harbaugh Update per Jeff Moss
Per Jeff Moss, who Brian doesn't hate, finds reliable, and has quoted here before.
http://detroitsportsrag.net/not-the-most-optimistic-harbaugh-update/
By Jeff Moss
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December 19, 2014Anyway, last night Jim Harbaugh called one of his former teammates. The conversation did not start well as my source states the San Fran head coach said, “Would you hate me if I didn’t come?”
1) Ted Spencer was U of M’s Athletic/Admissions dude for many years. Spencer left this year and has not been replaced. Harbaugh wants to replace Spencer with someone philosophically in line with Ted.
Harbaugh has concerns that Michigan President Mark Schlissel wants U of M to become more like Brown University. Schlissel’s response is that’s not how he wants to operate.
2) I can confirm that Harbaugh’s agent is the one who leaked the contract details to the national NFL media. Which is weird since the U of M athletic department kind of leaked the same information two weeks ago. Very strange.
3) Further complicating matters is it now appears the Atlanta Falcons are extremely interested in Jim’s services and might be ready to part ways with Mike Smith. And they have Home Depot money.
4) The only piece of good news my source can provide is Jack Harbaugh is still extremely desirous of his son’s return to his alma mater.
December 19th, 2014 at 3:51 PM ^
This is another Hackett Smokescreen!
December 19th, 2014 at 3:51 PM ^
If the guy who roasted UM over its supposed practice of discouraging football players from taking demanding courses while touting Stanford's rigorous academic standards would then refuse to come to his alma mater because he was afraid it was going to be too stringent about admissions standards.
Introducing the J. Ira and Nicki Harris University of Michigan Head Football Coach: Les Miles.
December 19th, 2014 at 5:04 PM ^
Which is why I think this "report" is b.s. on a stick.
December 19th, 2014 at 3:52 PM ^
I'd hate for M to put all this work into getting Harbaugh to Ann Arbor, only to watch him not succeed, relatively speaking, because there's a .5% of his heart that is not fully into Michigan. I know. I know. Unlikely to be the case with a guy like Harbaugh, but still.
December 19th, 2014 at 9:37 PM ^
95.5% of Harbaugh is way more than enough.
December 19th, 2014 at 3:53 PM ^
Harbaugh fears next athetic admissions officer will try apply Ivy league admission standards? I don't thnik so. The Ivy League doesn't give out athletic scholarships. Apples and oranges; it's a non-issue. Especially since Michigan has made huge improvements in this area recently.
December 19th, 2014 at 3:53 PM ^
what about the damn ties!?
December 19th, 2014 at 3:53 PM ^
December 19th, 2014 at 3:53 PM ^
IF true, Harbaugh reaching out and saying that to a friend/teammate is certainly a bad sign. All the rest seems to be nonsense. Michigan is competing with his heart, not a particular NFL situation, and the university will toss the keys to everything about the program to him.
December 19th, 2014 at 3:54 PM ^
I can't take this shit anymore
December 19th, 2014 at 3:54 PM ^
December 19th, 2014 at 4:01 PM ^
His team has wallowed in mediocrity since he has owned them.
December 19th, 2014 at 3:54 PM ^
get Les Miles on the phone.
Hey Les, wanna make more money than Saban?
I'll leave tonight.
December 19th, 2014 at 3:56 PM ^
He was when the info was positive and remains one now.
December 19th, 2014 at 3:54 PM ^
That alleged conversation sounds more like a conversation between HS girls than a coaching candidate and former teammate. IF JH trusts this friend enough to talk feelings than this person would not run to twitter or the media or this person isn't much of a friend.
Heck,even my son will say, "Mom we don't talk about feelings" when my wife asks how one of his friends is doing.
Do they still make Roofies? It may be time to take a Roofie or six and sleep until this is all over.
December 19th, 2014 at 3:55 PM ^
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December 20th, 2014 at 1:08 AM ^
Coaching at Michigan is the highest level. Bo would have instilled that in Jim H.
December 19th, 2014 at 3:55 PM ^
I hope his former teammate said "yes Jim, I will hate you" thereby guilting him into accepting the job!
December 19th, 2014 at 3:57 PM ^
This coaching search is doing to my health what the Nebraska job did to Bo Pelini's health
December 19th, 2014 at 3:56 PM ^
It makes a little more sense as to why the NFL Talking Heads are jumping on board, because they know the devistating letdown down afterward?
Think about it.
December 19th, 2014 at 3:56 PM ^
From what we have seen a number of people report, it really does seem like Jim loves Michigan, but that his heart is in the NFL. If, as Schefter reports, Jim has had a stream of family and friends call to try to encourage him to go to Michigan, and he is still on the fence, this sounds like a classic case of:
Choice A: Thing that would make so much sense that it is obvious, and that everyone close to me is telling me to do, and that would make all of said people really, really happy, even my Dad who I idolize; and
Choice B: This that just feels right to ME at this time and that I really, really just want, despite the fact that it doesn't make as much sense.
Hate to say it, but in those situations, Choice B almost always wins out. To me, if Harbaugh is really worried about the admissions dean, or if given the amount that Michigan is alleged to have put on the table he is still curious about that Atlanta may do, it is obvious that Harbaugh is just looking for an excuse or justification to choose the NFL.
Hate to say it but if that is the case, I hope that Hackett has been lining up some good plan B candidates.
December 19th, 2014 at 5:33 PM ^
December 20th, 2014 at 12:14 AM ^
This seems like the most rational analysis of the latest intelligence.
December 19th, 2014 at 3:56 PM ^
December 19th, 2014 at 3:56 PM ^
I'll be glad when this madness ends. If Jim Harbaugh doesn't come, but Michigan's plan B is a great hire, then the dong punch won't be so bad. If the plan B coach is a joke, I'm taking a freeking break from sports. This is a rollercoaster ride.
December 19th, 2014 at 3:56 PM ^
December 19th, 2014 at 4:13 PM ^
Totally agree.
But if we got into a bidding war, the Falcons would win easily.
(This doesn't matter as far as a bidding war goes, but Home Depot's market cap is 132 billion; Michigan's endowment is around 8-9 billion)
December 19th, 2014 at 4:48 PM ^
Why does it matter what Home Depot's market cap is? Home Depot is a public company, why would they get in the business of paying coaches salaries? It would piss off the stock holders.
Arthur Blank is worth $6.2 billion, but Stephen Ross is worth $4.8 billion (and, he is just one of many wealthy donors).
December 19th, 2014 at 6:16 PM ^
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December 19th, 2014 at 3:57 PM ^
These stories are coming from somewhere, and are pushing radically different points of view.
I don't really know whom to believe at this point.
December 19th, 2014 at 5:29 PM ^
I believe this is the source for most of what we read and hear.
December 19th, 2014 at 10:27 PM ^
Of course, Columbus!
December 19th, 2014 at 3:58 PM ^
As a Cavs fan iv been through this media circus recently..Hate it every time
December 19th, 2014 at 4:05 PM ^
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December 19th, 2014 at 3:59 PM ^
It seems every "sourced" news flash is different from the last. I'm exhausted. Ready for closure on this one way or another. Jimmy just come out and say yes or no and move the fuck on, so Michigan can as well. Damn.
December 19th, 2014 at 4:00 PM ^
I'm gettin Head Spins today.
Harbaugh
December 19th, 2014 at 4:00 PM ^
December 19th, 2014 at 4:00 PM ^
I'm gettin Head Spins today.
Harbaugh
December 19th, 2014 at 4:01 PM ^
Do not drift from your path.
December 19th, 2014 at 4:02 PM ^
As soon as the National media catches up with the Michigan media, Moss switches sides and is going against what everyone else is saying........ He's getting paid everytime someone goes to his site.
I don't know what is credible and what's not, I just wish it would all end very soon!
December 19th, 2014 at 4:02 PM ^
December 19th, 2014 at 4:03 PM ^
I have a hard time believing a grown man would say to another grown man about a very important career decision, "Would you hate me if......?" Just seems very out of character.
December 19th, 2014 at 4:08 PM ^
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December 20th, 2014 at 9:06 AM ^
I agree....it sounds like a conversation between two women.... men typically don't talk like that.
December 19th, 2014 at 4:03 PM ^
I find his question to a former player good news. It says, if accurate, that there existed the idea that he was coming. If you had expressed nothing to anyone about interest in the job, the question wouldn't make sense. So he's having second thoughts. I think we expected this.
Secondly, the other items suggest the same - he's examining the logistics of coming, i.e., admission, wife on board (from another source), etc.
Not discouraged. Guy is seriously looking at it. We just need to talk this bird down to the ground.