Harbaugh Meets Darth Vader
Who's got it better than us?
Just experienced 1of the high points in my life: Speaking w/ Michigan grad & legend James Earl Jones. Doesn't get any better! Just doesn't!
— Coach Harbaugh (@CoachJim4UM) March 27, 2015
Harbaugh should get him to record a version of "The Spirit of Michigan" or Bo's "The Team The Team The Team" speech. Would much rather hear that over the loudspeakers than rawk before a game.
James Earl Jones is a legend.
would that be?
Pretty amazing, although it'd be hard to beat Schembechler's actual speech, so I think I'd rather he recite Yost. Either way it'd be a cool way to get a famous alumnus involved!
Having him sit in for the Public Adress Announcer at the Michigan - Ohio State game?
If we could have him do it for every game, imagine what a recruiting coup that would be, Public Adress Announcer - Darth Vader.
I think it almost goes without saying that I'd rather hear him than Special K, on any occasion.
Hey, no shot to Carl, but James Earl Jones is the Jim Harbaugh of talking.
March 28th, 2015 at 10:47 AM ^
Yeah, it's easy to take Carl Grapentine for granted, but his public address announcer work at the games adds so much dignity and precision to the gameday experience.
"First Down for Michigan!"- Darth Vader
That could get annoying after awhile. It's almost like Lil John "third down for what" at Tennessee.
record that dude saying pretty much anything - one of the best!
That would be nothing short of amazing as he truly has one of the most "moving" voices of our era. That would send shivers down everyone's spine.
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Most impressive.
Jack would kick Vader's ass.
Alternative movie reference:
"Recruits will come Jim. Recruits will most definitely come."
I still remember my sophomore year when the petition went around to make Jones the official voice of CRISP, which would have naturally brought the number of people who dared to press 7 to disenroll to zero, or at least there may not have been living witnesses to the contrary. In any case, I was part of that unsuccessful effort.
Nice to see the list of famous alums - athletes and otherwise - coming to see what's been going on in Ann Arbor lately and stopping in to see Jim Harbaugh.
if they still call it CRISPing. I remember when they switched to an electronic version in my last year.
I asked some undergrads about this about awhile ago. Sadly, none were familiar with the term CRISP.
What is it?
CRISP itself was the way of registering for courses in the 1980s/90s. You went on the phone, called some number and an automated lady slowly gave you commands about what to enter in on the keypad: "Enter the subject number" . . . "Enter the course number" . . . "Enter the number of credits." You had to enter it all in on the keypad and you only had a limited amount of time before the CRISP lady chided you for not making your choice. Beyond that, you were put on hold frequently because the system couldn't handle very many people at one time.
The whole process could take from 15 minutes to over an hour, depending on whether you could enter everything in correctly, get the courses you wanted, and how busy the system was. It was nerve-wracking trying to enter in those numbers within the allotted amount of time. I would always screw up some number in there and have to redo a bunch of steps. The CRISP lady's "If this is not correct, press 1 now" is burned into my memory. It always felt like a great accomplishment when you got that whole process done.
More generally, "crisp" became the verb for registering for your classes, as in "I just crisped for next term." U-M switched to an online registration system my senior year (Wolverine Access?) but people still talked about "crisping."
March 27th, 2015 at 11:41 PM ^
at that time, "CRISP" just referred to how stoned you were in the Arb
on me for double posting.
for jogging my memory. :-)
March 28th, 2015 at 10:49 AM ^
Now they do a thing called "backpacking".
Complicated Registration Intending to Screw People.
(that might have just been our name for it)
Bo is strong in this one...
Does James Earl Jones follow Michigan sports? If so, he'd be an amazing in-game interview subject.
Brian should set up a Harbaugh Twitter widget on the homepage.
"You may dispense with the pleasantries, Michigan. I am here to put you back on schedule."
Pranked Carrie Fisher's house.
Plus one for Big Bang reference. One of my favorite episodes.
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coolest?
It's Happenning with Harbaugh's head riding on a plane.
OK, Brian. Can we please just have an embedded section on the main page that just automatically posts Harbaugh tweets and allows people to comment?
1. They're always fantastic.
2. Each one always causes at least a couple threads on the board as it is.
I'll hang up and listen.
I bet somewhere in LA, Judge Judy is fuming with scorn.
That is correct, and he is most displeased with our apparent lack of progress.
We shall double our efforts, then.
I hope so, for your sake. The Harbaugh is not as forgiving as I am.
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When I was about 14-15, I got to take a limo ride with James Earl Jones and I still remember it clearly. Even way back then he was looking very frail and I just couldn't stop thinking about what a powerful voice he had and how crazy it was that I was meeting Darth Vader. IIRC, the actor in the suit did all the lines in the movie originally and was pissed that they over-dubbed his voice. The movies just wouldn't have been the same with anybody else. I second the earlier post about having him read "The Team" and playing it in the intro before home games. Sounds Awesome. Hey, see you guys a week from tomorrow! I'm so excited for the Road Trip!!!