Adam Schefter says UM has no IPads?

What's next?

"Harbaugh will be considering the unemployment rate of Michigan, the average temperature and precipitation of Michigan, the median income of Ann Arbor, the average credit score of registered voters, the fact they are Adidas and not Nike, when looking at the field sometimes the "M" looks like a "W" which can be confusing, players have access to 2% or skim but not whole milk..."

Is it a coaching job?  Does he get paid?  Does he have office and a desk in said office?  Does he have access to a store where he can buy khakis?  Yes?  Ok then.

jets available to them which I assume is the case. Can you imagine the wasted time waiting for connections to little towns?

I call bullshit.

What the hell does it matter if UM football didn't have Ipads before Harbaugh (or any new coach) gets here?   If Harbaugh wants his team to have Ipads, or more support staff  they'll get them.

They absolutely do have iPads.  My son watched game clips with one of the running backs in his dorm room.

Hey were trying to hire a coach and he wants to talk about Ipads and a private jet.  This just seems like bullshit.

I was listening to ESPN Radio last night in the car (Sedano and Stink). I don't know why I do that - it encourages road rage on my part and serves no useful purpose.

Anyway, they were doubling down on their serious doubts whether there was any truth to the rumored offer of 6/48. Even allowing that it could be true, they continued to maintain that there was very little likelihood that Harbaugh would come back to Michigan. After all, it's COLD here, and "17 and 18 year olds don't want to play in the COLD!"

What most infuriates me is that if this had been Florida or any of the other ESS EEE CEE teams making this offer, it would have been made Exhibit A for why that conference is the bestest, most awesomely awesome conference EVER!

Asshats. All of them.

lets tell this bro that ipads wouldnt even exist without the University of Michigan.  Hello Adam, did you know that the inventor of iPod was a michigan CE.  Without the large success of the iPod, im willing to guess neither the iPhone nor iPad would even exist, and Apple would probably be dead by now.

http://innovate.umich.edu/2012/09/tony-fadell-inventor-of-the-ipod/

but he's left in the dark on this search and so needs to make up ish to remain relevant. It's just business, fellas!

His credibility is also taking a hit with his baseless statements.  I realize everyone quotes the guy because he has inside contacts throughout the NFL, but he could actually improve his stature if he just came out and admitted that he doesn' t know what the hell is going on.

He's also hurting the program by stating these falsehoods as lackeys around the country that don't know any better believe his drivel.

Hopefully he shuts up soon, but not before taking a minute to admit he was wrong and knows nothing.

Michigan players do have iPads. Unless they took them away at the end of the season. Then I guess technically Schefter would be right.

It gets way worse than iPads. I hear Michigan doesn't even have shoulder pads. 

Schefter is going to report that Michigan supplies one-ply toilet paper and tree leaves for players to use in the locker rooms and prints it's diplomas on cardboard. I can understand Schefter not buying into Harbaugh coming here, but stop trying to sell the public on garbage points that IMO will never be a factor in JH's decision to come and coach at UM. Seriously!? I know it's his opinion, but, I thought he was better than that. This sounds like a Football Scoop post. 

Funny. Yesterday he was on DC espn radio (i.e., before news of the offer broke) and he said (paraphrasing) that whereas he hadn't given any credence to JH goin to UM earlier, he now wasn't ready to dismiss it as a possibility.

That was progress. This is a regression. I increasingly want Harbaugh to Michigan to happen almost as much to rub it in the NFL's face as I do for the obvious. The reporting by Schefter and his NFL beat comrades is getting beyond obnoxious.

And technically here, he's correct, Michigan is not one of them (Bama, Zone, Clemson, Florida, Iowa, KSU, Michigan St, Minnesota, Nebraska, OSU, Oklahoma, PSU, Purdue, and Texas all do; aTm has a helicopter).

However, this is very much because Michigan doesn't need to purchase it's own private jet. It's wasted money. They are close to a major airport, they have big donors in a near-by city, and they aren't recruiting in a ton of small-town areas. Also, Michigan's recruiting budget is over $1m a year, which is in the top 10, getting to places isn't an issue.

So the private jet thing isn't an issue. If Harbaugh wanted to make use of a private jet, it's almost certain someone would supply him with one outside of the athletic department.

And the lack of iPad thing is bunk, as is the minimal support staff. Not that those come up when talking $8m/year anyway.

I have always respected him, but that is changing lately. He's been in full tool mode this past month. 

Sources are telling me that Adam is grasping at straws and is full of shit. Oh another one just came in. Yup, he is completely full of shit. Back to you in the newsroom

We'll pay 48 mil for a coach but not 50K for ipads if he wants them??  Lokk at it this way...  any team that has ipads will have OLDER ones than our when jimmy rolls onto campus..  Yay us!!

Schefter is a moron.. no doubt. 

Has really been an embarassment during this whole thing.  This tops everything else he has said.  

No iPads? You mean football players wear pads on their eyes?

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I am amazed that a guy with Michigan ties - he has a f*cking winged helmet on the wall behind him in every talking head shot - would be regurgitating such drivel and irrelevant information in this coaching search.  I'm sure it's his job to do so, but you'd think the NFL would have figured out by now that they are pretty bad at PR, and stuff like this doesn't help that image one bit.