August 19th, 2015 at 5:42 PM ^
Harbaugh is too busy sharpening iron on iron.
August 19th, 2015 at 5:45 PM ^
Is Nick still bit%*ing about access?
August 20th, 2015 at 8:42 AM ^
Yes. He was probably doing the same about Harbaugh overexposure before. Beat writers all act as if they hate their job.
August 19th, 2015 at 5:46 PM ^
Nothing really noteworthy here that hasn't been mentioned.
Despite what others may say (cough Cowherd), gotta love the fact that Jim knows exactly when to turn the charm on and manipulate the media but knows when to shut it down when it's in Michigan's best interest.
August 19th, 2015 at 5:47 PM ^
Not a fan of this. I understand he is not a fan of talking to the media, but I would love to actually hear him talk about his football team. We have heard all of this fluff the entire off-season and now we finally get a chance to hear him talk about football and he bails.
August 19th, 2015 at 5:49 PM ^
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August 19th, 2015 at 8:19 PM ^
August 19th, 2015 at 5:51 PM ^
Would you rather have him talk about the football team or coach the football team more for the time an interview would have taken? Personally, information starved as we are, I'd rather have him in there working with the players than sitting down to chat with the media. I realize some of that is necessary, but the more coaching a coach can do the better.
August 19th, 2015 at 5:54 PM ^
Yea, 10 minutes is really going to make or break the development of this football team. C'mon.
August 19th, 2015 at 5:56 PM ^
It's JH. If he can use that 10 minutes to get 0.1% better, he'll do that over an interview to satisy fans every day of his life.
August 19th, 2015 at 9:03 PM ^
August 20th, 2015 at 8:55 AM ^
UM/PSU 2005. Ask Lloyd.
And, when accumulated, those .01s start to add up.
August 19th, 2015 at 5:57 PM ^
Remember you are talking about a guy that wears khakis everyday so he doesn't have to spend 5 mins picking out clothes...
August 19th, 2015 at 6:02 PM ^
August 19th, 2015 at 6:07 PM ^
youths?
August 19th, 2015 at 7:46 PM ^
Harbaugh has built up a TON of buzz over the past 8 months, and we are on the radar of every major recruit and media outlet so he can afford to go underground (or underwater as the case may be) for 3 weeks or so.
For example, there is no reason for potential recruits to get cold feet because Harbaugh is experimenting with player positions or the offense isn't "jelling" etc.
This is an important time when the coaches can really start to instill an identity for the team without lots of scrutiny from naysayers. ecause nobody outside the team has accurate information, players can dismiss articles and tweets about how we are going to play poorly this year <cough> DEADSPIN <cough>.
August 19th, 2015 at 5:59 PM ^
Cumong
August 19th, 2015 at 6:14 PM ^
No offense, but if you think the interview is "only" 10 minutes, then you don't get how TV works. The time to prep him for going on camera, to set up lighting correctly, to sound check, to mic him up, and all the other off screen stuff that he needs to be present for will take a couple of hours, at least. And I guarantee you, a few hours lost to Harbaugh coaching does make a difference.
August 19th, 2015 at 6:24 PM ^
Care to explain how an on the court/field interview immediately after a game happens? Hours to prep? C'mon, man. Most of the things you list that would consume time would be done before Harbaugh would show up. He would join a few hosts that have been on air for 45 minutes by walking up and grabbing a hot mic that players have been using already.
August 19th, 2015 at 6:57 PM ^
On the court/field interviews have an accepted level of "looking like crap" because they're known to be live, unprepped, "raw" interviews. Assuming they wanted a decent looking interview for TV, they'd have to, at a minimum, prep him (makeup, etc.), mic him up (which can be a 2 minute process, can be longer, depending on the setup), and if it's a one on one sit down rather than joining a table, dealing with getting the lighting right for him, and possibly futzing with focus and depth of field depending on the setup (this one would likely be done without him, but I could see a weird camera or set choice that means maybe not, and would likely require a little last second fine tuning). I'm also not accounting for the time it takes getting from wherever he's doing coaching to there, deprepping, and then gettin back. Maybe it wouldn't take quite as long, but I still would be surprised, if they shot the segment properly, it taking less than an hour all told from the time he stopped coaching to the time he started again. To me, and evidently to Harbaugh as well, that time is better spent with the players than telling some talking heads "practice is going well, everyone's competing, no decisions made yet" and similar other coachspeak.
August 19th, 2015 at 7:07 PM ^
It's a live segment that the players joined after practice while still in pads. Harbaugh would have simply walked up to the set and grabbed a mic. Did you watch the show?
August 19th, 2015 at 7:28 PM ^
I did not, I live on the west coast and have been at work all day (and indeed still am). If that's the case, then yeah, a lot of the prep time that I'd discussed probably not applicable, although that wasn't the vibe I got from the article. But it doesn't change my opinion; I'd rather have Harbaugh coaching, or prepping to coach, or reviewing tape, or doing any of the infinitude of things a coach can do to help the team than giving a 10 minute non-information interview simply to appease fans/the network.
August 19th, 2015 at 6:36 PM ^
August 19th, 2015 at 6:45 PM ^
It's not like he hasn't done this everywhere else he coached... He refused to talk to the media after the superbowl.
Personally I dont care if he never talks to another living human for the rest of his life as long as he wins football games and keeps a passable graduation rate
August 19th, 2015 at 7:29 PM ^
requires a total of 10 minutes, I have this excellent historic bridge that I can sell you very very cheap. Appearing on BTN probably requires 3-4 hours of his time. I love this. I'm as hungry for information as anyone here, but the return to Bo's attitude which conventional wisdom says is impossible in the modern era is refreshing. The press are not his friends. Nor is their desire for a sound bite they can spin in the interest of his efforts to build a team. Suck it up. We'll all find out how this season looks on September 3rd.
August 19th, 2015 at 9:31 PM ^
But I don't want him to waste his time giving fluff or make a mistake and reveal something he didn't want out there. I don't mind if I he doesn't speak until the postgame press conference at Utah.
August 19th, 2015 at 5:54 PM ^
August 19th, 2015 at 5:54 PM ^
JH cares if anyone cares. He has stated multiple times he's here to win games. I'd be fine with it if he never gives another interview, but wins the B1G and perhaps a Natty in the next couple years.
August 19th, 2015 at 6:02 PM ^
Jim Harbaugh is the Ron Swanson of football coaches, or is it that Ron Swanson is the Jim Harbaugh of public officials....
August 19th, 2015 at 5:55 PM ^
August 19th, 2015 at 5:59 PM ^
but I think DMX says it better...
August 19th, 2015 at 9:02 PM ^
August 19th, 2015 at 5:55 PM ^
August 19th, 2015 at 5:59 PM ^
You must...much...learn...young Padawan.
August 19th, 2015 at 6:09 PM ^
August 19th, 2015 at 6:12 PM ^
You'll get to hear him talk about the team soon enough. You've waited 7.5 months - another two weeks won't kill you.
August 19th, 2015 at 6:13 PM ^
He told the team that they collectively would be going under, like a submarine. He's asking his players to embrace the no distractions and total focus mentality, likely because thinks this attitude will help the players, and I can get behind that. If he were to go and give interviews and play it up with the media, that would be a little bit hypocritical wouldn't it? Therefore, I like this decision and think he did the right thing.
August 19th, 2015 at 6:14 PM ^
You know what's great about this? When Harbaugh doesn't talk, he gets more attention for the program than every other school has gotten during the BTN tour. He certainly has a great sense of timing. Harbaugh has just made Michigan's camp the biggest news in the Big Ten.
August 19th, 2015 at 7:58 PM ^
We all know what happens when you force someone to answer dumbass questions from the media against their will:
This was the biggest story of the NFL playoffs until deflate-o-rama really got rolling.
And we all know why Harbaugh is here: to win some football games.
August 20th, 2015 at 8:26 AM ^
Wait, what?!?! There are other camps? I thought the other teams were having spa days. Our boys are staying in South Quad with no AC. Now that's a camp!
August 19th, 2015 at 6:36 PM ^
Hey, this is part of the deal with having Jim as our coach. He marches to the beat of his own drummer. If he doesn't want to deal with the BTN, he won't.
It's a pretty small price to pay for everything else you get from the guy.
August 19th, 2015 at 7:26 PM ^
This team is not going to talk about it, they're going to be about it.
August 19th, 2015 at 7:50 PM ^
Yep. I wish we had a coach that would get up in front of the microphones and tell us how well we are practicing... Oh wait...
August 19th, 2015 at 8:15 PM ^
Isn't so much about the talking, but about the doing.
'bout that action boss.
August 19th, 2015 at 8:43 PM ^
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