All Business with JH. Refuses to talk to BTN

one thing is certain.  

Dave Ablauf hates his job right now:

Ablauf:  I need you to talk to the BTN crew

JH:  Fuck you Dave.  

Ablauf to Jim Hackett:  Jim, make JH do the interview.

Hackett to Ablauf:  He told you to fuck off.  So fuck off!!

i suspect harbaugh's job description as head coach includes interacting with the media.  he is odd or tries to come off as odd at times.  i suspect there is a method to his madness.

I don't care if he moons the cameras and shows the media his ass right there on the 50 yard line.

Results, please. We'll go from there. 

Love Jim, but BTN is an entity that literally gives this institution $32 million per year and growing.  Could a few minutes hurt?  Giving the finger to Baumgardner and the rest of the media crew is one thing.

On the bright side, silence is better than Brady Hoke non-answers and verbal ticks, so I suppose this is a step in the right direction. 

If ya want the players to stay in the sub and go all in you need to do the same. 

The sub will surface in Utah and sink their battleship.  

From Sports Illustrated, September 14, 1981
 

"O.K., from a distance Bo comes on like a yahoo. And that's Bo's public image. He has had horrible problems with the press, which has this nasty habit of wanting to talk to him when he loses, his mother's advice notwithstanding. But even if the media's timing were better, it probably wouldn't make much difference, because Bo hates the press. Not just a little. A lot. The Voice of Michigan Football, Bob Ufer, says he has tried to get Schembechler to be nicer to the media. "But he told me," says Ufer, " 'Bob, if I win, I don't need the press, and if I lose, they can't help me.' "

Says Ufer, "Bo has two categories of things in his life: what matters and what doesn't matter. What matters is football. What doesn't matter is everything else. Bo is the kind of guy who is so dedicated that he doesn't realize how he's coming off." So while some coaches like to go out and drink with sportswriters, Bo would prefer to break out in warts.

Until a couple of years ago, he would routinely storm out of press conferences, kick reporters out of the sessions ("Don't be offended," says one of Bo's friends. "He'd kick Millie out, too"), make himself unavailable and order his players not to talk. Talking very softly once at a press conference, he was asked to speak up. "I'm speaking as loudly as I can," said Bo softly and arrogantly. And in a memorable set-to on Oct. 1, 1979, Schembechler gave an absolutely unnecessary push to a publicity-seeking college newspaper reporter.

Yet too much is read into all this. As Don Canham, athletic director at Michigan, says, "Bo is oblivious to life."

If Canham were still alive today, he might say "Bo doesn’t get sick. He doesn’t observe major holidays. He's a jackhammer.”

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I don't know why anybody would care that JH doesn't want to speak to BTN—do they actually believe he's going to say anything that isn't pure coachspeak/pablum/fluff anyhow? Harbaugh could read from the phone book and it would be just as informative.

"We're not going to talk about it. We're going to be about it." - Jim Harbaugh, December 30, 2014 at his introductory press conference. 

I guess he really meant what he said that day. Huh, go figure...