Bo versus Harbaugh yelling at officials
For those of you who didn't grow up watching Bo, Harbaugh's sideline display over a botched call was quite mild.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tgcn7_hLIM
Check out the following minute marks for a sample of Bo's reactions to officials on botched calls:
3:00, 4:20, 6:49, 9:38, 11:35, 13:35
I like how Harbaugh's reaction is charaterized as "tantrum" or "loses his mind" and the annoucers back in Bo's day call him "intense", competitive", "very caring", and "very sensitive".
My favorite quote if you can't watch the clip is: "If you need to light a fire, all you have needed to do was touch his head" when describing Bo on the sidelines after a bad call.
September 14th, 2015 at 2:30 PM ^
Love the energy Harbaugh brings. Hoke would have pointed at the ref and the clapped
September 14th, 2015 at 3:36 PM ^
This is the exact conversation I had with a few friends on Saturday during the game, especially after Jim freaked out about the roughing the kicker penalty. I basically said that Brady and Jim differ in one glaring way and that is the level of attitude/fire.
September 14th, 2015 at 5:58 PM ^
Brady was waayy to passive. He could never get fired up. I wonder if that played a role in him motivating the team to play?? I'm sure players love it when their coach gets fired up on the sideline especially when it's pointed at the refs. Hoke always had that confused look on his face. Even in bad situations Harbaugh always has that "alright get ready for the next play" look
September 14th, 2015 at 4:02 PM ^
That made me lol at my desk... mostly because it's true :/
September 14th, 2015 at 5:20 PM ^
Hoke may not have noticed that it was a botched call. Attention to detail was not his strong suit.
September 14th, 2015 at 5:36 PM ^
It wouldn't have happened under Hoke. Cole was the 11th guy on the field.
September 14th, 2015 at 6:56 PM ^
Is that Brady Hoke acted like a developed professional Football Coach and Harbaugh acted like a child who dropped his Popsicle in the dirt. It's that child like behavior that got his ass kick out of San Fran.
September 14th, 2015 at 2:33 PM ^
I was smiling ear to ear when Harbaugh went crazy the other day.
September 14th, 2015 at 7:57 PM ^
My only dissapointment was that it took him so long in the season to do it.
September 14th, 2015 at 2:33 PM ^
and they were mild compared to Woody's. Coach Harbaugh's are even more mild-mannered than Bo's. But you can tell the passion is there, Jim's channeling the 'Old Man' and I love it!
September 14th, 2015 at 7:28 PM ^
Nobody strangled kids quite like Woody. He perfected it.
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September 15th, 2015 at 1:56 PM ^
when I arrived in 1979 at Michigan. The upperclassmen in the MMB spoke of him with reverence with a wee bit of Schadenfreude for his firing.
He was a great American patriot. Enlisted in the Navy in WW2, commanded a sub chaser and later a destroyer escort.
I would have enrolled at Ohio State for one semester just to take one of his Military History classes if I had not gone straight from Michigan into the Army after graduation in 1983.
September 14th, 2015 at 2:34 PM ^
If memory serves Bo stated that his tantrums were not as uncontrolled as they seemed. There was method in his madness.
September 14th, 2015 at 2:41 PM ^
But I do not doubt it. Dwight Eisenhower is reported to have said: "Lose your temper only with intention", I've always thought that was probably good advice.
September 14th, 2015 at 3:10 PM ^
I forget where the story originated, but someone described witnessing Bo in what they thought was a huge tirade, punctuated by Bo throwing his hat on the ground and stomping on it. After the official walked away, Bo bent down to pick up his hat, looked up and winked.
September 14th, 2015 at 2:34 PM ^
sometimes after calls. What Harbaugh does is nothing really and I'm sure he learned it watching Bo all those years.
September 14th, 2015 at 2:49 PM ^
is the reason people are calling it a "tantrum." Sean McDonough evidenly hates Michigan, from what I can ascertain, and I much rather even get Patrick then him if we are going to get one of the second tier crews.
September 14th, 2015 at 3:23 PM ^
that "tantrum" was a thing of beauty to every Michigan fan watching.
September 14th, 2015 at 2:36 PM ^
Hotter than Brian Kelly's face?
September 14th, 2015 at 2:38 PM ^
Harbaugh's reaction was great. And I loved the big house crowd's reaction to his reaction. That's the kind of passion you WANT to see from your head coach. It can only fire up your team.
With that said, there's still a noticeable difference between the two.
Harbaugh's is like, "Dude. Are you f*cking kidding me?!?!?!?"
Bo was more like, "I will destroy you and everything you love!"
September 14th, 2015 at 2:49 PM ^
If so nicely done!
September 14th, 2015 at 3:06 PM ^
Yes and thank you. I love seeing Bo destroy the refs but that video is also kind of a depressing reminder of how awful officiating has always been.
Larry Ricks is ten feet out of bounds and the Illinois player still drills him to the ground but no flag for late hit out of bounds is called. You shouldn't need the opposing coach to point out how obvious that is. But here we are 33 years later and we still have the same complaints about officials not doing their damn jobs and missing obvious calls.
September 14th, 2015 at 4:54 PM ^
to forgive is much easier when the call is overturned on instant replay and/or you are laying a f-ing beatdown on the opponent.
September 15th, 2015 at 7:33 AM ^
I watched that and got angry as if it was happening live. That Illinois player was showing Ricks to his section. I'm glad that we're now in an era that doesn't miss calls that blatantly... And if we do there's normally some sort of retroactive punishment or acknowledgment.
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September 14th, 2015 at 5:15 PM ^
(credit to the creator... gif not mine)
September 14th, 2015 at 8:43 PM ^
Harbaugh looks like he plans the shot since the ref isn't listening to him!
September 14th, 2015 at 2:36 PM ^
Let's face it. One HUGE difference if that it's doubtful Hoke would've know the rule to know that the ref fucked up.
Can't get mad if you don't realize you're getting screwed.
September 14th, 2015 at 3:30 PM ^
So true
September 14th, 2015 at 3:54 PM ^
He would've been consoling his player for the "mistake he just made."
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September 14th, 2015 at 5:36 PM ^
It would've been Hoke's fault, after all.
September 14th, 2015 at 6:05 PM ^
But not fully aware.
SMH
September 14th, 2015 at 2:46 PM ^
When Harbaugh stands in front of Bo and the official just to call the timeout -- priceless. We are so lucky to have a coach like Jim Harbaugh!
September 14th, 2015 at 3:20 PM ^
I think he was yelling "KOALAS!!!! The FUCKING KOALAS!!!!"
September 14th, 2015 at 3:50 PM ^
Give it a rest..we know...you "are a koala"...
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September 14th, 2015 at 5:00 PM ^
Give it a rest I know you're Michael Potts the actor. Brother Mouzone is your character. Ugh.
September 14th, 2015 at 3:22 PM ^
Wow those are great - thanks for sharing. Bo would scare the crapout of me if I was a ref.
September 14th, 2015 at 3:26 PM ^
At the game, there was a guy next to me just telling everyone "That's Bo!" I'm too young to see the Bo days, but looking at the Bo clips, it sure seems like it.
September 14th, 2015 at 3:30 PM ^
I give Harbaugh extra credit for his pantamiming the punt
September 14th, 2015 at 5:38 PM ^
Gotta love that.
September 14th, 2015 at 3:34 PM ^
I know people love to see him getting all worked up. But I can't help it, my first thought when I see him going off like that is- 'please don't get so worked up you have a heart attack or stroke!'.
September 14th, 2015 at 4:18 PM ^
Bo had like 14 heart attacks coaching Michigan, and we have a great hospital. Harbaugh will be fine.
September 14th, 2015 at 3:54 PM ^
give me some flack about being a hypocrite for loving Jim's "fire" and yet being critical of ol' purple face. I explained that the difference was that Harbaugh gets that way on behalf of his players. Kelly gets that way AT them.
September 14th, 2015 at 4:36 PM ^
I winced every time RichRod lit into his players during games. Save those theatrics for practice. Come game time, direct that fire at the refs, and you'll get more mileage out of it.
September 14th, 2015 at 8:01 PM ^
Yeah, I've yet to see Harbaugh go off on a player . . . and god knows some of them have deserved it.
September 14th, 2015 at 4:05 PM ^
His passion just showed a lttile when he educated them.
He was never wrong.
September 14th, 2015 at 6:37 PM ^
"That'll fire the team up".
Amazing how after Harbaugh screamed at the officials the team started to play much better.
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September 14th, 2015 at 6:44 PM ^
I love it.
September 14th, 2015 at 10:32 PM ^
I loved it when they ran the catch against Hawaii in super-slo-mo reverse. We used to do that with the reel-to-reel movies in grade school.