Bo versus Harbaugh yelling at officials

Submitted by FireJimDelaneyNow on

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.

 

 

 

Above and Beyond

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.

goblue16

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

Gofor2

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.

TdK71

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!

RGard

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.

ijohnb

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. 

WolverineHistorian

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!"

WolverineHistorian

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.

mGrowOld

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.

BlueinOK

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. 

Carcajou

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!'.

mgobleu

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.