CC: Adam Schefter on Countdown: Harbaugh to Michigan
December 26th, 2010 at 1:02 PM ^
What should we post in rebuttal? A picture of John L. Smith?
December 26th, 2010 at 12:58 PM ^
go by without someone weighing in?
December 26th, 2010 at 1:11 PM ^
there will be no more pre-game "circle of terror"?
December 26th, 2010 at 1:22 PM ^
YES! I like RR but can't stand the apologists. Suck it!!!
December 27th, 2010 at 7:57 PM ^
I like RR too, but when I hear apologists' logic, my stomach turns.
December 26th, 2010 at 1:22 PM ^
Schefter heard it from that chick that predicted Tate to transfer.....or Bleacher Report...
December 26th, 2010 at 1:26 PM ^
There's no way Denard or Gardner would leave. I'm sure they'd be the first players JH would get in touch with, and I'm sure he'd find a way to adapt to their skills. He's adapted everywhere he's gone. He won't pull a Richrod and scrap everything in order to fit his own scheme.
December 26th, 2010 at 4:35 PM ^
So what did he scrap that was worth keeping?
December 26th, 2010 at 1:28 PM ^
December 26th, 2010 at 1:32 PM ^
A random media dude proclaiming to know what is going to happen at Michigan. I feel like I've seen this sometime in the last several weeks but I could be mistaken.
December 26th, 2010 at 1:54 PM ^
He's a UM alum with a ton of connections in the football world. Just sayin.
December 26th, 2010 at 3:10 PM ^
he above all of the other reporters, such as Sam Webb, Balas, Chait, and other alums. Adam don't know shit!
December 26th, 2010 at 1:32 PM ^
Isn't Denard going to want to move to wide receiver his senior year anyway? He's not leaving no matter who the coach is.
December 26th, 2010 at 1:35 PM ^
So he could certainly have as much of an idea as anyone.
December 26th, 2010 at 1:51 PM ^
As are a lot of people here. What's your point?
December 26th, 2010 at 2:09 PM ^
And this blog probably have a lot of people who PRETEND to be UM grads.
Plus, those here aren't journalists who kind of talk to people who know something about this all the time.
December 26th, 2010 at 2:32 PM ^
Is that a guy who is as connected to the football world as him would have a pretty easy time, or at least a considerably easier time than the average alum, finding out any scoop that there is to be found. I don't understand why that had to be explained.
December 26th, 2010 at 8:36 PM ^
Unlike the alums on this board, Schefter is an alum with a top-notch reputation for breaking scoops in the football world. So, a little more credibility than the average poster.
December 26th, 2010 at 1:36 PM ^
I think it is assumption based on what has been talked about for the past month. Nothing of substance in my opinion.
December 26th, 2010 at 1:36 PM ^
I think Schefter is a snappy dresser. Handsome guy
December 26th, 2010 at 1:41 PM ^
No homo?
December 26th, 2010 at 1:42 PM ^
stories like this.
Are you telling me, Brandon, who is supposed to be smart, has told his decision to anyone? That would be idiotic, since he has purposefully avoided answering the question.
Second, how bad would Michigan look, if say, Michigan blew out Miss State, and Stanford got crushed in their bowl? Would we really hire Harbaugh, if he got blown out by three touchdowns? And what if the Pac 10 doesn't show in the bowls? That would make Harbaugh's season look even weaker.
That doesn't mean Harbaugh won't be our next coach...I just don't think anyone, especiall Brandon, really knows, assuming the question is really up for debate.
December 26th, 2010 at 2:15 PM ^
I'm thinking Brandon has told someone, or someones.
As in Rodriguez, his agent, and Harbaugh (or other replacement candidate).
I mean, come on, just because something isn't known by the masses doesn't mean NO ONE knows. These decisions are never made in a vacuum.
As for your other hypotheticals--how can Brandon let one game decide this? He has sufficient info after three seasons to make that decision. If UM blows out Miss St--good for UM! If Stanford gets trounced--so what? It's one game, and it is a bowl game-nothing more, nothing less. Meaningless bolw games at that.
Nothing is going to make Stanford's season look bad, or weak. Nothing is going to dim Harbaugh's star right now, especially considering his ties to Michigan. Rodriguez's "star"? Now nothing more than a burned out black hole--sucking the life out of Michigan football to the point where even Josh Groban told him to grow a pair.
December 26th, 2010 at 2:18 PM ^
Seriously? You think DB, at this point, doesn't have an opinion?
If you're right about that, DB is an incompetent boob. I don't think he's an incompetent boob.
December 26th, 2010 at 4:30 PM ^
DB would not be throwing out his opinion to people. That would make him a boob as you call it. DB is smart, he wouldn't allow anyone a chance to hear which way he is leaning until after the season ends. He hasn't decided one way or another, that's what he continues to tell people. This means that any source that hears rumors, of which way DB is leaning, hears just what they say, rumors. Nothing more, nothing less.
December 26th, 2010 at 9:11 PM ^
I like boobs.
December 26th, 2010 at 5:09 PM ^
Brandon might not leak it, but you don't think its possible it wouldnt leak on the Stanford end? Like when Harbaugh refuses to sign the contract extension. For all we know the source could be John Harbaugh or something (who I assume Schefter has some relation with).
December 26th, 2010 at 1:43 PM ^
Maybe he is just coming to Michigan, as in the State? Perhaps for dinner?
December 26th, 2010 at 1:49 PM ^
"Sources say"? I can find a "source" to say the world is flat
December 26th, 2010 at 2:05 PM ^
December 26th, 2010 at 2:07 PM ^
One of the funniest things about this whole UM coaching episode is how many RR guys echoed the sentiment: "NEXT! I only care about players who play for Michigan! Out with these QUITTING players who don't want to be here just because RR makes them run laps! These players are jerks! Don't they love Michigan like I do?" and on and on.
Yet, all the RR supporters are shaking in their boots over who might QUIT if RR is let go. They act as if Harbaugh will not be able to keep these players,a nd if not, Harbaugh is POISON!
I guess there's no more, "Hey! Don't they love Michigan! EFF THOSE emm-effers!"
December 26th, 2010 at 2:16 PM ^
Most of the hand-wringing has been over recruits, not retaining our current players (maybe Denard excepted).
December 26th, 2010 at 2:29 PM ^
If we only lose Denard, and a couple of recruits, then this transition will be as smooth as a baby's ass!
Thank you, timmmaaaaaaayyyyyy for relieveing the tension the Rodriguez gloom and doomers seem to be feeling.
Bring on HARBAUGH!
December 26th, 2010 at 2:24 PM ^
lol.. good post OP, searching for this in google only produces this thread from Mgoblog.. bout as bad as the Tressel rumor
December 26th, 2010 at 2:26 PM ^
Schefter is almost never wrong, which is why he's so credible. He wouldn't break anything unless the contract is on the table and he knows it's going to be signed. Even a tentative statement suggests to me that it may well be true, but he doesn't have enough hard facts to present a full blown story. The tentative nature of his statement suggests to me that it's probably hearsay, like Luck telling him Harbaugh was in talks with Michigan when asked about Harbaugh following Luck to the NFL. If he's wrong, that tentative statement will still tarnish his reputation.
The fact that he's legit, and a UM alum, and the recent abrupt denial by Harbaugh about signing a contract extension with Stanford, suggests to me that there's probably going to be a change. I just hope Harbaugh doesn't run out Denard and we have to start over again. Also, hopefully we can land a legit DC who can recruit like Randy Shannon.
December 26th, 2010 at 2:31 PM ^
But remember, if he had said, "Rodriguez has just been given a five-year extension!" The RR giys would have labled it GOLDEN and would not be questioning it one bit.
December 26th, 2010 at 4:38 PM ^
Edit: original post was deleted.
December 26th, 2010 at 2:45 PM ^
If he were legit, he'd name his sources. Process matters.
Events over the next several weeks may prove him right, or wrong. But he's not acting as a legit journalist in this. A legit journalist would name the source(s). Or, alternatively, say, "A person in the Michigan Athleitc Department, who required anonymity on the basis that his speaking on this subject would be grounds for his termination, said..."
I'm tired, really tired, of all of these random assholes "who went to Michigan" somehow being given credit for that fact, rather than doing their jobs in a competent fashion. That naturally includes M grads Rosenberg, Snyder and Sharp. But just as clearly the laughable screwups by Melanie Collins, Katrina Hancock and Lynn Henning, just off the top of my head. I've actually lost count of all of the jerkoffs who have given us false information based on "sources."
December 26th, 2010 at 2:58 PM ^
Name his sources? You mean like NO ONE ever does? That is ridiculous and you know it.
it's one thing to question him, or be the usual Michigan message board guy and attack his humanity, but geez, man, Woodward and bernstein didn't name their source for thirty-some years, and they brought down a president!
I know, though, college football requires so much more scrutiny.
December 26th, 2010 at 3:00 PM ^
... "process matters?" You act like this is the NY Times reporting on the Pentagon Papers. It was an aside on an NFL pregame show.
I think this screengrab from a few weeks back shows something about Schefter's bona fides:
December 26th, 2010 at 3:17 PM ^
might also have little plastic helmets too. Braylon might have a big plastic helmet. It doesn't matter.
And I agree; this most certainly is not like the New York Times reporting on the Pentagon Papers. (Although I'm not so sure that's the best example of anything.) This is just cheesy rumor-mongering on a fluffy sportstalk program. Not real news.
December 26th, 2010 at 4:07 PM ^
Bottom left by the NFL football, it's "Bo".
December 26th, 2010 at 6:08 PM ^
and below it is Rosendouches War...
December 26th, 2010 at 6:56 PM ^
Which is an amazing book but ZOMG JIHAD
December 27th, 2010 at 7:19 PM ^
I wonder how many people who spend all their free time trashing Rosenberg have actually read the book they so willingly trash simply because of who wrote it.
It's a great book, well researched and well written.
Now ready for my neg-bang.
December 29th, 2010 at 7:20 PM ^
For the New York Times Book Review. And he praised it. But that didn't slow down Chait in the least, from ripping into Rosenberg's disgraceful reporting on Stretchgate, or the Free Press' abdication of its editorial responsibility in the fiasco.
December 26th, 2010 at 3:00 PM ^
Maybe his sources told him not to name them, ya dig?
December 26th, 2010 at 3:20 PM ^
Never thought of that. Then, uh, doesn't the reporter ask this question: Why do I need to give you anonymity? Because unless there is a good reason that my editors and publishers can accept, I cannot use your quote without attribution.
That's the way they do it in the real world of reporting. Sports might be different.