CC: Harbaugh offer includes accepting JUCO's?

Submitted by Sauce Castillo on

Has anyone seen rumors of some of the other perks included in the Harbaugh offer?  Coherd (the little he knows) is saying that use of private jet and accepting JUCO's is part of the Harbaugh offer.  Has anyone else heard this?

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Yeoman

December 18th, 2014 at 2:46 PM ^

Your way of telling this makes it sound like there was some sort of behind-the-scenes hanky panky going on within the coaching staff, but that's transparently false.

It's true that Carr married Bill McCartney's brother's ex-wife, but I don't believe either one was coaching at Michigan at the time of the wedding. Carr's eldest son was a senior QB at Michigan in '95, which means he was already a first-grader when Carr was hired.

Assuming the wedding was in '73 or before, both Carr and McCartney were still coaching high school. Lloyd hadn't even taken his first HS head coaching job yet.

 

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East German Judge

December 18th, 2014 at 11:44 AM ^

Coaches' Wives, you mean James Franklin...

"I've been saying it for a long time, I will not hire an assistant coach until I've seen his wife," Franklin said in the interview. "If she looks the part, and she's a D-1 recruit, then you got a chance to get hired. That's part of the deal.

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umumum

December 18th, 2014 at 5:05 PM ^

if Jim has been so critical of our academics.

[I don't believe this whatsoever.  Jucos will get in the same way as has been available in the past--like WCC students.  I can't see the academic arm of the university ceding this to woo harbaugh.]

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ypsituckyboy

December 18th, 2014 at 10:44 AM ^

What's the big deal with accepting transfers from JUCO's or another school? I had friend's who went to WCC because they couldn't get in initially, bumped their grades up, and were able to transfer in. I transferred in too, albeit from a 4-year school.

If they can qualify, then let them in, just like kids going straight from H.S.

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Chitown Kev

December 18th, 2014 at 10:56 AM ^

I returned to school going to one of the City Colleges in Chicago (in my mid-30's) while working FT and took correspondence course.

When I was ready to transfer to 4yr. I had a 3.9 GPA, all sorts of honors, and was accepted by The university of Illinois and even one of the University of California schools.

 

I am pretty certain that if I had applied to UM I would have been accepted...the out-of-state tuition scared me off (and the admissions standards scared me from Northwestern and Berkeley...although I did apply to an Ivy and was turned down).

 

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Wave83

December 18th, 2014 at 10:57 AM ^

This, exactly.  It makes no sense that the Harbaugh who criticized Michigan for not having academic standards as high as Stanford would condition a job at Michigan on being able to recruit JUCOs.  This is more unsubstantiated rumormongering.

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Yeoman

December 18th, 2014 at 3:26 PM ^

The reason Michigan takes so few junior college transfers is that it's difficult to get JUCO credits to transfer. To accept more transfers, Michigan would have to relax its credit-transfer rules, and thus relax its academic standards. It's unlikely that Harbaugh would make such a demand; it's just as unlikely that the current university administration would agree to it.

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MGoRob

December 18th, 2014 at 10:32 AM ^

I heard it on Cowherd too.  I think he was reporting what they talked about on Mike and Mike this morning with Adam Schefter.  He listed:

JUCOs

private plane

no buyout clause if he was to go back to the NFL, etc.

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