Georgia SB Nation writer calls Ann Arbor "a barren wasteland". Is mad at Harbaugh
Naturally Harbaugh’s gambit has Greg Sankey and the SEC coaches up in arms. I can’t say I blame them completely. In the cut throat world of college football recruiting they almost must object to anything Harbaugh does to gain a toe hold in a recruiting territory which puts the barren wasteland in which he resides to shame.
Harbaugh’s still going to have to get players (and parents) up to the frozen north at some point before Signing Day. That’s going to be a great reminder that Ann Arbor is still a heckuva long way from Orlando.
Even in this connected world of ours, the best predictor of where a recruit will sign remains where he’s grown up. I don’t think Harbaugh’s going to turn Johnny Five Star from a lifelong Florida State Seminole to a dyed in the wool Wolverine by having him witness a few practices.
Finally, you have to wonder how Mark Dantonio, Urban Meyer, and other Rust Belt coaches spin this one. If I were Dantonio I’d be visiting every high school coach and top recruit from Detroit to Ontonagon and asking them if they’ve seen ole Jimmy around. In short, this move may help Harbaugh a little, but it probably doesn’t really hurt SEC programs that much.
http://www.dawgsports.com/2016/2/11/10966456/Michigan-spring-practice-Florida-Jim-harbaugh
February 11th, 2016 at 1:39 PM ^
pics or it didn't happen
February 11th, 2016 at 1:45 PM ^
February 11th, 2016 at 3:12 PM ^
Probably missing the point because I don't know what Apu is, but...
Every complicated economic/political/moral issue leading to the war really does loop back to slavery. Horribly simplistic, but a buttload better than saying it was all about Federal v. State supremecy (hello, apologists!), which is both simplistic AND wrong.
February 11th, 2016 at 3:20 PM ^
It's a Simpsons quote..Apu is the guy that owned the Kwik-e-mart
February 11th, 2016 at 3:28 PM ^
Oh, THAT Apu. Thanks for explaining the joke for the slow guy. Simpsons best satire in my lifetime.
However, point stands about apologists saying, "Naaaaaw, it was a noble cause. Not about slavery at all." Bleah.
February 11th, 2016 at 6:56 PM ^
It wasn't about slavery, it was about money.
February 11th, 2016 at 7:43 PM ^
Ok, but read SC's Declaration of Sessation and tell me what you come away with as a cause for the war. Money is the cause for every war, that's a given, but that's never the reason they sell to the people who have to fight it.
February 11th, 2016 at 8:56 PM ^
That slavery was/is an actual thing, my god what the fuck is wrong with mankind?
February 11th, 2016 at 8:56 PM ^
Never, not once in the history of warfare, has a war had one and only one cause. While obviously slavery and related issues loomed large, there were many other reasons. Do you really think those rich white northern industrialists were abolitionists because they deeply cared about the plight of African-Americans? Hell no. They were tired of competing with Southern producers of goods that had free labor. And that is just one of dozens of intermediate causes of the Civil War...
February 11th, 2016 at 11:01 PM ^
Northern white industrialists didn't compete with slaveholders. Slaves did agrarian work.
Did the industrialists exploit the shit out of people regardless of race? My grandfather who took a ploice bullet during the 1937 Flint sitdown strikes says "Mmm-hmmm."
February 12th, 2016 at 9:28 AM ^
Very true. But those industrialists didn't just want an industrialized north; expansion and development meant moving into the Southern states which, as you mention, had remained heavily agrarian precisely because of the existence of slave labor. I think we basically agree, however. Slavery was the proverbial elephant in the room, but issues like economics and political philosophy (federalism vs. states' rights) were very significant causes as well. And these issues went back to the Constitutional Convention of 1787, had simmered for decades, and made war almost inevitable...
February 11th, 2016 at 10:38 PM ^
February 11th, 2016 at 10:55 PM ^
Quaker Oats rock, especially with a tequila chaser.
February 11th, 2016 at 1:58 PM ^
Three guys from IMG that Harbaugh will get verbals from this spring.
Recruiting Coordinators at Alabama and Clemson the next day:
February 11th, 2016 at 2:01 PM ^
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February 11th, 2016 at 1:43 PM ^
if the south wants a do-over. We can kick their asses extra hard this time.
February 11th, 2016 at 1:48 PM ^
You wouldn't just let them go?
If the south left that might push us to #1 in the world HDI rankings.
February 11th, 2016 at 2:04 PM ^
Please. Go. Now. It's not you, it's me. We can still be friends.
February 11th, 2016 at 2:05 PM ^
That's where the Union general camped so they could watch Atlanta burn.
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February 11th, 2016 at 2:28 PM ^
February 11th, 2016 at 3:17 PM ^
Nevermind, I don't want to know.
February 11th, 2016 at 3:47 PM ^
February 12th, 2016 at 9:08 AM ^
It's always good to learn about the country's history; escpecially if the teacher is the Avatar. Please take good care of Sokka, Kotara, MoMo, and Apa for us. :)
February 12th, 2016 at 9:16 AM ^
Will you please punch M. Night Shyamalan in the face for ruining the movie after your tv series was awesome?
February 11th, 2016 at 2:07 PM ^
Noooooo! We can't lose Florida! That is America's Shlong!
February 11th, 2016 at 2:11 PM ^
February 11th, 2016 at 5:19 PM ^
Bugs Bunny castrating America
February 11th, 2016 at 1:55 PM ^
Sankey calls it the War of Northern Aggression...
February 11th, 2016 at 1:58 PM ^
We need to send him an autographed picture of General Sherman. . .
February 11th, 2016 at 1:14 PM ^
why link? It's basically clickbait. It's the say something controversial, wait for clicks and people to comment that you are stupid, profit off ad dollars.
February 11th, 2016 at 1:15 PM ^
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February 11th, 2016 at 1:24 PM ^
Exactly, must be his twin brother, or at least part of the same shallow gene pool.
February 11th, 2016 at 1:16 PM ^
No one is forcing you to click anything. Linking is typically what we do around here when discussing an article.
February 11th, 2016 at 1:25 PM ^
But why post this at all? This is from some obscure blogger, and all you're doing is giving him a larger platform. Basically: who cares what this guy says?
February 11th, 2016 at 1:47 PM ^
Because I like laughing at how mad the SEC is over this.
Get over yourself. I'll post what I want to. No one is forcing you to read or click anything. It's no different than when Brian comments on a piece by Teddy Greenstein. Isn't he just giving him a larger platform by responding? This is a sports message board, this is what happens on places like this.
Move on.
February 11th, 2016 at 1:51 PM ^
So you're Brian in your comparison? And you think I should get over myself?
February 11th, 2016 at 2:25 PM ^
I think you missed my point.
Anyways i apoligze if I came off snarky. The point was that some people need to stop making such a big deal what is or isn't posted here. We're all on the same team here and this is just a sports blog. Really not that important in the grand scheme of life.
February 11th, 2016 at 3:00 PM ^
If you think people are going to stop correcting, lecturing or criticizing others on this board because we all root for Michigan, you haven't been paying much attention!
Go, just for the purposes of edumacating yourself, and read the Finebaum compares Harbaugh to Trump post and the 256 (and counting) comments therein.
That'll disabuse you of the notion that people are going to get off your back because you like the Maize and Blue...
February 11th, 2016 at 1:28 PM ^
February 11th, 2016 at 10:59 PM ^
February 11th, 2016 at 1:46 PM ^
Because pitchers and catchers haven't even reported, football (and signing day) are over, pro basketball and hockey suck until the playoffs, college hockey sucks until the NCAA's..... so yeah, need to fill the time.
February 11th, 2016 at 2:07 PM ^
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February 11th, 2016 at 1:26 PM ^
February 11th, 2016 at 1:29 PM ^
This post itself is clickbait. Author doesn't call Ann Arbor a barren wasteland. He calls the region in which Harbaugh resides a barren wasteland of HS football talent relative to the places Harbaugh is setting up camps. That's not a slight on Ann Arbor in general and it's tough to even argue with that author much on that point. Michigan doesn't have an abundance of HS football talent compared to FL.
Article not nearly as offensive as OP makes it sounds. This gets a big "who cares"?
February 11th, 2016 at 1:30 PM ^
Harbaugh resides in Ann Arbor. Not hard to figure out bud.
And you can't argue with the author on that much? LOL. Good god.