Hackett Tells All: How Harbaugh Was Hired
Incredible interview of Jim Hackett just now on the Huge Show. Hackett told the entire story of how Harbaugh was hired. Too many highlights to list, but among them:
- The hiring process was code-named Project Unicorn.
- Harbaugh wanted to make totally sure that Hoke had been treated fairly before he’d even talk to Michigan.
- He didn’t name names, of course, but Hackett said that he was talking to several college coaches whose teams were in bowl games, and some other NFL coaches (he didn’t specify if they were head coaches or assistants).
- The day that Harbaugh and Hackett each signed the contract, Hackett couldn’t get his computer to work, so he had to take a picture of the contract on his iPhone so that he could send it to Harbaugh.
- Harbaugh wanted to make sure that Hackett was going to be sticking around as AD.
ALSO:
- A night game for Ohio State is highly unlikely; a night game for Michigan State isn’t quite as unlikely.
Incredibly honest interview. Jim MF Hackett is the anti-Brandon in every way.
It wasn’t uploaded when last I checked, but the Hackett interview should be uploaded soon at:
http://www.wbbl.com/common/page.php?pt=Huge+Show+Podcasts&id=1263&is_co…
If they bring in Sparty for a night game, AAPD best be ready.
Also: All Hail Hackett, Bringer of Harbaugh!
because of crowd control and safety issues. Don't look for one soon. His main concern with OSU is cold.
I happened to turn it on during my ride home and it was a great interview. No question off the table. He mentioned they set up a suite in Michigan Stadium with dry boards and held secret meetings there.
It doesn't sound like Hackett will be leaving soon but also won't likely sign a long term contract. He said the job would lose some of the excitement if there was a long term agreement.
He said he wished he had two years to work with Hoke and teach him about management and hiring the right people. He seemed to imply he felt Hoke was qualified but that it was the wrong mix of assisitants. He felt within a two year period, Hoke would have been on the right track but he realized he didn't have that long.
Hard to say from the outside, but it certainly seems credible that Hoke didn't put together the best staff to surround himself (save Mattison).
What do you mean? Look at all the top echelon jobs his assistants have landed since they left.
Well.......
OSU-Michigan will never be a night game. Too cold and too many potential problems.
With a Michigan-Ohio State night game, Dave Brandon missed an opportunity to sell incredibly marked up warm weather clothing and have sponsored riot gear.
Yea, but with global warming it'll be 65 in November in a few years
It's referred to as climate change now. You must have missed the memo.
Yes - spring, summer, fall, winter.
Used to be called the Greenhouse Effect. Can we put a glass roof over the Big House for November?
is so last year. It's now called 'climate disruption'.
AKA HAARP & spraying metals in the atmosphere to "modify" weather. That's what my senator told me when I wrote her anyways.
/obv s
That's why we changed the name to climate change!
Lets get it right, first you called it global cooling (1970s) and told everyone their would be an ice age. Then it got warmer so you said, NO, it's global warming!!!! (1980s and early 1990s) Then the earth didn't actually warm for 17 or 18 years, and now its Climate Change...(2000s)
I guess if the weather doesn't cooperate with the money making scheme, just change the name!
Not sure if you're serious, but the "global cooling" theory didn't actually have much credibility in the scientific community:
http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/pdf/10.1175/2008BAMS2370.1
Also, each decade for the last several decades has been warmer than the decade before:
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2010/20100728_stateoftheclimate.html
I'm not a scientist and I don't pretend to understand the science (I avoided that stuff in college), but your claims (if you are being serious) are simply false.
But go ahead and keep thinking its a global conspiracy of scientists.
now Im not a denier and I definitely think that corporations are tearing this planet out from underneath all of us in the name of the almighty dollar, but there is no denying Al Gore has a stake in a number of "green" companies and stands to make a metric fuckton of money out of this.
Just like no one gave a shit about drinking and driving until there was enough money behind MADD to make politicians nervous, so it will be here. The golden rule is whoever has the money (or stands to make the most) makes the rules, or is at least keenly interested in how they're worded when they are made.
The system is bought and paid for, and we're all screwed.
and we like it like that!
for about the 20th day in the last 30. warm baby, warm!
Yeah, we could really use some "Global Warming" right now.
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I was a manic, crazy person living and dying with every tiny tidbit of information I could consume. Thank god I'm still employed and not divorced.
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I apparently live in a cave - is Hackett the permanent AD now?
Spoiler Alert. We can now skip 6 chapters in JUB's new book
I was thinking that same thing. Bakes had to be big-time pissed that Hackett did this interview. All the big revelations are now out.