mGrowOld

December 29th, 2016 at 11:24 AM ^

He fielded FOUR questions about the beach.  From a reporter who I'm sure thought he was HILLARIOUS and was trying to do nothing but get a rise out of him. And reporters wonder why people have so little use for them.

Truth be told when I first read it I thought the OP was trying to be funny and was about to post some snark when I realized this exhange actually happened.  

 

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M-GO-Beek

December 29th, 2016 at 11:23 AM ^

Clearly its a slow day for questions when he gives an answer and yet, the same question is asked over and over again to try and get a sound byte or worse, trick him into saying something inflammatory

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BoFlex

December 29th, 2016 at 11:30 AM ^

I don't think the reporter was trying to get a rise out of coach. Looks like she was trying to ask an innocuous/humorous question on an event that was originally brought up by a M player. Unfortunately for her, Harbaugh just doesn't care for pointless questions.

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Don

December 29th, 2016 at 11:49 AM ^

well fuck me, it was a female reporter asking the questions. It's hard enough for women to be taken seriously in sports journalism, and then this dimwit opens her pie hole.

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dragonchild

December 29th, 2016 at 12:02 PM ^

Half the time, the reporter's an idiot.  Just to be clear, I'm not ruling out that scenario.

But sometimes, reporters (smart or dumb) are given strict marching orders from their bosses, who are equally capable of being extremely stupid.

In this case I don't think it's a coincidence that a woman asked the question, but the reporter wasn't necessarily stupid because she's a woman.  Rather, only a woman can get away with asking such a question without coming off as creepy (in our culture anyway), which is why I suspect this was premeditated from higher up.  She might be an idiot, that's entirely possible, but it could be irrelevant in this case.

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alum96

December 29th, 2016 at 11:58 AM ^

Meanwhile at 6:30 he has a good exchange on oranges.  "I know this isn't your first time at the Orange Bowl but I wanted to get your overall thoughts on oranges?"

I mean, some of these questions...

Harbaugh: "I find oranges to be very refreshing."

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mgobaran

December 29th, 2016 at 11:45 AM ^

Mason Cole: “I’d much rather win a game than go down there and enjoy a vacation in Florida,” junior 

Jake Butt: “As long as coach Harbaugh is here, any bowl game we ever play in will be a 100 percent business trip...You won’t see a lot of messing around. I can guarantee you that. It’ll be that way again this year.”

Ben Gedeon: “You see a lot of teams treat the bowl game and view the trips as a vacation...“But coach Harbaugh makes these plans for us. We practice just like it’s a regular-season game week and you saw how that paid off for us. We’re going to go into this game with the same mindset.”

Chris Wormley (emphasis mine):

“It worked last year,” defensive end Chris Wormley said. “We beat a team by 34 points, and I’m guessing they went out and got to enjoy Orlando a little more than we did. But we got the win, and that’s what we’re here to do.

“I don’t think I’d be wrong to say that I’d want to be at the beach. But at the end of the day, winning the bowl game is what we’re here to do.

“We didn’t come here to go to the beach. We didn’t come here to go bowling, or to sing karaoke. I don’t have a good voice anyway, so that wouldn’t be entertaining.”

Reporter: "The team really wants to see the Beach. See some Bikinis. What's your thought on that?"

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Toasted Yosties

December 29th, 2016 at 11:58 AM ^

I love Harbaugh being Harbaugh but I'll cut the reporter some slack. Bowl games are meant to have more of a fun element to them than other games. A lot of them have events for fans to interact with the players and take things lighter a few days of the trip. His comments were in line with that part of Bowl week. That said, I LOVE our team shunning it for more practice time. This is how I always wanted our boys to approach Bowl week. I hope we throttle the Seminoles.

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SeattleWolverine

December 29th, 2016 at 12:02 PM ^

I'm sure he would have given this the "I'm just here so I don't get fined" treatment anyway because he's all about that football boss.

 

But the specific phrasing on this with all of the bikini references just screams potential objectification of women controversy. Trolling reporting is obvious in a landscape that includes Baylor, Tennessee, Minnesota, etc. Way to shut it down with a quickness, repeatedly.  

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bsand2053

December 29th, 2016 at 12:07 PM ^

This is very weird.  Do they want Jim Harbaugh, a married man, to talk about how much he loves HAWT TITS?  Why don't they ask him if he's going to take the team to a strip club?  Lot of those in Miami as well.

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Mr. Yost

December 29th, 2016 at 12:10 PM ^

People act like these kids can't go to Miami another time?

When they go to Rutgers do they go hangout in Times Square and visit the State of Liberty? No.

They're down there to win a football game.

Harbaugh makes enough money and gets enough bonuses. How about this? If you graduate, his gift to you is a $500 gift card to wherever you went to a bowl.

I'm sure he's getting 50K since we made a NY6 bowl. Save it and use it on the guys on the team...if they graduate from the University of Michigan. If they don't, they went pro and they can buy their own trip or they don't deserve it.

Sounds fair to me. Now go win.

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Surferrosy

December 29th, 2016 at 12:19 PM ^

Srsly, get a fucking grip. They are NCAA top ten team football players. If you think they need to see "bikinis", you're delusional. A- they have seen bikinis before and B- most probably have women a few rows deep at any given time if they want. Laser focus doesn't give a shit about bikinis!!



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The Mad Hatter

December 29th, 2016 at 12:26 PM ^

I haven't been to Miami in a while.  Need to think of an excuse to get down there for a couple days without the wife and kids.

Us not making the playoffs really kind of fucked my vacation plans.  My buddy was going to pick up the tab for a trip to the NC game.

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poseidon7902

December 29th, 2016 at 1:19 PM ^

I go there for work every quarter and am quite over it all.  The city blows, the drivers are assinine (says a lot coming from Atlanta), the place is dirty, the women likely all have an STD (when your billboards are advertising the syphilis explosion, there's a problem http://tosh.cc.com/blog/files/2014/11/syphilisbillboard.jpg) the cost of everything is stupid high.  and the summer is unbearably hot.  Don't get me wrong, the view is nice especially around Ultra weekend and in the winter it's ok, but I'd never live there in a million years.  

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