Harbaugh names former Colonel director of ops, Roy Manning interviews for job

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Harbaugh has chosen former USMC Col. Jim Minick to be the new director of operations. 

Roy Manning also interviewed for a job this morning. 

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Njia

January 1st, 2015 at 6:59 PM ^

By the way, you're not anonymous anymore. I thought about your comments that you made here on the site and after the presser and they came to mind again last night when I was telling my wife why Harbaugh's return means so much to me. I'm not sure she completely understands, but she's at least willing to cut me some slack while I get all this damn dust out of our house.

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Wolverine Devotee

January 1st, 2015 at 5:29 PM ^

Michigan has had SIX different Director of Ops since 2009.

  • Brad Labadie (2001-2009; infamous in 3 & Out)
  • Mike Parrish (2010)
  • Bob Lopez (2011-2012)
  • Nolan Jones (2013)
  • Justin Dickens (2014) 

Kind of strange. Hopefully Minick sticks around for awhile and provides some more internal stability. I think this entire staff will.

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ppudge

January 1st, 2015 at 5:41 PM ^

In the book, Labadie consistently failed to get the forms turned in for the reporting of practice hours which led to all of the trouble from the infamous Freep article. I'm actually reading the book right now and just got to this section. Labadie comes off very poorly.

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UM Indy

January 1st, 2015 at 5:30 PM ^

To being a friend, safe to say Jimmy saw a need for MOAR discipline? I think at the very least we can expect a more organized less turnover prone team.

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MGoBender

January 1st, 2015 at 8:30 PM ^

You're drawing weird conclusions.  Harbaugh has yet to meet the team - he probably didn't make this hire because he saw a lack of discipline among people he's yet to meet.  This is the Director of Football Ops, not a coach.  He may interact with the players more than your standard director of ops, but he's not a coach.  You can't really say "We have a retired MC Colonel as Director of Ops therefore we'll have less turnovers!"

All that said, I think we'll have a more disciplined teams, better at all aspects of footballing, including turnovers, because HARBAUGH.

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translator82

January 1st, 2015 at 5:39 PM ^

This is from December 2011 from the 49ers' "Harbaugh Interviews" ... some very cool Harbaugh anecdotes if you click on the link.

Example:

A classic story – and I still have a scar on my hand from it. We were probably in the fourth grade, fifth grade. Our parents are best of friends. They were best of friends when we were young, they are still very close friends. But my dad and Jack Harbaugh are very much alike. And we were playing football in the front yard. You know, my brothers and Jim and John, and we were arguing over a call, Jim and I were. Jim and I are – I guess from our parents’ side, unfortunately – very much alike. So we’re arguing over a call, and his dad and my dad just kind of look at each other and go, ‘Damn it, that’s enough. You two fight.’ So right in the front yard, our parents had Jim and Jim square off in a fistfight, just to quit arguing about calls. And sure enough, that’s what we did. And I caught him real good. I caught him right in the mouth, cut my hand open on his tooth. Blood’s everywhere. And at that point, they broke us up. And the funny thing about it is, because the fight was called because my hand was bleeding, Jim claims he won the fight. So he had me come out when I just got back from Iraq, off of one deployment, he had me come out and speak to the Stanford team. And when he introduced me, that’s the story he tells. So that gives you an idea the kind of competitor and the fighter he’s always been.”

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klctlc

January 1st, 2015 at 9:25 PM ^

This is mine. 

Jim's older brother, John was my suite mate at WMU. His twin played baseball at M.

Jim played football at Ball State. Only met him once. 

I think there dad was sherrif of Washtenaw County and the left to work with Tom Monaghan at Dominoes I think.

Great family. It has been many years since I have seen John, but does this does not surprise me.  They were dialed into Ann Arbor and was a totally stand up guy.

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klctlc

January 1st, 2015 at 9:26 PM ^

This is mine. 

Jim's older brother, John was my suite mate at WMU. His twin played baseball at M.

Jim played football at Ball State. Only met him once. 

I think there dad was sherrif of Washtenaw County and the left to work with Tom Monaghan at Dominoes I think.

Great family. It has been many years since I have seen John, but does this does not surprise me.  They were dialed into Ann Arbor and was a totally stand up guy.

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ljmGOBLUESpringLake

January 1st, 2015 at 7:02 PM ^

this just keeps getting better. Spartans and their fans still believe they will pound us into submission this coming fall.  We cannot let this happen...not in OUR house, Not in HARBAUGH's HOUSE....NO TIME, NO PLACE, NO HOW,  GO BLUE

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lilpenny1316

January 1st, 2015 at 8:39 PM ^

They lose a lot from their senior class, plus Calhoun and Waynes are likely gone.

They will never be able to recruit at a level on par with us, OSU or PSU.  And those are three very competent coaching staffs.  So if the coaching is a wash, the more talented team usually wins, especially when that more talented team is at home.

Maybe they shouldn't be scared, but they should be fortunate for the previous few seasons.  It likely will not be as fun going forward.

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coldnjl

January 1st, 2015 at 9:01 PM ^

Coaching may be a wash, but their player development is at an elite level. Recruiting rankings are overrated when you can identify players who you can build into elite players. That is the difference between them and us. We get the stars who fail to develop (the players or the coaching staff's fault, I do not know) whereas they get 2 stars and build NFL first round draft picks. 

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