Harbaugh puff interview with BTN

Submitted by FB Dive on September 19th, 2023 at 4:44 PM

Coach Harbaugh was on BTN earlier today for an interview with Dave Revsine and Dave Wannstedt. The conversation was relaxed and light on substance, but for those who have 15 minutes to kill on an otherwise slow Tuesday, it's available on Youtube. Interview starts at 15:20. 

Embed attempt: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Xa9w1684Lc

Link for inevitable failure of embed attempt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Xa9w1684Lc

Some highlights and Harbaugh-isms:

  • Strong praise for the front seven. Says the dominance isn't quite a "surprise" but identifies that unit/position group as playing even better than expected
  • Says the secondary was the unit expected to be the most "in progress" but mostly just because of injuries. Happy with performance, singles out Sabb, Q. Johnson, and Wallace for praise.
  • Reaffirms that a national championship is one the "goals" for the team, but artfully dodges saying whether the national championship is the "expectation"
  • He gets his haircuts at GreatClips (very on brand)
  • Says the gameday experience is "like being in the dentist chair getting a root canal done on you for three hours" in the sense that the focus is usually on the negatives through the game and in the postgame press conference. Said a silver lining of watching the games on TV was getting to hear/appreciate the positives from the commentators
  • Rutgers "is an one of those [opponents] that you gotta bring your lunchpail." Sure, Jim
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TeslaRedVictorBlue

September 19th, 2023 at 4:47 PM ^

If this is indeed a NC type year.. who is our Iowa? Is it Penn State? Is it the Rut? Who is that team that will make us doubt all things, only to have the boys furiously storm back. By Iowa, I'm referencing the near debacle in 1997!

I wonder if Rutgers is it... though I think the team has been sleep walking and Rutgers, B10, Harbaugh, 12 noon... should get them going. Plus JJ's awful game will have him focused.

But maybe not. .maybe we're down 10-3 after 1... some of the doubt sneaks in.. before we get 2 more possessions for the rest of the game and win 24-10

Joined: 09/02/2021

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GoBlue96

September 19th, 2023 at 4:50 PM ^

I've been going to Great Clips for 15 years.  I like the russian roulette aspect of finding out which person is going to cut your hair.  I had a trainee once that was using a ruler to figure out how much hair to cut.  The cut was so bad that someone else had to come over and try to fix it.  

Joined: 07/01/2008

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IndyBlue

September 19th, 2023 at 4:55 PM ^

Ha I once had a similar experience at Sport Clips. Went in for a fade (1 to a 3 or something like that, nothing too hard). The lady did a 1 on the side, a 3 on top, and absolutely no fading of the two different lengths. Had to have another lady come over and finish it for her.

Joined: 09/13/2008

MGoPoints: 4585

Blue@LSU

September 19th, 2023 at 5:06 PM ^

I used to go to Great Clips (or similar places) but one time I walked out and one sideburn was about an inch shorter than the other (I don't even have long sideburns). 

Since then I started going to an old school barber shop (they call themselves a "Gentleman's Barber Shop"). The kind of place where they put the hot shaving cream on at the end and straight razor your neck, use the hand massager on your neck and shoulders, awesome...

But my favorite barber at this place, because he could cut the fuck out of my hair, was this really old dude with shaky hands. It was always an ass-puckering experience when he would break out the straight razor.

Joined: 11/04/2016

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Wendyk5

September 19th, 2023 at 5:32 PM ^

My now 23 year old son (the aforementioned 11 year old) goes to the same woman he went to post Great Clips and she is terrible, too. His hair looks like Prince Valiant but without the bangs, and I know that's not the look he's going for. But he's an adult now so I can't say anything. I think he just can't be bothered with finding someone new. 

Joined: 11/20/2008

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olm_go_blue

September 19th, 2023 at 5:48 PM ^

Yea I once went to a Great Clips grand opening because it was a $3 haircut, and I didn't get my money's worth (I actually refuse to call it Great Clips in casual conversation I call it OK At Best Clips). 

Ditto Sport Clips, they all suck. I go to the same salon and have (usually) the owner cut it. Just have to make sure they do a lot of guys hair, it's trickier than it seems. It may be be $30-$40 more per cut, but I'm only getting 8-9 cuts per year and I look at my hair every day. No sense getting a shitty haircut to save a few bucks.

Joined: 08/09/2013

MGoPoints: 5039

MMBbones

September 19th, 2023 at 6:14 PM ^

"The kind of place where they put the hot shaving cream on at the end and straight razor your neck"

I only discovered this a few years ago, but I insist on it now. It's sort of the "happy ending" of haircuts.

Leave it to a JH interview to get us discussing barbers...

Edit: In using the term "happy ending" I mean no allusion to any coach of any team, past or present. Any similarities are coincidental. 

Joined: 08/28/2008

MGoPoints: 9880

XM - Mt 1822

September 20th, 2023 at 6:22 AM ^

i did okay, nothing ever bad or that needed to be redone.  that said, short hair for our boys was the norm around here.  the twins would ask for a '1' on the sides and a 2 or 3 on top.  i could taper fairly well.  oldest son now has longish hair (he's in his 20's), but none of the other boys do.  as they get older we let those choices be theirs, and of course when they turn 18, we add no input into things like that. 

Joined: 12/21/2011

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XM - Mt 1822

September 20th, 2023 at 6:24 AM ^

you get in here right now!  no more hippy hairdo's for you young man! 

i tell ya, the country is going to hades in a hand basket.....

(strains of the song 'alice's restaurant' playing in the background) 

Joined: 12/21/2011

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Phaedrus

September 20th, 2023 at 12:15 AM ^

I no longer go to Great Clips because I found a decent barber, but there's one easy trick to getting a good haircut at Great Clips: identify the ugliest woman there and request her. The pretty ones get tips from morons regardless of the quality of cut they provide. The ugly ones can't make any money at it unless they're actually good.

Joined: 09/02/2019

MGoPoints: 6534

LSA91

September 20th, 2023 at 3:32 PM ^

I've been going to Great Clips for years and have never had a problem. I assume if I got a terrible haircut, my wife would send me back or something, and she hasn't. 

(Of course, one time she told me "nice haircut" after a day where the line was too long so I didn't get one, so maybe her expectations for me are low.)

Joined: 11/28/2011

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MGlobules

September 19th, 2023 at 4:52 PM ^

The root canal comparison is, for me, a good reminder why M games aren't necessarily fun. If you're a longtime invested fan, you just sometimes really sweat those suckers. Michigan fans know that a lot can go wrong. 

A lot of people have said this, but it's so true: Winning a noon game and then casually tuning in for the rest of the day is one of the great pleasures of Michigan fandom. 

Joined: 11/17/2008

MGoPoints: 47666

Colt Burgess

September 19th, 2023 at 5:19 PM ^

He also mentioned Sam Webb and WTKA. I get my haircut at Great Clips in Florida during the winter. It's always an adventure. I usually walk out with one sideburn lower than the other.  

Joined: 02/20/2021

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