Harbaugh "rooting for Ohio State" in National Championship game
Eisen asks Harbaugh if he should root for B1G/Ohio State on Monday: "I'm going to be rooting for Ohio State," Harbaugh says
Harbaugh says for Big Ten football, midwest football, "I think it's just fabulous a team in our conference is playing in that game."
https://twitter.com/nickbaumgardner/status/553245636301037568
January 8th, 2015 at 1:01 PM ^
DOH!!
January 8th, 2015 at 1:04 PM ^
Honeymoon: OVAH.
January 8th, 2015 at 7:40 PM ^
January 8th, 2015 at 8:18 PM ^
January 8th, 2015 at 7:22 PM ^
Sent from MGoBlog HD for iPhone & iPad
January 8th, 2015 at 12:58 PM ^
January 8th, 2015 at 12:59 PM ^
Yeah I spellt it that wheigh on porpoise!
January 8th, 2015 at 12:59 PM ^
be good for the conference. Beating SEC teams head to head and then winning it all is great for B1G and bad for SEC lovefest.
January 8th, 2015 at 12:59 PM ^
January 8th, 2015 at 12:59 PM ^
At this point in time, he's trying to keep things civil between him and osu. When The Game is ready to heat up, he'll change his tune I'm sure. Right now, as fans and supporters of Michigan, I hope Oregon thrashes them so that the benefit of osu being in the NCG is minimized. osu is going to be osu to recruits, but winning the NC is something I'd rather not see. Their fanbase is insufferable enough already.
January 8th, 2015 at 12:59 PM ^
He'll say that publicly, but I bet he won't feel too bad if Oregon wins.
January 8th, 2015 at 1:22 PM ^
greatest gif on the web
January 8th, 2015 at 12:59 PM ^
Brian, time to fire up SEARCHBITS! We need a new head coach.
Just kidding, of course. Personally, I won't be rooting for OSU in the NC game. I did root for them in the Sugar Bowl, mostly because I wanted to see the SEC go down.
January 8th, 2015 at 1:43 PM ^
I want to see the B1G do well to uphold (restore?) the conference's reputation. But I don't want OSU to add to their collection of National Championships. Thanks to the new playoff format, that means we can root for OSU to win against 'Bama and then lose to Oregon. B1G has already had a very good bowl season, SEC is shut-the-hell-upped, yet OSU need not win a NC.
Thank you college football playoffs!
January 8th, 2015 at 1:43 PM ^
I want to see the B1G do well to uphold (restore?) the conference's reputation. But I don't want OSU to add to their collection of National Championships. Thanks to the new playoff format, that means we can root for OSU to win against 'Bama and then lose to Oregon. B1G has already had a very good bowl season, SEC is shut-the-hell-upped, yet OSU need not win a NC.
Thank you college football playoffs!
January 8th, 2015 at 1:44 PM ^
I want to see the B1G do well to uphold (restore?) the conference's reputation. But I don't want OSU to add to their collection of National Championships. Thanks to the new playoff format, that means we can root for OSU to win against 'Bama and then lose to Oregon. B1G has already had a very good bowl season, SEC is shut-the-hell-upped, yet OSU need not win a NC.
Thank you college football playoffs!
January 8th, 2015 at 5:24 PM ^
what does <br> mean?
signed,
very uncool
January 8th, 2015 at 8:25 PM ^
January 8th, 2015 at 8:35 PM ^
thank you.
January 8th, 2015 at 1:00 PM ^
Sent from MGoBlog HD for iPhone & iPad
January 8th, 2015 at 1:01 PM ^
This is so much better than the fake rivarly-drumming talk that Urban does and all the leaving out M's and such, and that Hoke kinda did too with calling them Ohio.
The rivalry doesn't need that BS. It needs two great teams playing against each other for high stakes.
Jim's gonna bring it to them on the field, not in the media.
January 8th, 2015 at 1:01 PM ^
Sent from MGoBlog HD for iPhone & iPad
January 8th, 2015 at 1:01 PM ^
I ain't even mad. No matter how much you think you have emotionally invested in the OSU rivalry; Coach H has more. He's played in the game. He wants to beat them more than any of us next year. The difference is he's about to put thousands of hours of work into it.
If he think's it's ok to root for them, so be it. I won't be, however.
January 8th, 2015 at 1:21 PM ^
True, but to be fair, I'm about to put thousands of hours into reading about the thousands of hours of work he's putting into it.
January 8th, 2015 at 1:01 PM ^
January 8th, 2015 at 1:01 PM ^
January 8th, 2015 at 1:01 PM ^
Ohio State winning is better for Michigan. It will make our vicotory next year over them even better and improve the perception of the Big Ten and therefore the perception of Michigan and the strength of their schedule and therefore improves the chances they get selected by the committee to be in the playoff.
January 8th, 2015 at 1:02 PM ^
It was brilliant of him to say that, but he isn't rooting for Ohio State.
And we see now that he's going to be calling them "Ohio State."
January 8th, 2015 at 1:02 PM ^
GOOD!
A NC win for a B1G is good for the conference. Plus it would make for a win next fall over the "defending national champions."
Leave all the petty and childish "I want them to lose no matter what" BS to MSU fans.
January 8th, 2015 at 1:03 PM ^
Imagine if RIch Rod or Hoke said this... haha. We would have been calling for their heads.
January 8th, 2015 at 1:08 PM ^
Politely disagree ... if Rich Rod had voiced an anti-B1G sentiment people would have been screaming from the rooftops.
Ditto Hoke, but I couldn't see him going counter to home conference. Silence, perhaps, or pro-B1G. But never anti-B1G.
I have no problem with Harbaugh saying this. It shows (a) political savvy, and (b) confidence.
That said, *I* am rooting for a certain aquatic fowl to win ... :-)
January 8th, 2015 at 1:19 PM ^
January 8th, 2015 at 1:03 PM ^
Let's not forget that as the former head coach of Stanford, there's probably no love lost for Oregon. I mean if he's got to pick the lesser of two evils, picking in the interests of your conference makes sense if only it could someday benefit you.
January 8th, 2015 at 1:04 PM ^
Of course we should all be rooting for OSU. A win would be great for the Conference, a boom for recruiting and national respectability. Rooting for OSU under these circumstances is a no brainer.
January 8th, 2015 at 1:12 PM ^
I don't think it matters much either way, but I don't see how OSU winning the national championship will help our recruiting.
January 8th, 2015 at 1:17 PM ^
is this a boom in recruiting for OSU and Michigan? The whole conference? Is the positive recuiting impact to the conference going to be positive enough for Michigan to make it acceptable for me to root for OSU?
I don't think anybody really has these answers.
Recuits going to be like, Michigan might win a NC soon with Harbaugh. OSU did win one and Urban has 2 others.
They already have enough positive momentum. Maybe they need lose. Let Michigan do the Championship winning for the good of the conferance.
I still don't know what to do!! Help!!
January 8th, 2015 at 1:19 PM ^
Good for the conference? Yes. National respectability? Yes, that's why it would be good for the conference. A boon for recruiting? Not so sure about the rest of the conference, maybe just for Ohio State, which would be bad.
I won't be rooting for them.
January 8th, 2015 at 1:05 PM ^
Harbaugh be trolling
January 8th, 2015 at 1:07 PM ^
January 8th, 2015 at 1:08 PM ^
No
Just no
No fucking way
January 8th, 2015 at 1:10 PM ^
ducks over bucks tho
January 8th, 2015 at 1:08 PM ^
I can go either way on this arguement. Good for B1G, yes. Good for OSU, yes, but I do not want anything good for OSU. I will continue to monitor this thread to observe compelling arguemnts to tilt me one way or the other.
Thanks,
January 8th, 2015 at 1:09 PM ^
January 8th, 2015 at 1:09 PM ^
I want to beat the best, makes victory that much sweeter!