Harbaugh Tweet About Cowherd Interview

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That didn't take too long.

 

In my experience of participating in interviews, I've found it takes 2 to produce a clunker! I'll take 50% responsibility 4 this clunker.

— Coach Harbaugh (@CoachJim4UM) July 1, 2015
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LSAClassOf2000

July 1st, 2015 at 3:13 PM ^

I would like the data on this because I am fairly certain that there has not been a Cowherd interview to date which has in fact worked. Root cause analysis, as I recall, pointed to the host of the show but ESPN mysteriously suppressed the findings in favor of transmitting bland garbage. That's the story I heard anyway. 

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wahooverine

July 1st, 2015 at 5:45 PM ^

I see this as a favorable response. It's a play on Brian Fantana's Sex panther line in Anchorman.  It's a slightly snarky response but it's respectful. Cowherd doesn't want to make an enemy of the most fascinating coach in football period so he avoided outright bashing of him and went with humor (although self-serving). With two joking responses, the narrative now is that both guys admitted some culpability for the stinker and are laughing about it.   

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Mittelstadt

July 1st, 2015 at 3:02 PM ^

was the best take away from the interview.  

Another take away is that Jim does not need radio to sell the program right now.  He transcends the click bait media world.  He's in another dimension of time and we just witnessed a fracture in the time continuum.

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Feel The Strength

July 1st, 2015 at 3:48 PM ^

Colin Cowherd is a Pie-Eating Taint Hammer!!!! JH will have Michigan winning on the field, who gives a shit if he gives a clunker interview to one of the biggest fuck heads in the media.

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Go Blue 1984

July 1st, 2015 at 3:51 PM ^

listening to that interview and I get the sense Coach wanted to punch Cowherd in the face the whole time. I mean seriously those were the dumbest questions you could have asked and he seemed like a dick from the start. I get the sense Harbaugh Was annoyed and felt like punching him. I don't know that's my take.

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chatster

July 1st, 2015 at 4:21 PM ^

I’m in the small minority here because I generally like Colin Cowherd, mainly because he’s willing to discuss college sports; but he surely wasn’t at his best today.  He wasn’t as well prepared as he could have been.  One of his staff members should’ve been reading MGoBlog during the past 24 hours, checking some of Harbaugh’s interviews on YouTube and feeding him enough information to let him know where to go with the interview.
 
I didn’t hear the full show today. If he didn't, he could’ve prefaced the interview in the previous segment of his show, before Jim Harbaugh connected, by discussing the hows and whys of Jim Harbaugh’s decision to leave the NFL for Michigan. He could’ve mentioned last night’s first-pitch event at Comerica Park as some evidence of Harbaugh’s intensity.
 
He might’ve considered some discussion of Jim Harbaugh’s career at Michigan and in the pros; the travails of the past seven seasons and the impact on Michigan football’s reputation; the excitement that has been generated in Ann Arbor since Jim Harbaugh returned; the impact of the satellite camps; maybe some non-controversial roster “issues” (Jake Rudock and Shane Morris; the return of Jabrill Peppers; the arrival of Wayne Lyons from Stanford) and the controversial “issue” that ESPN promoted recently (Ondre Pipkins’ condition.) . . . And then, having established the background information for his national audience, he could’ve gotten Jim Harbaugh to focus on some narrower issues.
 
He also should’ve learned in advance whether it would be okay to call him “Jim” instead of “Coach.”  And his greatest error was cutting the interview off too soon.
 
He could’ve taken a deep breath and then asked some open-ended questions, like, “How are you selling the Michigan football program to that highly rated wide receiver who runs a 4.3 second 40?” . . . “Has there been anything that has surprised you about the Michigan football program since you’ve become the head coach?” . . . “What did it take to convince the players to accept the responsibilities you expect them to meet?” . . . “Are you satisfied that the satellite camps you organized have been worth the extra time, effort and expense? And do you plan to continue them next year?” . . . “Now that you’ve had six months to adjust to coaching in college again, are there any aspects of the college game that you’d like to see changed?”
 
As far as I’m concerned, Jim Harbaugh’s only mistake, if any, was in not figuring out a way to prolong the interview in order to promote the Michigan football program. He might’ve stopped Cowherd and just said something like, “Let me tell you why I’m excited to be back at Michigan and why I think Michigan football is going to be great again.”

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Fuzzy Dunlop

July 1st, 2015 at 5:23 PM ^

I haven't seen this supposedly-deleted Harbaugh tweet discussed anywhere on this thread, so apologies if it's been posted already.  Anyone know anything about whether this is legit?  Truly hope not.

 

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HateSparty

July 1st, 2015 at 5:43 PM ^

Cowherd is an unabashed and totally biased Trojan fan. He cannot like Harbaugh for embarrassing his man crush, Carroll. It was a set up to stink so JH would come off bad. No fact to this but no doubt in my mind either.



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Doctor Wolverine

July 1st, 2015 at 10:51 PM ^

Yeah, I just listened to the interview. I am no journalism expert, but Colin definitely seemed more energized for the interview than Jim. JH definitely was not giving Colin anything to work with and should have just cancelled the interview. That said, Colin overreacted and that took it from a boring interview to complete clunker. He could have done a classier sign-off, made a joke about JH sounding a little worn out, and moved onto the next segment. Therefore, I think 50/50 blame is fair.

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July 2nd, 2015 at 8:26 AM ^

Well I would say Jim didn't neccessarily do that interview with an enthusiasm unknown to mankind :)

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July 2nd, 2015 at 11:39 AM ^

The art of the Harbaugh interview:

http://www.csnbayarea.com/49ers/art-harbaugh-interview

The NY Post is a definite piece of shit, but they're widely read and are solidly backing Harbaugh and bashing ESPN here:

http://nypost.com/2015/07/01/espn-eager-to-portray-jim-harbaugh-as-a-we…

I wish it had gone this way instead:

CC: When are you at your least intense, because you are a pretty intense guy.

JH: Well good morning, Colin, how are you? Good to hear your voice!

CC: I’m great Coach, how are you! … Is there ever a moment in the day when you’re like: ‘I’m cupcake, I’m soft. … When’s the part of the day when you’re a pushover?”

JH: Mmm, cupcakes, cupcakes are good aren't they? But I'll tell ya Colin, that soft time of day is not going to be right now. I heard that you said we wouldn't win 7 games this year. Can I hear your game by game analysis of our upcoming season, of our team, our opponents and your well reasoned opinions on why we're going to lose at least six games?

CC: uh... pause... coach ya kinda surprised me there. Maybe you're really never a pusho...

JH: [interrupting] I don't hear an answer there sport, were you simply talking a bunch of yang from outta some place the sun doesn't shine in order to sound like you know what you're talking about when you actually don't know my roster, you have no idea of our progress, our new faces, our guys returning from injury, what we're going to play like, how hard we're going to fight, what our will or resolve is going to be like, or really anything about our team in reality, do you?

CC: Well with all due respect Coach...

JH: [interrupting] Exactly Cliff, I'm trying to give you all the respect you deserve, how'm I doin'? It doesn't sound like you did any research or gave it much thought before you spouted off with your prediction. Please go in depth for me about all of our opponents and what our match-up problems are, what are each teams strengths & weaknesses?

CC: It's Colin, Jim…

JH: What's Colin?

CC: My name Jim, my name...

JH: [interrupting] Oh, right, Cliff was the mailman on Cheers, what a great show! Loved Coach! Don't know how I got you mixed up with a mailman Chris, I salute the proud hard working mailmen of the United States, they always deliver right?

CC: But it's not Chris either..

JH: [interrupting] In other words, you don't actually know anything about our opponents or match-ups either, as I suspected. Let's be honest here, this is just like when you didn't have a clue what you were talking about regarding my interest in coaching college football or coming back to Michigan, did you?

CC: Well Jim my sourc….

JH: [interrupting] You didn't know how much I love coaching kids did you? You didn't know how much I love recruiting, what a challenge that is, but how much fun it is, how much I love to compete in every aspect of everything, including recruiting, did you? So why did you pontificate about how much I don't want to deal with that any more and how I consider the NFL the “highest level of competition” and going back to college is a step down? Can you admit you made it all up and didn't know anything about anything?

CC: [red faced] But Jim...

JH: [interrupting] You didn't have any sources outside of listening to the ramblings of alleged NFL insiders whose only inside info comes from where their heads are far up inside their own… well you know well where that is...

CC: No, no, no.

JH: Face it, outside of right now no Michigan insider has ever spoken to you & they probably never will, right? And another thing Craig...

CC: [interrupting] This feels like one of those where you ask like 50 questions on a …

JH: [interrupting] It feels very competitive to me.

CC: Um-uh.

JH: Well listen Cary, I'm still a quarterback at heart and if you look at my old coaching clinic video you'll see I think it's really important for a quarterback to “find the asshole”… So I'm off to a pretty good start there & I think this has been a great day in football already!

CC: [thankfully pulling the plug] Listen, I love you.

JH: [no response whatsoever]

Here's the real transcript for comparison: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/early-lead/wp/2015/07/01/jim-harbau…

http://deadspin-vfs.cdn-ec.viddler.com/deadspin_1d593y2w5say5shrimi0egu…

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2morrow

July 2nd, 2015 at 7:09 PM ^

...and JH was right. I listened to the interview and a couple of the questions he asked, I had no idea what he was asking, and JH didn't either - and it was at this point that Cowherd gave up rather abruptly. I was actually surprised that he did that.

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