Harbaugh tweets about Kirby Smart

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If the Georgia coach is implying any intent on our part to break rules, he is barking up the wrong tree.

— Coach Harbaugh (@CoachJim4UM) February 24, 2016
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Truthbtold

February 25th, 2016 at 7:44 AM ^

Is right, he isn't breaking any rules. Sort of the same way a 75yr old man marrying a 18 yr old girl isn't breaking any rules. Or How honor killing your daughter or wife in Afghanistan for infidelity isn't breaking any rules. So yea Jim, your right, your a rule follower.

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Dix

February 24th, 2016 at 4:15 PM ^

I didn't think Smart even insinuated Harbaugh was breaking rules.  I read his comments as acknowledging the legality of Harbaugh's maneuvers but raising questions as to whether they will remain legal in the future.

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Blue_sophie

February 24th, 2016 at 4:38 PM ^

 

You’ve gotta think about recruiting rules, how are they going to handle those, is it an advantage, disadvantage? Are they gonna let other coaches come to it, are they gonna hold open practices? Do we all come in there and watch them and scout them? If they’re all open practices why don’t we go and watch them. It’s a Pandora’s box of what it’s going to get into, obviously.

I believe the key phrases are "recruiting rules" and "Pandora's box"

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kevin holt

February 24th, 2016 at 6:27 PM ^

Why would they waste time scouting our players in the first week of their practice together when they probably won't play us and, if they do, it will be in almost a year? The team will be much much different in even a month, let alone the end of the season. Go ahead, coach, scout away. Hope you get a lot of useful info from those practices, and don't waste too much time on it.

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charblue.

February 24th, 2016 at 6:43 PM ^

the question or is offering an opinion on a subject outside his worldview of understanding. Don't know how Spring practice either home or away constitutes the kind of scrutiny he is contemplating or suggesting. The question was what do you think of Michigan holding Spring Break practice in Florida, and he dives into the deep end of shallow thinking, ironic, for a dumbazz named Smart.

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Benoit Balls

February 24th, 2016 at 4:55 PM ^

and all of the sudden, I noticed you made an error. Elude means to evade, allude means to refer to. No big deal, its a mute point anyhow.  I personally find grammar nazis mind bottling , so even though Im being "that guy" I feel conflicted about it. For all intensive purposes, its much of due about nothing. Normally, I could care less, so I probably should of ignored it.

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DairyQueen

February 25th, 2016 at 1:50 AM ^

Purposeful.

"Mute point" could be a cognitive/attention slip-up, but also requires zero quality proof-reading.

"Intensive purposes" is the common mis-hearing of the actual phrase "intents and purposes", which is the bigger give away, slash, the funniest one, to me.

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Hail Harbo

February 24th, 2016 at 7:47 PM ^

It is only whoosh if you watched a fairly crappy comedy.  Once upon a time it "whooshed" me until somebody told me the reference.  To my ever lasting regret I wasted several minutes of my life watching a crappy scene from a crappy movie so that I could understand the context of the "whoosh."

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Wolfman

February 24th, 2016 at 10:59 PM ^

The SEC folks are giving way too much time, going out of their way, I imagine at the prompting of another SEC AD or coach, "hey, it's your turn," that its clear to me they want this light to stay where its pointed for one very specific reason. Have no idea what it is yet because they are like all good magicians and realize the necessity for the head turn in order to make the trick work. There is something brewing down there in Dixie they aren't willing to share just yet, and possibly to the extent, they never want it unearthed. But the importance and time they are placing on what is a relative "non issue" and based on their history, makes me react when anyone goes out of their way to keep you from looking at something they don't want you to see, up to and including drawing your attention to things you, nor they, have absolutely no interest in. If Denmark were in the SEC, that phrase would definitely apply here, but substitute one of the SEC schools for Denmark and chances are pretty damn good you will hit on their actual reason.

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GVSUofMII

February 24th, 2016 at 4:15 PM ^

Good for Harbaugh. Stand your ground and defend at all costs because no crimes are being committed. I would be more upset at silence and sitting back and listening to the ACC/SEC run their mouths.

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jfree77

February 24th, 2016 at 4:17 PM ^

This is gonna be unpopular, but this isn't the best look.  He looks a little petty by tweeting constantly about what others are saying.  I think he should take a break.  He's above this.

Also, I read what Kirby said.  He's really not accusing Harbaugh of anything.  He's actually one of the only guys in the NCAA machine that hasn't been a total douche about this whole thing.

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jfree77

February 24th, 2016 at 4:48 PM ^

I'm not referencing any tweets.  I'm referencing Kirby's remarks at a local Macon, GA event.  That's what this whole thing is about, not some imaginary behind-the-scenes friction.

This is 100% about one comment (or string of comments during an interview) from Kirby.  That's why this seems over-sensitive and petty.

Coach needs to stop tweeting at every single perceived slight.  We're better than that. 

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