How much longer can you last ? - YOUR swim lane

My emotions are all over the place. Yesterday JH was interested and today he might not be. We "will be very happy' this weekend or not...I don't know what to think. What's next? Saban is coming to Michigan? I don't know that I can take this much longer and it has only been a couple days!!! Help me little baby Jesus!

Coaching Rumors: Harbaugh remains a hot name Reply -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- All eyes are on Stanford’s Jim Harbaugh heading into Monday night’s Orange Bowl against Virginia Tech. The former Michigan quarterback has become the hottest coaching name in both the collegiate and NFL ranks, with several NFL sources now saying they believe Harbaugh is headed for Michigan to replace Rich Rodriguez. First things first -though most speculate there will be, there’s no opening at U-M yet. Athletic director David Brandon told us at Sunday night’s basketball game he would complete his evaluation this week and have something to say later in the week. That’s Tuesday at the earliest, Thursday at the latest, we’re hearing. If he does make a move and hire Harbaugh, some have opined it will only be for the short term. The Detroit News’ Terry Foster, for example, who also does radio for 97.1 WXYT Radio in Detroit, said Sunday night on Fox 2 Sportsworks that Michigan “would be getting its Nick Saban” if Brandon hired Harbaugh, insinuating that Harbaugh would have one eye out the door from the moment he arrived. Others who know Harbaugh well insist that’s simply not the case and that he’d be setting up camp in Ann Arbor for the long haul, wanting to raise his family in a college town the way he was brought up. They insist he’d be a “perfect fit” and that he knows it. That includes family members, close friends, you name it. I spoke with Harbaugh this summer for a feature on the ’85 team (25th anniversary piece) in our 2010 football preview. We interviewed several from that team, including John Kolesar, Clay Miller, Mike Mallory and others, but you can’t really write that feature without Harbaugh’s memories, and they all said the same. So for the record, there were no ulterior motives on our part. Rodriguez, entering his third year, was Michigan’s coach, and none of the guys we interviewed (including Harbaugh) were asked for, or offered, an opinion on Rodriguez and his staff, just hopeful Michigan would get back to being Michigan again. [The list of those supportive of Rodriguez, by the way, also includes former coach Gary Moeller, who sat next to us in the press box at Ohio State (one of the highlights of the late season was breaking things down with the coach that day. He offered, “What I wouldn’t give for one more quarter on the sidelines in this game.”)]. But we digress. I wasn’t sure if Harbaugh would get back with me, because it was late in the game and we were on deadline. We exchanged texts, and he essentially climbed a mountain in Peru, where he was working with a Catholic charity to build houses, to call me, and we spoke for a good half hour. He talked about what makes Michigan special, and how guys like his father, former Michigan assistant Jack, former U-M line coach Jerry Hanlon, Bo Schembechler, etc. were everything to him, his heroes and his foundation for success. He spoke of the picture that ran in the Ann Arbor News when he was a young boy, one in which he was on the field celebrating a Rick Leach touchdown against Ohio State. “I kept that picture in my locker at school for years,” he said. And he still has a copy somewhere. There was much more, some off the record, some for another day. Does Harbaugh regret the comments he made about Michigan’s academics? I didn’t ask him because it wasn’t relevant to the story, but others close to him have said he absolutely does, and has since he made them a few years back. Bottom line: Jim Harbaugh is no Nick Saban - not even close. If Brandon does decide to go in a different direction and brings Harbaugh to Michigan, then that should be the least of anyone’s worries.

Coaching Rumors: Harbaugh remains a hot name Reply -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- All eyes are on Stanford’s Jim Harbaugh heading into Monday night’s Orange Bowl against Virginia Tech. The former Michigan quarterback has become the hottest coaching name in both the collegiate and NFL ranks, with several NFL sources now saying they believe Harbaugh is headed for Michigan to replace Rich Rodriguez. First things first -though most speculate there will be, there’s no opening at U-M yet. Athletic director David Brandon told us at Sunday night’s basketball game he would complete his evaluation this week and have something to say later in the week. That’s Tuesday at the earliest, Thursday at the latest, we’re hearing. If he does make a move and hire Harbaugh, some have opined it will only be for the short term. The Detroit News’ Terry Foster, for example, who also does radio for 97.1 WXYT Radio in Detroit, said Sunday night on Fox 2 Sportsworks that Michigan “would be getting its Nick Saban” if Brandon hired Harbaugh, insinuating that Harbaugh would have one eye out the door from the moment he arrived. Others who know Harbaugh well insist that’s simply not the case and that he’d be setting up camp in Ann Arbor for the long haul, wanting to raise his family in a college town the way he was brought up. They insist he’d be a “perfect fit” and that he knows it. That includes family members, close friends, you name it. I spoke with Harbaugh this summer for a feature on the ’85 team (25th anniversary piece) in our 2010 football preview. We interviewed several from that team, including John Kolesar, Clay Miller, Mike Mallory and others, but you can’t really write that feature without Harbaugh’s memories, and they all said the same. So for the record, there were no ulterior motives on our part. Rodriguez, entering his third year, was Michigan’s coach, and none of the guys we interviewed (including Harbaugh) were asked for, or offered, an opinion on Rodriguez and his staff, just hopeful Michigan would get back to being Michigan again. [The list of those supportive of Rodriguez, by the way, also includes former coach Gary Moeller, who sat next to us in the press box at Ohio State (one of the highlights of the late season was breaking things down with the coach that day. He offered, “What I wouldn’t give for one more quarter on the sidelines in this game.”)]. But we digress. I wasn’t sure if Harbaugh would get back with me, because it was late in the game and we were on deadline. We exchanged texts, and he essentially climbed a mountain in Peru, where he was working with a Catholic charity to build houses, to call me, and we spoke for a good half hour. He talked about what makes Michigan special, and how guys like his father, former Michigan assistant Jack, former U-M line coach Jerry Hanlon, Bo Schembechler, etc. were everything to him, his heroes and his foundation for success. He spoke of the picture that ran in the Ann Arbor News when he was a young boy, one in which he was on the field celebrating a Rick Leach touchdown against Ohio State. “I kept that picture in my locker at school for years,” he said. And he still has a copy somewhere. There was much more, some off the record, some for another day. Does Harbaugh regret the comments he made about Michigan’s academics? I didn’t ask him because it wasn’t relevant to the story, but others close to him have said he absolutely does, and has since he made them a few years back. Bottom line: Jim Harbaugh is no Nick Saban - not even close. If Brandon does decide to go in a different direction and brings Harbaugh to Michigan, then that should be the least of anyone’s worries.

 

Coaching Rumors: Harbaugh remains a hot name Reply

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All eyes are on Stanford’s Jim Harbaugh heading into Monday night’s Orange Bowl against Virginia Tech. The former Michigan quarterback has become the hottest coaching name in both the collegiate and NFL ranks, with several NFL sources now saying they believe Harbaugh is headed for Michigan to replace Rich Rodriguez.

First things first -though most speculate there will be, there’s no opening at U-M yet. Athletic director David Brandon told us at Sunday night’s basketball game he would complete his evaluation this week and have something to say later in the week. That’s Tuesday at the earliest, Thursday at the latest, we’re hearing.

If he does make a move and hire Harbaugh, some have opined it will only be for the short term. The Detroit News’ Terry Foster, for example, who also does radio for 97.1 WXYT Radio in Detroit, said Sunday night on Fox 2 Sportsworks that Michigan “would be getting its Nick Saban” if Brandon hired Harbaugh, insinuating that Harbaugh would have one eye out the door from the moment he arrived.

Others who know Harbaugh well insist that’s simply not the case and that he’d be setting up camp in Ann Arbor for the long haul, wanting to raise his family in a college town the way he was brought up. They insist he’d be a “perfect fit” and that he knows it.

That includes family members, close friends, you name it.

I spoke with Harbaugh this summer for a feature on the ’85 team (25th anniversary piece) in our 2010 football preview. We interviewed several from that team, including John Kolesar, Clay Miller, Mike Mallory and others, but you can’t really write that feature without Harbaugh’s memories, and they all said the same.

So for the record, there were no ulterior motives on our part. Rodriguez, entering his third year, was Michigan’s coach, and none of the guys we interviewed (including Harbaugh) were asked for, or offered, an opinion on Rodriguez and his staff, just hopeful Michigan would get back to being Michigan again.

[The list of those supportive of Rodriguez, by the way, also includes former coach Gary Moeller, who sat next to us in the press box at Ohio State (one of the highlights of the late season was breaking things down with the coach that day. He offered, “What I wouldn’t give for one more quarter on the sidelines in this game.”)].

But we digress.

I wasn’t sure if Harbaugh would get back with me, because it was late in the game and we were on deadline. We exchanged texts, and he essentially climbed a mountain in Peru, where he was working with a Catholic charity to build houses, to call me, and we spoke for a good half hour.

He talked about what makes Michigan special, and how guys like his father, former Michigan assistant Jack, former U-M line coach Jerry Hanlon, Bo Schembechler, etc. were everything to him, his heroes and his foundation for success. He spoke of the picture that ran in the Ann Arbor News when he was a young boy, one in which he was on the field celebrating a Rick Leach touchdown against Ohio State.

“I kept that picture in my locker at school for years,” he said.

And he still has a copy somewhere.

There was much more, some off the record, some for another day.

Does Harbaugh regret the comments he made about Michigan’s academics? I didn’t ask him because it wasn’t relevant to the story, but others close to him have said he absolutely does, and has since he made them a few years back.

Bottom line: Jim Harbaugh is no Nick Saban - not even close. If Brandon does decide to go in a different direction and brings Harbaugh to Michigan, then that should be the least of anyone’s worries.

 

January

Honest question.. Do you think Harbaugh would have been our coach in 2008 if Bo was still alive?