Jim Harbaugh speaking at NFL meetings today: “Everybody in that building, no one was born on third base. Everyone had to work their way to first.”

Submitted by 42-27 on March 25th, 2024 at 10:31 AM

Link to tweet.

Buckeye fans seething in the replies.  Love this and love Jim.  Trolling Buckeyes and Day even after he's moved on.

Bryan's reply is the best:

"Imagine having a button you could push and instantly piss off a hundred thousand morons. Just, whenever you wanted. As a treat."

Bonus Harbaugh quote on JJ:

“He plays quarterback the best of all the quarterbacks.”

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Dunder

March 25th, 2024 at 10:41 AM ^

It really is kind of amazing - he says something that has absolutely nothing to do with OSU and yet it triggers a deluge of angry OSU fan responses. 

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NittanyFan

March 25th, 2024 at 11:38 AM ^

Of course he was referring to OSU (or more specifically, OSU's coach) with that comment. 

Which is fine, even if the 2020 game was played JH won more than he lost against Ryan Day, so he's earned the right to talk his shit --- but come on, it absolutely had something to do with OSU.

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Bo Harbaugh

March 25th, 2024 at 12:27 PM ^

Nittany,

What's the vibe in PSU circles these days? My take, fwiw...

1) Expanded playoff probably exciting given PSU is a top 15ish program and would have made multiple playoffs under Franklin under this new system

2) Watching UM the past 3 years probably gives PSU some more hope, given we don't recruit at Bama, UGA, OSU levels - but more at PSU levels

3) Maybe time to move on from Franklin though?  Given PSU resources and history, folks probably expecting an elite product - or at least a team that can make a title run once every 5-10 years - something it doesn't seem Franklin can develop.

I actually think now is the perfect time for PSU to cut ties with Franklin as I'm not sure births into the expanded playoff and subsequent losses to football factory SEC schools will keep the fanbase happy.  

Not trying to be smarmy here either, honest question, as...If UM doesn't figure out NIL, we very may well fall into the same bucket - as what Harbaugh and staff pulled off the past 3 years in development, scheme and talent identification was the perfect storm, and not sure if it is replicable going forward - specifically in this newer, even more mercenary era of CFB.

Just thankful for Jim and the team to have experienced this past year before all these changes happen.

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NittanyFan

March 25th, 2024 at 12:39 PM ^

Short answer is "I don't know" .... PSU will have a new OC in 2024, that's the big wildcard.  Although I suppose it couldn't be much worse --- the offense didn't work at all from either an execution or schematic POV last year against top-level competition*.

And that includes the Ole Miss Peach Bowl.  Something was off with the team as a whole that game.  I get it, opt-outs, Ole Miss was more excited for the game, blah blah blah.  It was still disappointing, PSU was significantly outplayed and didn't show much energy.  Every college team is different, of course, but that was no way to enter an off-season and I worry about some of those vibes carrying over.

On NIL, it's going to be interesting to see how the B1G shapes up going forward.  I said this before, but if you look at U-M, OSU, PSU, USC, Oregon & Washington (6 of the better programs in this new mega-conference), they're going to be split 3-3.  OSU, USC and Oregon WILL go full-out on NIL to get raw talent in town.  U-M, PSU & Washington won't play the NIL game to the same extent.

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* It did work against Maryland.  But it ALWAYS works against Maryland, Franklin just LOVES beating up on Maryland.  Betting tip: whatever the line is on PSU v Maryland next year, even if it's PSU -50, take PSU.

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Blue Vet

March 25th, 2024 at 10:42 AM ^

“He plays quarterback the best of all the quarterbacks.”

Jim's not only old-school, he sounds old timey. As if he weren't born 60 years ago but 160 years ago.

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Hensons Mobile…

March 25th, 2024 at 10:54 AM ^

But seriously, remember this?

NFL likely won't be safe harbor for Michigan HC Jim Harbaugh from potential NCAA discipline

It likely won't? Lilkely? As in, it's more probable than not that the NFL will suspend Harbaugh?

The NFL is unlikely to make itself a safe harbor for Harbaugh to escape what could be substantial NCAA discipline, league sources say, raising the strong possibility Harbaugh would need to serve some or all of any possible suspension he could face in college if he returns to the pros.

Then they doubled down on this in January as well during the NFL's courtship of Jim.

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charblue.

March 25th, 2024 at 11:26 AM ^

  • "Well, I'm the guy that tells you there are guys you can hit and there's guys you can't. Now, that's not quite a guy you can't hit, but it's almost a guy you can't hit. So I'm gonna make a fuckin' ruling on this right now. You don't fuckin' hit him. You understand?"

          Appropriately, from The Departed, Mr. French in conversation with Billy Costigan after the cranberry juice- period scene in the bar. 

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tybert

March 25th, 2024 at 11:44 AM ^

The lame example they use (Tressel and tattoo-gate) is so blatantly different than anything JH did. Sweater vest was caught red-handed lying about something more than burgers that impacted the eligibility of key players. 

Next up, we'll vacate wins and go under 1000 again and give up our NC.

Love these clowns - makes for a happy Monday!

 

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Hensons Mobile…

March 25th, 2024 at 12:00 PM ^

It's dumber than that.

Pryor was going to return to OSU but then the suspension was issued after the draft, so he entered the supplemental draft. The thing the NFL did, that I still don't understand, is say, hey, you can't use our NFL supplemental draft to avoid punishment! I don't know why they cared about that, but they did. So they suspended Pryor for five games.

Then everyone said, hey NFL, you're punishing the kid but not the coach? Rabble rabble (which was some justified rabbling, tbh). So for PR, they suspended Tressel from his non-coaching job for the same length of time. They were absolutely not going to bother. No one cared about Tressel enough to suspend him, nor did they care enough about him to not suspend him.

The better comp is Pete Carroll, who you will note, was not suspended by the NFL at any point. That was just one year before Tressel left OSU. He also didn't receive a suspension from the NCAA after he left.

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Perkis-Size Me

March 25th, 2024 at 12:18 PM ^

This. ^^^

I never remotely understood the "Well Tressel had wins vacated and got suspended, along with players getting suspended, so Michigan needs to be nuked into orbit!!"

Show me anywhere that you have proof that Harbaugh is lying, beyond just the "Well he's the head coach so he HAD to know!" That doesn't work. You're the accuser. You need to provide the proof. 

If you can provide tangible proof that Harbaugh lied, then fine, levy additional punishment and Michigan will have to find a way to deal with it. Until then, the only thing to say is that you guys are just mad that Harbaugh managed to get the best of you three years in a row. And the last time, he didn't even need to be in the building in order to do it.  

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pdgoblue25

March 25th, 2024 at 11:15 AM ^

Seeing how we broke them as a fan base is truly fascinating. 

If Moore goes in there and wins this year they might burn the stadium down.

They already have it set in their mind that we are not only going to lose this year, but that we are going to suck.  Imagine the mood over there if we bounce Texas and they lose to Oregon.

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Hensons Mobile…

March 25th, 2024 at 11:28 AM ^

There is some 2007 feelings to this. In 2007 we had lost three in a row (five of six, ugh) and that was absolutely supposed to be the step back year for OSU. Todd Boeckman at QB. We, of course, had Long/Henne/Hart/Manningham. You may recall the year didn't start so well. By the time we got to The Game it was clear that we weren't as due for a win as we had assumed. And then after 2007 the wheels fell off.

So yeah, let's enter that cycle in reverse.

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pdgoblue25

March 25th, 2024 at 11:57 AM ^

There were some underlying issues that year.

I was at the game, it was miserable/raw/windy, one of those days where it was 1 degree warm enough to rain and you were praying it would snow instead.  They basically did to us what we did to them in 2021.

Henne, Long and Hart all played hurt.  I'm not sure any of them would have played if it wasn't The Game, and their last game in the big house.

If we catch them in a situation like that, and someone pulls a Biakabutuka game while our defense murders them, it will almost be as good as the national title.

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brad

March 25th, 2024 at 5:40 PM ^

Injuries did play a big role in the awfulness of 2007.  Yes, chalk up a loss to Oregon, but App St, Wisconsin, and Ohio State are probably all wins with a healthy Hart, Henne and Long.  Particularly Ohio State with Boeckman (I don't remember how to spell it) at QB.  They were doomed in that game if Henne was somewhere near his normal self.  Alas.

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mgoja

March 25th, 2024 at 12:16 PM ^

While OSU came within 7 points of beating Michigan last November, they weren't really that close. And despite their talent, last year wasn't a year in which they should have beaten Michigan - not with a 1st time starter playing on the road against JJ. 

This November - at Columbus - is when they are supposed to win. Michigan will be the team with the first time starter, and OSU will...oh wait, they didn't actually...yeah, they really did take out their pitchforks and drive away the one player best positioned to beat Michigan in 2024.

If they lose in Columbus, well...I don't even need to finish this sentence. And even if they win, they might have to face a more seasoned Michigan team again in January.

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