Personal Story to Verify Harbaugh to Michigan

Submitted by UMClassOf2018 on

I had a little encounter today that, to me, says Harbaugh to Michigan is happening.

So, I am from Youngstown, OH. This morning, I went to my gym for a little early morning workout, and another member of my gym is the father of Chris Durkin (the QB who was committed to MSU, flipped to VT, is a freshman there now). This is significant because they are close cousins with D.J. Durkin. I know Chris' father a little bit (not saying his name for privacy reasons), and saw him there this morning. We were talking a little bit, and asked about my freshman year at Michigan. It then turned into a conversation about Michigan football, and he said he would starting rooting for Michigan football next season (after giving me shit for wearing Michigan shirts in the past). I asked why, and he said he has a cousin who would be coaching there next season, and when I asked if it was D.J. Durkin, he said it was.

Conversation stopped there, but basically we can infer from this that Harbuagh is coming, and D.J. Durkin knows it and will be joining him. 

mark5750

December 26th, 2014 at 2:08 PM ^

the way the weather forecast works as far as % chance of rain works is as follows: if there is any chance (in this case 80%) the percentage reflects the amount of the forecast area will receive rain therefore if it's 80% chance it means that there is a 100% chance of rain occurring but only 80% chance it will happen where you are...much like it's a 100% chance that Jim harbaugh will coach next year but currently will only coach 80% of Michigan's games

M-Dog

December 26th, 2014 at 11:48 AM ^

Confirmation by a thousand cuts.

There have been so many confirmations from so many different and even odd-ball angles at this point, that you can pretty much be assured that it is a done deal.

Not "done deal but you never know, flaky things can happen" or "done deal as long as the Raiders don't make a Godfather offer", but just straight out done deal.  

He's coming.

I've already cleared my calendar for a Monday announcement and a Tuesday halftime speech at the Illinois game.

 

M-Dog

December 26th, 2014 at 12:41 PM ^

I was an initial skeptic (I mean, who wouldn't be . . . a guy that coached in 3 NFC Championship games and the Superbowl over the last 4 years is going to walk away from that and go coach at 5-7 Michigan?  Yeah, right.  Tinfoil much?)

But now I'm all in.  I'm not convinced by any one thing, but by the sheer level of independent confirmation by all kinds of disparate sources, many of whom don't generally agree or even like each other.

 

EGD

December 26th, 2014 at 1:29 PM ^

This coach hire is unique in the length of time the parties have needed to keep it quiet--probably because college teams usually aren't in the position of hiring NFL guys from teams with playoff chances in December. Most coaching hires take a few days or at most a couple weeks, which really limits the opportunity for little anecdotes like this one to occur and then leak out into the public domain.

Auerbach

December 26th, 2014 at 11:50 AM ^

"This is significant because they are close cousins with D.J. Durkin."

Is a close cousin a higher rank than a first or second cousin?