The Seduction of Jim Harbaugh
WSJ has a long excerpt from JUB's new book: Brandon's lasting Lessons
http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-seduction-of-jim-harbaugh-1439481739
August 13th, 2015 at 12:45 PM ^
Give me your WSJ password please.
August 13th, 2015 at 12:51 PM ^
No need for password
August 13th, 2015 at 1:15 PM ^
EDIT
August 13th, 2015 at 1:17 PM ^
WSJ has the easiest paywall to get around on the internet. Just google the exact name of the title of the article and click on the direct link. When you go through google the article won't be blocked.
August 13th, 2015 at 4:50 PM ^
Not just WSJ, this is the case for pretty much any news site that limits access to certain articles to subscribers. Works with WSJ, Chicago Tribune, LA Times, etc. Just search the title verbatim to access through the search engine.
Note: in any modern browser, you can highlight the title, right click, and search via the default web browser in a new tab. Works beautifully.
August 13th, 2015 at 12:47 PM ^
August 13th, 2015 at 12:47 PM ^
Great excerpt! Love the inside story:
“I think it’s great to grow up in a college town, don’t you?”
“He’s said that many times to me,” Sarah later told me. “ ‘Wouldn’t it be great to raise our kids in a college town?’ That’s always been in the back of his mind.”
And job offer that was not an offer . . . great story!
August 13th, 2015 at 12:50 PM ^
But the article is paywalled for me. I stopped reading the WSJ for the most part when it the Bancroft's sold it.
August 13th, 2015 at 12:59 PM ^
is the only written stuff in the WSJ that I find useful at this point.
August 13th, 2015 at 1:02 PM ^
August 13th, 2015 at 1:20 PM ^
It might be WSJ that lets you view 10 articles a month before you have to pay. Of course, there are ways around this that you can google if you're computer literate.
August 13th, 2015 at 1:19 PM ^
I don't have a WSJ subscription but I was able to read the whole thing. (From my work desktop.)
August 13th, 2015 at 1:21 PM ^
Hmmm - it's not paywalled for me and I'm not a subscriber. I remember this coming up about a week ago with another WSJ article. It's odd.
August 13th, 2015 at 12:49 PM ^
have been up at that place on Lake Charlevoix; can just picture the running battle between the boats, blaring the fight songs, and Sparty Gal mooning them as they pulled away.
August 13th, 2015 at 12:49 PM ^
August 13th, 2015 at 12:52 PM ^
August 13th, 2015 at 1:13 PM ^
it is humorous but I think the level the joke has reached has been a bit much. Mention it once or twice but at least make sure to acknowledge that it isn't the real title. Writing a book is a huge endeavor and having someone purposefully refuse to call it by it's a real name because of a vendetta against another person is a little disrespectufl in my opinion.
August 13th, 2015 at 1:29 PM ^
August 13th, 2015 at 4:24 PM ^
Don't you think that if Bacon had a problem with it, he would just say "Brian, stop doing that," and Brian would stop?
August 13th, 2015 at 1:04 PM ^
August 13th, 2015 at 1:43 PM ^
August 13th, 2015 at 1:50 PM ^
Given that Brian gave Bacon a full article to advertise his book, and Bacon was interested in working with Brian on it, I doubt there's an issue.
August 13th, 2015 at 11:47 PM ^
August 13th, 2015 at 12:52 PM ^
August 13th, 2015 at 12:56 PM ^
“Say you have this guy pursuing you and he’s in love with you, but he’s just admiring you from afar. You’re dating this big macho guy who gets all the ladies, but he doesn’t treat you right. And you finally decide to give the other guy a chance, and that’s when you realize it’s a match made in heaven. And you ask yourself, ‘Why didn’t I go out with this person 10 years ago?’
An interesting way to put it actually, the whole "feeling the love" thing.
It's kind of strange to think that there was a comedy of technological gaffes / inconveniences that could have potentially gotten in the way in those final hours. Glad there was trust on the part of Harbaugh's lawyer.
August 13th, 2015 at 1:24 PM ^
August 13th, 2015 at 1:32 PM ^
"Hackett went to the Westin’s business office, but it couldn’t handle PDF software. He couldn’t fax it from the hotel, because he knew news of that would get out and hit the Internet almost instantly. He decided to take a picture of the agreement with his iPhone, but then the battery died."
Wow, can you imagine wanting a coach for your team but you don't get him because you can't work your phone? Wouldn't that be awful? I'm glad nothing like that ever actually happened to Michigan!
August 13th, 2015 at 1:51 PM ^
August 13th, 2015 at 1:32 PM ^
But if you remember, the buildup at that point toward Harbaugh coming was feverish. And it was late Saturday night affter the game, that the first reports indicating that Harbaugh was delivered were initially reported with Bacon being the source who would not confirm but indicating pretty resolutely that a deal was in hand. Now, we know how and why his radar was so effective in progress reports that emerged during "the happening" period.
I mean if Bacon knew after the summer wedding trip that Harbaugh was open to returning to Michigan, you can see how he would have been able to act benignly as a background player in commenting on the situation with such authority.
Nevertheless, a whole set of dominoes had to fall for this deal to fall in place notwithstanding the wonky techy moments that befell Hackett as he prepared his coup de grace.
I mean Michigan fans knew intuitively the lure of Ann Arbor and his alma mater were extremely magnetizing and that never, not once, did Harbaugh ever suggest he didn't want to come back to his college hometown. I know Michigan fans felt this and saw no response as a positive, not a negative, even if the NFL drumbeat sought to completely deny the possibility amid a lost love affair in SF.
In my mind, when Hackett never made any formal attempt to go after other candidates, and Harbaugh never publicly closed the door on Michigan, it was always game on. And in the end, love prevailed. I think it's going to be a marriage made in heaven, as Sarah has suggested. In any case, we know how it all went down.
August 13th, 2015 at 12:57 PM ^
Reading this excerpt - which actually is not paywalled - prompted me to order this book. With a little diligence I'll have it read in time by the time of the Utah game kickoff.
August 13th, 2015 at 1:00 PM ^
Weird that it's paywalled from my work computer, but not my phone.
August 13th, 2015 at 1:03 PM ^
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August 13th, 2015 at 1:04 PM ^
21st century romance right there my friends. Let's enjoy it while it lasts.
August 13th, 2015 at 1:08 PM ^
For the people that are not under 25, this was a tinder reference.
August 13th, 2015 at 1:20 PM ^
Okay. Now what the hell is a tinder?
August 13th, 2015 at 1:26 PM ^
It's a mobile application that assists people in having no-strings-attached sex without having to meet at a bar.
August 13th, 2015 at 1:34 PM ^
Man, there really is an app for everything....
August 13th, 2015 at 1:25 PM ^
That shit is not romance. It's lust.
August 13th, 2015 at 1:06 PM ^
This book won't last me more than a day. Can't wait.
August 13th, 2015 at 1:11 PM ^
just pre ordered a copy
August 13th, 2015 at 1:09 PM ^
‘We’re getting excited about this, aren’t we?’
“Yes we are,” Hackett said.
August 13th, 2015 at 1:14 PM ^
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August 14th, 2015 at 12:24 AM ^
I wonder if they're going to the Catalina fricken wine mixer.
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August 13th, 2015 at 1:21 PM ^
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August 13th, 2015 at 1:16 PM ^
Weirdest part of the story:
Hackett went to the Westin’s business office, but it couldn’t handle PDF software.
WTF?