U-M Spokesperson: Coke promotion was a "miscommunication" (update)
They just didn't execute.
Michigan spokesperson tells @McMurphyESPN that Coke promo tweeted by @ByAZuniga was a miscommunication pic.twitter.com/SOUJdUXvCW
— darren rovell (@darrenrovell) September 23, 2014
UPDATES
All purchases made so far through this promotion, though, will be honored -- per Michigan RE: Coca Cola-gate.
— Nick Baumgardner (@nickbaumgardner) September 23, 2014
In other news, my followers on Twitter (several post here) have held me to this: if he's hired, I will buy the same cheap ass pleated khakis that Harbaugh buys from Walmart (yeah, yeah) and wear them for every single game he coaches at Michigan, if he is hired. Even if it's 80-plus degrees.
September 22nd, 2014 at 8:59 PM ^
Harbaugh will never coach at Michigan. Accept this.
September 22nd, 2014 at 9:02 PM ^
Will you eat a lemon if he does?
September 22nd, 2014 at 9:07 PM ^
I'll eat a lemon if UM pays any coach $7M+ a year (JH asked SF for 8M, currently at 5M), let alone one who has already turned them down and had previously publicly bashed the program.
September 22nd, 2014 at 9:20 PM ^
September 22nd, 2014 at 9:31 PM ^
if it meant getting Jim Harbaugh.
September 23rd, 2014 at 12:24 PM ^
You're locked in now buddy.
September 23rd, 2014 at 11:19 AM ^
rejected the idea of living in Ann Arbor. Likes the California sun too much I guess.
August 11th, 2015 at 9:01 PM ^
September 22nd, 2014 at 9:32 PM ^
I will absolutely eat a lemon if he comes here.
September 22nd, 2014 at 9:47 PM ^
Real hair. Human hair.
September 22nd, 2014 at 10:02 PM ^
Locked for posterity.
September 23rd, 2014 at 1:05 AM ^
We're talking all hair, not just from the head.
September 23rd, 2014 at 8:09 AM ^
I couldn't do that... at least not without some lemon on it.
September 24th, 2014 at 7:02 PM ^
Hmmm.
Fuck it, I'd still do it. But I get to choose the human.
September 22nd, 2014 at 9:55 PM ^
I will join you - if he's hired!
September 22nd, 2014 at 11:53 PM ^
I will eat 9 lemons. Please make me eat 9 lemons, Jim Harbaugh.
September 23rd, 2014 at 12:39 AM ^
September 22nd, 2014 at 9:20 PM ^
Seriously. The guy couldn't leave college football behind fast enough. Maybe in 10-15 years when the guy wants to find a nice landing spot, but right now he seems like he's NFL all the way.
August 11th, 2015 at 9:01 PM ^
September 22nd, 2014 at 9:24 PM ^
September 22nd, 2014 at 9:30 PM ^
You know that for a fact?
September 22nd, 2014 at 9:32 PM ^
WD would need to the the "COA GAME WORN" version for $500. Can't believe Brandon hasn't thought of this already...
September 22nd, 2014 at 9:43 PM ^
September 22nd, 2014 at 9:50 PM ^
I hate seeing the fanbase this delusional. Harbaugh is in his dream job right now. Plan B and C and D and E for him would be other NFL teams. Not Michigan. If he crashes and burns in the league, after enough years of waiting and maybe a year or two as a CBS studio analyst, yes, maybe, send him an invite for coffee in Schembechler Hall and he'll be open to discussion. And probably still say no.
September 22nd, 2014 at 10:05 PM ^
Plan B and C and D and E for him would be other NFL teams.
You do not know this. Nobody but Jim Harbaugh and those close to him know anything about anything he may or may not do. Please stop posting speculation as fact. It's very irritating.
September 22nd, 2014 at 10:35 PM ^
September 22nd, 2014 at 10:40 PM ^
Harbaugh might or might not be interested in returning to Ann Arbor at this stage (though in past it certainly seems like he has been). He's probably smart enough to look at Saban, the stability, salary, control and lack of York family relatives and do the math...
September 22nd, 2014 at 10:40 PM ^
Yes, he has free will, and maybe he'll decide to go coach semi-pro rugby in Australia next season. That is also possible, I grant you. For purposes of discussion, it's not worth consideration.
As far as "how I know," not only do I live in the SF bay area and am constantly inundated with 49ers (and Stanford) news, my upstairs neighbor all last year was a 49er you would know. We'd often walk our dogs in the same park and chit-chat about the team and NCAA. I asked a lot about Harbaugh. Suffice to say, he has the free will to leave for Ann Arbor. That's fine. And I have reasons to believe he just. ain't. coming.
And I'll post accordingly when he comes up in the discussion. I'd love, love, love it if he came, but if we're discussing reasonable possibilities, I think we should leave him out.
September 22nd, 2014 at 11:50 PM ^
People won't believe you even if you are telling the truth 100%. Trust me, I know. People only hear/see/read what they want to a lot of times.
September 26th, 2014 at 7:13 PM ^
Hahaha nice user name! That's so weird.
September 23rd, 2014 at 1:08 AM ^
I used to play basketball at a gym where one of the Detroit Pistons did his summer conditioning program. Back after they drafted Darko, but he didn't play at all his first year, I asked the guy about him and he told me Darko was "great" and was going to be "a force".
Moral of the story? Just because someone on the inside that you know casually tells you something doesn't mean it is true.
September 23rd, 2014 at 7:16 AM ^
did he say he was going to be a force on the court or in the octagon?
September 22nd, 2014 at 10:37 PM ^
Harbaugh has already had his dream job in college:
"I used to stare down at that field as I was stenciling those numbers," Harbaugh told reporters, athletes and others who crowded into the Arrillaga Family Sports Center's Kissick Auditorium. "I so very badly wanted to go to Stanford and play for the Cardinal. … This was my number-one choice all along."
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2007/january10/harbaughsr-011007.html
September 22nd, 2014 at 10:53 PM ^
He sure did not stay at Stanford too long, if that was indeed his 'dream' job. I see him as an NFL guy for life. For what it's worth the chatter at fancy UofM Bay Area fundraising events has always been that Harbaugh's wife does not want to leave California.
September 22nd, 2014 at 11:32 PM ^
I think she's a west coast or California girl, and if so I can understand why she wouldn't want to move to Michigan.
September 23rd, 2014 at 12:33 AM ^
I've lived in California for ten years, and with all due respect to her, I can't.
September 23rd, 2014 at 10:23 AM ^
September 22nd, 2014 at 11:51 PM ^
THEEEEE RAIDERRRRRRRSSSSS
September 23rd, 2014 at 1:18 AM ^
I didn't want to leave either.
However, it's become obvious that Harbaugh can't stay in San Francisco.
Taking over the Raiders is asking for your career to be destroyed. Could Harbaugh pull it off? Maybe, but that is a big risk, even for a coach that has been as lucky as him. The Raiders may be the biggest tire fire in the NFL right now, though Tampa is trying hard to match them.
Once you get past those choices, unless the Chargers job comes open you are out of California anyway. So it would really come down to Harbaugh wanting to be in the NFL at all costs. Ann Arbor/Detroit Metro area is actually a really nice place to live compared to most places not in California. Harbaugh is not a dumb guy--he knows that MOST NFL coaches get chewed up and spit out in 4 years at every job. He's having a rough go of it in SF even though he's been wildly successful. So does he want to keep doing this crap over and over again, or does he want to come to Michigan and plant roots for the next 20 years?
If he can live without the Super Bowl ring, deal with the snow and Michigan can pay him enough, it seems like somewhat of an easy decision to me actually. But I'm not inside his head and I don't have to deal with his wife.
September 23rd, 2014 at 10:42 AM ^
September 23rd, 2014 at 3:43 AM ^
As I have said since the last coaching search and as Henson's sources "closely connected to the football program" have "finally realized," Harbaugh won't coach for David Brandon. But that could all change soon. If you want either Harbaugh to become a legitimate candidate, then start counting the days and hours before David Brandon is fired.
August 11th, 2015 at 9:02 PM ^
September 22nd, 2014 at 9:00 PM ^
It was a miscommunication. The price was supposed to be two Pepsi products.
September 22nd, 2014 at 9:06 PM ^
No way, supposed to be buy two Cokes, get Three tickets. Fucking Coke, can't rely on them for anything
September 22nd, 2014 at 9:14 PM ^
September 22nd, 2014 at 9:52 PM ^
You are wrong, it was supposed to be a promotional tie-in with the re-release of Surge.
September 22nd, 2014 at 9:59 PM ^
...didn't make sense. Everything I've heard says the Coca-cola uniform tie-in isn't until the Michigan State game.
September 22nd, 2014 at 9:13 PM ^
Will you eat a lemon while you are wearing the cheap ass pleated Harbaugh khakis too?
September 22nd, 2014 at 9:18 PM ^
Absolutely.