Harbaugh's Mantra - Fair, Healthy, Honest Competition

Submitted by Hard-Baughlls on

I have heard Harbaugh say this a bunch: How much he loves "Fair, honest, healthy competition" regarding competition within the team for playing time, and game day battles with other teams.  While it may seem like a corny /trite quote reeking of coach speak, he truly does seem to love the day to day and week to week battles.

While he is known for his tirades on the sideline, I have found Jim to be very fair and complimentary of other teams when they win that competition, as much as it must kill him inside. After the Iowa loss this year, he showed a great deal of respect for their effort and stadium atmosphere.

While we all wanted to win on Saturday, probably nobody moreso than Jim, I believe a certain aspect of his moral fiber / his psychological foundation was offended by what transpired on the field, more than it just being sour grapes about a loss.  Jim seems to really value the integrity of the game of football, and I think he was more than just upset about bad calls going against his team, I truly believe his football being was offended by the absurdity on Saturday.

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freelion

November 30th, 2016 at 1:19 PM ^

I think Jim would admit if his team was truly outplayed and lost fairly. He is offended by the lack of fairness not that his team lost.

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MCMOST

November 30th, 2016 at 1:54 PM ^

If the B1G offices really took Jim's critisism constructively, they would pursue a set of standards and process improvements for officials that would evaluate/investigate every incident in every game so that best referee practices are captured, taught, best technologies deployed,and all this carried out to the field of play.  Human error wont totally be removed from games however can be reduce significantly vs where we are today.  This approach to referee process improvement can and should be implemented instead of the CYA/Low Transparancy approach that Jim Delany and the B1G front office seem to be practicing today.

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Stuck in Ohio

November 30th, 2016 at 2:05 PM ^

OSU is Jim Delaney's darling. I'm transplanted to Ohio from Kalamazoo, MI. Right now the best thing about being in Ohio is that everyday when I take a shit and flush it away, it stays in ohio.

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charblue.

November 30th, 2016 at 2:27 PM ^

how the business works. And I can tell you this: the crew that was assigned on Saturday, would have been chosen on a variety of criteria. But the fact is, the league is now in a no-win situation because it chose to assign this crew based on its experience as a bigtime crew, without looking at the background of its makeup.

The Big Ten has about three or four crews that it assigns to its biggest games each week. And John O'Neil's crew used to be No. 1. Unforturnately, after his crew worked the Michigan-MSU game last year, his crew never worked another major Michigan game until the game in Iowa. Well, you know, what happened there. The league wouldn't assign O'Neil's crew to work in Columbus.

The crew that worked the Michigan State-Ohio State game in E. Lansing is the crew that I hoped would be assigned to Columbus. It obviously wasn't. They put Capron's crew on the game instead and now their background bias makes the Big Ten look like chumps. That crew just played into the worst fears of biased officiating based on perception and review of their missed calls. Their missed calls are completely baffling from a professional standpoint. So it raises legitimate questions about bias that the league never wants to answer.

The Big Ten has a bigtime issue with its officiating after this game. And the league's complete silence in the midst of this controversy tells you everything you need to know about that. When you don't have an adequate explanation, you don't say a word. Silence is an admission of guilt in this case.

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Kevin13

November 30th, 2016 at 4:31 PM ^

Look, if OSU had just been a better team and beat us fair and square last Saturday, I could live with it. I wouldn't like it but I can accept loosing to a better team or just being out played.  However, when you give your best and something out of your control takes the game from you it leaves a sour taste for a long time...

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Blumami

November 30th, 2016 at 6:40 PM ^

I think that what we have seen play out over the past 72 hrs is that while thousands of UM fans were wringing their hands over the controversial loss, Jim was already playing the long game. His comments to the media were simply an inexpensive ($10k) investment to keep us at the forefront of the playoff discussion.

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Carcajou

December 1st, 2016 at 8:07 AM ^

Immediately after the game ended, that occurred to me, and I was hoping that he would do exactly that, for exactly that reason. Not that he wasn't being totally sincere- I believe he was.

You can bet that Urban Meyer would have done it had the situations been reversed to give his team a better shot at the playoffs.

Kinda sucks that it was necessary in the first place and nowadays you have to game the system that way, but with the current system, that's the way you have to play it.

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