Does anyone remember Harbaugh wanting the MSU job??

then is Northwestern also a major program?

or Minnesota?

etc...

Can you post a link so we can see the entire story? I'm sure there have to be Harbaugh comments in there and I don't like basing an opinion off of one excerpt. Especially when it's written by Lynn Henning

I thought revisionist history ended with the bolsheviks.

I don't think MSU is a great job (or even all that good of one) but I can't imagine any coach at the FCS level that would turn them down if they offered, no matter where they played their college ball.

Seriously, I have no memory of Harbaugh ever being interested or considered for the MSU job.  A couple of friends are decently connected with the MSU program and I don't recall his name ever coming up.

That said, Harbaugh's name came up with nearly any Div. 1 coaching position after he had some success at San Diego and subsequently at Stanford.  Part of that could be a calculated effort to get both his name out there to raise both his profile and that of Stanford. (Semi shameless promotion of self and school)

I have short term memory loss, did Jh said he would crawl to East Lansing 4 years ago to be caoch at MSU?  Am I missing something.

I checked the RCMB for evidence of Harbaugh being mentioned as a head coach candidate post-JLS. I found a 5 page thread that makes mention of Lynn Henning slobbering on the idea of JH to MSU on Staudt's radio show. So I'm just going with 2010 Lynn Henning's source is the wishful thinking of 2006 Lynn Henning. 

There are some pretty funny comments in the thread though.

http://www.spartantailgate.com/forums/msu-red-cedar-message-board/21722…

he is pulling yet another green-and-white turd out of his ass and calling it journalism.

I just spent 5 minute googling and haven't come up with a single reference to Harbaugh in the wake of Smith's firing. The only name that came up was Steve Mariucci, who was a popular choice for Spartoons at the time. 

*Edit as per Brumski's find: Henning isn't pulling stuff out of his ass. He's diving deep into the Detroit Department of Sanitation Solid Waste Treatment Plant and pulling his four-year-old turd out of the muck, shining it up nice and pretty, and calling it new info. And all without scuba gear.

I'm confused. I thought we were disregarding everything from Lynn Henning.

Even if this is true, so what? Does this mean JH = NOT MICHIGAN MAN ENUFF?

I wrote a story for Brian's 2007 HTTV annual about Jim Harbaugh's coaching career. Talking to a significant number of his associates and family, I never once encountered so much as a rumor he was interested in the Michigan State job.

Henning may be confused with JH's attempts to get the Eastern Michigan job, which was way back in 2004. I remember it being discussed on the radio the week of UM-OSU 2003. JH was then on the Raiders staff as a QC or somesuch low-rent position. He didn't get the EMU gig and took the USD job.

Here's a list : Charlie Baggett, G Chizik, N Chow, B Cubit, M Dantonio, B Davis, T Grantham, Jim Harbaugh, B Kelly, S Kragthorpe S Mariucci, T OBrian, Bo Pelini, J Raye, G Schianio, P Shurmur, C Strong, J Tenuta, T Willingham.

I think Henning was probably just drooling over the idea of Harbaugh leading an MSU squad into the Big House.  Much like when Steve Spurrier first took South Carolina into the Swamp a couple years ago.  He has no credibility.  Crawling to East Lansing my ass. 

But hey, at least we now know that MSU is a major program.  2 whole 10+ win seasons in 118 years of existence.  Now THAT'S what I call a major program.    

Henning's quickly becoming the News' version of Rosenberg/Snyder with the negative slants on all things Michigan. Granted Lynn's a Sparty, but please, Harbaugh "...would have crawled to East Lansing..."? LOL!!!!!! Even if they gave him keys to the city, the AD role, school president, 1000 State coeds, and a year's supply of burning couches, Jim H wouldn't go anywhere near that school unless it's on the visitor's sideline in Spartan Stadium. Lynn, you've become a joke, and after how many years? Shameful, dude.