ShruteBeetFarms

September 7th, 2017 at 1:33 AM ^

I remember Kalis with a dumb personal foul penalty last year and you could read his lips when he pulled Kalis. He told him to knock that shit off. I don't see him going full Brian Kelly on a player if they are trying.

 

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LSAClassOf2000

September 7th, 2017 at 11:22 AM ^

To quote about 10% of the posts on the blog ever, "This".

Jim Harbaugh has yelled at players, refs, etc...but the one thing that we can say about him that we can't say about other coaches in D1 necessarily is that he is very deliberate about the person and the subject. That's someone who is playing the game in his head and thinking about where to go from that point, not someone merely venting. 

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WayOfTheRoad

September 7th, 2017 at 4:34 AM ^

Most interviews with Jim fall and focus solely on his quirks....that are who he is so not at all strange to him. He's not "normal", in some of the best of ways. That's apparent. Yet, the sleepovers worked, weren't illegal and a LOT less crazy than most major recruiting stories. This is what every interview harps on and not only has it been covered from every angle but covered 2 years ago. Ya know, when it happened. It's always such a transparent case of the interviewer thinking "this guy is different so I'll really push X,Y or Z" and it always becomes a bit uncomfortable. His team just won a big game and Dan Patrick wanted to delve balls deep into anrecruiting story from 2 years ago that's been covered every way possible? Dan Patrick, not some hack beat writer for the St. Helens Gazette. Dan Patrick. And that's the thing - Jim answered the question in detail! Yet, Patrick wanted more. He wanted what else? Does he think they built forts and...ok, I can totally see Jim building forts (ha). I dunno, it's just odd to me that they will have a total scrub HC on and the conversation is normal. They ask about the previous game and get some laughs in talking golf or the like. Normal. Jim Harbaugh? A guy that rebuilt a dead Stanford, went to 3 straight NFC Championship Games, a Super Bowl that he barely lost to HIS BROTHER, a brother that is an NFL HC, a father with large ties to the game of football and a huge and successful coaching tree but they want to hear about how much milk he drinks. Or his love of Judge Judy. Etc. He has already covered those things so many times. If you ask him about football or golf in a fun way he'll be very candid! He's proven that. Let's not pick his brain for coaching, etc. Let's ask about a 2 year old story. Believe it or not, I'm not on the Cult of Harbaugh. I think it's a bit too much over 2 years after his hire, TBH. Transparently bad and/or set-up interviews get at me. No other coach with his resume' and no major scandals gets that kind of interview. Ever. He gets them 90% of the time. Id say this if he weren't our HC, too.

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WayOfTheRoad

September 7th, 2017 at 10:32 AM ^

And Dan Patrick isn't on ESPN, last I looked. Did he go back? I truly don't know anymore. I think he burned that bridge but who knows. With all sincerity, what about the comment or interview has anything to do with advertising? Is it the reason that DP would have yet another bad interview with Jim? As in he pushes the goofy angle for ratings? If so, it just seems unecessary given the guest and what he harps on (timing, exposure of discussion topics, etc). The point is that it's a sports entertainment show, so: 1. What's entertaining about asking about a topic beat to death 2 years ago? A topic almost always seen as "crossing a line" or generally in poor taste, btw. He didn't say he loved it or anything. He just wanted to talk about the event and after a reply better than necessary, it wasn't enough. 2. Is that what you're wanting to know from a guy with the credentials listed in my op? I forgot to add "current Michigan HC", btw. Not the win? Hardly the podcast? A recruiting tactic from 2 years ago covered from every angle. Wow. I don't get it. He'd almost surely never have Urban Meyer on and say "Urban, so you retire from Florida due to an unknown health issue and wanting to be with family only to get a job at ESPN and take the OSU job a year from retiring...while still under contract at Florida. What up with that?" despite the attention that'd generate. Almost surely never. Why? He wants to talk team and game and such. Oh, he also wants them back on. With Jim it's almost always anything but football and he's pretty damn good at knowing the game of football. Why not that? Ever? I guess that's my point. It's a clear M.O. now. He rarely gets good interviews in favor of "lets make this a s#itshow"!

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WayOfTheRoad

September 7th, 2017 at 10:40 AM ^

I enjoyed it. Yeah, I meant from an outsider view. I've always held that Jim is purposefully awkward until he sees he can be open. He's naturally a bit "odd" but not in the way usually portrayed. Podcast was a great listen and if interviewers didn't seem to go out of their way to make interviews with him awkward they'd find he's quite candid. Yet, .ost want to talk about a sleepover or conparing his job in SF to UM or anything but what they'd ask a other HC. For not being in the Cult of Harbaugh, I'll admit I've noticed this during his tenure here. I think it's unfair, tbh.

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BayWolves

September 7th, 2017 at 9:09 AM ^

Of course you can chew the QB out! Tough competitors get it and don't break down and cry about it. That said, there is a time and method for doing so and it can't be the only tool on your tool box.



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