Harbaugh: Miserable, as always.....Jim Rome: A jackass, as always

Same dude will be sucking Coachs crank when we win a natty.

Has any coach ever answered that question?

Is one of the most unusual listens you'll ever hear. I gave it a shot back in 2010, and I just didn't understand what the hell was happening. Callers would wait DAYS to get on that station and blurt out some non-senseical Rome-ism and then he'd be booted off the air in like 5 seconds. 

It's just a weird show.

You listen to Rich Eisen.  If you like a total jock-sniffer who acts tough from his bully pulpit, you listen to Rome. 

Now I really know why I can't stand Rome. Everything about him is annoying and I avoid him at all costs. I wish Everett had taken him out for good.

Jim Rome is a Giant Vagina.

I don't believe he was wrong in not going into detail about the situation. However I think he could've handled the end of the press conference better. Just say they are suspended indefinitely and move on.

“If anybody thought this was going to be a kinder, gentler Harbaugh since he went home to Ann Arbor to rescue the football program, make no mistake, it’s the same exact guy,”


I don't see how this is a bad thing.

"O.K., from a distance Bo comes on like a yahoo. And that's Bo's public image. He has had horrible problems with the press, which has this nasty habit of wanting to talk to him when he loses, his mother's advice notwithstanding. But even if the media's timing were better, it probably wouldn't make much difference, because Bo hates the press. Not just a little. A lot. The Voice of Michigan Football, Bob Ufer, says he has tried to get Schembechler to be nicer to the media. "But he told me," says Ufer, " 'Bob, if I win, I don't need the press, and if I lose, they can't help me.' " Ufer defends Schembechler, whose record at Michigan over 12 years is 114-21-3; Bo's teams have won the Big Ten title twice and tied for it seven times.
 
Says Ufer, "Bo has two categories of things in his life: what matters and what doesn't matter. What matters is football. What doesn't matter is everything else. Bo is the kind of guy who is so dedicated that he doesn't realize how he's coming off." So while some coaches like to go out and drink with sportswriters, Bo would prefer to break out in warts.

Until a couple of years ago, he would routinely storm out of press conferences, kick reporters out of the sessions ("Don't be offended," says one of Bo's friends. "He'd kick Millie out, too"), make himself unavailable and order his players not to talk. Talking very softly once at a press conference, he was asked to speak up. "I'm speaking as loudly as I can," said Bo softly and arrogantly. And in a memorable set-to on Oct. 1, 1979, Schembechler gave an absolutely unnecessary push to a publicity-seeking college newspaper reporter.

Yet too much is read into all this. As Don Canham, athletic director at Michigan, says, "Bo is oblivious to life."
 
Sports Illustrated, September 14, 1981

i dont think Harbaugh cares about or even knows who Jim Rome is

Not worth posting.

The only person who is more miserable then Rome is his wife. He should be a qualified expert on misery. I only see Harbaugh as happy and content besides the press conferences.

I listen to Jim Rome once in a while. He is a good interviewer, but he is a cocky bastard. He is a know it all. I think Jim Rome is missing the point on this one. Just like media can ask who or why, Jim has the right not to answer. Jim Rome is living in his own world and forgetting that Harbaugh is paid to protect his team. Sometimes media personnel get too uptight about their job and rights that they forget about other people's rights. Also, Jim Rome mocks many of his viewers under the pretense of being funny. But he can't take it when someone defies Jim. Classic arrogant douche.

I read Rome's rant and I honestly have no idea what he was trying to say. He used a lot of words and had a critical tone of Harbaugh, but he just rambled and didn't actually make a point or say anything that finebaum hasn't said. Sometimes when people deserve to be taken to task it can be satisfying to hear Rome do it, but when someone doesn't deserve to be, but he does his schtick anyways, he just makes an ass of himself instead of his target.

I read Rome's rant and I honestly have no idea what he was trying to say. He used a lot of words and had a critical tone of Harbaugh, but he just rambled and didn't actually make a point or say anything that finebaum hasn't said. Sometimes when people deserve to be taken to task it can be satisfying to hear Rome do it, but when someone doesn't deserve to be, but he does his schtick anyways, he just makes an ass of himself instead of his target.

Dumbest thing he said, "he was ran out of Frisco and nobody misses him." What?!?! Has Rome been listening? Is he even alive? What an idiotic thing to say.

I made the mistake of reading the comments and Sparty fans are jumping all over Harbaugh for this. Maybe Jim shouldve stayed at the podium repeating "Next Question!" to every question. That would be way more mature.

"If you suspend guys, reporters are going to ask you about it. They’re just doing their job, so you should do yours and answer the question.” So Harbaugh's job is to answer questions from people who he is not required to answer questions from? Rome makes no fucking sense whatsoever. JH's job is to coach the Michigan Football team, not to answer nettling questions from the media. 

Harbaugh said that two of the three missing from the photo were suspended and it was an internal matter. The questioning should have stopped there. I would have done the exact same thing. If you warn someone to stop and then let them carry on, then why warn them in the first place? 

Rome is an ooh-look-at-me short guy that uses sharp language. 

didn't know jim rome was still around....still don't care.

Rome does bring up a valid point. The journalist's job is to ask questions. That doesn't mean that it's always in the coaches best interest to answer them. Making that potential conflict adversarial serves no purpose. What Rome doesn't account for is that the coach's job isn't to answer his questions. Sometimes the coach's job is to protect his players and his program.