New Michigan Football book by John U Bacon "Overtime"
"Overtime: Jim Harbaugh And The Michigan Wolverines At The Crossroads Of College Football" comes out Sept 3rd and covers the 2018 football season.
Release event on Sept 3rd at Hill Auditorium 7pm: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/literati-bookstore-presents-john-u-bacon-tickets-64195216621
Preorder from Literati: https://www.literatibookstore.com/book/9780062886941
Preorder from Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Overtime-Harbaugh-Michigan-Wolverines-Crossroads/dp/0062886940/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1OGT2BT9HMBYI&keywords=john+u+bacon&qid=1563233088&s=gateway&sprefix=john+u+b%2Caps%2C240&sr=8-1
I look forward to reading it
Spoiler: Everybody dies at the end.
If you’re posting message board comments and I’m posting message board comments, does that mean the book hasn’t been finished yet?
Mind = Blown
....and the butler did it!!!
I read an advanced copy.
Murderwolf did it--unsurprisingly.
Now the spoiler: Murderwolf is... Dave Brandon.
But did Hopper really have to?
SAVINGS!
I believe if you pre-order the book today and enter in PRIMEBOOK19 in the promo code area at checkout you will save $5 making it only $14.
I don’t believe you have to be a prime member and it should state the code right below the book on the website page.
Thanks!
Why did he write a book about that season?
People will buy it, he makes money.
DJ Quik once said, "If it don't make dollas, it don't make sense."
Word
He probably chose last season hoping it would be a great one. And even though it wasn't people will still read it so why waste all that material you've already compiled.
We returned a bunch of starters and had a really talented team and a good coaching staff?
I think a lot of people thought that having a competent QB was our missing piece too to at least finally winning the big ten. But of course people forget we often shit the bed against Ohio St
"Lack of a QB" was the answer to the team's woes...until it wasn't. At the end of every season there's always some "key" reason why we didn't beat OSU or win the B1G. If we could just change that one "key" reason, THEN we'd get there.
But in reality, the more likely reason year in and year out is that the team as a whole just isn't good enough to beat the likes of OSU. This includes coaching, game plans, current talent levels and skill sets, potential talent and skill ceilings, strength and conditioning, in the moment decisions, etc. ...all of it combines into the team's ability to beat top quality opponents. While we may not like to believe it, this has been the true reality for a long time. Because it's not just one player who wins / loses games. It's a team effort. A missed tackle here, a blown coverage there, a poor read on a run over there, an overthrown ball, a bad play call, etc. it all adds up and results in the biggest loss every year, and then more often than not snowballs into a loss in the bowl game.
If we want to start winning The Game and actually advance to bigger and better stages, then the team as a whole just has to get better. Not the short and easy solution so many fans want to hear, but that's reality. It's also a lot easier said than done...as we all well know.
That advance isn’t gonna pay back itself.
Dis right here ^^^^^^^^
He had a premonition. It was wrong.
I've heard Bacon discussing this latest book and it sounds like it is really more of a look behind the curtain on a major football program, rather than a recounting of the season. He said he goes in-depth with several players and with Harbaugh, and also promises that he is going to reveal a great deal about the shady recruiting tactics that Michigan must compete against. He said fans of Michigan will be "extremely proud" of the state of the program.
Let's hope he has
Better editors this time.
I love John U but his last few books about M football take me to my unhappy place
I've got to say, I was a little annoyed he wrote a book basically anointing Harbaugh as our savior before he even coached a game.
I think we all did that. Media too. Not just JUB.
If he loses to OSU this season, he should be encouraged to explore his NFL options.
I wasn’t in the “Harbaugh is our Lord and Savior” crowd, and wasn’t the only one suggesting caution on that notion either.
John’s a good writer, but I have no interest in re-hashing 2018.
I was all in on Harbaugh and he's gotten us so close to where we want to be. Besides, without hiring a scumbag like Tressel or Meyer, who would realistically be better?
Of course we won't know until it happens, but I don't think it's unreasonable to assume there may be other prospective coaches out there who could give us winning records vs. MSU and .500 records vs. OSU.
I'm fairly confident any decent coach could consistently notch 9-10 wins with the talent Michigan recruits
I honestly don't think you can beat an Urban Meyer team without being extremely dirty. Luckily he's gone and now is the chance for Harbaugh to turn the tide.
I still can't believe how many people believe that Meyer (and Saban and many others similarly) is some kind of coaching savant. Yes, he knows how to build a team, but any halfway competent coach SHOULD be able to do well when given a talent base, large budget and a certain degree of leeway when adhering to rules/ethics.
Coaching savant is a good way to describe Meyer. Winning 3 NCs at two different schools plus his record at Utah is very impressive.
He also snagged some hot Florida coed despite lacking any visible chin.
Lol
That aspect of his physical makeup has always annoyed me
...and BGSU.
Meyer won a lot and did it everywhere.
Mark D beat him twice both times when OSU was a favorite to play for the national title...wtf do you mean he can't be beaten?
This is an underrated point. Harbaugh should be compared to a baseline. It isn't hard to build a team to beat the Rutgers, Indianas, Purdues and directional Michigan's of the world.
I think the baseline at Michigan is probably somewhere in the 8-4/9-3 area, ignoring bowl games and such. Harbaugh has exceeded that baseline, but not substantially so. I think it is clear there are a small number of coaches out there who could probably do better at Michigan than Harbaugh.
Agree.
Everyone always seems to think there couldn't ever possibly be anyone better other than JH or the holy (or perhaps not so holy) trinity of Saban, Dabo, and Meyer.
But none of those coaches were the "it" coach, until they were. Acting like there are zero other currently "unknown" coaches out there who could do the job is laughable at best and idiotic at worst.
Yeah, its really not all that interesting of a season on the whole.
From an extremely glum point of view I wouldn't mind some insight into what went into the defensive game plan prior to OSU, but other than that, it ended up a pretty nondescript season.
My cool story bro. I was sitting at Ashley's one night with a buddy and two guys sat next to us at the bar. My buddy and I were mid conversation so I didn't pay much attention to who sat down. A couple minutes later I hear John's voice and immediately I was like, hey I'd recognize that voice anywhere! Sure enough I look over and there he is. The man, the myth, the legend.
Cool story, bro.
(But really that is pretty cool)
Scott Sterling!!
Should be called “The art of finishing in second place”
I can’t fathom why he’d write another book about Harbaugh 4 years later with nothing to show for it except a bad record against top 10 teams.
Isn't reading this like re-watching the Amazon All or Nothing season?
Thanks a lot for this heads up OP. Huge Bacon fan here. Purchased.