OT: Breakdown of Jim Harbaugh's press conference answers and non-answers.
Great article about how Jim Harbaugh deals with press conference interactions. Hint, he only directly answers 38% of questions thrown his way. I think we see this in alot of coaches, especially Hoke, but this is the first time I've seen a statistical break down of a football coach's press conference.
Perhaps if this sort of analysis takes off journalists will use it to craft questions that coaches would be more likely to answer. Maybe mathlete could improve upon this method to help us further decipher "coach speak".
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323829504578270141010484224.html
January 29th, 2013 at 4:59 PM ^
...why no bubble screens?
January 29th, 2013 at 5:07 PM ^
I don't think mgoblog has had the chance to participate in a Jim Harbaugh press conference.
January 29th, 2013 at 5:19 PM ^
Someone needs to make this into a meme. #bubblescreen or something like that and just go around asking people about bubble screens. Dumber things are done on the Twitters, thats for sure.
January 29th, 2013 at 5:21 PM ^
1000 Internetz (invented by Al Gore) to the first reporter to ask President Obama at his next press conference, "Y NO BUBBLESCREENS?"
January 29th, 2013 at 7:44 PM ^
his best Al Gore voice "BUBBLESCREENS CONTRIBUTE TO GLOBAL WARMING!"
January 29th, 2013 at 6:55 PM ^
"The first time Harbaugh ever met star lineman Joe Staley, the lineman said the coach approached him without saying a word, punched him in the stomach a few times, told him he needed to do sit-ups, then walked away."
The article was worth reading just for that.
January 29th, 2013 at 7:25 PM ^
John said during his press conference that the coach who had the greatest influence on him and Jim was Bo.
January 30th, 2013 at 8:50 AM ^
without "BO".
January 30th, 2013 at 10:14 AM ^