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Harbaugh speaks! Harbaugh's 15 minutes at the mic at Big Ten Media Days have come and gone with a couple of items of note. One is that Harbaugh declined to elaborate on the Media Kerfuffle Of The Week:

On his comments about Urban Meyer's controversy that follows him and if he would add any context

No, I don't see any -- no context you should know about. I don't think it was anything that was anything new or anything of a bombshell. It's things that many of you all understand and have written about.

A second is that Harbaugh came out in favor of a one-time transfer:

My opinion is that every student-athlete should have a one-time ability to transfer and not have to sit out a year, and then if they were to transfer a second time, then the previous rule that we had, where you had to sit out a year of eligibility, and with that, I would also keep the graduate transfer rule that we have in place right now, where you can graduate and transfer and become immediately eligible.

FWIW, many NCAA sports already have this rule.

And finally:

On Michigan being picked as the favorite to win the Big Ten East and conference title game

I think that's where I would pick us.

All righty then.

Oh, one last item:

This is almost certainly a bad idea. There are limited ways in which this can be a good idea.

"we're really close to announcing playing a team on foreign soil" -- Harbaugh

— angelique (@chengelis) July 19, 2019

Neutral site games are bad. Neutral site games when you have the largest stadium in the country are worse. If this is something like Washington moving a home game to Vancouver because their AD has been infected with Pac-12 disease, whatever. If it's Michigan playing someone in France, hard pass.

I guess a one-off with Syracuse in Toronto wouldn't be the worst.

[After THE JUMP: Rutger offers up some batting practice]