2018 Spring Trip Announced: Paris, London, and Normandy
Per Harbaugh, the 2018 Football team's Spring trip will include stops in Paris, London, and Normandy.
"Yeah, we took a straw poll," Harbaugh said. The result of the vote? The team chose to go to three places in Spring 2018, returning to Europe. "Paris, Normandy and London."
http://michigan.247sports.com/Bolt/Harbaugh-team-going-to-Paris-London-and-Normandy-in-2018-53215018
Courtesy Isaiah Hole at 247sports
Hopefully Harbaugh will pull a Stanton and say, "Lafayette, we are here!"
Seriously, what recruit can resist the Michigan choice now? Who could not want to be a part of this?
has more to offer than all three places put together. The Waffle House crowd will believe him (btw/ I like the occasional Waffle House breakfast).
but it seems appropriate - the Michigan difference.
Visiting Normandy is a bucket list item for me.
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
John McCrae
I'm with you pal. A bucket list for sure.
Maybe a 2018 MGoBlog tour or Europe???? ;)
This is of interest to me...
But his heart was in the right place
and the Battle of Flanders....
Dan Carlin's Hardcore History, Blueprint for Armageddon II. In the first 2 days of the German invasion, 70,000 French troops died and another 250,000 injured, leading to the Flanders battle. It's a long recording but very interesting for those who are interested.
I wonder how much I'd have to donate to get invited to this trip - man I'm jealous.
France and the U.K. are free countries, you can vacation in those places while the team is there.
I am in London a couple of time a year for work, I will see if I can work out the timing and try to hit a practice over there if possible.
Could have recruited some 17 year old rugby stars :) Maybe for 2019
Every major college football program will be doing this in 10-15 years. It is wonderful to have the most innovative coach in college football.
They can already travel around Columbus and see the sites (according to Mr. Smith).
On a serious note, I don't see too many ACC / SEC programs having any interest in this - not their style. Many would think it's weird for people to be interested in foreign countries / cultures.
My wife is from Tallahassee and the people down there are really nice and hospitable, but most people down literally have zero interest of anything outside the U.S.
Man o Man do I hope to tides turn in Columbus and we just start kicking their ass year in and year out. And Harbaugh goes for two up 30.
In general, the players being recruited by those schools would be less interested than the kids Michigan is recruiting.
The P5 schools where you will may this are Stanford, Cal, ND (if they can swallow their pride and copy Harbaugh), USC, UCLA, Vanderbilt, Wiscy, Minnesota, and Northwestern. You have to think of high academic that can afford it.
Would I have liked to go at 17? Of course and so would a lot of the recruits. But I can also guarantee you that a lot of kids couldn't care less.
My point is that Michigan (and the other schools I listed) tend to recruit more kids that will be interested in this type of thing. Schools like Alabama and LSU tend to recruit less kids that are interested in broadening their horizons.
Of course, there are exceptions at both schools and overlap between the kids their recruiting. But it would be less of incentive at those schools. Add in the fact that their coaches and administrators would hate to set up that kind of trip.
Bottom line - don't expect to see Da Coach O or Saban taking their kids on a tour of Europe anytime soon.
We can all debate whether and the extent to which athletes should get paid. While that debate goes on JH has made sure to get his kids the same kind of opportunities that so many other college kids enjoy but that are hard (financially and because of their time commitments) for student-athletes. Next big step (which I believe is being looked at) is getting athletes chances for work experience/internships.
Guy continues to compete to be better; it would be great if this led to other teams doing more things to help athletes get the full student experience. Truly a Leader.
There are a lot of coaches out there you can say are true leaders but would never do something like this. What I love about Harbaugh is he is a true mentor taking care of the kids minds, bodies and souls. Thats what is truly rare in todays educational climate.
Souls?
Twisted blue steel souls
There are a lot of coaches out there you can say are true leaders but would never do something like this. What I love about Harbaugh is he is a true mentor taking care of the kids minds, bodies and souls. Thats what is truly rare in todays educational climate.
The expected reaction from our ess eee see friends.....
Awesome.
them in anyway (different conversation for a different website). But stastically speaking you have a 10x better chance of dieing in a car accident backing out of your driveway than a terrorist attack in London or Paris.
There are literally millions of people going into and out of those cities on a daily basis - the odds are literally negligible.
You can't live your life out of fear of getting caught up in a situation of something negligible happening to you.
Iagree. I would liken it to not leaving your house for fear of a bird shitting on your head. The consequences are dissimilar but the liklihood is the same.
Not to make this political -- that's not my intent -- but how many people are killed (or injured) each day by acts of violence in the US as compared to Paris or London?
And yes, I know, I'm trying to compare a country to two cities...but you get the point.
You'd be a fool to pass up a trip to either of those places.
You can compare any of the 100 largest cities in the U.S. to those two - our cities are statistically more dangerous across the board.
The U.S. also experiences significantly more terror attacks than Europe. We just lie about it and call our terrorism by other names. (When a guy shoots up 20 kids at Sandy Hook, somehow that's not an act of terror, but a "school shooting".)
Sandy Hook? Orlando? The Charleston church shooting? The San Francisco post office shooting the other day?
You consider these cases of "ghetto thugs killing each other in the hoods"? That's one hell of a rationalization.