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
I've never been to any of those places. In all seriousness, though, how cool is this? The Michigan Difference is indeed a thing!
This is wonderful. Happy for them. Very happy. Hope that more take advantage of study abroad for a couple weeks after. And I hope most of the team goes.
These team trips are not only great for the student athletes but, let's be honest, an awesome perk to wave at recruits & their parents. I can't see how schools who don't want, or can't afford, to do this will not complain to the NCAA.
There will undoubtedly be complaints. Goes with the territory. But this is so much more valuable than lazy rivers and putt putt golf courses and lounges and endless luxury in football facilities and dorms. I just don't see how they can shut this down. The reality is, schools like Harvard and Stanford and most of the Ivy League have enough donors they can do whatever they want. And the same goes for SEC schools in terms of football facilities.
I do find the insularity and lack of interest in the world among many kind of fascinating. Got that sense from OSU about what Michigan was doing.
our team our outstanding Coach.
I'm very curious to see which schools copy this awesome idea Harbaugh came up with. Will academic powers or football powers be the first to do it?
I'm planning on taking the lady friend to Paris around that time. What a sight it would be to run into the team! Although I'm sure she wouldn't appreciate it as my attention would be diverted from what is supposed to be an intimate getaway.
Also if I recall correctly, I think the men's basketball team took a trip to Italy as well sometime in the early 90's, so this isn't really a new concept for us.
More recently than that - we've gone to Europe under Beilein.
that will be an awesome trip, love that they will be seeming normandy. That will be such an inspiring and humbling experience for these young minds!
Agreed. Very emotional experience. The beach is very beautiful and peaceful with the waves lapping the shore and the birds singing. And then it hits you how many yound men died in that very spot. It makes you really appreciate that you're an American.
Pointe du Hoc. I did a 2-day D-Day tour in 2014 and took a ton of photos. If I could upload to the site I'd post some.
Not to pick nits, but the B-24's birthplace was San Diego (Consolidated Aircraft) and Rosie the Riveter was Rosalind P. Walter from Long Island's Grumman plant. Rose Will Monroe, from Willow Run's plant, did portray Rosie the Riveter in a short about the war effort, but that was long after the song and the Norman Rockwell cover had made Rosie popular. It was coincidence that Rose Will Monroe had the same first name as Rosie the Riveter.
Actually, my point is not that "all military cemetaries are the same", but that a group of young adults who have probably never been to France might have other interests there, too.
Maybe the team will march through the Arc de Triomphe as Hail to the Victors is played!
Seriously though, the Normandy experience should be awesome for these young men.
Never been to any of these places...Wish I were a stud teenager playing for Harbaugh!
GO BLUE!
Love it. Also happy that the kids chose another Europe spot - the traveling is much more manageable. Flights to South Africa/Australia/etc. can be brutal but I am sure the program will visit some of those places in the future, they are absolutely beautiful - just a major trek.