Unverified Voracity Constantly Hustling
[Bill Rapai]
Today in Jim Harbaugh fire quotes. Michigan's having a camp on its own campus for a change, which provides a platform for [fire emoji dot jpeg] x 7:
"In my America, you're allowed to cross the state borders," Harbaugh says. "That's the America I know."
Sounds like a man who has recently watched Hunt For Red October. Or been on a whirlwind tour of half the country. Or both.
And then there's this:
"I don't know what that means, a brand," he says, saying instead it was about "sharing a love for football."
/swoon
While I don't think that Harbaugh is quite the naïve waif he portrays himself as in that quote, an exhausted Sam Webb returned from the Summer Swarm tour reporting that 1) that was bonkers and he's not doing all of it again next year and 2) Harbaugh was rueful when it ended and wanted to do three weeks of camps next year($). It's not just about finding recruits. It is also about Sincerely Yours In Football.
He's got everyone who isn't an SEC coach on his side on this one, and it's been fun. Remember fun? Fun is good.
Speaking of. All of Jim Harbaugh's tweets can be looked at as Jim Harbaugh in a nutshell because that is what happens when you are constantly YOURSELF AT MAXIMUM VOLUME. This one may be even more definitive than most:
Day 82: Hustle! Constant Hustle! Hustling at All Times! #ExposureU pic.twitter.com/lsS4HrEq1P
— Coach Harbaugh (@CoachJim4UM) June 17, 2015 DAY 79: Still lost. Estevez feverish. Food supplies gone, eating anything vaguely caloric on the forest floor. Intestinal issues severe.
DAY 81: Estevez has died. We sit around his corpse, wondering if we will die by ignoring it… or die by consuming it.
DAY 83: Feel quite a bit better after encountering Harbaugh's Amazonian football camp. Estevez wearing jaunty hats. Does not seem particularly dead. Says he is "on that grind" far too much, though.
Site issues. Had a rough couple days there. Long story short, some search engine or someone else started loading very obscure pages deep in the site. These were so obscure that nobody had bothered loading them before. They were extraordinarily inefficient for Drupal reasons. And there were a lot of them—the "tracker" used to have 2683 pages. It now has one cached one.
I've been monitoring the logs for anything else that causes the database to fall over and die and haven't seen anything. So we should be good.
Ufer. Here is a Ufer thing from Steve Sapardanis. I put this in a draft a month ago and forgot about it, so all I know about it now is that I put "Ufer" in bold before it, so it could be about some other Ufer but probably not.
I hope that was entertaining or informative or both. I have no idea if it was.
1991 Indiana. Wolverine Historian:
Harbaugh needs an organizer. So they're hiring one:
The title: "Director of Internal Communications and Operations for the Head Football Coach."
The job, posted Tuesday on U-M's careers website, is most summarily to "assist the football coach in all areas, including day-to-day operations, communications, office management and administration."
Sounds like they're addressing a weak spot.
Etc.: Coaching lessons of the Golden Girls. James Light on another Durkin coverage, this one "Cover 1 Rat." Early signing period? Nevermind for this year.
I spent far too much time looking at that camp picture to see if Harbaugh was racing those kids.
my thought too, looking for OMG SHIRTLESS while sprinting
Some of the requirements for Director of Internal Communications and Operations for the Head Football Coach
- Travel with football team and head coach.
- Ability to work weekends during competitive season(s).
- On-call availability and periodic overtime.
- Unplanned activities/other duties as assigned.
Translation - don't rent an apartment, live at Schembechler Hall
Would live at Schembechler Hall if Mrs. Harbaugh was okay with it. Bo's ghost would entertain everybody at night, with the occasional arse-chewing. I am tempted to apply. Not sure I could eat Cracker Barrel seven days a week though.
I volunteer to entertain Mrs. Harbaugh while Jim's on the road.
I'm assuming by periodic overtime they mean constant overtime.
And with an enthusiasm previously unknown to humankind.
For a largely assistant-esque position, it's a bit odd that it comes with a Director title. I would half suspect that it's so the salary level could be the max under the University's hiring and employment guidelines. Because, holy fuck, you'd need to be paid a ton to be on call for HARBAUGH 24 hours a day.
Good God - Wheatley and Des returning kick-offs together? Howard's cuts were the most explosive I have ever seen. He ran like he was possessed.
FWIW - I am reading Collision Low Crossers right now. It's about the Jets last season with Rex Ryan from a "JUB" insidery perspective. If Harbaugh is anything similar to other NFL level coaches, these guys don't do much of anything else. He obviously knows what a brand is, but when he looked at Jameis WInston with re: snow crabs, I have no doubt he had no clue what the kid was talking about. I think these guys just love teaching this game they love to kids. And they're crazy about it.
Is Harbaugh allowed to post that pic? Is posting pics of recruits without naming them cool with NCAA?
And I love Jim Harbaugh for brining it back to Michigan football. I'm generally a cynic by default, but the man's love for the game and for competition of any sort is impossible to deny. I now think about Harbaugh before I work out in order to get myself motivated.
The - perhaps - dumbest part of Mullen's comments on the satellite tour was when he stated: "The only purpose for it is recruiting. I don't think it's the right purpose for camps."
What a load of mularkey. So are we to believe that the SEC's local camps are conducted only out of the purity of their own hearts? Why does Mullen get to say that and Harbaugh can't? Simply because of the location of the camp? (Obviously, that is not the pure reason for either.) Why would a camp being local make it about anything other than recruiting? These guys can get bent.
What the hell is going on here? Why does it look like there is something growing on his face? Is this some kind of really weird shadow? Help?
Probably a combo - shadow from the hat and light (with text?) from the projector
Greyscale?
reminds me of the years IU wore what were supposed to be a faint cream color road uniform. They looked like someone washed their home reds with their road whites and the colors bled.
To this day -- and every day I breathe -- I will fondly recall crisp autumn days listening to Bob Ufer broadcast Michigan football.
Totally agree. Ufer in the fall and Harwell in the summer. I'll throw in Sid for the winter for good measure.
WJR for baseball and hockey, WPAG for Michigan football! :-)
All of Jim Harbaugh's tweets can be looked at as Jim Harbaugh in a nutshell because that is what happens when you are constantly YOURSELF AT MAXIMUM VOLUME.
The image that popped into my mind when I read that was the classic Who poster:
If I were more creatively inclined, I might shamelessly steal the design and make a Harbaugh poster ... "Maximum Football."
George O'Leary, the UCF coach, was on the radio in Orlando this morning complaining about the camps. His argument was that he doesn't want to be on the road for two weeks in the summer to try and keep up with Harbaugh. He was also saying something about how the camps are all about recruiting and that it wasn't possible to actually be teaching kids in these settings. Basically he made no sense and came across as an angry old man.
This clown has bigger problems to worry about, like making sure his resume is accurate.
Hard to believe it was nearly 24 years ago! At least this team hung on to win unlike the Gophers upset in '86. It doesn't seem all that long ago since Howard was playing.
I'm glad I'm old enough to listen to Bob Ufer I remember hearing him first in the early 70s on a local Jackson station that use to simulcast WPAG before WJR picked up his broadcasts!
He's only been on the job 82 days?! That can't be right. He started in January.
He only sleeps every other day, so what he means is he's on his 82nd circadian cycle.
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