Business as usual ONWARD
Got into the building early this morning and man the HYPE is real!
MW may have been the reason this whole charade happened.. I was told last night he really wanted JH to interview and wanted his boy KA-M to have an opportunity to show JH his methods and thought processes.
Literally everyone is elated to have JH back and for good!
Chris Balas is, and always has been a CLOWN! On3 needs to Move off CB ASAP!
JY, CB, BE, and NB are just a few circus acts that need a new gig.
CP could be an interesting fit as DC. I know AK would love to have him back in the saddle, but he does have a very young family and I'm not sure he wants to move back to AA and uproot the fam again. However sounds like it's option 2 or 3 as of this minute.
LF may have multiple NFL offers to mull over, but I believe they are hoping he considers coming home.
Some deck chairs may be moving around in the coaches room, as early as tomorrow.
Keep your receipts, and stay classy MGOBLOG
Cheers
February 3rd, 2022 at 9:38 AM ^
I'm pretty sure LF is Lou Ferrigno
February 3rd, 2022 at 9:45 AM ^
Everybody knows LF is the one and only...Larry Fine.
February 3rd, 2022 at 9:38 AM ^
Appreciate the content. Great to hear there is a buzz in the building. Assuming that buzz is coming from the players too
February 3rd, 2022 at 9:43 AM ^
I think I decoded what AA means
February 3rd, 2022 at 9:45 AM ^
Logged in to say fuck Chris Balas. We need a reporter tracker, so we can understand who is actually reputable. Everyone on here was saying he was and clearly he is not.
February 3rd, 2022 at 9:57 AM ^
He and Sam Webb were both guilty of moving from reportable information to reporting their own guesses, in lieu of not having anything new to say.
From the get go, JH said he would entertain offers. He did just that and in the end decided that staying was his best option. Remember the press conference after the CFP semi final, he said it felt like a beginning.
The tornado of bullshit takes from people jumping to conclusions, flying off the handle and speculating with no credible information was staggering.
February 3rd, 2022 at 10:12 AM ^
John U. Bacon came out of this situation looking like a genius for simply only reporting 100% facts and very transparently stating what is rumors or opinions and what is not. Everybody should try to be more like him with stuff like this
February 3rd, 2022 at 11:35 AM ^
what we neeeeed is a young guy, maybe a kid that was really good at sports but not quite good enough to make the bigs. he takes an announcing gig here and there, gets chummy in a good way with the right people, builds a solid rep, and bingo, he's our michigan reporter. know anybody like that?
February 3rd, 2022 at 11:51 AM ^
If hockey is looking to hire an information director/play by play guy..... I might know someone..
February 3rd, 2022 at 10:46 AM ^
We should all know by now that when it comes to JH, no-one knows anything. He is a huge weirdo that doesn't speak to anyone but family about this stuff. If he wants you to know it, he will tell you. If he doesn't (he doesn't), no reporter, insider, writer, etc. has anything other than a guess.
February 3rd, 2022 at 12:04 PM ^
He is our weirdo.... there are few like him but he is ours.
Our weirdo is our head coach, he is our leader. he must master coaching as he masters life.
February 3rd, 2022 at 9:55 AM ^
This is the most annoying post of the week.
February 3rd, 2022 at 9:58 AM ^
with 3 days left..... I'm going to bet this doesn't end up in the top 10 most annoying posts of the week, sadly.
February 3rd, 2022 at 10:19 AM ^
What the cock
February 3rd, 2022 at 10:20 AM ^
Ghost,
I don't know who you are (and this post will probably be in the back so you might not see it) but I appreciate your tidbit of information every now and then. Keep up the great work!
February 3rd, 2022 at 4:48 PM ^
Duh! Of course you don’t know who he is. He’s a GHOST!
February 3rd, 2022 at 10:23 AM ^
I love GhostofJermaine's insider tidbits. The initials are no longer annoying to me. I love reading the comments to see the funny quips. AK = Alaska is perfect. But I do wish GoJ would at least come back to his own posts one time and respond to these questions. He drops an info dump and then doesn't come back until the next dump.
February 3rd, 2022 at 10:25 AM ^
Excuse me, sir. Seeing as how the V.P. is such a V.I.P., shouldn't we keep the P.C. on the Q.T.? 'Cause of the leaks to the V.C. he could end up M.I.A., and then we'd all be put out in K.P.
February 3rd, 2022 at 10:41 AM ^
Excellent stuff as usual, GoJ. Your information and perspective is always interesting, informative, and appreciated.
February 3rd, 2022 at 10:41 AM ^
We're on to Colorado State.
February 3rd, 2022 at 10:51 AM ^
My question is does MW stay aboard or does he kind of get some Walking Papers
February 3rd, 2022 at 11:24 AM ^
Huh? Why?
February 3rd, 2022 at 11:08 AM ^
I swear to God, if you dont stop this initials bullshit, there will be blood!!
February 3rd, 2022 at 1:12 PM ^
ISTG, IYDS TIB TWBB!
February 3rd, 2022 at 2:08 PM ^
Uh oh….
February 3rd, 2022 at 11:17 AM ^
Dude. Stop with the fucking acronyms, my God. It's absolutely unreadable. Just type last names.
February 3rd, 2022 at 11:34 AM ^
Half the fun is trying to decode it all. Don't change GoJ.
February 3rd, 2022 at 11:23 AM ^
February 3rd, 2022 at 2:17 PM ^
Maybe GoJ could write in Pig Latin?
Im-jay Arbaugh-hay went to Innesota-may, and idn't-day et-gay the ob-jay
February 3rd, 2022 at 11:32 AM ^
"MW may have been the reason this whole charade happened.. I was told last night he really wanted JH to interview and wanted his boy KA-M to have an opportunity to show JH his methods and thought processes."
I'm intrigued by this piece of it, and by the possibility that--although some genuine interest may have underlain the conversations--Jim might have been helping a pretty forward-thinking new GM, and by extension the Wilfs, to work through their plan of action with a smart and knowledgeable interlocutor. I'd take the Wilfs over Ross every day of the week, wish them only the best.
Jim with a mischievous twinkle as he played his way through is fun to consider, too. While he had a good hand here, he has played it, and played a few fools in the process. More power to him, and to us. Many of the people rejoicing at the moment will be back to complaining bitterly shortly--it's not hard to imagine complaints about Jim's endless security of tenure arising with every hardship that arises. But stability, which we now may really have, can be a very, very good thing. Viz. Saban.
February 3rd, 2022 at 11:49 AM ^
You don't put your entire program and legacy in jeopardy because you get a "mischievous twinkle" in your eye or because so-and-so wants to show you his thought processes. You sure as hell don't need a formal interview to accomplish that.
Jim Harbaugh had a serious, demonstrated interest in getting back to the NFL and he took his swings. Regardless of who said no to whom yesterday, the notion that this was a "charade" is utterly silly.
GOJG tidibts about Weiss and Kwesi A-M would have had a little more credibility if he had revealed that relationship before Seth reported it two days ago.
February 3rd, 2022 at 11:56 AM ^
As is noted on the front page, we knew about that relationship before two days ago. And interest--yes. But that never precluded Jim from making his decision with all info/possibilities before him; he did. And nothing would have prevented him from going on that interview with both an eye to a possible job and helping Kwesi A-M through a candid assessment of his aims. One hardly precludes the other.
Jim put nothing in jeopardy. This part is cockamamy BS by hysterics. Jim owed you zip; he owed himself and his family a careful assessment of his prospects.
February 3rd, 2022 at 12:03 PM ^
You'll have to show me where that was reported before Seth's "Shadow" post. The rest of the Michigan and national media is still reporting the connection between KAM and Harbaugh was the time they overlapped in SF.
I've been Jim staunchest defender on here for the past month. I thought (and still do) that he was perfectly entitled to seek out his NFL opportunities and that condemning him for that was nonsense. Not sure where you're getting from my post that I think he owes anything to anyone.
You don't fly in snowstorm on signing day to give someone "a candid assessment of their aims." That's something you do over coffee since you'll be there anyway interviewing for a job. It's not what gets you on the plane.
February 3rd, 2022 at 12:08 PM ^
Read the Roundtable; Seth learned it from a post to the board. The last graph is your opinion. Yes, I was speculating, but an invitation to come and see about possible interest and 'Hey, I would love to walk you through the process and hear your take,' from the fourth-winningest NFL coach is absolutely possible. We may be talking about differences in degree--Jim may well have been intrigued. And I nowhere asserted that my take was more than conjecture. But the idea that Jim did some damage by taking his time is what I objected to, and . . . what I said it was.
February 3rd, 2022 at 12:29 PM ^
Yeah, that sourcing is a little fuzzy re: the post on the board* (though it's kinda cool that this is MGoBlog info that no one else in the Michigan or national media figured out) but the point about GOJG is that his Weiss allegation would have had more teeth if he was putting it out there when it was an unknown relationship (which it was a few days ago). At this point, I think he's just riffing off what he reads on MGoBlog.
That JH's very real NFL interest was driving this process from day one (I never blamed him one bit for that) and that this was not a "charade" are my main points here . GOJG is way off base. That JH took his time (what choice did he have if there were no offers on the table?) was fine by me because his interest was real, but the the tumult it was causing would have been an atrocious thing to do if he knew he was returning all along. He never would have done that to the University or the fanbase but for legit interest.
EDIT: just listened to WTKA roundtable, what Seth is saying is that he received a tip from a user on the Board, not that it was published on the board prior to his article on Feb 1, FWIW. Still, cool that this was an MGoBlog "exclusive" that not even Webb had :)
February 3rd, 2022 at 1:34 PM ^
Fair. Cheers. Like you, I just thought he was checking out his options, did not assume it was a foregone conclusion he returned.
February 3rd, 2022 at 1:44 PM ^
I think we're both pretty giddy that he's back. The "fire Harbaugh" noise on this board has just been intolerable the past week.
February 3rd, 2022 at 4:55 PM ^
If only I had a million upvotes to give…
February 3rd, 2022 at 12:30 PM ^
No, you don't go knowingly into a 9 hour interview with a "mischievous twinkle as he played for fun" on NSD in an impending snow storm.
February 3rd, 2022 at 11:51 AM ^
WGIBTU? NB!
February 3rd, 2022 at 12:05 PM ^
John U Bacon is being interviewed about Harbaugh's decision right now on BTN on "The B1G Show". The Bacon conversation will be shown again at 2 pm and 5 pm at the beginning of that show.
February 3rd, 2022 at 12:11 PM ^
Pretty much everyone had this wrong. Almost everyone has looked like a clickbait prostibulo during this process. John's has clearly proven to be a somewhat distant and speculative take. Personally, I am much more interested now in how the new team and staff are being put together.
February 3rd, 2022 at 1:07 PM ^
We need a television show called The Bacon Conversation.
Having just realized this, our lives seem duller and less flavorful.
February 3rd, 2022 at 12:16 PM ^
Is this a Wordle?
February 3rd, 2022 at 12:29 PM ^
GoJ is an MGoBoard treasure and we are lucky to have him. I routinely search by name to see if he’s posted recently and, when I see a new post, I get excited for (1) good insider info, (2) getting to play the game where I see if I can decipher the initials myself, and (3) getting to laugh at the posters who get butthurt over the use of initials. Thank you GoJ you magnificent bastard, and please never change.
February 3rd, 2022 at 12:40 PM ^
Cool. So now can all of the fuckers who just wouldn't stop rending garments, creating elaborate stories about what would certainly happen step up and admit they should just remain silent most of the time? Because they should.
It's the same kind of shit on repeat, day after day, year after year. Just wait until the next "thing" comes up, and they're all fucking Nostradamus again...
February 3rd, 2022 at 3:10 PM ^
Best acronym:
February 3rd, 2022 at 6:39 PM ^
Thanks for the content throughout the year Ghost! The insights were spot on. Ill look for more this coming season. Keep the water cooler stuff coming!!