Greg Mattison quote on Ryan Day: purely commentary on Day, or veiled shot at Harbaugh?

Just stop.  Be concerned about something real.

Like the majority of coachspeak, this statement can be interpreted in whichever direction the audience is leaning.  I don't see a dig at Harbaugh.  I see a coordinator filling up time with harmless feel good happy words because he was stuck in front of a mic somewhere.

No it's a dig at Urban *eyer who he worked for @ Florida.  He would never make a veiled insult of Jim Harbaugh.  He and the Harbaughs go way, way back.

Posting Twitter hottakes usually doesn't end well for the OP.

And if my boss hired me for a 2, 3 or 4 times annual pay raise I'd say nice shit about them too!

Fuck Ohio and that turncoat SOB. 

Who’s Greg Mattison?

Fuck Benedict Mattison.

I'd love to have something insightful to say about this, but the guy is a two-time turncoat asshole.  Fuck him.

Just a nice comment.

STOP reading bs into a compliment.

Simply coach speak.  Get over it.

I think you might be looking into this quote too much...like, who gives a shit?

I don't believe it was a shot at Harbaugh.

But I do think they had a falling out or at least couldn't come to an agreement.

The Mattison and Harbaugh families have been close friends for nearly forty years, but let’s not let that get in the way of the opinions of Twitter losers.

Mattison is a defensive coordinator, not a d line coach.  That’s why he left.

I don’t know...Mattison said he only came back to Michigan for Brady Hoke, that he only stayed because he respected Harbaugh so much. He seems to be somebody who likes to be superlative about his current situation.

I don't think it has anything to do with Harbaugh. If he didn't like working for Harbaugh he had four years to decide he had enough and hang it up or look for a job elsewhere. He also knew the Harbaugh family for a long time before ever working for Jim, so I doubt he was surprised by anything. It's certainly possible (likely?) that he thinks Day is a better coach and boss than Harbaugh, but that doesn't necessarily mean he thinks Harbaugh was bad on either front.

tdtr (too dumb to read) why would you give a fuck? Don't bring this shit to the board.

Didn’t he work for another coach right after Harbaugh before Day took over... ?

I don’t think that complimenting your new boss = insulting your old boss. 

I don't think it's much more than a guy who wanted to get paid more money complimenting the guy who got him that money.

If comparing to anyone, I think it is Urban Meyer.

Typical coachspeak. Absolutely nothing wrong with what he said.

Moving on.

Then why did he work for Urban Meyer?

I think in order to see a shot at Harbaugh there you have to go in looking for one.

Fuck Greg mattison 

Mattison says a lot of glowing things about everywhere he works.

Look up his comments coming back to work for Hoke.

All honesty, on paper Michigan does not have a shot on paper.  Just got a good feeling about this year...

If there is a subtweet in the message “You want to work with guys who have great character, that care about players more than anything, that are very, very genuine, that are not egotistical

If it’s a shot, it seems to be saying Harbaugh has character issues, doesn’t care about players and has an ego.   You can shoehorn a 100 things into this narrative of you want. 

Harbaugh isn’t genuine in the press release saying the offense is hitting its stride, doesn’t care about players could be a concussion reference or more than likely, two grown men can disagree without it being the fault of either.  The only people who will ever know the truth are the people who were in the room at the time.    Other than that it’s just a hot take field day.  

We would all be happier if Twitter disappeared tomorrow.  Might take a couple more hours to learn some relatively unimportant things, but that’s a price worth paying to be rid of it.

Not a dig at Harbaugh.  Anything he says will be construed as a dig.  

I don’t see it as a dig. 

Day, by all accounts, is a legitimately nice guy and talented coach who happens to coach our rivals. 

Mattison said nothing about it being a contrast with his previous job. 

Twitter is a cesspool of stupidity. He’s saying positive things about his current boss. That’s it, no more to it 

It just hit me why the massive overhaul...we have to be completely new to Mattison for this year's matchup, even if it means we suck ass for most of the season.  Hell this notion has probably already been thought of but it hit me square in the nads just now.

Definitely a thickly veiled shot at Brady Hoke.

My memory is that Mattison has a good relationship with the Harbaughs and that he stayed in AA despite his demotion because of that. I don't think this was a shot at anyone.

Don't see it, but fuck Mattison

I think Peter Cetera said it best...

This is just how Greg Mattison talks.

Of course there is criticism of Harbaugh in his statement, and if there weren't I'm sure he would have clarified by comparing him to the other tremendous head coaches he has worked for in his career.

Everything OSU does is with one eye on Ann Arbor and that may well be why they firmly own football in the BigTen.

If there’s one think I think most of us would agree Harbaugh is NOT, it would be egotistical.

Some of these comments just make me ...Sigh.

Greg Mattison jumped ship the first time to Notre Dame.

Greg Mattison jumped ship the second time to Ohio State.

I don't like Greg Mattison.

Sounds like a dig. Maybe it's just how he said it -- Day is the guy you want to work with. Implication being not Harbaugh. If this is a dig, very petty of him. He already left to go work for the #1 rival. They have a 99.9999999999% chance of beating us. Again. What more does he want?