Joel Klatt Seems Confident Harbaugh Stays

Granted he and Gus did most of UM's games this year on FOX, it's easy to see why. Also when you win ALL of the games that he provides color commentary on, it's really hard to maintain partisanship when you see the players almost on a weekly basis. 

With that said, I do find him easy to listen to and he really does understand the X's and O's. He's also not that old to where I think he can still provide insights from the mind of the players which helps him be relatable. When I lived in Denver, I used to listen to his local sports talk all the time and came away agreeing with him on most car rides home after work. 

Also F CU, Go Rammies!

If that were solely Harbaugh's aim with all of this smoke and mirrors, then why allow the dicsussion with NFL teams to leak? All that does is hurt his recruiting ability at Michigan. Given his contractual obligation to notify Warde if he's talking to NFL teams, why let it leak to anyone else? He'd just be shooting himself in the foot.

The new agent does throw a wrinkle into the recent goings on.

I'm in Atlanta and a Braves fan.  I was initially sad to see Freddy go, then pissed with his crocodile tears after signing with LA.  His agent ran the whole negotiations and sold Freddy to the highest bidder.  This year I held off buying Dansby's jersey until he signed the big contract with the Braves.  Not getting one as I hate the Lovable Losers.   Same agent as Freddy, same result.

Appears that the new agent is playing the process to get the most out of Michigan.  In the end, I hope Jim stays.

Harbaugh should be at the very top of the pay scale for reasons that equate to on-field performance  What Warde knows is how Michigan Stadium, like most other programs, can start showing lots of no shows when you are losing as we did in Hoke's last year.

10K or 20K full seats times seven games times $150-300 (including the mandatory contribution) per seat is a lot of money.

I think XM and many of us just take Harbaugh at his word.  We are not trying to be naive but until proven otherwise.

Harbaugh has every right to do what is best for him. He knows what the last go around did to recruiting because of the lengthy process and I’m confident he does not want to repeat that.

I would think one way or another this resolves next week after Monday with a large buyout contract with UofM or a quick NFL move. 

Ok look. There is no need to resort to dressing like that. I'm sure we can work something out.

 "Hey Moose, Rocco, help the Judge find his check book, will ya..."

XM is going take him the the back off the barn and whoop him good. 

Bring back the lemons. MGrowOld’s was epic.  A blender and tequila if I recall?

Oh I didn't either.  I was being sarcastic.  Nobody has time for all these videos and podcasts.  I hate it.  Pivot back to print journalism please.  

Recruiting is the life blood of any program. Everyone has to admit that his daliance with Minnesota last year hurt the class. If you're coming off a playoff season you shouldn't be pulling in a 17th rated class. We went back to the playoffs this year so some people think we're fine, it didn't hurt us. That class isn't the backbone of the team yet. This team ran off of pre-flirtation classes. Keep flirting and you will get negative recruited and you pull in lower ranked classes in back to back to back years. Then when you depend on those classes to be the core of your team then you will see the true consequences of these annual NFL flirtations and then you wake up and realize we have dropped a notch or two from those '21-'23 golden years. So yes these years were good enough for me but I'd rather not ignore the pitfalls being created that will keep us from sustaining it.