JUB: Harbaugh wants the “Bear Hug”

I’ll come from Los Angeles to bear hug him if needed

Nothing new. I'm still not exactly sure what this even means at this point. The President and Warde have both said the want him to stay and have supposedly given him a great contract. I assume he can get whatever swag he needs or wants. He was a hero to most even before last night and now definitely is. What's left?

Now, on the flip side, if there is someone in the admin not giving Jim Mother Fucking Harbaugh something he wants at this point, that person needs to be shown the door yesterday. 

Well, hopefully Jim learned from the “bear hug” he received from San Francisco quickly turned into a stab in the back from management. You are a Michigan Man through and through Jim. Follow your heart! Come back for life!

This doesn't square with the Warde interview by Dave Revsine and Jake Butt yesterday...at all.

Warde was clear that he wants Jim Harbaugh to retire from Michigan. 

Michigan needs to know soon either way.

Another thing stop listening supporting Mike Valenti, Rico Beard, PeteThamel, Pete Finebaum, Pat McAfee, Heather Dinish and all the other whine ass Michigan bashers!

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apparently everything Jim wanted is in the contact and it's just waiting on him to sign.

That people like JUB think Harbaugh was convinced to take a job because an employer sent his kids some swag tells you more about JUB than reality. What a bunch of sentimental garbage. 

Sounds like we have to build him a statue. 

He wants a hug from Chris Fallica?

1.  If the last 3 years have not been enough to persuade Warde that he needs to hug Harbaugh tightly and be his best friend, then something is seriously wrong with Warde.

2. Once you hit 60, the intangibles loom larger in life.  I would think that is true for Harbaugh too.

Replace Warde with Jack Harbaugh.

I like JUB, but he needs to absolutely fuck off with this bear hug shit. Everyone loves Jim except for a few stray fuckheads who don't matter. He won it all. Jim isn't some 13 year old girl who needs someone to validate their feelings.  Harbaugh will do whatever he wants and we'll accept it and wish him the best. He's a legend regardless. The end.

A mural of Harbaugh made out of the confetti from the Rose and Championship game in Shemmy.

This is your task local artists. 

I feel like he's been getting it this year from the fans.  And from Santa as well.  The athletic department is a weird place.

If he decides to stay, great!  If he decides to move on, we're in a lot better shape than when he showed up and we have a title and he's a Michigan legend.  We're good!

Jim, just think of those chickens!

Relocation could wreck their mental health, turning them into nervous birds and thereby reduce their productivity

If JUB is correct, then Warde has to go. He should probably be out the door anyway. Has he accomplished anything?

JUB doesn’t know shit. He repeats the same nonsense over and over again that everyone else already knows. Oh and he has such an annoying voice and laugh.

The anti-Warde attitude, including the narrative he and Jim have no relationship, is fascinating to me. By every insider account, they have a positive relationship AND if it wasn't for Warde, Harbaugh would have been canned after the 2020 season. I'm not a Warde supporter, per se, but in this era of information / disinformation / I'm right / You're wrong, I'm sorta impressed to see the one guy that literally salvaged Harbaugh's coaching career at UM now be villainized for reasons espoused by the same media blowhards people claim to dislike...

I get it, but getting a perpetual bear hug from an NFL team is a risky proposition. If you don’t have the season everyone expects you to, good bye bear hug. 

JUB on NPR today said it was 50/50 if he is leaving and no one knows anything about the decision.

Hate to be a downer on a day like today, but if I offered someone $12 million a year and they said that wasn't enough of a bear hug, I might be offended 

The way Bacon talks about harbaugh doesn’t sound right. He keeps saying harbaugh wants the “love” which sounds like something someone insecure would want. I think harbaugh just wants proper institutional support. 

Send Warde packing then offer the AD position to Diane Dietz who has a lofty finance position in the B1G office in Chicago. She is a former star basketball player and graduate of Michigan. 

The crowd at the parade needs to shout out to Jim to stay.

i will give him a fully naked full frontal bear hug

If Warde doesn't give the "Bear Hug" to Harbaugh then he needs to be escorted out the door by Santa Ono, assuming the structure of the University allows for the President to fire the AD at his/her own discretion.   AD's are replaceable.  Elite coaches are not.  Harbaugh is a top 5 coach at any level. At every turn, Michigan has made Harbaugh's job more difficult than most other jobs.  Jim is the guy who can finally rid college football of the NCAA.  For example, the NCAA tries to punish Michigan and Harbaugh for violations.  Michigan and Harbaugh refuse to obey and sue the NCAA and others.  This could go to the Supreme Court where they rule the NCAA has no legal jurisdiction over College football because universities are independent entities and can govern themselves as long as they don't violate any federal or state laws.  Thoughts? 

This isn't that hard. Fire Warde.

I’ll teach myself to knit and make Jack, Jackie, John, Jim, Jay and the rest matching maize and blue footie pajamas with their names embroidered in several spots.   I’ll even put Jim’s new tattoo on them in the same spot.  (He told the team he would get one if they went 15-0.)

I saw two or three interviews with Warde over the last couple of days,  In them he said all the right things, "Love Jim, want him to retire here, he has done an amazing job, etc."  He did have the dreaded trailing comment though. "If he decides he want to coach in the NFL, well...".

If you want someone you have to go get them!  There is always time for that blabber.  I hope Ono gives Jim the Bear Hug.

It's hard to say, since Jim is so insular. 

My guesses are (a) he wants to feel like he can explore NFL offers and still have Michigan as a fallback and (b) he probably feels like Warde doesn't like him and isn't standing up for him toward the NCAA.

The contract is there, so it's not about the money.

Jim can leave. It's okay. He did it.