Revisiting The "Lion King" Reference

I thought it was eerie that Harbaugh made a reference to the same scene in "The Lion King" that Rich Rodriguez referenced at his introductory press conference eight years ago. The Rodriguez quote:

On his initial reaction upon being approached for the position...

RR: "I mean, everybody wants to talk about the past and I have two young children and I don't watch a lot of cartoon movies, I don't have a chance. But there's an old movie called 'The Lion King,' I don't know if you've seen it. And there's a scene where the monkey hits the lion over the head and the lion says, 'What did you do that for' And the monkey says, 'Doesn't matter, it's in the past.' It doesn't matter, it's in the past."

The Harbaugh quote:

Reporter: I imagine you know the numbers: Michigan State’s won six of the last seven games. Are you in tune with how those games have gone and the physical nature they’ve seemed to control Michigan with, and is that something that’s a focus this week for you guys?

JH: “The past?”

Reporter: The physical nature of how they’ve beaten Michigan like that.

JH: “Think about 'The Lion King': Simba gets hit over the head and tells ‘em, ‘Yeah, the past can hurt. You can either run from it or embrace it and learn from it.’ I think that’s exactly what he said, so those seem like very wise words. We’ll go about that.”

The actual scene (h/t GustaveFerbert): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EF39O_OQm6M

There are tons of metaphors here for the melodramatic among us (which is all of us, seeing as how this is MGoBlog). Discuss.