Spring Practice Video Reports Day 1 & 2

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Day 1 video from Bradenton Herald, WXYZ, Rivals and Scout

Day 2 practice video and interviews from Don Brown and Jake Butt

Day 2 video includes the ESPN Sports Center segment featuring the Yellow Bastard.  How noble of the ESPN to have an SEC blowhard talking about Michigan football and not someone a little more...qualified.  

from MGoVideo.com

JOHNNAVARREISMYHERO

March 1st, 2016 at 10:45 PM ^

Now you listen.  I don't give a damn which way you go, just don't follow me.  You got that?

Mr. Yost

March 1st, 2016 at 10:48 PM ^

We have an elite football coach coaching an elite college football program. Finally we "haz nice things" and some people say on this board.

Harbaugh is making us better by the second, we're relevant every single day in college football and we're dominanting the offseason. The latter two don't matter without wins, but those have already come and it's clear many more are on the way.

He's a perfect fit for Michigan. We have our Saban, Meyer, Coach K, Roy Williams, etc. 

After same AWFUL years...it feels good to be the leader and the best again.

This spring practice idea is awesome, from a team building standpoint, from a get away from home and improve your team standpoint, from a weather standpoint, from a recruiting standpoint, from an exposure standpoint, from a dominanting ESPN standpoint. From every angle it's awesome and it's what Michigan should be. First. The leaders. The best.

I don't agree with everything he does. I'm not someone who blindly follows anyone unless she birthed me. But I love Jim Harbaugh.

Don

March 2nd, 2016 at 10:33 AM ^

So you're saying that over a four-year span, Michigan under Harbaugh is going to do better than 43-0-1, will outscore our opponents more than 2326 to 40, will amass more than 38 shutouts, and will win more than four consecutive national championships.

blueheron

March 2nd, 2016 at 6:45 AM ^

"After same AWFUL years...it feels good to be the leader and the best again."

I agree that everything feels pretty good now, and I'm definitely drinking the Kool-Aid, but I'd suggest that you may be underestimating Harbaugh, unless you're _really_ old and you can remember the 1948 team.

If he ends up being our Saban, he'll have exceeded the accomplishments of every Michigan coach in the modern era. None of them were the leader/best (well, except for January 1998) unless you confine your scope to the Big Ten / Upper Midwest. They (RichRod and Brady excepted) were in the next tier (very good).

Aside: IMO Roy Williams doesn't belong in that list. With an abundance of talent at Kansas (where he ruled a crappy conference and got automatic #1 seeds every year) and North Carolina, the guy has underachieved more than he has overachieved (or "achieved").

MChem83

March 2nd, 2016 at 1:13 PM ^

until we actually win something, until we actually beat somebody good, before buying into such grandiose pronouncements. We had a good but not great season last year, we have significant weaknesses for 2016, and are looking at a significant dropoff in talent and experience for 2017, due to serious roster holes. By no stretch of the imagination can we be considered "elite" at this point. When Harbaugh has posted two or three 1 or 0 loss seasons, wins over major rivals, Big Ten titles and playoff appearances, then you can start to use words like "elite" to describe this program.

Maizen

March 1st, 2016 at 11:00 PM ^

What's going on with our maize in those videos? Looks awful. Nike can't get here soon enough.

 

CoverZero

March 1st, 2016 at 11:29 PM ^

Geeze...if Jim Harbaugh ever retires from coaching (he wont) he could get a job anywhere in the world as a CMO for just about anybody...he is a flat out marketing genius machine unparalled by any other.  PT Barnum with substance.

Roc Blue in the Lou

March 2nd, 2016 at 12:11 AM ^

Leaders like Harbaugh LEAD...making all others follow, complain, whine/attack or rebel.  What others cannot do, while whining, complaining, attacking or rebelling, is also be seen as leaders.  Dude is a genius.

SBo

March 2nd, 2016 at 12:59 AM ^

Agreed. Once he started talking about Alabama, I thought he was going to go on a tangent about "oh, this needs to translate to wins on the field..." (Which it does, we will likely be the most criticized team, without sanctions, of all time if we don't win at least the big ten next year) but he didn't. Finebaum's been reasonable throughout this process, he's familiar with Saban's Bama and sees that in Harbaugh's Michigan

M-Dog

March 2nd, 2016 at 10:26 AM ^

I love his comment about how Alabama is going to be honored at the White House for the 4th time in 7 years . . . and all anyone is talking about is Harbaugh.

He compares Harbaugh to Trump in the sense that he sucks all the attention oxygen out of the room while everybody else has trouble even getting noticed.

 

MGomaha

March 2nd, 2016 at 1:30 AM ^

I think Finebaum has been pretty solid with his coverage of coach Harbaugh and Michigan. Kinda siding with Michigan in that segment.

But please don't call him the Donald Trump of college football. No politics, I know, but for the love of God, stop it.

ih8losing

March 2nd, 2016 at 9:49 AM ^

It's clear the SEC/ACC ADs worked their majic to make sure the NCAA is on top of Michigan looking for any "violations" because "we must protect the kids".

I truly believe the SEC/ACC like that Harbaugh is doing this because they can talk about Michigan instead of OleMiss, Tennessee, FSU, etc. Funny how we haven't heard ANYTHING about these teams in forever

M-Dog

March 2nd, 2016 at 10:31 AM ^

I think Finebaum just wants this to go away.  He can't beleive all the attention that this is getting and he's smart enough to realize that all the SEC fuss is just creating more attention.  

He would like to just ignore it, but his idiot fanbase won't let him.  

He's still an SEC homer, and he hates that we're getting in the way.

 

WhoopinStick

March 2nd, 2016 at 9:08 AM ^

That ESPN piece was gold.  Great advertising for Jim Harbaugh and his team.  So far this spring practice trip to Florida couldn't have gone any better.

creelymonk10

March 2nd, 2016 at 9:15 AM ^

Trevor Matich was on Nashville radio yesterday saying how great of an idea it is and how much he loves how much it's bugging the SEC. He was pretty much giggling with glee about it.