What were we talking about 10 years ago? Jim Harbaugh of course
I'm working on This Month in MGoBlog History and couldn't help but share this already. It was the beginning of camp in 2007 when Mike Hart reacted to Harbaugh's earlier comments about academic standards at Michigan.
The comments on this MVictors post are entertaining.
As a Michigan alumnus and former member of the track team, I wholeheartedly endorse the “excomminucation” of Jim Harbaugh. Everyone makes decisions in life. Harbaugh decided to divorce himself from the Michgan family when he threw our school under the bus to make himself and his current employer look better.
I’ve hated USC ever since I was a kid, and I’ve never once rooted for them in any game in 45 years of watching college football. I will make an exception this fall when they play Stanford.
Harbaugh is a douche bag and he deserves all he is getting. I doubt he will last at Stanford, as I am sure these antics are not really appreciated by the Stanford trustees, afterall the last thing they want is a douche bag coming and ruining a legacy setup by the likes of Bill Walsh.
Brian mostly focused on how Hart inadvertantly told everyone that this would be Carr's last year. but he unfortunately had to add this:
So, for the record, I have no respect left for Harbaugh either. The only person he's looking out for is himself, and in doing so he's harming the program that put him in a position to lose by 80 to USC this fall.
Yikes, on October 6 Stanford would beat USC 24-23.
By the end of the month, this would be far from the minds of the football team and the fans...
August 5th, 2017 at 12:06 AM ^
Stuff happens. So glad coach is at M.
So we are still wrong?
I don't think anyone needs to feel embarassed: Harbaugh's comments were impulsive and ill-advised, he has since publicly regretted them and mended fences with Lloyd Carr, and we have all come to realize that his intensely competitive personality and penchant for ruffling feathers are what make him a great coach. The universe is unfolding as it should.
August 5th, 2017 at 12:17 PM ^
Thus concludes today's lesson on not being an idiot homer. I remember WTKA was just as heavy with the hot takes.
10 years goes by fast..
It sure does. This OP got me poking around the web and I found this:
where it's possible to see websites over time. Type in "mgoblog.com" and captures from 2007 are available. Or any other URL. It's pretty fascinating.
August 5th, 2017 at 12:56 PM ^
I've seen them. That "archive" website is fascinating to go see other websites. Early, early incarnations of things as people were first getting their feet wet on the web. Cool stuff.
Gotcha, I get it now. "Early web" to me still means the 90s, though. I cut my teeth on Mosaic and pre-3.0 Netscape.
God, I remember all the drama with that excruciatingly long coaching search. I was living overseas at the time, and I would check mgoblog.blogspot.com (yes, that was the URL back then) every morning to see if anything happened while I was asleep. At first, I just expected a holding pattern until LSU wrapped up its season. But then I woke up and read about the whole sailboat incident and Les Miles saying something about his Damn Strong Football Team™, and that was that for Bill Martin's chances at hiring who we all thought at the time was the best candidate. Then I woke up and read that Martin was very publicly courting Greg Schiano and had a lengthy meeting with Schiano in New York City that he did as good a job of keeping secret as a tablecloth draped over an elephant. Then I woke up and read that Schiano actually turned us down, and it became clear that this search was turning into a disaster. Then I began obsessively checking MGoBlog every time I got in front of a computer, even if it was someone else's computer. Then nothing happened for about a week while alumni and former players publicly groused about how Martin was mismanaging the search. Then I woke up and read that Rich Rodriguez was now in the mix, seemingly out of nowhere. Then I thought that Michigan would never hire Rich Rod, and that he was probably stringing us along anyway just like he did with Alabama. Then I woke up and read that the search was over and that Rich Rod was our new coach. And there was much rejoicing.
Then the next seven years happened.
I don't know that the basic reaction was wrong, or that anything has changed. Harbaugh can be an ass and said an ass thing. Now he's he's our ass. I don't think anybody can be faulted for feeling the way they did when he said those things, or for being happy that we are benefiting from similar stuff now.
August 5th, 2017 at 10:38 AM ^
August 5th, 2017 at 11:35 AM ^
Let's be honest with ourselves, if Harbaugh was the legacy and head coach of Ohio State or Notre Dame, we'd hate the guy.
Harbaugh is like a bazooka. How good or bad you feel about it depends on which direction it's pointed.
August 5th, 2017 at 10:06 AM ^
"At the afternoon press conference on Dec. 19 for the new head coach of the Cardinal football team, Jim Harbaugh recalled how he spent three summers working on the field of the old stadium while his father was coaching at Stanford—and how his football aspirations have now come full circle.
"I used to stare down at that field as I was stenciling those numbers," Harbaugh told reporters, athletes and others who crowded into the Arrillaga Family Sports Center's Kissick Auditorium. "I so very badly wanted to go to Stanford and play for the Cardinal. … This was my number-one choice all along."
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2007/january10/harbaughsr-011007.html
Harbaugh's comments about academics at Michigan were the flashpoint, but it also didn't help his case among Wolverine fans when they read these words Harbaugh said in Palo Alto. Correctly or not, they had simply assumed that Harbaugh was a Michigan guy from the beginning, and now they were being told his heart had been with some other program.
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August 5th, 2017 at 11:14 AM ^
Protip: Skip the This Month in MGoBlog History - September 2007 post.
You'll be glad you did.
August 5th, 2017 at 12:03 PM ^
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