Cowherd goes full Harbaugh Stan, and Shits on Sparty :)
I know many don't like Cowherd or many of the sports industry talking heads, but this was an epic rant on how trash Sparty is and backs up Harbaugh.
https://twitter.com/TheHerd/status/1715427663438139757?t=zbD9-heObeIEMxWk2w-o_g&s=19
October 20th, 2023 at 7:45 PM ^
Oooh, I like this idea. Urban went to MSU under the guise of being interested in the job but really he was there to give them the idea inception style for them to go public about Michigan, thereby keeping Day's hands clean.
October 20th, 2023 at 7:28 PM ^
Have you looked at sparty? He doesn't wear pants.
October 20th, 2023 at 6:45 PM ^
Didn't feel like this was worth its own thread but I also felt the need to share it so I'll post here.
I do handyman type work for a commercial property management company in Ann Arbor. We have a half dozen big properties on Main St. lots of our tenants are big local companies you'd know. One tenant tells me that a guy he does a business with is a lawyer who is closely connected to UM athletics, and apparently despises Harbaugh. He apparently was a big Ron English advocate back in 2014 during the coaching search, I kid you not. He was bitter that Michigan didn't go with "his guy" and has never let go of that bitterness. Not long ago he got himself onto the infractions committee at the NCAA and he has major pull now wrt their investigations, and it was shortly thereafter that cheeseburger scandal erupted. The point is, this sounds exactly like the sort of thing that would happen at Michigan, that the vendetta against our own coach is coming from within the family.
October 20th, 2023 at 7:07 PM ^
If thats family no thanks. Seems like its time for a little fishing excursion for Fredo.
October 20th, 2023 at 7:09 PM ^
This guy?
https://www.bridgemi.com/about/jim-stapleton
Whoever it is, he wanted English in 2014? This English?
https://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2013/11/9/5082390/ron-english-fired-eastern-michigan
He would've been a bad choice then and in 2007 (when plenty of people, including a former coach of some renown, were like-minded). Chris Creighton has put to rest the silly idea that's it's impossible to win any games at EMU.
October 20th, 2023 at 8:59 PM ^
The fact that the NCAA targeted a single analyst almost immediately means that this is someone who was inside the organization.
October 20th, 2023 at 9:07 PM ^
Ron English wasnt even coaching football in 2014...why would anyone have wanted him then?
October 20th, 2023 at 9:29 PM ^
He may have gotten the years confused, and maybe he meant in 2010 when we hired Hoke instead.
October 20th, 2023 at 11:11 PM ^
It may be 2008 actually, right after Lloyd Carr retired there was a prevalent camp that was heavily advocating to go after Rob English. I forgot al who exactly, John U Bacon talks about it in the Three and Out book.
October 20th, 2023 at 6:45 PM ^
Everyone agrees that this investigation is a sham and won't amount to anything. But it's got to be annoying for Harbaugh to deal with. I suspect that a rival coach reported this to the NCAA in the hope that it might push Jim out the door.
October 20th, 2023 at 6:52 PM ^
It's a travesty of a mockery of a sham of a mockery of two mockeries of a sham
October 20th, 2023 at 8:30 PM ^
A travishamockery, one could say.
October 20th, 2023 at 6:51 PM ^
"This is all ENVY & NONSENSE"
Has a nice ring to a maize & blue t-shirt ... ENVY and NONSENSE.
No?
October 20th, 2023 at 7:20 PM ^
Are you guys really that dumb? Some idiot heaps praise on Harbaugh and now you think he's the coolest guy ever?
Fuck cowher, I love Coach Harbaugh because of what I see him do and hear him say, dont need no overpaid charlatan to confirm it for me.
October 20th, 2023 at 7:39 PM ^
Fuck cowher,
Weird to bring up former NFL head coach Bill Cowher but OK
October 20th, 2023 at 7:44 PM ^
The point isn't that people should love Cowherd. The point is that he's a national voice, someone with real media influence. The fact that he (and many other media members such as JJ Watt and RG3) are dismissive is very helpful in the court of public opinion, given that this "story" broke in a way that was pretty obviously influenced by people with an axe to grind and possibly the NCAA itself (which has already broken its own rules about commenting on investigations THIS SEASON).
October 20th, 2023 at 8:21 PM ^
I like his take cuz it’s nice to who I root for, but I’ve always hating his self praise. Clip was full of it. I know it’s all nonesense.
Finebaum post and love for that guy who gave us a cookie for the first time.
Still, agree with me and all is forgiven….
October 20th, 2023 at 8:40 PM ^
Only one coming across as dumb is you.
October 20th, 2023 at 9:34 PM ^
From all appearances, Bill Cowher seems to be a good guy. Hell, some people wanted him to come here to coach during the Dark Times.
October 21st, 2023 at 12:45 AM ^
I liked him before this. He's a very amusing guy. Fun to listen to.
I just like him even better now.
October 20th, 2023 at 7:34 PM ^
Awesome. But I wish Cowherd would have called out the NCAA in addition to MSU.
October 20th, 2023 at 7:34 PM ^
Not a Cowherd fan, but this is one of his best ever rants
October 20th, 2023 at 7:49 PM ^
Between his podcast with Burrow and his defense of Michigan namely Harbaugh, as a bengals and Michigan fan Collin has catapulted up there with Klatt and Josh Pate as my fav commentators. Everything he said is true: MSU is immature and insecure and then leaking the report and issuing a statement right after saying they thought of canceling over player safety after last year’s tunnel incident and “Tuck Cumming” is truly something out of the Onion.
October 20th, 2023 at 7:51 PM ^
Nice video. Thanks you for sharing. Finally, someone said what we have been thinking -- Michigan is better than OSU. That is a nice accolade after the 20 years before that. I used to listen to Cowherd when was on ESPN. Now I may watch him once in a while.
October 20th, 2023 at 7:58 PM ^
Nobody does a better job of shitting on sparty than sparty, but it's still funny to see national media do it.
October 20th, 2023 at 8:09 PM ^
I know people sometimes shit on cowherd, but I listen to him frequently. He sometimes has bad takes but I always find his show interesting.
He is absolutely right also. This fiasco for me is just provides reaffirmation to how pathetic Sparty’s fan base is, Especially the ones on Twitter. They don’t want to be called little brother, and yet, they epitomize exactly what the remark means. It’s more fitting 16 years later than it was then.
October 20th, 2023 at 8:34 PM ^
That is flat out brilliant. Well played, Colin.
October 20th, 2023 at 8:43 PM ^
I like Cowherd now because he’s not just a USC homer, he’s also a Harbaugh and Michigan homer!
I like homers for my team!!
October 21st, 2023 at 12:43 AM ^
I like Cowherd. Now I like him even more.
October 21st, 2023 at 12:45 AM ^
You know the NCAA doesn't have a leg to stand on when people like Cowherd and Finebaum are openly talking about how much of a sham the investigation is
October 21st, 2023 at 2:44 PM ^
NCAA Could legitimately have a defamation of character lawsuit on their hands, leaking Stallions name without evidence
October 21st, 2023 at 9:23 AM ^
Whatever you think of Cowherd, he can be pretty funny. This is good
October 22nd, 2023 at 11:54 AM ^
Most of the pundits and former athletes I have seen/heard in the media (and amateurs on YouTube/podcasts) are either laughing it off or calling it blatant targeting of Harbaugh by the NCAA. Even Danielson didn't want to touch it in the pregame show. The only people I see stirring this up in the media is ESPN, for clicks and eyeballs.
I live in Ohio, so obviously Buckeye fans are making a huge deal out of this because they live in a complete fantasy world when it comes to Ohio State.
October 22nd, 2023 at 12:51 PM ^
This is awesome. It’s what anyone with any knowledge and rationale would think. Thanks for posting.