Is Jim Harbaugh Failing at Michigan?
Until Saturday: A show about college football
The Athletic
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🗓️ 9 March 2020
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
The Athletic's Andy Staples is joined by Ari Wasserman to discuss Michigan Head Coach Jim Harbaugh. Michigan hasn't been able to compete at the highest level & Ari says it's a by-product of recruiting philosophy. Is Harbaugh willing to change & venture into Ohio to find prospects? Also, Mack Brown has made a huge impact on the North Carolina program. Andy & Ari dissect how the veteran Head Coach has managed to recreate some of what he had going at Texas. Plus, 'Draft Analysis OR Erotic Fiction'?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Andy Staples show. |
| 0:21.1 | Listener feedback edition, well listeners who are in the business feedback edition. |
| 0:25.9 | Probably the quickest way to get yourself booked on this show is send me a text as you're listening to the show because you're mad or disagree with something I said in the show. |
| 0:36.7 | And Ari Washman, our excellent Ohio State writer, |
| 0:39.7 | who also covers recruiting for the athletic, texted me and said, I was yelling at my radio |
| 0:44.7 | when I was listening to the Jim Harbaugh stuff on your last podcast. And I said, |
| 0:50.0 | excellent. That means you're coming on the next podcast. So Ari, welcome in. |
| 0:55.4 | Hey, Andy. It's good to be on. |
| 0:57.5 | Well, so what we, let me reset it for the folks. The question I got in the Dear Andy edition of this podcast was at what point does Michigan kind of get, you know, tired of what's going on there? |
| 1:15.7 | Harbaugh not being able to beat Ohio State, not being able to win the Big Ten, that sort of thing. |
| 1:19.7 | And my response was Michigan itself is in the administration, isn't getting tired of that anytime soon. |
| 1:26.4 | They're happy because they feel like it's better than it was. They're not sure they could get an upgrade over what they have now. And so don't expect them to do much. Now, if Harbaugh himself gets tired of this and decides he wants to do something else, that would feel more likely than Michigan deciding, hey, it's not good enough. |
| 1:45.6 | Now, the Michigan fan base is a little bit different story because a lot of those guys are very |
| 1:49.9 | sick of them losing to Ohio State, are very tired of kind of being on the same plane all the time. |
| 1:55.3 | I think I call it the Bo Polini territory, the Bo Polini Plateau like he was in Nebraska where basically at some |
| 2:02.6 | point Nebraska fans just wanted to feel something different. And so that's, that was my |
| 2:07.8 | explanation. Now, Ari, where did I go wrong there? Well, the thing about it, Andy, is I don't |
| 2:13.7 | think that you said anything that was wrong. I think you're 100% correct in your assessment of it. |
| 2:20.2 | My reasoning for screaming at the radio was, |
| 2:23.0 | when did Michigan become a place that was okay with being just okay? |
| 2:28.1 | Like, it's just, it's not as bad as it used to be, so this was fine. |
| 2:32.1 | Isn't an attitude that I would have ever expected to hear |
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