Unnecessary Harbaugh hoopla and Big Ten schedule
The Michigan Insider
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4.6 • 855 Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2020
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we break down Jim Harbaugh's first press conference since January 1, then discuss other pandemic related issues including a condensed Big Ten schedule.
We open by discussing what we deemed unnecessary hoopla over one sentence in Harbaugh's press conference. We discuss why it got misconstrued, why it seems to consistently happen to Harbaugh and what can be done to minimize it.
We also break down other things Harbaugh said, including his thoughts on the health protocols Michigan is using, how the players are reacting, his thoughts on two offseason developments and more.
We then close with a reported — at the time, that is — 10-game conference-only schedule, and why we both think it's a home run decision by the Big Ten.
Finally, we close with a brief discussion on Michigan and how it has broadly done well recruiting in the pandemic.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Wolverine 24-7 podcast, your audio source for all things, Michigan football, basketball, and recruiting. I'm your host, Sack Shaw. |
| 0:07.0 | Steve Lawrence here with me. In this episode, well, we have a press conference to talk about. |
| 0:11.5 | Jim Harbaugh met with local media members for the first time since January 1st and discussed a whole bunch of things. |
| 0:18.9 | You know, the season, the team a little bit, the return to campus, |
| 0:24.4 | kind of kind of his thoughts on the quarantine, on the pandemic, and a little bit more. |
| 0:30.7 | So we'll talk about that. |
| 0:32.1 | We'll also talk about the growing intrigue. |
| 0:35.8 | Well, maybe not intrigue, maybe just that it's probably going to happen. |
| 0:39.6 | Maybe a growing inevitability would be a way to put it about the potential 10 game, |
| 0:43.4 | Big 10 only season, what we think of it, and kind of the alternatives and where we go from here. |
| 0:50.4 | So anyway, let's start with Jim Harbaugh. |
| 0:52.9 | And let's start here, since this obviously |
| 0:54.8 | is what moved the needle. It was another nothing burger made to look like the biggest deal in |
| 1:01.8 | the world. Jim Harbaugh in a pretty lengthy opening, an unopening statement. He was asked about |
| 1:07.4 | does, is there any discussion or anything, any reason for the football season |
| 1:15.0 | to be moved to the spring in his mind? |
| 1:17.8 | And it was a pretty long answer. |
| 1:19.6 | His, his, the genesis of his answer was, if there are students on campus, I think games |
| 1:24.7 | can be played. |
| 1:25.9 | And the reason he says that is that without fans, |
| 1:29.3 | you really just have to test the players, |
| 1:30.8 | you have to test the officials and the coaches, |
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