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by Michael Rosenberg
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Posted: Wed May. 20, 2015

This story appears in the May 18, 2015, issue of Sports Illustrated. Subscribe to the magazine here.

Two months after Jim Harbaugh decided to go home, he was living alone in a hotel. He missed more than his family while living there and working nonstop. He missed the fashion revolution on Michigan’s campus—all those kids, who weren’t even born when he played for Bo Schembechler in the 1980s, wearing his number 4 jersey, or his trademark khakis, or Harbaugh-themed T-shirts: Maize. Blue. Khaki. and Welcome Home, Coach and Ann Arbaugh.

Harbaugh didn’t even see the Bank of Ann Arbor billboards: Like Jim loves khakis. We love to help. Each day he arrived at Schembechler Hall at 6 a.m., then returned to the Residence Inn by Briarwood Mall at 11:30 p.m. Then he would lay his sweater on one chair, belt and pants on another, keep his undershirt on, put on pajama bottoms, brush his teeth and go to bed. A model of efficiency: door to pillow in three minutes.

Harbaugh arrived at Michigan after four successful years with the 49ers, where he went 44-19-1. He wooed his first recruit, six-year-old daughter Addie, out of Northern California by pointing to Michigan’s snow and ice and saying: “Anna and Elsa live here.” Those are the princesses from Disney’s Frozen. Addie committed on the spot. But finding a castle was not so simple. Jim’s wife, Sarah, had looked at 20 houses over several trips to Ann Arbor and hadn’t found one she loved.

Perhaps Jim’s mother was right: “It’s not the same as when he was growing up. Maybe in his mind he thought [it was]. But it’s not the same. The house you lived in is not the same. It’s 40 times smaller now.”

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One Sunday, Harbaugh woke at 3 or 4 a.m. His mind was spinning. He got in his car and drove. It was one of those winter nights in the upper Midwest when visibility is low and even the snow looks dark. Harbaugh roamed for three hours, until sunlight woke the town and houses came into view.


One caught his eye. It was not for sale. Harbaugh pulled into the driveway and wrote down the address anyway. Then he went to Mass at St. Francis of Assisi, his childhood church. Three days later the place went on the market. He called Sarah and said, “I think I found our house.”

Sarah flew to Michigan and agreed. They bought it.

There are more than 1,000 streets in Ann Arbor. Only later did Jim tell Sarah they would live on the one where Schembechler lived.

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Photo: Kevin Reece/Getty Images


Harbaugh, 51, is in his fifth month at Michigan, and it still feels like a dream. Not a schmaltzy, Disney fairy-tale sort of dream. It feels like an actual dream, vivid but incongruous, the kind where you imagine your long-deceased grandmother and your auto mechanic talking to your current boss and your first girlfriend, and you think they can’t all possibly be in the same place, but there they are.

See that man over there, getting Harbaugh a glass of milk to go with his eggs-and-sausage breakfast at 7 a.m. on National Signing Day? That’s Harbaugh’s best friend since third grade, Jim Minick. His father, Tom, once got Schembechler to help him campaign for Washtenaw County sheriff. (Tom won.)

Col. Jim Minick retired in December after 26 years in the Marines, and he was planning to join the private sector when Harbaugh called. Now he is working for Wolverines football, and his official title doesn’t matter. Everybody calls him the Colonel. Harbaugh hired him not because they are buddies but because the Colonel possesses the qualities Harbaugh values most: He makes smart decisions, and he gets things done.

The Colonel makes sure that every cone and every drill complies with NCAA regulations. When players kept leaving towels on the locker room floor, the Colonel suggested that for every time it happened, the whole team would run a gasser after practice. Towels are no longer left on the floor. Mostly, the Colonel makes sure that Harbaugh has the time, space and resources to do what the sign above his desk implores: "Just coach the team."

Above that sign is a photo from Harbaugh’s college days in which Schembechler is pulling back his headset to talk to his quarterback. “People think he is yelling at me there, but he’s not,” Harbaugh says. “He’s telling me a play.”


Walk down the hall. You’ll see tight ends coach Jay Harbaugh, 25, the oldest of Jim’s six kids. Keep walking. There is Harbaugh’s new operations assistant, Erik Campbell, who made Jim’s biggest promise come true. As a senior in 1986, Harbaugh guaranteed victory over Ohio State. Campbell, a defensive back, made a crucial tackle on Buckeyes receiver Cris Carter to seal it.

There is Jim’s old quarterbacks coach Jerry Hanlon, long since retired, standing outside the office Schembechler kept until he died in 2006, lecturing Jim’s brother on blocking schemes. John Harbaugh, the Ravens’ coach, is visiting for a coaches’ clinic.

And, Michigan students: If you think you’re in class with a freshman named Jim Harbaugh this fall, you’re not drunk. That’s Jim’s son. He was admitted a few weeks ago. Harbaugh’s third child, Grace, 14, remains in Southern California with her mom, Miah, Jim’s first wife, but his youngest children—Addie, four-year-old Kate and two-year-old Jack—will be running around while Michigan practices, just as Jim did as a kid, when his father, Jack, was the Wolverines’ defensive backs coach.

And who is watching practice here on this mid-March day? John, Jack (the elder) and Jim’s mom, Jackie; Jim Hackett, the interim athletic director, who played for Michigan when Jack coached; Rick Leach, the quarterback Harbaugh mimicked as a child; assorted other former players... you could go on and on. And as Jim looks at all those faces, what does he think?

There are too many people here, and they are too close to the field. Harbaugh stops practice and kicks most of them out.
 
"He [The Colenel] makes smart decisions, and gets things done."

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You'd think you'd spell "Colonel" properly if you were going to flame, but at least you inserted a completely nonsensical gif as per usual. Welcome back - can't wait to see ND shit the bed again this year. What game do you think your descent will begin at? I say GT or the very least, Clemson.

What do you think?
 
Can we let this play out a little.

He is a great college coach if he can win 2 out of the next 4 games against OSU and MSU..

If he wins zero.. AA will turn quick..
No predictions here
 
Can we let this play out a little.

He is a great college coach if he can win 2 out of the next 4 games against OSU and MSU..

If he wins zero.. AA will turn quick..
No predictions here
This season I don't expect much in terms of wins/losses. I want to see how the team reacts to his coaching..
 
You'd think you'd spell "Colonel" properly if you were going to flame, but at least you inserted a completely nonsensical gif as per usual. Welcome back - can't wait to see ND shit the bed again this year. What game do you think your descent will begin at? I say GT or the very least, Clemson.

What do you think?


I think you're mad and got trolled hard, fwiw. Haha :rolleyes: And please explain how the gif is "nonsensical?" It shows a drunk being drunk after a traffic stop....seems pretty relevant to me. And it's spelled "kernel," numbnuts, gtfo.
 
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Didn't Brady Hoke live and breathe Michigan football? He would have walked to AA from San Diego and all .....

Really, what point are you trying to make. JH is one of the best coaches in football and lives UM. You trying to dispute that?
 
I think you're mad and got trolled hard, fwiw. Haha :rolleyes: And please explain how the gif is "nonsensical?" It shows a drunk being drunk after a traffic stop....seems pretty relevant to me. And it's spelled "kernel," numbnuts, gtfo.
"Colonel" as in military rank. Whenever you get pissed someone calls you little brother, look at this thread and remember. Except in your case, it will be "Little "special" brother. Now put away your crayons - it's time for bed.
 
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