Holding Harbaugh hostage? Is he not allowed to leave the building unless he signs?

Not for their skill, but guys that deserve a ring for their contributions to the program.

Ronnie Bell
Aiden Hutchinson

...recruiting bump?

Everyone is dancing around naming names, but I feel like I've heard on several Michigan Football podcasts that teams are trying to tamper with our players, especially on defense. The name that comes to mind is Mason Graham, maybe even KG. Can anyone from the site comment on these shenanigans? Or is this all smoke, no fire?

Former Wolverine Jim Scarcelli joins the show to discuss the latest with Jim Harbaugh and if the coach is coming back to Michigan or going to the NFL. What about the coaches? Who stays and who goes?
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Choosing to spend millions so it won’t happen again 😂

"Never" is a very very very long time

I posted this question on X but maybe y'all can help me out with this question:

Harbaugh is under contract @ Michigan. How can he just be so cavalier about interviewing for other jobs while not performing the duties of his current position? Is this normal for a coach under contract to openly seek another position?

Maybe @Josh Henschke can help with this. Is it written in his contract that he can spend time seeking other positions? I get it if teams come calling, and I know he has to inform the school if he is interviewing for other jobs but how is it that he can be so obviously seeking another job while under contract? I feel like this isn't something done almost anywhere else. Am I wrong about this?

Not trying to stir up any Harbaugh hate (because that's stupid)... just genuinely curious.

I apologize if this is already been answered, but obviously we know the NCAA gave them notice of the violations a month ago, or whatever it was… Then NCCA president came out and said they won fair and square blah blah….. But it seems obviously a sticking point in the negotiations on the contract are immunity from being fired from these NCAA violations… since they already know what the violations are allegedly, is it just me or does it seem like this is a hint that these are fairly significant violations they were hit with?? Just a thought. Thanks

situation. This channel presents an interesting argument where Harbaugh is actually helping Michigan by delaying if he is actually leaving.

Here's how in one man's opinion.

For our board moderators- Especially @Josh Henschke and @Trevor McCue .

I was part irked and part amazed of their tolerance, but an informational thread by Josh was hijacked by posters passing information which was , as usual no better than hearsay, from on3.

I mean, I was formerly a member of that miserable trash heap, scattered with diamond-level posters, and manned by mods with an obvious agenda. I left after the level of complaints raised to a crescendo unseen since the RR days- After back-to-back B1G Championships- The first two in 18 years.

And the board, which used to be fun was a sad place that insulted the program by constantly picking them to "slip up" or "have no chance" and predicting doom each year- and for the unforeseen future.

When I left on3, was after last season's Jimuary. I'll never forget Chris Balas' HUGE headline on the Home Page: HARBAUGH TO MINNESOTA.
He wanted to scoop everybody, but jumped the gun, and instead had me thinking what I suspected all along: "This guy is no insider. He just knows John U. Bacon'.

I said that in my "Goodbye" post 😁

Saying all that to say this: I remember some of the same people who left there and joined here were patting @Josh Henschke on the back and congratulating and complimenting him for "getting the Harbaugh story right". Now we're right back in the same situation, and people are ignoring what our mods are posting in lieu of what the other site's mods are posting.

Then I really got mad when I looked on the ticker and at all legit sport news organizations not named "X", and saw...nothing, just the same old suppositive sh!t from last week...and oh, yeah, "this time Jim's taking Sarah with him"...again...salacious.

I'll say this: TOS' mods would've banned a few more folks than Highbury by now for hijacking threads...These mods are pretty mellow guys, but I feel that it's rude to take advantage of that.

Lots of twitter posts about a 5 year extension for Herbert. Is that true @Josh Henschke? Huge if so

Every single post-2020 touchdown for Michigan.
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Just curious is there a summary of our roster losses specifically portal transfers vs draft/ eligibility exhaust ?

JJ McCarthy could be a polarizing prospect heading towards the NFL Draft.
ESPN's Mel Kiper has released his first mock draft for the 2024 NFL Draft, and may have a surprising landing spot for the former Michigan QB.

Schefter said the Chargers and Harbaugh need to "bridge their differences" or the Chargers will go in a different direction.
Now, he doesn't say what the differences are, but some obvious issues stand out.
Money. Now, the Chargers have said this won't be an issue, and we know Harbaugh's quotes on money, but that said, the Spanos have been historically cheap, and Harbaugh isn't going to take a discount to leave Michigan.
Control. This is the obvious one and something I have spoken about for the last three years. The NFL has changed. Owners are more involved than ever before, GMs are more involved, the NFL wants coaches to coach. The Chargers are especially interested in control because multiple family members and people connected to family members work in the front office. Aside from ownership, the Chargers are in cap hell and are going to hire a GM who can maneuver their contract situations. Even further, today we saw the Chargers blocked the Bears from interviewing OC Kellen Moore. This move was seen as a sign the Chargers want to keep Moore as OC moving forward.

The point is the issue today is the same as in the last three years. This is a very different NFL than the one Jim left. He's the one that is going to have to make concessions if he wants to go the league that badly.

As far as the up to the 15 minutes on NFL Network, Spanos has done something I never thought his cheap ass with less money than Mark Davis would do, given the fact he’s done nothing but live off of Dad’s money and was sued by his sister over his mismanagement and dubious financials with his’s father’s one good legacy, his expansive charitable foundation. Then the idiot nuked his NFL team in a spat with San Diego over a new stadium deal where they ended up only 200 million apart on the deal, so Spanos, out of only ego, moves the Chargers to LA and has lost at least 4 times as much money by playing in a 20,000 fan soccer field for 2 years, then he now pays rent to the owner of the Rams to play at SoFi..he makes no money from naming rights, advertising, beer company deals…nothing. His team has about 50,000 Los Angelenos fans who are just being contrarians. The sports hierarchy in LA is such..

Dodgers - don’t talk to me about “Showtime“..LA is 1st and foremost a baseball town. Always will be.
The Lakers - like the tv show MASH..great long ago,. The last decade of seasons? lost all the “Magic”..pun intended
Rams
Raiders
USC Trojans
Sparks - WNBA is the fastest growing sports league in the US
Kings
Galaxy/LAFC - half of LA is Latino, MLS popularity is gigante! the “El Traffico” derby - genius name/big as it gets
Clippers
Chargers

Spanos is likely the poorest owner in the NFL, likely one of bottom 3 dumbest owners in the NFL. He has sabotaged his Charger team by this move he did out of hubris that any logical person would scoff at as franchise suicide. He has only one option to save himself from a disaster of his own doing…find the money to pay the charismatic coach who generates loads of interest by his magnetic persona. Jim is a rock star who just happens to be an elite coach who specializes in restoring moribund football teams to former glory, or the heights of the elite they have never attained before. By the latest report I saw…it’s down to picking a GM in sync with Jim, coaching staff, and analytics dept staff. Somehow Spanos found the money to hire a top coach…just wondering which bank would loan that guy money considering his reputation, lack of wealth generating income, and the fact that even a top 5 Chargers team that has won the Superbowl…LA is still LA. It’s not like Philadelphia, where the Eagles, Phillies, and 76ers are the ingrained in the daily culture like coffee in the morning…our teams are a religion here…and all people talk about every day..even in the off season.

I’m sure plenty here will confirm that LA is the total opposite, except with Dodger Baseball and to a lesser extent, the Lakers. I have HAD to be in LA a lot..had because I was there for business and just not a fan of the city. I’m used to living in cities that date back to the precolonial era, or in the case of Detroit, was once the richest city in the world and IS the Art Deco capital of the world…give those awful mayors and city councils credit, no matter how bad things got, they preserved all of those buildings and other Art Deco treasures…like the train station..,that will once again radiate in their glory of a style of art and architecture created by masters when Detroit reaches a full recovery as a 21st century city with its soul firmly rooted in the late 19th and 20th centuries. LA has no history..no aesthetic..no charm other than Venice Beach aka Dogtown..the rest of La looks like one giant strip mall. I much prefer San Diego..that has character if not beauty, and San Francisco which people love or loathe. What LA does have is distractions…lots of other things residents in LA care more about than sports that is so ironic, as it’s a top tv market for sports teams just by population numbers only. As for sports fandom? They’re not even a top 15 NFL market. lets say Harbaugh is hired and the Chargers win the Superbowl…the best Spanos can hope for is beating the Clippers in popularity…the Raiders left LA 20 years ago and it’s debatable if the Rams have more LA fans than them. Spanos has no money, the worst stadium deal in the league, he has no hope of creating a sizable permanent fanbase, and even Harbaugh delivering the trophy won’t do a thing to save him.

That being said, I don’t think Jim cares a rat’s ass about any of that. The chase..running the gauntlet..proving his many haters wrong..yet again proving his old school beliefs coupled with his lack of ego as a coach..his ability to self-evaluate and has the flexibility to elimInate his program‘s dysfunction by flipping direction 180 degrees on the run and get back on the rails quickly is his gift. Jim cares about his players first, and his process. The LA press is going to find that out real quick. He could not care less about fixing Spano’s Greek Tragedy errors or major issues. He cares about how fast they can get out of the lake of fire salary cap hell the chargers are burning in the last few years, he cares about changing from being a top 5 oldest team to becoming a top 5 youngest squad by 2025. He cares about football in the abstract..purely about the journey to winning. If the Chargers think Harbaugh will be there long term, they’re mistaken. He’ll put a team around Herbert running a ground attack heavy play action offense that’ll win the SB in 4 years tops, then he will leave for the next challenge. He’s leaving Michigan batting 1.000..did it all in 9 years. If it wasn’t Michigan, he would have left after 2021. He’s leaving the Program in excellent shape for success as long as they keep the culture intact. I’ll be cheering for the Chargers next season. That is if Spanos’ offer is anywhere close to Michigan’s. I hear Spanos made a “substantial offer”, which I translate to mean he came nowhere near Michigan’s offer…so it’s gonna come down to if losing the SB to John would drive him to take 30-40 million less to take a pro job. I know what I would do. But I’ve come to understand that, when it comes to Jim, logic does not always apply.

On Embiid: he was unstoppable last night on the way to 70 - 15 -5..only Wilt Chamberlai has had a game like that, but Embiid did it in 38 minutes. He’s the most athletic, best scorer with any shot in his bag in the NBA this season. For a 7ft 300lb man, he moves like a gazelle. I don’t even think Shaq could have stopped him. Remember about ten years ago the future of the NBA was “Positionless basketball“ and guards were dominating the NBA? My how things have changed with centers like Embiid and jokic, and power forwards like Kwai, Giannis, Tatum, Edwards, Luka, KD, Chet, and others are dominating the league..and the guards have become less of factor to the game, and I haven’t heard the term “Positionless Basketball“ in years. What an age we live in where offense are run through highly skilled dominant centers just a decade later.

Again…Embiid played the greatest game I’ve seen a 7ft 300lb guy ever play..he was like a cross between Kobe and Akeem with a bit of Dr J in him last night. They just got to keep him from that freak injury he gets every year just as the playoffs start this season.

Team lifts begin today. Nothing new from an administration level at the moment.

The team is in limbo just as much as we all are.

and $75 million Jimbo at A and M....

Daniel Shurr really showed his a$$ here. Saying McCarthy "lacked the ability to throw the ball accurately on a consistent basis" is one of the most ridiculous comments possible for a sports writer who watched this season. That said, Arch Manning would fit the Michigan offense if he could be as selfless as JJ.

This isn't to say he would even consider Michigan. However, I don't feel it would be a bad pairing at all given my understanding of his skill set.

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Michigan takes on the No. 2 team in the country tonight. The Wolverines are nearly 20-point underdogs.

It's been a disaster of a season so far for Michigan, but a big upset victory over a top team in the country could be a confidence booster and would look really good on an NCAA Tournament resume come March, if the team still has hopes of getting to the tournament.

Tipoff at 9 p.m. on Peacock

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….Jim Harbaugh Isn’t performing any of his head coaching duties? He’s openly looking for an NFL job, but he hasn’t resigned. He’s being paid over $30,000 a day. For what?

He’s had two interviews and he attended his brother’s NFL playoff game. But otherwise, he’s been invisible. He could have spent full-time negotiating the unsettled terms in his contract extension. If he has no intention of returning to be Michigan’s head coach, why hasn’t he resigned or taken a leave of absence?

I know it maybe be the slowest part of the season, but I’ll bet he’ll be around on payday even though he’s done nothing for two weeks to earn his salary. Why has his boss permitted this? If he comes back to Michigan and re-starts the negotiation of his contract, a new term should be the size of the refund back to Michigan for the days he spent looking for a job rather than working for Michigan. .

Being investigated 😂🤔
Where is the Douche Patrol? Pete and Peter

Commissioner and SEC team coaches all up in there faces and daily activities? Media coverage one year later?

The extremes on how one team is targeted versus another is so hard to forgive.