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Harbaugh Interview - Awkward

As a Niner's fan, none of this is shocking. I love what he did for the 49ers in his time there, but it was obvious that his personality and general "weirdness" wore thin both the players and the front office. It was time for him to move on.
 
Alphabets said:
As a Niner's fan, none of this is shocking. I love what he did for the 49ers in his time there, but it was obvious that his personality and general "weirdness" wore thin both the players and the front office. It was time for him to move on.
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Just wondering if he played touch football shirts vs. skins with the SF players during preseason camp? I'm sure that would have accelerated his exit.
 
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I listened to it live and was saying to myself, what would a prospective recruit be thinking if he heard that interview ? Colin's best line : " No wonder Pete Carroll and Harbaugh didn't get a long. You get Pete on here and he won't stop talking "
 
I watched the interview on TV it was brutal. He seemed like he was trying to hide the fact he was the coach at Scum. Very weird
 
PSU1991 said:
He's so bad in this interview it's almost painful to listen to.

http://thebiglead.com/2015/07/01/this-colin-cowherd-interview-with-jim-harbaugh-was-awkward/

Franklin shines in situations like this.
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wow.... Harbaugh better learn quickly how to do an interview... If he is going to be successful recruiting against meyer and franklin he better learn how to sell the sizzle quickly otherwise he is going to be stuck with a bunch of 2 star players like he is currently.... He better learn quickly that Michigan is no longer the Michigan of old and has struggled for awhile now and kids today quickly forget the old Michigan and won't go there with a coach who seems this dull and boring....kids today want the sizzle and excitement whether we like it that is reality for most kids today and Harbaugh better learn that quickly...
 
Yesterday Colin was talking Big10/12/14 football .When he addressed the coaching,.
Colin said I met James Franklin once and after 5 minutes of conversation , I was ready to got to Penn State !
 
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NorCalcLion said:
Yesterday Colin was talking Big10/12/14 football .When he addressed the coaching,.
Colin said I met James Franklin once and after 5 minutes of conversation , I was ready to got to Penn State !
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Exactly... like it or not coaches today have to be able to sell ice to the eskimos.... Sell the sizzle and have high energy when doing interviews and camps and meeting with recruits and families.
 
H didn't seem like he wanted to be bothered. He wasn't really bad at first. there was the odd use of words by Colin. He used the word "buy" and H thought he said "bye". Then, when Colin started going off, he didn't give H a chance to improve. Once Heard got exasperated, he basically turned H off.

As odd as H was, Colin was unprofessional.
 
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I agree I think Cowherd was short at the end and cutting him off but I agree with him in asking a bunch of open ended questions that Harbaugh didn't seem to want to be bothered to answer and gave basically a 3-4 word answer and had a tone of he had better things to be doing than this interview....
 
PSU1991 said:
He's so bad in this interview it's almost painful to listen to.

http://thebiglead.com/2015/07/01/this-colin-cowherd-interview-with-jim-harbaugh-was-awkward/

Franklin shines in situations like this.
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Wow, how many times did JH say, "I don't know" as the first response to the question asked (occassionally he said it multiple times not only as first response, but repeatedly in response to that same question!). Essentially the interview transcript would go like this....CC would ask a softball open-ended question...than JH would respond "I don't know" sometimes repeatedly in the same response to that specific question!?!? That was worse, and more painful, than a Ditka or Parcell's post-game interview after their team has been completely blown-out and taken behind the woodshed.
 
And to better illustrate this my phone seems to go off 3-4 times daily with tweets from Franklin and his staff. Frankline understands that today you need to be on social media and high energy to recruit kids and sell the program. I agree with Cowherd if I am a potential reruit and see both of these interviews it doesn't take me very long to figure out which coach I want to play for in college with all things being equal...
 
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H didn't seem like he wanted to be bothered. He wasn't really bad at first. there was the odd use of words by Colin. He used the word "buy" and H thought he said "bye". Then, when Colin started going off, he didn't give H a chance to improve. Once Heard got exasperated, he basically turned H off.

As odd as H was, Colin was unprofessional.
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I thought he was bad right from the start. He said "I don't know" like 6 times right away and then gave non-answers to all the questions. Went from bad to really bad.
 
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I thought he was bad right from the start. He said "I don't know" like 6 times right away and then gave non-answers to all the questions. Went from bad to really bad.
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No doubt, I was waiting for Colin Cow-turd to say, "If you don't know Jim, who precisely would? You were hired as a Head Coach, no?". That interview went from bad to real bad to outright painful to just shoot me and take me out of my misery (which Cow-turd ultimately and mercifully did).
 
Love it, Harbaugh wasn't about to deliver some salespitch just because Cowturd wanted that for his show. No thanks Colin
 
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No doubt, I was waiting for Colin Cow-turd to say, "If you don't know Jim, who precisely would? You were hired as a Head Coach, no?". That interview went from bad to real bad to outright painful to just shoot me and take me out of my misery (which Cow-turd ultimately and mercifully did).
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Not a Colin C fan.....but I gotta' give him credit for showing some mercy in terminating the "interview".

A lot of other guys would have either: eviscerated Harbaugh, started to mock his answers, or laughed his ass off once Harbaugh was disconnected.

Colin was - at least in this instance - overly kind, professional, and complimentary.....though I do expect that off-air he was saying "WTF??? NEVER ask this guy back on the show."
 
jschrantz said:
Love it, Harbaugh wasn't about to deliver some salespitch just because Cowturd wanted that for his show. No thanks Colin
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Did you listen to it? The issue wasn't that he didn't give a "sales pitch".....in was inanity.

"Jim....what's the first thing you changed after taking over at Michigan?"

"Well Colin.....breakfast?.....I think I've eaten, thanks.....I'm not sure.....I think some people drink.....It's a process - you just have to take it one step at a time.....huh?......Change?......Do things change?.....I'm not sure......what?.....beam me up Scotty.....It's a process.......What?."

Lather, rinse, repeat for 8 minutes.

Terminate call.
 
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Love it, Harbaugh wasn't about to deliver some salespitch just because Cowturd wanted that for his show. No thanks Colin
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Yikes. Look, I have no idea what UM supporters are hoping for out of Harbaugh. Maybe more of what we just witnessed. Some sort of Bellichek-esque edge. Who knows. But passing up a golden opportunity to sell the UM program on a national radio show seems like a very odd strategy for success.
 
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And to better illustrate this my phone seems to go off 3-4 times daily with tweets from Franklin and his staff. Frankline understands that today you need to be on social media and high energy to recruit kids and sell the program. I agree with Cowherd if I am a potential reruit and see both of these interviews it doesn't take me very long to figure out which coach I want to play for in college with all things being equal...
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Whoa! Jim might want to heed a little of his own advice.... Why on earth did Harbaugh even agree to do his show if he finds this kind of interview so objectionable??? He should have just said, "no thank you" when asked if he wanted to appear as a guest on the show! That would have been much easier, no?
 
Grant Green said:
Yeah, that would have been career suicide to give a sales pitch on national radio to sell your program to recruits. Thank God Franklin would never do that.
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If you believe one interview on the Cow show is going to decide which school a kid attends you are giving the show way too much influence. Kids don't care about Colin as much as you might or think they do. As much as we Psu fans want to believe this has an impact. It won't, not the kids Harbaugh is targeting. It's really a non issue. It's comical, that's it. Relax
 
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If you believe one interview on the Cow show is going to decide which school a kid attends you are giving the show way too much influence. Kids don't care about Colin as much as you might or think they do. As much as we Psu fans want to believe this has an impact. It won't, not the kids Harbaugh is targeting. It's really a non issue. It's comical, that's it. Relax
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Except that it is not limited to being just one interview on one radio show: It is going viral.
 
One interview is not likely to hurt, but if that's representative of his personality and ability to sell his program when given the opportunity, he failed miserably.
 
jschrantz said:
If you believe one interview on the Cow show is going to decide which school a kid attends you are giving the show way too much influence. Kids don't care about Colin as much as you might or think they do. As much as we Psu fans want to believe this has an impact. It won't, not the kids Harbaugh is targeting. It's really a non issue. It's comical, that's it. Relax
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1. I think you underestimate what one interview can do once it goes viral.
2. It's indicative of Harbaugh's mentality. If he doesn't realize that national radio spots are opportunities to sell his program, than he is not going to fare well in the long run. Conversely, someone like JF realizes that every time he talks -radio, in person, etc - he is selling PSU and recruiting for the future.
 
The interview might've been bad, but it doesn't change the fact that Harbaugh is a very good coach and Cowturd is a complete tool. Harbaugh did a great job at Stanford, had a great run with the niners and will be very good for the Michigan football program. The bad interview excited Cowturd more than a good one. I'll give Jimmy a pass on this one. He was dealing with a complete idiot. Bad idea to do the interview to begin with.
 
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One interview is not likely to hurt, but if that's representative of his personality and ability to sell his program when given the opportunity, he failed miserably.
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Exactly. If he just had a bad day and that interview was the result, then so be it, it happens. But if that's who he is and that's what he does to sell his program?...look out.
 
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One interview is not likely to hurt, but if that's representative of his personality and ability to sell his program when given the opportunity, he failed miserably.
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Exactly, kids will base their opinion on Their visits and interactions with Jim, not on radio shows or media. Jim has been this guy forever, he's a Football Coach and that has always worked before. I'd put more stock in that . This is silly . Some of you guys are obsessed with these espn shows like school girls, football coaches and players aren't
 
psugisher said:
The interview might've been bad, but it doesn't change the fact that Harbaugh is a very good coach and Cowturd is a complete tool. Harbaugh did a great job at Stanford, had a great run with the niners and will be very good for the Michigan football program. The bad interview excited Cowturd more than a good one. I'll give Jimmy a pass on this one. He was dealing with a complete idiot. Bad idea to do the interview to begin with.
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Not a big Cowherd fan but I think, at least in this instance, you're way off. He lobbed softball after softball up to Harbaugh and Harbaugh just whiffed. He was practically begging Harbaugh to talk up UM and he just wouldn't. I don't think Cowherd did anything wrong in this interview.
 
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Exactly, kids will base their opinion on Their visits and interactions with Jim, not on radio shows or media. Jim has been this guy forever, he's a Football Coach and that has always worked before. I'd put more stock in that . This is silly . Some of you guys are obsessed with these espn shows like school girls, football coaches and players aren't
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OK, if it doens't hurt Harbaugh and UM then how does it help? Does it give him a tough-guy edge and he sells that up to recruits? Maybe. But while we can debate how much it hurts UM (you appear to be in the distinct minority in claiming that it's no big deal), it seems about impossible to think it will help them.
 
jschrantz said:
Exactly, kids will base their opinion on Their visits and interactions with Jim, not on radio shows or media. Jim has been this guy forever, he's a Football Coach and that has always worked before. I'd put more stock in that . This is silly . Some of you guys are obsessed with these espn shows like school girls, football coaches and players aren't
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Yeah. The more you say that, the less I am going to believe it. You should quit before you get further behind. Just sayin'.
 
jschrantz said:
Exactly, kids will base their opinion on Their visits and interactions with Jim, not on radio shows or media. Jim has been this guy forever, he's a Football Coach and that has always worked before. I'd put more stock in that . This is silly . Some of you guys are obsessed with these espn shows like school girls, football coaches and players aren't
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Who is obsessed with ESPN shows? It could have been and NPR interview and people would have reacted the same. Has nothing to do with ESPN. You really don't get it.
Jim HAS been that guy forever. That's why Stanford was not that sorry to see him go and the 49ers ditched him even with a good winning percentage. I give him 4 years at UM and it will be because he doesn't act professionally - not because of losses.
 
CC is horrible and I dislike him.

That was a horrible interview by Harbaugh. If you don't want to do an interview with CC, just don't do it, nobody is forcing him. He could have had his assistant call in sick for him or tell one of the assistant coaches to do it in his place. But if you are going to go on TV to do an interview, you have to at least try.

Great point by the poster who said this is NOT the same Michigan that Harbaugh was at 25 years ago nor is it even the same Michigan that Harbaugh remembers back when coaching at Stanford back in the late 2000's. RichRod and Hoke have really brought that program down both on the field and nationally. And unlike PSU that has PA/NJ/NY/Northern Maryland as traditional recruiting grounds that can sustain a Top 10 program, Michigan must recruit nationally to survive. And with Meyer in Ohio and JFF in PA, Michigan is going to have a tough time recruiting those states like Michigan used to under Lloyd Carr.
 
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