As the University of Michigan begins it's search for Lloyd Carr's replacement by interviewing current coordinators Ron English and Mike DeBord, one possible candidate has taken his name off the list.Former Michigan quarterback, and current Stanford head coach, Jim Harbaugh wants everybody to know he isn't interested in the job.
"As far as the opening they have, the Michigan people will do a great job in selecting someone to carry on that tradition," Harbaugh said. "It's not going to be me. I am happy where I am."It's pretty nice of Jim to let us all know he doesn't want the job, especially when you consider he was probably never going to get it anyway. He's only in his first year at Stanford, and even though the Cardinal upset USC this season, Harbaugh hasn't really done anything in Palo Alto to catapult himself up the list of possible replacements.
There is also the fact that Carr and the school aren't exactly thrilled with Harbaugh right now anyway. After the comments he made earlier this season about the school's academic standards (even though they're true for the most part), Bo Schembechler probably has a better chance of rising from the dead to take the program over, than Harbaugh does of getting the position.
Besides, every interview the school makes is just to kill time until Les Miles finally leaves LSU.
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11-21-2007 @ 3:53PM
MMcmahan said...
At least Jim understand the place.......after all, the truth hurts.....If they go for LSU coach, I hope it bites them in the ass.....Look at some who will not take from the Big Ten all that has been for years and years. Going away from real time football, to south type program isn't what the Big Ten has stood for so many years. But good luck, you stiil need it for that Nov. date each year....Go Bucks...Best of the best, year in and year out.
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11-21-2007 @ 5:05PM
chuckie said...
Exactly what part of Harbaugh's cheap-shot self-interested comments are so "true"?
Was it the ones he made to the authors of a book on Michigan football a few years ago where he praised the school's high academic standards? Or the ones he made when he found himself competing for recruits with Michigan. Because Harbaugh has to know that Michigan is not far behind Stanford in undergraduate admission standards and is ahead of Stanford in many of its graduate school rankings.
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11-21-2007 @ 5:18PM
Bill Martin said...
Dear Jim -
Thanks for letting us know that you aren't interested in the Head Coaching job here in Ann Arbor. But Jim, we weren't going to ask you anyway.
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11-22-2007 @ 9:54AM
Jim said...
Harbaugh only questioned what happens to UM football players after they leave the program. It would be interesting to see what former UM players are doing 10 years after leaving football compared to Stanford players. I suspect Harbaugh is happy at Stanford and UM will be happy with Les Miles. Les Miles will win but don't expect them to be student athletes!
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