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Do you think he sleeps in khakis?

Chicat wrote:Do you think he sleeps in khakis?

Needs more pleats.

JIM HARBAUGH THUMBS NOSE AT NCAA RECRUITING RULES, CONTINUES QUEST TO SLEEP WITH TEENS

The recruiting dead period is over, which means Jim Harbaugh's roving minstrel show is back.

Harbaugh made headlines earlier this week when 2016's top-ranked kicker, Quinn Nordin, revealed Harbaugh's desire to come over, watch a movie, and sleep on a 6'3" piece of carpet in Nordin's room.

Harbaugh is at Detroit Jesuit today. Juniors are not allowed to take pictures with Harbaugh, but Michigan's coach found a creative way around that:
But Harbaugh didn't stop there. He continued his quest to sleep with talented #teens:
http://www.elevenwarriors.com/college-f ... sleep-with" target="_blank

Jerry Sandusky wishes he'd thought of that first.

Chicat wrote:Jerry Sandusky wishes he'd thought of that first.

Harbaugh pulls offer from kid committed since 2013

ANN ARBOR -- Erik Swenson was the longest-tenured commitment in Michigan's 2016 recruiting class.

No longer.

Swenson tweeted Wednesday that he's reopening his commitment due to "unforeseen circumstances."

In a text message to MLive, the four-star offensive tackle said Michigan recently pulled its scholarship offer and canceled his previously scheduled official visit. He said the program did not provide a reason for doing so. He declined to speak further on the matter at this time.

http://www.mlive.com/wolverines/index.s ... om_mi.html" target="_blank

the real dill wrote:Harbaugh pulls offer from kid committed since 2013

ANN ARBOR -- Erik Swenson was the longest-tenured commitment in Michigan's 2016 recruiting class.

No longer.

Swenson tweeted Wednesday that he's reopening his commitment due to "unforeseen circumstances."

In a text message to MLive, the four-star offensive tackle said Michigan recently pulled its scholarship offer and canceled his previously scheduled official visit. He said the program did not provide a reason for doing so. He declined to speak further on the matter at this time.

http://www.mlive.com/wolverines/index.s ... om_mi.html" target="_blank

Dude is a 4 star offered by tOSU, Alabama, Notre Dame and so on.

There is no way Harbaugh doesn't have aspergers.

That’s pretty dang good.

I'd forgotten all about this until the Connor Stalions thing popped up. I did some work in the old press box for Arizona Athletics in 1982. The last game of the season was the famous "I Never Promised You A Rose Garden" game when we knocked ASU out of the Rose Bowl. After the game, I was meeting two people who I'd given my two free tickets. They just had one small and slow elevator, and it got packed after the game. But as soon as the game was over, I was free to go and I tore down the stairs. And I came face-to-face with Bo Schembechler, who was also hustling down the stairs. His eyes got real big, he looked nervous, and he kept on going. His former assistant Larry Smith must have let him in the coaches box. Supposedly the in-person advance scouting has been an NCAA infraction in its current form since 1994, but I think they must have had something else in place to address it before that. At least judging by Bo's reaction. It was kind of like an episode of Candid Camera. In any event, he wound up losing to UCLA after all of that.

They didn’t put the rule in to stop scouting. They put it in because the NCAA felt it was an unfair advantage for the big schools as many schools could not afford to send advanced scouts to games.

Hmmm. Michigan rescinded Jim's contract extension over the scouting situation.

Gonna be the Chicago Bears head coach next year.

Doesn’t the new GM Warren hate Harbaugh? Would he hire him Chi?

azcat49 wrote: ↑Mon Oct 30, 2023 8:53 am Doesn’t the new GM Warren hate Harbaugh? Would he hire him Chi?

Bears GM is Ryan Poles. No idea his thoughts on Harbaugh but he might be on his way out too after a few pretty big personnel miscalculations.

They are just postponing it until hopefully things die down which is not working out too well right now both for UM and Harbaugh.

He’s signed through 2026 and he desperately wants a NC before going back into the NFL.

It’s really tarnishing a damn good season so far. The question is will the NCAA do what it normally does which is drag it out for a couple of years? If so, all bets are off.

84Cat wrote: ↑Mon Oct 30, 2023 1:30 pm

He’s a very strange dude. But the guy can coach.

He's nuttier than squirrel shit.

...and cornier than crow shit.

So easy to see through the tightrope the Big Ten is trying to walk. Big Ten doesn't have the balls to do much against Michigan, a program worth too much to remove from contention. But by keeping Harbaugh off the sidelines, the Big Ten can say they "took action" while Michigan moves forward in pretty normal fashion.

Plenty of time for a nasty legal battle before the Ohio State game.

The lawyers are already spending their billings on this in their heads.

Michigan just dropped the nuclear option on the conference. Michigan says it is discussing leaving the conference if it is punished without due process.

TheCat wrote: ↑Fri Nov 10, 2023 8:54 pm Michigan just dropped the nuclear option on the conference. Michigan says it is discussing leaving the conference if it is punished without due process.

And they might change their mascot name to “Astros”, too!

BET

TheCat wrote: ↑Fri Nov 10, 2023 8:54 pm Michigan just dropped the nuclear option on the conference. Michigan says it is discussing leaving the conference if it is punished without due process.

....and there you have it. Another reason to hate Michigan.

From the interim coach’s postgame interview last week I thought Harbaugh was dead. Turns out he’s just a political prisoner.

Everyone associated with Michigan is milking this for all it’s worth. Us against the world. Lol

Carcassdragger wrote: ↑Sat Nov 11, 2023 10:08 pm

TheCat wrote: ↑Fri Nov 10, 2023 8:54 pm Michigan just dropped the nuclear option on the conference. Michigan says it is discussing leaving the conference if it is punished without due process.

....and there you have it. Another reason to hate Michigan.

That’s a long list.

He’s got wheels.

It’s great to be…a Michigan Wolverine.

BET.

Report: Michigan offers Jim Harbaugh a 10 year contract with no-NFL clause for 2024

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/ ... r-AA1lYSVH

It’s a hint to any NFL team interested in him to act now or else.

AKA The Harbaugh Ruling.


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Helmet communication in college football nears approval after positive bowl trial run

By Chris Vannini

College football is closer than ever to allowing widespread usage of helmet communication and sideline tablets, finally catching up to the technology available at other levels of the sport.

The NCAA Football Rules Committee meets at the end of February and could come out of that meeting with proposals to allow permissive use of both pieces of tech, meaning whoever wants to use them could use them. Based on the insight gathered by the committee so far, the experimental use of helmet and tablet tech during the 2023-24 season’s non-CFP bowl games was a rousing success.

“We’ve gotten nothing but terrific feedback,” said NCAA national coordinator of officials Steve Shaw.

The NFL has allowed helmet communication to the quarterbacks since 1994, adding the capability for one defensive player per team in 2008 and introducing sideline tablets in 2014. College football hasn’t joined in those steps for several reasons: cost, the logistics of standardizing the change for so many teams, hesitancy from some coaches and liability concerns by manufacturers.

But the Big Ten made a push for progress last summer, led by vice president of football administration A.J. Edds, when it proposed allowing league members to use helmet communication and video technology. Edds is also the co-chair of the NCAA Football Rules Committee.

“The Big Ten has historically led in innovation and technological opportunities going back to instant replay in the early 2000s,” Edds said. “This was the result of feedback from our head coaches, that this progresses and advances operations, and professionalizes what Big Ten football would look and feel like. It’s been a conversation in our coaches group for the last handful of years.”

The rules committee did not approve the request but instead came up with the bowl season experiment for the helmet communication. The Big Ten’s push had nothing to do with the Connor Stalions sign-stealing and scouting scandal at Michigan, which was still unknown at the time. But the revelation of that investigation ramped up a push from coaches around the country for more technology. Later in the fall, the committee approved the use of tablets in bowl games.

Conference football administrators decided that both teams would have to agree on technology being used in their game and what would be used. Six bowl games featured helmet tech and 12 used tablets, Shaw said. In most cases, a pair of teams used the same level of technology. Auburn did not use helmet communication in the Music City Bowl against Maryland but allowed the Terrapins to use it. Because of the quick turnaround to bowl games, teams only had a week or so to practice with it. DVSport (which handles film for most teams) ran the tablets, while CoachComm (which handles coach headsets for most teams) and GSC (which supplies the NFL) provided the helmet communication.

“We practiced with it four times going into the game, and it was probably one of our cleanest operations when it comes to the sideline and communication,” Texas Tech head coach Joey McGuire said of the Red Raiders’ use of CoachComm.

With only a little time to practice with the tech and in the middle of a busy month, most teams passed on the opportunity. Some that did take it up leaned into it and found a difference.

“We’re a huddle team, so talking to the quarterback, we were able to put in more offense, more motions and shifts, make sure everyone was right,” said Northern Illinois head coach Thomas Hammock, who worked as a Baltimore Ravens assistant prior to his hiring at NIU. “It really helped us out. We didn’t have any procedural penalties. We did a lot of offense and stayed clean, a lot of that due to helmet communication.”

For no-huddle teams, helmet communication doesn’t eliminate sideline signaling. Arkansas State head coach Butch Jones, whose Red Wolves played Northern Illinois in the Camellia Bowl, said they didn’t want to alter too much in a short span.

“We still signaled in because receivers gotta get them,” Jones said. “We wanted to keep as minimal change as possible for the flow of the game. We have a system in place of what we do, and with a limited amount of time, we didn’t want to disrupt that.”

Different teams employed different strategies. Texas Tech put the defense’s helmet devices on safeties and linebackers. West Virginia put them on linebackers but has used helmet communication technology for the past few spring practices, so the Mountaineers didn’t have to adjust to the tech.

There were also very few actual rules. The tablets allowed video, a departure from the NFL, where tablets are only used for still images. There was no helmet communication shut-off deadline like the NFL, which turns the helmets off when the play clock hits 15 seconds. As a result, coaches could talk to their players the entire time. They didn’t call out open receivers in the middle of plays, but they reminded quarterbacks about checks and shifts.

“We used it but didn’t over-communicate to the quarterback,” West Virginia head coach Neal Brown said. “Give them the play, maybe a reminder, but we didn’t get carried away. It wasn’t continuous dialogue by any means.”

In the weeks since bowl games, conference administrators and the rules committee have been gathering feedback. Thus far, it’s been all positive. Both Shaw and CoachComm said they’ve gotten no reports of any technological hiccups.

“It went as well as we could’ve hoped,” said CoachComm owner Peter Amos, who said his company is prepared to supply many more schools this spring if widespread use is approved.

One of the biggest hurdles with the tech has been the legal questions about how the technology would affect the helmets’ warranty: If someone sues over head injuries, who would be liable? The helmet manufacturers have historically maintained that putting a third-party device in a helmet would shift liability away from them and toward the schools, which was the case for the bowl games. That stance has typically scared people away. The NFL does its own testing with helmet companies and encodes its standards in the collective bargaining agreement with the players union.

But college officials are optimistic that the manufacturers will get on board if the change is introduced on a large scale at the college level. Helmets used in college football must meet the National Operating Committee on Standards on Athletic Equipment (NOCSAE) standard. Riddell, which makes the helmets for 87 percent of college players, said it has and will assist in the process of approving devices.

“Riddell’s assistance will include, among other things, a preliminary evaluation of a coach-to-player communication device sample to review the form factor and installation possibilities,” the company said in a statement to The Athletic. “If the device can be placed in a helmet without compromising protective performance or impeding the existing technologies embodied in the headgear, it will be up to the provider to then deliver additional units to Riddell. The provider will also be responsible for paying associated fees related to the additional testing necessary to readying and certifying the helmet for on-field use. … Riddell welcomes the opportunity to play a part in this exciting development within the game.”

The next step will be solidifying the rules, such as a shut-off time on the helmet devices, the number of devices allowed and the type of images permitted on tablets. Officials also want to make sure tablets can’t be connected to outside offices for remote coaching. Conference football administrators have discussed those topics in recent weeks in hopes of finding a standardization for the rules committee to propose, which would open the door for teams to begin using the tech.

“If we can leave that meeting with a solidified framework that would go to the Playing Rules Oversight Panel, we would like to do that,” Edds said. “But we do not want to rush this. We hope to send the message that this will be permissive, but we don’t want to inadvertently place rules around it that we wish we could undo after spring and the chance to experiment with 15 workouts.”

If it all gets approved, any team would be able to use it. As a permissive technology, it wouldn’t require both teams to have it for it to be used in a game, Shaw said. The rules committee actually approved the use of electronic and video devices in 2016, but the decision was rescinded one month later after commissioners said more time was needed to develop guidelines. This time around, especially after the Stalions fallout at Michigan, officials want something done.

It has been 30 years since the NFL first began using helmet communication. Many states allow sideline video technology at the high school football level. College football has long been stuck in the middle. That may be about to change for good.

“It happens every Sunday,” McGuire said. “Just do that.”

Another feather in his cap. Go Blue!