Jim Harbaugh is the Villain, not the SEC

Every morning I drive to work, and I listen to Mike and Mike through my local ESPN radio station. The previous few mornings I’ve heard a repeated bashing of the SEC for standing up against these traveling satellite camps made famous by Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh. Now, according to them, it is because these coaches are afraid of Jim Harbaugh stealing their talent, they petitioned the NCAA to make such satellite camps illegal. And of course, the SEC won and now thousands of kids are missing on the opportunity to be exposed to other football programs is what the national media seems to be saying.

Give me a break.

Jim Harbaugh, crying like he always does, didn’t just take shots at the NCAA. He took shots at Hugh

Jan 1, 2016; New Orleans, LA, USA; Mississippi Rebels wide receiver Laquon Treadwell (1) and head coach Hugh Freeze prepares to take the field to play the Oklahoma State Cowboys in the 2016 Sugar Bowl at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome. Mandatory Credit: Chuck Cook-USA TODAY Sports /

Freeze after the Ole Miss head coach basically said that he was happy to spend more time with his family than going to satellite camps. Harbaugh started by saying,”You’ve got a guy sitting in a big house, making $5 million a year, saying he does not want to sacrifice his time.” He went on to add, “That is not a kindred spirit to me. What most of these coaches are saying is they don’t want to work harder.”

You kidding me? A coach can quit on his team citing family and heart issues as his reason and he’s a hero. After a year, that same coach can go on to become the head coach of Ohio State and nobody bats an eye. But, a coach says he’s glad he gets to spend an extra couple of weeks sleeping in his own bed with his wife, so he doesn’t feel like has to quit on his team, and he gets blasted for balancing his professional and family life.

It makes me sick.

Using that logic, it is fair for me to say of Jim Harbaugh “You’ve got a guy with a family, and he’d rather work than be there for his family. That is not a loving father to me.”

I’ve had enough of this clown. Everywhere he goes, he can’t shut up. Put him on the spot in an interview though, without his typed up quotes, and he can’t even make it through the segment before he gets hung up on. Just ask Collin Cowherd. You haven’t seen that interview? Watch this moron on national television by clicking here.

It boils down to one thing: Jim Harbaugh is a sore loser. He couldn’t beat Pete Carroll, so what’d he do? He picked at him. Over and over. Why? Because he couldn’t beat him. He missed the fight so bad, he followed Carroll to the NFL. What happened there? He still couldn’t beat him. They both made it to a Super Bowl during Harbaugh’s head coaching tenure in the NFL. We all know who won and who lost to their brother.

Then he gave up the fight. He couldn’t hack it, and the people hated him. So, what’d he do? He got on the first plane back to Michigan where they were clamoring for a savior and it just so happened that he needed a job. He came in a pleated khaki wearing-savior. A regular ole Bo Schemblecher. He wants to be to Michigan, what Nick Saban is to Alabama- the second coming of a hero.

So, what’s he do? He picks a fight with Nick Saban and his SEC posse. He knows who’s game and who’s not. How many headline quotes have you heard about Urban Meyer coming from Jim Harbaugh after his squad was curb-stomped by the Buckeyes this past year? How many comments have you heard since Alabama won the National Title? So, he went after someone else…… but his someone else…was someone who is more thankful to spend time with their family?

It is almost laughable. Jim Harbaugh signed 3 3-star recruits from his satellite camps last summer according to yahoosports.com. Why all this fuss over a few 3-star recruits?

He’s a sore loser, but I’ll give him this, he’s smart. I’ve called him a moron, even as recently as a few paragraphs ago, but that is because he’s yet to win something of importance to give credit to his antics. His antics are all well thought out and obviously done with intention.

So, I say he’s smart because he knew it would end like this. It would be a win-win for Coach Harbaugh. If the SEC doesn’t fight, he gets to host camps across the country, in his biggest competitors’ back yards and they have to watch as he makes his Michigan camps available all across the south. Maybe he steals some recruits, and maybe he doesn’t, but his presence would be known. Or, the SEC would fight him, the SEC and others would win, and they would come out looking like the bad guy. Meanwhile, he and Michigan look like good samaritans being deprived of the chance to provide opportunities to the less-previliged as the younger generation seems to always feel slighted.

I mean, the Masters was going on this past weekend. We had the Golden State Warriors going for 73 wins. We had Kobe’s last game. And somehow, Michigan’s satellite camps have made national news all week. Brilliant.

Jan 1, 2016; Orlando, FL, USA; Michigan Wolverines head coach Jim Harbaugh (left) and Florida Gators head coach Jim McElwain meet at midfield before the 2016 Citrus Bowl at Orlando Citrus Bowl Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Reinhold Matay-USA TODAY Sports /

His camps last year didn’t garner enough attention. So, what did he do? He let it be known that he was taking his football team down to Florida for a football camp during spring break. If he wanted to keep it low key, and get the 3-star recruits, he could’ve continued to fly under the radar. That’s not what he wanted though.

Instead of staying low, he stood there like your annoying little brother at 6 years old. He just held his finger in the face of the SEC and everyone else and said, “I’m not touching you I’m not touching you I’m not touching you.” Then, the older brother slapped him down, and the older brother is the one that should’ve known better and gets in trouble.

Jim Harbaugh never had the intention of opening his door to “more recruits that wouldn’t have gotten the chance other wise” and whatever else everyone is saying. Where have Michigan’s star recruits come from over the last 2 decades? He can hop on a plane and be in any kid’s home he wants with the kid’s entire family present. He knows who the stars are and who is worth recruiting. He doesn’t need satellite camps for that reason.

His sole intention was to get attention on the University of Michigan football program. He succeeded. He knew what would happen. He is a master manipulator and a snake in the grass.

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The real people that are hurt by this aren’t the guys who would go on to play at Michigan if they had went to these football camps. Those guys can still go to Michigan if they want. The real people hurt by this are those who never had a chance at playing at Michigan in the first place. Non-Power 5 schools were allowed to attend football camps to recruit the “next-tier” of recruits. They weren’t just allowed to the satellite camps, they were allowed to attend the camps held by all the programs in the country at their schools and so on. Now, that same opportunity will not be made available.

Often times, it is the provoked that get the unsportsmanlike penalty in sports, and that use of logic seems to hold true in this situation.

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