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Are The Michigan Wolverines Now America's Team? · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Welcome to buck Eyes tomorrow morning for Tuesday, November fourteenth. I'm your host,
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  tom Or. The Minnesota game is in four days. The game against
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  Michigan in eleven days. The Ryan Day press conference is at noon today.
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  We're streaming that live at YouTube dot com slash bucke Huddle. But oh boy,
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  does Ryan Day have his work cutout for him if he wants to keep
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  up with Jim Harbaugh. In terms of notable things said at a press conference
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  this week, We're going to just take it just We're just gonna go face
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  first right into this thing. We're going to go right through some of some
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  of the most interesting things James Jim Harbaugh said at his press conference on Monday
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  up in ann Arbor. Get a reaction from our good buddy, Tony Gerdaman
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  of Buckeyehuddle dot com. If you want to hear Tony and I talk about
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  actual football on the field, well, we did the Michigan Monday episode of
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  the Buckeye Weekly podcast that dropped on Monday night, as the name might suggest,
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  and talked all about the Michigan Penn State game, what we learned from
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  that all that. So if you want to hear some actual football talk that
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  is where you can find it. Instead, we're gonna be doing Jim Harbaugh
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  talk here, and as always, when you do you and Jim Harbaugh talk,
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  you never know what you're gonna get. Tony. We're going to start
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  with the one that got all the headlines. Quote. Watching it, I
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  would have to say it's America's team. America loves the team that beats the
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  odds, beats the adversity, overcomes with the naysayers, critics, so called
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  experts. Thing. That's my favorite kind of team, Tony, other than
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  the Dallas Cowboys, who don't tend to beat the odds or the adversity or
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  overcome the naysayers, critics and so called experts. Which team is Jim Harbaugh
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  calling America's team? I believe Tom he is calling his Michigan Wolverines America's team
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  for overcoming the odds and the naysayers and critics like the Big Ten and the
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  NCAAAA, who are you know, very critical and saying very very nay things,
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  the America's team. Tom, I don't how does this job with?
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  Okay, you want to be America's team, but also Michigan versus everyone,
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  So I don't know that you can have it both ways. Now, if
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  you want to be America versus everyone, well you'll have some people who are
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  all for that. But Michigan versus everyone or America's team, I think it's
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  got to be one or the other. I don't think it could be both.
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  And also, if you're going to go with the America's team, I
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  feel like you have to put it to a vote that yeah. Boy.
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  They brought in Rick Flayer last week, which felt like one kind of one
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  kind of wrestling move. Now to you know, try and turn into Hexaw
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  Jim Duggan or you know, Jolko Mania and telling everyone to eat their vitamins.
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  I I don't know. That's I don't know if Michigan is ready for
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  a face turn just yet. Tony. Last this time last year or just
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  about this time last year, we were up in an arbor for the press
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  conference where Jim Harbaugh was previewing the Ohastate Michigan game, and he called their
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  their team, happy warriors on a happy mission. So here's the next quote
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  quote. The mission last year was a happy mission. This year has been
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  even more than the wins. It's a mission of faith. It's a mission
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  of speaking truth to power. It's a mission of playing for each other as
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  a band of brothers. It's a mission. And I see our guys and
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  they're there. They're strong, they're walking upright and innocent and just taking care
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  of business. Michigan football walking upright. They have evolved, Tony. That
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  is big. They are a band of brothers speaking truth to power. There's
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  just I started pulling quotes and it was like, man, there's like eight
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  of these that are just so so rich with everything your thoughts. Well a
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  time, one word you left out of their innocence, and I think,
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  really that's the biggest word in all of this. Upright and innocent. The
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  entire program, I would say, just no wrongdoing anywhere. And this one
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  is congratulations on your team being able to walk. That's fantastic. You go
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  from crawling to walking pretty soon, jogging, sprinting, running perhaps on third
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  down for eighty seven yards. We'll see. But you know, this is
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  this was pretty normal. Jim Harbaugh. I think I don't have any where
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  are you on this one because this one feels like that's just Jim Harbaugh talking.
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  This is I'm accustomed to this. Yeah, this is this was kind
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  of it's Jim Harbaugh talking, and you know, normal Jim Harbaugh talking is
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  Jim Harbaugh talking, and it's not really normal based on other scales that you
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  would typically measure such things on. But yeah, I mean, this was.
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  This was one of those things where you heard it last year and you
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  kind of cocked your head like you're on a what you're on a happy mission?
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  What? That's not a phrase that anyone has ever used in the history
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  of the world before, and now you're talking about a football game and a
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  football season like that. Yeah, I don't know, it's this was.
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  This was not quite as jarring. Although the innocent the innocent was, you
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  know, I mean, they didn't claim innocence in their filing with the Big
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  Ten, so that felt like an interesting choice of words. The next one,
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  this is more I'm not even gonna get a reaction from you. I
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  just thought this was. This is just sort of setting up what's going to
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  happen Friday when there's a hearing on the temporary restraining order request from Michigan in
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  terms of whether he will get to coach the potentially of the Maryland and Ohio
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  state games. He said, quote, I'm going to talk on Friday.
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  I just look like I'm I just look I'm just looking for that opportunity do
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  process. Not looking for special treatment, let alone for a popularity contest,
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  just looking for the merit of what the case is. So there you go.
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  As far as what's going to happen, here's an interesting one quote.
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  I don't know exactly. I don't know exactly how it's going to go.
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  I'm going to be able to go, though, I don't know if I'm
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  going to be That's not my dance floor. I'm not an attorney. I
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  always wanted to be. I've watched a lot of shows, watched Judge Judy
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  a lot. He's not getting there. I always kind of felt like it
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  had be cool to get up there and under away at a Jerry like Tom
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  Cruise and a few good men, or be a judge Judge Judy. But
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  alas, I did not go to law school, so this would be the
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  first time I've ever really been in this situation. So was a court reporter
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  for KB one time, first time being kind of in there now right there,
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  instead of just watching your thoughts. My thought is it's unfortunate that you
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  know he did want to go to law school, but maybe Michigan wouldn't allow
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  him because he wanted to play football, And maybe that is where when he
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  was at Stanford said that Michigan just funnels their football players into certain studies so
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  that they can focus on football. I wonder, you know, maybe that's
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  where all of that stems from. But I think we all wanted to grow
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  up being lawyers, and mostly because of what we saw on TV. Not
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  Judge Judy. I was more of an LA law person, frankly, but
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  I don't I mean, has anybody been more successful at this than Judge Judy.
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  Obviously we remember Judge Wapner, Jim Harball certainly remembers Judge Judge Wapner.
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  But Judge Judy, she makes Oprah money pretty much doing this. And so
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  I can't fault a college football coach for admiring that, because even though they're
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  close to Oprah money, they're not there yet, and they're certainly not at
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  Judge Judy money. But yeah, I I was watching that, and I'm
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  trying to imagine Jim Harbaugh's like as a defense attorney or something like closing arguments
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  in a big trial, and then he'd start talking about animals or chickens or
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  worms with birds and guns, and half the jury would be like, you
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  know, asking for clarification on stuff, and the other half would be like,
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  is the lawyer the guilty one? So I don't know. It's a
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  dream that a lot of people have. It's just unfortunate that he wasn't able
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  to live that out and had to become a football coach instead, I guess.
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  And if you think he's kidding about Judge Judy, he's not. There
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  is an episode of Judge Judy that has gotten passed around the internet where you
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  know, that is not a very big courtroom, and in the first row,
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  behind one of the either the plaintiff or the defendant, there is Jim
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  Harbaugh and Jack Harbaugh, his dad, sitting there in the front row smiling
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  broadly. That and the random appearance the cameo unsaved by the Bell, I
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  think, are the two incredible Jim Harbaugh pop culture moments outside of the realm
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  of football. So, yes, he is he is not kidding when he
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  says he really likes it, admires Judge Judge Judy, and who am I
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  to Judge Tony? Next one quote, as a senior in high school,
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  I had a Cifix class and talking about government justice. And what I took
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  away from that class was that your innocent until proven guilty. That was forty
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  years ago, but I would like that opportunity. M Well, yeah,
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  was there also a Big ten rules class that was taken back there? And
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  if so, how did that go? Have the rules changed for the Big
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  Ten? Perhaps? Maybe? But yes, everybody wants due process, and
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  based on the Big Ten's own rules, that is what happened. Now there
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  will be other due process. There are several due processes involved in all of
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  these things. Michigan will have due process when it comes to the NCAA,
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  which takes a lot longer than what the Big Ten took, and the Big
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  Ten's due process is a lot faster. And tom One other question here is
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  just because things are seemed seeming to be moving in haste, does that mean
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  they're moving incorrectly? That doesn't necessarily mean that. I guess that is what
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  they will decide in the court on Friday when they consider Michigan's temporary restraining order.
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  I'm going to be so interested to see how that shakes out. There's
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  so many there are like seventeen things in the next two weeks that are like,
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  I can't believe we're going to find out how this is, you know,
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  how this thing is going to go in the net, you know in
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  thirteen days or whatever it was. Yeah, it is. It is,
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  man, that's going to be quite it that's gonna be quite respectable and spectacle.
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  And it's happening on Friday. So is it going to be another Jim
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  Harbaugh needs to get on a plane without knowing what the deal is situation,
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  because that's that is a real possibility. Finally, we need to talk chickens.
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  You mentioned chicken earlier. We got to talk chickens. Harbaugh of course,
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  at one point earlier in his career said he didn't eat chicken because they
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  were quote a nervous bird, and then said, opinion totally changed in that
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  matter. His opinion on cifix class has not changed. His opinion on chickens.
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  One hundred and eighty degrees Tony. They got birds. His family got
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  a bunch of chicks for Easter in twenty twenty, right when COVID started.
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  And here's what he said, quote and the respect that I have for chickens,
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  I know there was there was a time when I said that a chicken
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  is a nervous bird. I don't eat chicken. I only eat meat.
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  But I was dead. I stand corrected. These chickens are low maintenance and
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  high production. They lay an egg every twenty six to twenty seven hours,
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  and they need water, they need food, and I play with them too.
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  I let them out in the yard. We run around, and they're
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  happy to see me. They're happy to see me. There's times when I
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  do a good thing for other people and they're not as happy to see me
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  as my chickens are. So it's good. It's good for my mental health
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  as well. And get fresh eggs every day. Highly productive, highly productive.
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  Frankly, I love this. I this to me humanizes him and I
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  like when he's like this, when he is engaging and he shows you that
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  he has a personality, as opposed to the times where he's like, I
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  don't even, I don't understand your question because you've used words I've never heard
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  before, and the words are like what did you think about the mistackle?
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  It's like, I don't even. That's not even a sentence for this,
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  Arli. He's like, I get fresh eggs every day, every twenty six
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  twenty seven hours. I guarantee you. Tom as he is telling everybody in
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  that room about how I was wrong about chickens. I guarantee you. He's
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  told his chickens, Hey, I was wrong about you guys. I thought
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  you were nervous birds. That's why I didn't eat you. Now I don't
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  eat you because I see that you are loving and you appreciate me. So
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  now I'm still not gonna eat you, but my reasoning has changed. I
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  just want you to know I'm sorry. I came from a place of ignorance.
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  Now I come from a place of knowledge, and I appreciate you.
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  Yeah, well, I appreciate you being here and helping me break down the
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  Jim Harborough press conference because it is that is definitely a two man lift.
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  The you know, the Ikia box that the Jim Harborough press conference comes in
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  has two people doing the team lift. So glad you could be here to
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  help me weigh all this very heavy, heavy material. We will be with
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  Ryan Day a little later on today on Tuesday press conference streaming at noon.
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  Ryan Day and Jim Knowles the defensive coorator. You can find that at YouTube
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  dot com slash Buckeye Huddle. I'm gonna guess he's not going to get asked
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  about poultry, but at this point, who knows, might get asked about
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  Michigan. Might not answer it. We'll see, but we will talk to
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  him. There will be plenty to talk about regardless. Probably get an update
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  on some of the injured buck eyes, or at least attempt to get an
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  update on some of the injured buck eyes, and get you updated on everything,
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  what they learn from the Michigan State game, what they're hoping to learn
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  this weekend against Minnesota, and then yes, the game against Michigan under two
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  weeks away. Pretty exciting. It is the best. We are almost to
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  the very best week of the Ohio State football at calendar, and the Michigan
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  football calendar almost here. We will be there for you, covering all of
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  it at YouTube dot com, slash bucke Huddle, and of course at pucke
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  huddle dot com. That will do it for today. I thank you guys
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  all for joining us. Have a great day. We'll talk to you tomorrow.