Harbaugh Leaves Michigan In Nick of Time

Harbaugh leaves Michigan & goes to NFL because “there’s no Lombardi in college football”? Prawda. But, then again, Gipper, thar’s no Rockne in the NFL. Ask your half-Polish Catholic mom, who has helped inspire you to gridiron glory.

Actually, many if not most Wolverine fans would recoil at the above allusion to the famed Notre Dame coach in the same sentence as Jim Harbaugh, the current national champ & newly appointed Saint, at least, to those living north of the Indiana-Michigan snow belt. You see, Michigan football fans have a healthy hatred for their Catholic neighbors to the south, if such a contrarian idea can be compatible. (I once almost got tarred & feathered at a high school game in Michigan while wearing a Notre Dame jersey after the Wolverines lost earlier in the day to the Irish – ed note: I exaggerate only a tad.) But, then, the feelings are mutual, since the Big M & ND have been battling one another for gridiron pre-eminence for more than the past century.

Without digressing & getting to the point: Harbaugh had a rare opportunity to become one of THE greatest college coaches if he’d take Michigan’s huge money offer & stayed with the program he rebuilt into a national power house ala Rockne did at Notre Dame during the 1920s & 30s. ND fans like myself admire if not love those elsewhere who can recognize such greatness. I would have liked to have seen how far Jim could have gone in challenging Knute for a place on the NCAA’s Mount Olympus. Instead, we’re now stuck with Nick What’s His Name No Longer At Alabama to compare The Rock to.

Davd Soul