By Courtney Baumann | [email protected]
Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh spoke to members of the media at the Big Ten media days to discuss the 2017-18 season.
- The Michigan football team and Harbaugh took a trip to Rome earlier this year. “It’s incredible to connect with so many from different countries. To see things you’ve never seen things before. To taste things you’ve never tasted before.” Plans to have another trip next year.
- Had three practices in Rome. Harbaugh shared a fact about the city: “The Colosseum was an active stadium for 600 years.”
- Running back Rashan Gary has had a lot of hype surrounding him. “There are some people, that’s what they live for … And then there are other people that see that hype, or adulation, and they go by it like it’s an orange cone on the road … I think Rashan is that kind of guy.”
- Harbaugh on the positive talk surrounding Maurice Hurst: “I think it’s overdue.”
- Michigan’s “second-newest guys” — freshmen who arrived on campus in time for spring practice — have “flourished,” Harbaugh said.
- On new Minnesota head coach P.J. Fleck: “I just watched him win games. He did a good job coaching at Western Michigan.”
- On losing three of the last four games: “Good. Maybe that will put more into us.”
- Harbaugh compared quarterbacks to kickers, players who can throw footballs into nets: “You don’t even need other players out there.”
