Jim Harbaugh says his parting with the 49ers wasn’t really mutual

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http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co...s-parting-with-the-49ers-wasnt-really-mutual/

Jim Harbaugh says his parting with the 49ers wasn’t really mutual
Posted by Mike Florio on February 13, 2015

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Within minutes after the 2014 regular season ended, the 49ers announced a mutual parting with coach Jim Harbaugh. Appearing on a podcast with Tim Kawakami of the San Jose Mercury News, Harbaugh said it wasn’t really a mutual separation.

“I was told I wouldn’t be the coach any more,” Harbaugh said. “And then . . . you can call it ‘mutual,’ I mean, I wasn’t going to put the 49ers in the position to have a coach that they didn’t want any more. But that’s the truth of it. I didn’t leave the 49ers. I felt like the 49er hierarchy left me.”

Harbaugh also confirmed that he was told he wouldn’t be returning on the Monday after a Week 15 loss to the Seahawks. He opted not to leave at that point.

“I wanted to finish what I started — what we started,” Harbaugh said. “And I have great fond memories of it.”

Some of the memories apparently aren’t so fond. Someday, Harbaugh may have a lot more to say about it.

“I don’t think we were playing out of the same playbook,” Harbaugh said. “But maybe there’ll be a book some day. Maybe I’ll write a manuscript.”

I’d definitely buy the book and/or watch the movie.

 

[OnceARam]

Book title suggestions;
How the spoiled ruined the spoil.
The collapse of the whiners.
The whiner who cried wolf.
If Putin ran a football team.
49 ways to self destruct.
Fools Gold.
...
favorites? Suggestions?

 

[jjab360]

Book title suggestions;
How the spoiled ruined the spoil.
The collapse of the whiners.
The whiner who cried wolf.
If Putin ran a football team.
49 ways to self destruct.
Fools Gold.
...
favorites? Suggestions?

You've got a real talent for this lol

 

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If Putin ran a football team

My favorite and a definite ROD Quotes entry.

 

[den-the-coach]

I think he's one hell of a Head Coach although he's now the Head Coach of another arch rival in the Maze & Blue...I wish him as many National Championships as his mentor Bo Schemblecher had, which was a big fat Zero!

 

[mr.stlouis]

Book title suggestions;
How the spoiled ruined the spoil.
The collapse of the whiners.
The whiner who cried wolf.
If Putin ran a football team.
49 ways to self destruct.
Fools Gold.
...
favorites? Suggestions?

Fools Gold is very appealing

 

[Ramrasta]

:effemine:

 

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http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/04/19/wearing-out-welcome-isnt-new-for-jim-harbaugh/

“Wearing out welcome” isn’t new for Jim Harbaugh
Posted by Mike Florio on April 19, 2015

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Tuesday’s new episode of HBO’s Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel includes a look not only at Seattle’s quarterback but also at the former San Francisco head coach who no longer has to deal with Russell Wilson. Andrea Kremer profiles new Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh, who has returned to Ann Arbor decades after he once patrolled the sidelines as a boy — and actually once ran into the end zone to celebrate a touchdown.

Kremer looks at Jim Harbaugh’s legendary intensity and competitiveness, which he admits has undermined plenty of relationships.

“You didn’t always play well with others, necessarily,” Kremer says to Harbaugh.

“Yeah, people say that,” Harbaugh responds.

“Well, what do you say?” Kremer asks.

“It must be true, yeah,” Harbaugh replies. “Sometimes I’d wear out my welcome.”

“What does that mean you wear out your welcome?”

“They just don’t want to be around you after a while,” Harbaugh admits.

It happened not only when Jim Harbaugh was a youth, but also as an adult. And that may have contributed to his departure from the 49ers.

“He does a great job of giving you that spark, that initial boom,” 49ers guard Alex Boone tells Kremer. “But after a while, you just want to kick his ass. . . . He just keeps pushing you, and you’re like, ‘Dude, we got over the mountain. Stop. Let go.’ He kind of wore out his welcome.”

“What does that mean?” Kremer asks.

“I think he just pushed guys too far. He wanted too much, demanded too much, expected too much. You know, ‘We gotta go out and do this. We gotta go out and do this. We gotta go out and do this.’ And you’d be like, ‘This guy might be clinically insane. He’s crazy.’ . . . I think that if you’re stuck in your ways enough, eventually people are just going to say, ‘Listen, we just can’t work with this.'”

Boone also said something that shed’s light on the perspective of the locker room. “The players had nothing to do with him getting fired,” Boone says, which suggests that the players aren’t buying the whole “mutual parting” thing.

Brother John Harbaugh, the Ravens head coach who beat Jim’s 49ers in Super Bowl XLVII, recalls a strong obsession with winning when they were youths.

“He always wanted to win everything, and if he wasn’t winning — and the few times in our history growing up when I was bigger or better — it really ticked him off,” John Harbaugh said. “We have some pictures where you can see the look on his face in the picture. . . . He’s just mad that he’s shorter or he’s smaller or that he lost a basketball game or he lost a card game. He would carry it around with him for a while.”

Jim Harbaugh even competed with genetics. Obsessed with getting to six-feet, two inches, Harbaugh found a magic elixir for growth.

“I heard that if you drink milk that builds strong bones, and convinced myself that I’ll drink as much milk as I possibly can drink,” him Harbaugh said.

So as a third grader, Jim Harbaugh said he got a job at his elementary school distributing milk to the students. The pay was a free milk every day, plus the ability to drink the milk of the kids who weren’t there or who didn’t want their milk.

“I drank a lot of milk, Andrea,” he says. “A lot of milk. Whole milk, though. Not the candy ass two-percent or skim milk.”

It worked. He made it not to six-two, but to six-feet, three inches.

The competition with anyone and with anything continues. The press copy of the HBO profile has video and audio of Harbaugh shouting generally at Michigan players in spring practice to “huddle the f–k up” and telling one specific player, “I’m just telling you the right way to do it. If you want to look at me with that look, go f–king someplace else.”

“Go f–king someplace else” is what the 49ers essentially told Harbaugh in December. Moving forward, the question becomes whether he’ll hear that phrase or something similar to it from the folks running the show in Ann Arbor.

 

[CGI_Ram]

I think he's a hell of a coach, gets the most out of his players, etc.

He might be a jerk in his approach, but you can't argue with results.

 

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I think he's a hell of a coach, gets the most out of his players, etc.

He might be a jerk in his approach, but you can't argue with results.

As much as I detested the guy and his tantrums on the sidelines while with the 49ers, one can't help but respect the results of his tenure there. The 49ers and their fans will rue the day they got rid of him. Good news for us, bad news for them.

“I think he just pushed guys too far. He wanted too much, demanded too much, expected too much. You know, ‘We gotta go out and do this. We gotta go out and do this. We gotta go out and do this.’ And you’d be like, ‘This guy might be clinically insane. He’s crazy."

This is why Harbaugh will do well in college. The players have to put up with his personality, while in the pro's he was dealing with older men with big contracts. Btw when did it become insane to push your players for more?

 

[Mackeyser]

I never had a problem being pushed... But then again I trained for Triathlon and joined the military... If I wasn't being pushed, I was pushing myself.

 

[Memento]

Baalke and the Yorks are going to lose for years to come because they were obsessed with winning a power struggle. And then they hire a yes-man of Neanderthal intelligence to replace Harbaugh?

I don't feel the least bit sorry for them. The train-wreck that's going to happen to that team for the next ten years is all on them, and I love it.

 

[jap]

'9ers Administrative Brass to Harbaugh:
"Take your crybaby attitude and your damn diapers elsewhere!!!"

 

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http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co...lly-changes-his-tune-about-49ers-dysfunction/

Alex Boone dramatically changes his tune about 49ers dysfunction
Posted by Mike Florio on April 19, 2015

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49ers guard Alex Boone now says that former 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh wore out his welcome in San Francisco. Previously, when Harbaugh was still the head coach of the 49ers, Boone reacted aggressively to the suggestion that Harbaugh may have worn out his welcome in San Francisco.

“I’m really kind of sick of everybody talking about my coach, especially because he’s like a brother to me,” Boone told reporters after a game in October 2014. “So if I were everybody I’d just keep their mouth shut because they don’t want me coming after them. Especially Jay Glazer, Deion, all these guys. I’m kind of sick of it. Leave my coach alone.”

Asked why reporters were questioning Harbaugh’s future at the time, Boone said, “Because they’re losers.”

Boone’s comments to Andrea Kremer of HBO’s Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel become somewhat stunning in light of his past remarks.

“He does a great job of giving you that spark, that initial boom,” Boone explains. “But after a while, you just want to kick his ass. . . . He just keeps pushing you, and you’re like, ‘Dude, we got over the mountain. Stop. Let go.’ He kind of wore out his welcome. . . .

“I think he just pushed guys too far. He wanted too much, demanded too much, expected too much. You know, ‘We gotta go out and do this. We gotta go out and do this. We gotta go out and do this.’ And you’d be like, ‘This guy might be clinically insane. He’s crazy.’ . . . I think that if you’re stuck in your ways enough, eventually people are just going to say, ‘Listen, we just can’t work with this.’”

Still, Boone’s comments from October are understandable; Boone and the rest of the 49ers wanted to get through the season without distraction or disruption. So Boone zealously dismissed reports regarding tension between the team and Harbaugh, even though they were accurate.

And that’s the message going forward. Those predictable, perfunctory denials of reports that could undermine a team’s ability to focus on the task hand may be far more false than the reports under attack.

 

[Dodgersrf]

As much as I detested the guy and his tantrums on the sidelines while with the 49ers, one can't help but respect the results of his tenure there. The 49ers and their fans will rue the day they got rid of him. Good news for us, bad news for them.




This is why Harbaugh will do well in college. The players have to put up with his personality, while in the pro's he was dealing with older men with big contracts. Btw when did it become insane to push your players for more?

Completely agree.
The players will one and go. It's not their career.

College seems to be a good fit for him.

 

[Memento]

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co...lly-changes-his-tune-about-49ers-dysfunction/

Alex Boone dramatically changes his tune about 49ers dysfunction
Posted by Mike Florio on April 19, 2015

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49ers guard Alex Boone now says that former 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh wore out his welcome in San Francisco. Previously, when Harbaugh was still the head coach of the 49ers, Boone reacted aggressively to the suggestion that Harbaugh may have worn out his welcome in San Francisco.

“I’m really kind of sick of everybody talking about my coach, especially because he’s like a brother to me,” Boone told reporters after a game in October 2014. “So if I were everybody I’d just keep their mouth shut because they don’t want me coming after them. Especially Jay Glazer, Deion, all these guys. I’m kind of sick of it. Leave my coach alone.”

Asked why reporters were questioning Harbaugh’s future at the time, Boone said, “Because they’re losers.”

Boone’s comments to Andrea Kremer of HBO’s Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel become somewhat stunning in light of his past remarks.

“He does a great job of giving you that spark, that initial boom,” Boone explains. “But after a while, you just want to kick his ass. . . . He just keeps pushing you, and you’re like, ‘Dude, we got over the mountain. Stop. Let go.’ He kind of wore out his welcome. . . .

“I think he just pushed guys too far. He wanted too much, demanded too much, expected too much. You know, ‘We gotta go out and do this. We gotta go out and do this. We gotta go out and do this.’ And you’d be like, ‘This guy might be clinically insane. He’s crazy.’ . . . I think that if you’re stuck in your ways enough, eventually people are just going to say, ‘Listen, we just can’t work with this.’”

Still, Boone’s comments from October are understandable; Boone and the rest of the 49ers wanted to get through the season without distraction or disruption. So Boone zealously dismissed reports regarding tension between the team and Harbaugh, even though they were accurate.

And that’s the message going forward. Those predictable, perfunctory denials of reports that could undermine a team’s ability to focus on the task hand may be far more false than the reports under attack.

Denial is far more than just the largest river in the world. Keep it up, Alex! I can't wait for AD to whip your ass every which way.

 

[HometownBoy]

That much was obvious. Gotta say, I'm happy they did. He's a damn good coach, probably one of the last things that could have stopped this collapse that they ushered on themselves.

Couldn't happen to a better team.

 

[Corbin]

I think he's one hell of a Head Coach although he's now the Head Coach of another arch rival in the Maze & Blue...I wish him as many National Championships as his mentor Bo Schemblecher had, which was a big fat Zero!

Don't start your shit! GO BLUE! lol

 

[den-the-coach]

Don't start your crap! GO BLUE! lol

Not staring anything @Corbin, but a little theme song for Maze & Blue:

 

[Pancake]

I think Harbaugh will remain a whiner no matter where he goes in life.