Michigan football coach Jim Harbaugh takes more questions at Big Ten media days in Chicago on Monday, July 23, 2018. Nick Baumgardner, Freep
The reaction was made without the benefit of time, but clearly had been simmering for weeks.
Minutes after suffering his third-straight setback to Ohio State, capping a four-loss regular season, Jim Harbaugh walked toward a table inside Michigan's Crisler Center and proceeded to repeat the same idea intermittently throughout his postgame address.
"We've got to get stronger," he said last November.
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Stronger in a literal sense, sure.