To be loved and hated at the same time. Feared yet disrespected. Praised and dismissed. The Michigan football paradox during the Jim Harbaugh era.
“I’ve already been asked today, ‘Do you think people are sleeping on you coach?’”, Harbaugh said at Big Ten Media Days in July 2019. “When you say everybody’s hyping the team up and somebody else is saying everybody is sleeping on it, those are two very different sides of the spectrum.”
This time of year brings both sides of the spectrum providing hot takes about Michigan. Here are a few examples.
- Michigan quarterback Dylan McCaffrey could be a dark-horse Heisman candidate, says CBS Sports Tom Fornelli
- Perennial Harbaugh-hater Paul Finebaum unsurprisingly called Harbaugh the most overrated coach in college football, saying he “can’t get it done”.