As everyones aware Harbaugh is taking the Team and roaming to Rome. I still have not stopped laughing about this on a variety of levels. When I do begin to cease on the chuckle from one aspect; I turn my attention to another aspect of Harbaugh’s Roman Odyssey and experience some more Humor.
My first reaction on the trip was WOW! Harbaugh’s stirrin the pot again! LOL; how did Notre Dame let this one slip by? Then when I read Harbaugh’s explanation & itinerary of it all I had another really good laugh. One about the ‘educational’ twist but then when he said “…experience another Culture.” Thats when I really lost it. LOL ditto. Glad he’s thinking of the children. Jimmy stick to coaching football – not cultural geography.
Of course anyone who understands anything about Western Civilization as it exists today knows that Rome rather than being another Culture is in fact the very foundation if not the cornerstone & cause, directly and/or indirectly of the last 2000ish years of Western Civilization to include Murahka.
So Why Rome, Jim? Of all the cities on Earth many of which really are of a different Culture; Tokyo, Beijing, New Delhi, Cairo, Moscow, Pretoria, Melbourne, Rio, Etc – they have soccer stadiums in all these cities, too soooooo…….Why Rome, Jim? Harbaugh also said the Team will visit the Vatican; Hey Jimmy – will they visit Mecca someday, too or maybe Ankor Wat? Why Rome? Jim?
LOL, Yeah, We know Why? don’t we? Lets cut the bullshit here. This is about getting a better ‘in’ & solidifying a recruitment base to the Football rich Roman Catholic High schools system here in the United States. The Paramus Catholic pipe line probably ain’t gunna last foreever and Harbaugh has been trying hard to get an in at Bishop Gorman in Nevada – a place that Urban Meyer – also a devout Catholic – almost has a recruitment lock on. There’s a hell of a lot of Catholic Football rich powerhouse high schools all across America and Harbaugh needs to get as many ‘ins’ to these schools as possible. The trip to Rome is a damn good way to zero in on the emotions & beliefs & empathy of the Parents of potential recruits.
Now Jimmy’s first HC gig as most know was University of San Diego – a private non scholarship Roman Catholic University; and I would not be surprised that Harbaugh first hatched the idea of a trip to Rome while there; USD wouldn’t have the kind of interest or $$$ to finance that for a non scholarship team but EVERYONE knows Michigan does!
The University of Michigan is, however, not a Private Catholic school but rather a PUBLIC UNIVERSITY. So IF Harbaugh has a religious based motivation for this trip in order to aid recruitment on a religious based level AND – repeat – AND it is to the detriment of other potential recruits of another religion or perhaps of a secular conviction; Harbaugh may be opening up the University of Michigan to not only some hellacious Lawsuits but some major league sanctions………
What ever the discussions about all of this were between Harbaugh & Staff and the Ad……… hope they did better than Nixon and BURNED THOSE TAPES!! LOL yes my chuckle on another level.
IMHO…………INTJohn
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