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Frank Beamer has a great story about Jim Harbaugh
Posted on 9/1/15 at 5:16 pm
Posted on 9/1/15 at 5:16 pm
Good article about Jim, but the Beamer story is what stands out. Harbaugh is quite the character 
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Nearly everyone who has orbited in Harbaugh’s solar system for a length of time possesses a whopper of an anecdote about the new Michigan coach.
Frank Beamer has one. The Virginia Tech head coach is sitting on a porch overlooking a golf course in Reynolds Plantation, Georgia, on a tar-bubbling summer afternoon—a lazy, storytelling kind of afternoon. As he puts down a glass of lemonade on a table, he says he has a tale to tell. It might just be, he claims, the weirdest damn story of his entire coaching career.
Beamer leans back in his chair and loosens a memory from late 2010. The Hokies of Virginia Tech, where Beamer has coached for the last 28 autumns, were preparing to play Stanford in the Orange Bowl. A few days before the Jan. 3 game, Beamer met the Cardinal head coach—Harbaugh—at an event at a restaurant in Miami.
“After we take some pictures, we start talking, just the two of us,” Beamer said. “Jim says over and over how much respect he has for Georgia Tech. He must have said it five times. I’m just looking at him like, ‘Are you serious?’
“Finally, I’m joking with him and I say I can’t wait to tell my team that you called us Georgia Tech. Because, you know, we’re Virginia Tech.”
Harbaugh then threw his infamous shark expression at Beamer: mouth agape, eyes on fire, looking poised to chomp. Harbaugh’s assistants have seen this look for years; he sometimes holds it for about 30 seconds without speaking, causing everyone in eyeshot to wonder what is flowing through his mind—if anything.
Beamer continued to lock eyes with Harbaugh for a few moments, waiting for him to say something, anything. It may have been the most uncomfortable silence of Beamer’s life.
“Well,” Harbaugh finally told Beamer. “I can’t wait to tell my players that you said you were going to play Samford, not Stanford!” He then turned and walked away.
More than four years later, Beamer smiles at the memory, still befuddled by Harbaugh's response. “No question, Jim is a different kind of coach,” said Beamer, whose team lost in the Orange Bowl to Harbaugh and Stanford 40-12 in what was Harbaugh’s last college game.
“He’s either crazy...or he’s crazy like a damn fox.”
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Posted on 9/1/15 at 5:18 pm to RLDSC FAN
Harbaugh is a model for success for other autists.
Posted on 9/1/15 at 5:19 pm to RLDSC FAN
If Harbaugh doesn't get things rolling quickly at Michigan the ensuing meltdown is going to be hilarious.
Posted on 9/1/15 at 5:29 pm to RLDSC FAN
I bet that it was a genuine mistake calling them GT. Hell, I kind of had them mixed up in my head reading the article. When confronted by Beamer, he was probably thinking about how he was going to save face, and just said something totally ridiculous as a result. Weird dude for sure.
Posted on 9/1/15 at 5:41 pm to Funky Tide 8
I just find it weird that John seems so much more socially aware than Jim, though both are great coaches.
This post was edited on 9/1/15 at 5:42 pm
Posted on 9/1/15 at 5:46 pm to RLDSC FAN
Most people acknowledge that Harbaugh has a minor form of Autism. This is a dude who stopped the team bus halfway to its destination to run a few laps around a building.
Posted on 9/1/15 at 7:22 pm to RLDSC FAN
The rest of the article is great too.
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Even Harbaugh, who doesn’t like to talk about himself, has a fascinating Jim Harbaugh story to tell.
The lantern-jawed coach was sitting at a table in a conference room at the Hyatt Regency in Chicago on a midsummer afternoon. He leaned forward on the edge of his chair, his eyes wide, as he recalled a moment from his days at Stanford.
As he explained it, he was on his way to the office when he noticed a traffic light wasn’t working; a cop was standing in the middle of a busy intersection, directing cars this way and that way. The female officer displayed such command of the intersection that Harbaugh pulled over to the side of the road, mesmerized.
For half an hour, Harbaugh sat in his car and studied the scene. He was nearly late for practice because he was so enthralled with the skill and the savvy of the traffic cop. “I like to watch people doing their job at the highest level,” he said. “I really do.”
This post was edited on 9/1/15 at 7:23 pm
Posted on 9/1/15 at 7:27 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
I remember you called this after the Cowherd interview. I've been trying to explain this to people IRL. I think rocket31 has the same theory/ideas about Chip Kelly.Posted on 9/1/15 at 7:28 pm to BeYou
He's one weird mofo.
Posted on 9/1/15 at 7:36 pm to RLDSC FAN
I'm laughing so hard at the image of Harbaugh staring at Beamer like a shark for 30 seconds.
Posted on 9/1/15 at 7:40 pm to The Boat
No doubt. Oh if we could only see video of that. 
Posted on 9/1/15 at 7:41 pm to HempHead
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Harbaugh is a model for success for other autists.
That would still be Nick Saban.
This post was edited on 9/1/15 at 7:42 pm
Posted on 9/1/15 at 7:44 pm to TT9
Here is another one from the article
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On a recent summer evening, Jim and Sarah Harbaugh were enjoying a quiet meal at an Ann Arbor restaurant. But then a commotion erupted, and it had nothing to do with the town’s most famous resident.
A mouse was on the loose.
Harbaugh leapt into action. The single-minded coach grabbed a to-go box and began a great chase. He cornered the mouse and, displaying his trademark tenacity, eventually captured it in the styrofoam box.
“I caught it!” he yelled to the other patrons. “I caught it!”
Posted on 9/1/15 at 7:44 pm to The Boat
Posted on 9/1/15 at 7:48 pm to BeYou
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Even Harbaugh, who doesn’t like to talk about himself, has a fascinating Jim Harbaugh story to tell.
The lantern-jawed coach was sitting at a table in a conference room at the Hyatt Regency in Chicago on a midsummer afternoon. He leaned forward on the edge of his chair, his eyes wide, as he recalled a moment from his days at Stanford.
As he explained it, he was on his way to the office when he noticed a traffic light wasn’t working; a cop was standing in the middle of a busy intersection, directing cars this way and that way. The female officer displayed such command of the intersection that Harbaugh pulled over to the side of the road, mesmerized.
For half an hour, Harbaugh sat in his car and studied the scene. He was nearly late for practice because he was so enthralled with the skill and the savvy of the traffic cop. “I like to watch people doing their job at the highest level,” he said. “I really do.”
Now that is funny
Posted on 9/1/15 at 7:51 pm to RLDSC FAN
That's great
Posted on 9/1/15 at 8:23 pm to RLDSC FAN
Well Beamer does kind of slur his words sometimes.
Posted on 9/1/15 at 8:31 pm to RLDSC FAN
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“Finally, I’m joking with him and I say I can’t wait to tell my team that you called us Georgia Tech. Because, you know, we’re Virginia Tech.”
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whose team lost in the Orange Bowl to Harbaugh and Stanford 40-12
Guess his players didn't really give a shite.
Posted on 9/1/15 at 8:32 pm to Walking the Earth
And Harbaugh was playing (for all intents and purposes) pre Internet explosion so obviously he didn't get the focus he would get today but does anybody know if he was regarded as weird back in his playing days? 
Posted on 9/1/15 at 8:36 pm to Walking the Earth
I kept thinking to myself that the 9ers were retarded for letting JH go, no matter how big of an ahole he is.
But this dude is an absolute weirdo.
But this dude is an absolute weirdo.
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