The Wolverine: Covering University of Michigan Football and Sports
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INSIDE MICHIGAN ATHLETICS "I don't think Jim is creating [attention]. I think there's just a fascination about this very, very intense man who can really coach and really can teach, and that staff, as well — they're really good teachers. It's going to be really fun to watch the process evolve." — Michigan basketball coach John Beilein on football coach Jim Harbaugh (MLive.com) "That dude runs with bad intentions." — ABC analyst and former Ohio State and NFL linebacker Chris Spielman in describ- ing Michigan junior running back De'Veon Smith during U-M's 35-7 win over Oregon State "It must have been what it was like to watch Willie Mays take batting practice back in that time. I would have loved to watch Willie Mays take batting practice, but I now know what that must have looked like watching James Earl Jones." — Michigan head football coach Jim Har- baugh to 97.1 FM in Detroit on watching Jones do the voiceover work for the Wol- verines' big screen pregame video intro; Harbaugh and his wife, Sarah, traveled to New York to watch Jones do the work "I think everyone is pretty clear it was a witch hunt from the start and that [NFL commissioner Roger] Goodell overstepped his bounds by disciplining [Tom] Brady the way he did. The only question is does Goodell now realize this or will he still be oblivious to the fact that his discipline is consistently overturned on appeal and that he may in fact have been wrong? The true test of a leader is making a mistake, real- izing and admitting it, and not making the same mistake again." — Cleveland Browns offensive lineman Joe Thomas on "Deflategate," a four-game suspension of New England and former Michigan quar- terback Tom Brady for allegedly having air removed from footballs during the AFC playoffs last year; the suspension was overturned in court THEY SAID IT U-M volleyball junior Abby Cole after the Wolverines lost at North Carolina Sept. 19; U-M had started the season 10-0, its best record to open a season since 2011 "Going into the Big Ten season 10-1 is not bad. In fact, it's very good. We don't want this one loss to overwhelm the 10 wins we've got so far." PHOTO COURTESY MICHIGAN ATHLETIC MEDIA RELATIONS