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MI coach Jim Harbaugh wraps up Monday’s Big Ten Media Day

Of his appearance in a recent rap video, Harbaugh insisted that only “uptight white people” didn’t like it.

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“We want our dreams to be big”, he said on Monday at Big Ten Media Days in Chicago.

“With the type of athleticism that he has”, Harbaugh said, “I truly believe if he keeps working and keeps having the same intensity and focus that he’s had, and the seriousness of being a very good football player and student and person, he can explode into a giant”. When asked why he participated in a rap video to begin with, Harbaugh said his natural inclination is to say “yes” to any and all possibilities.

When a team wins 10 games and qualifies for a high-end bowl game like the Outback Bowl, chances are the season would be considered a success.

“When he first came here, it was a shock”, Butt said.

Another area where Fitzgerald said his team needs to improve upon from years past is their performances in the month of October.

As of mid-July, his teammates said he was still not running, so they had done little live work with him, only throwing, not him running routes.

The Wildcats are 8-17 during the month since the start of the 2010 season.

Last week, Jim Harbaugh appeared in the video for rapper Bailey’s Michigan-themed track “Who’s Got It Better Than Us?“.

“It was fun. You have to understand, that’s the (most fun) time of the year”.

For now, check the video for his answers Monday about his habit of getting personal and whether he feels he needs to apologize. “We have five years invested in the program and the group of kids that we’ve got, like most teams, have had a great summer and competed extremely hard to make themselves better”.

Even if that’s the case, you have to admit the second-year MI football coach typically has some interesting thoughts to share.

Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delaney is expected to announce a new television deal for the conference, expected to net each Big Ten university upwards of $30 million.

“I guess I don’t look at it as a three-year funk”.

The defense, ranked fourth nationally last season, might be even better under new coordinator Don Brown, who came from Boston College after D.J. Durkin took the head coaching job at Maryland. “A lot of times on the outside you can’t see the things that are happening throughout the program where you’re making progress. I don’t see any reason to try to work on any of that”. “He’s bringing back something magical in Ann Arbor”. “But I had to take the pain of actually telling them I wasn’t good and didn’t win”.

Harbaugh, who likes to go casual, donned the Big Ten-required coat and tie, but added a MI ballcap to his ensemble.

He said he’s hoping that’s a thing of the past. They have to go on the road this season to face both East Division opponents, who will share the stage at media days on Tuesday.

For Rutgers, it just so happens they have four. “I don’t know, I wear suits and ties when I go to a wedding, and they said I had to wear it this year, but I just felt more comfortable with the hat”.

It’ll be a four-way race to the top with TCU transfer Zach Allen now in the fold as well. Ash said that it’s a wide open competition heading into training camp and each player has exhibited the traits he’s looking for in a starting quarterback. “They provided outstanding leadership”. Just hard work and great coaching doing nearly all the talking nowadays at Ohio State University. You play ’em as they fall.

Michigan plays at Notre Dame, at Michigan State and at Ohio State in 2018.

“I’ll start by saying there’s no rivalry with MI yet”, Ash said.

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It’s probably only a matter of time until Jabrill Peppers is a National Football League player, but MI coach Jim Harbaugh says that his two-way star player already is there in one regard.

Tony Ding  Associated Press