LOS ANGELES — For those who simply watch the nationwide media, you’d suppose that Michigan soccer head coach Jim Harbaugh is an icy character, albeit a unusual one. However his gamers see him a lot otherwise than public notion.
On Friday, senior vast receiver Roman Wilson shared that he wished that extra individuals knew what sort of particular person his head coach truly is.
“I want I might be requested extra about how good of a man Coach Harbaugh is — I really feel like I’ve by no means ever actually received requested that,” Wilson stated. “Is Coach Harbaugh actually like his gamers? And is he actually like a workforce man? I believe he actually is.“
So what does that imply? What does Harbaugh appear to be behind the scenes?
Nicely, regardless of turning 60 on December 23, the ninth-year Michigan soccer head coach acts extra like his gamers’ age than his personal.
“He’s like a child for actual. He be cracking jokes like attempting to get us with Deez Nuts jokes. He’s on the market having a great time,” Wilson stated. “He actually is a participant, like certainly one of us deep down.
“I instructed them on the market, I went to his home for Christmas, and I believed he would simply be inside chilling on the sofa. He was simply exterior engaged on the hen coop, chickens following him round. His precise children had been following him, after which chickens had been simply following him, and he was engaged on the hen coop. I used to be, like, man, that is probably the most Coach Harbaugh factor I’ve ever seen.”
Harbaugh has discovered a method to relate extra to his workforce in recent times than when he first got here to Ann Arbor. Earlier than 2021, it was uncommon to listen to gamers focus on how a lot they beloved their head coach. He began making a concerted effort to narrate extra to the Wolverine gamers in 2017, nevertheless it didn’t actually catch on till the tradition modified following the COVID yr.
Story initially appeared on Wolverines Wire
