Wolverines excited for ‘reunion’ with Harbaugh

Adam Rittenberg, ESPN Senior Citizen WriterNov 27, 2023, 07:16 PM ET

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• College football reporter.
• Signed up with ESPN.com in 2008.
• Graduate of Northwestern University.Michigan players are anticipating

head coach Jim Harbaugh’s return to the sideline Saturday night for the Big 10 championship game versus Iowa.Harbaugh, who last coached a Wolverines game Nov. 4

against Purdue, has finished the three-game suspension imposed by the Big Ten on Michigan for a forbidden off-campus searching and signal-stealing operation led by former staff member Connor Stalions. The coach’s suspension was restricted entirely to game days. “I’m super delighted to have [Harbaugh]

back,”senior running back Blake Corum stated Monday.” It’s going to be fantastic. It’s going to resemble a reunion. “Corum pointed out Harbaugh’s pregame speeches, which”

gets the hair sticking up on my arms, gets me ready to run through a wall.”Harbaugh attended to Michigan players on Friday nights before each of the past 3 games. After beating No. 2 Ohio State on Saturday, Michigan players noted how Harbaugh had actually quoted his previous coach with U-M, Hall of Famer Bo Schembechler, who famously said,”The team, the team, the group.”Editor’s Picks 2 Associated However on game days, Harbaugh has not spent much time around his team recently

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J.J. McCarthy on Monday said he hadn’t seen Harbaugh considering that before the Ohio State game.Both McCarthy and Corum mentioned Harbaugh’s game-day presence as a key factor that they have actually missed.

“You never know what’s going to come out of that guy’s mouth,”McCarthy stated. “Anything that does, it’s simply constantly at the right time and the ideal words that are stated. Having him around the locker space pregame, where he simply sort of walks around to everyone and pumps them up in some method,’Go kill them, champ, go out there and do you, ‘simply little stuff like that, it makes a big, extensive effect.”Corum stopped short of stating a third straight straight-out Big 10 title– an initially in group history– would mean whatever, as Michigan has its

eye on pursuing a national title. But a champion would bring significance, specifically offered the analysis Michigan has actually dealt with considering that the signal-stealing scandal broke last month. “We’ve been through a lot, we’ve been called all kinds of names, individuals don’t believe we’re good at football due to the fact that of this and that and just so

much going on, “Corum said.”[ Harbaugh] gets suspended for 3 games and our linebackers coach [Chris Partridge] gets fired. A lot of things getting thrown at you. What did we do? We stood tall and came together even more. I didn’t believe we might come together even more than we already were.”McCarthy said a lower-leg injury he has actually been handling is”almost perfectly healed”and credited Michigan’s athletic training personnel for working with him through the healing. The junior seemed most limited Nov. 18 at Maryland, when he finished only 12 of 23 passes with an interception, however he responded well in the Ohio State win.”It was a rough number of weeks, “McCarthy stated.