Jim Harbaugh wasn’t too enthused to talk to Colin Cowherd
Jim Harbaugh clearly didn’t want to talk to ESPN’s Colin Cowherd Wednesday morning.
The Michigan coach appeared on Cowherd’s program and gave a lot of non-answer answers to Cowherd’s questions. The interview was rough – it was so rough that it was entertaining in a macabre way – and Cowherd cut the interview off approximately five minutes into it.
Video courtesy of The Big Lead.
If you listen to the entire video, you can sense Cowherd’s frustration with Harbaugh building. Right before cutting Harbaugh off he says “This seems terribly difficult.”
Even if you’ve never had to interview someone, you’ve undoubtedly been in a similar position of carrying on a conversation with someone who clearly doesn’t want to talk. And while you can cut a conversation off in a social setting realtively easy, it’s a bit harder to do when it’s for a story or segment. Especially when it’s a segment being broadcast live.
Cowherd, who can be an acquired taste for sports radio listeners, clearly had gotten to his breaking point. Though while the struggle might have been real for five minutes, it’s certainly a much more noteworthy interview than if Harbaugh had been jovial and somewhat revealing.
Harbaugh took half-responsibility for the interview on Twitter.
In my experience of participating in interviews, I’ve found it takes 2 to produce a clunker! I’ll take 50% responsibility 4 this clunker.
— Coach Harbaugh (@CoachJim4UM) July 1, 2015
Perhaps Harbaugh stayed out too late at the Tigers game Tuesday night before his appearance. We see how there would be a significant hangover from getting to throw out the first pitch at an MLB game.
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Nick Bromberg is the assistant editor of Dr. Saturday on Yahoo Sports. Have a tip? Email him at [email protected] or follow him on Twitter!
