University of Michigan head football coach <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/university-of-michigan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jim Harbaugh</a> is reportedly leaving the school after winning a national championship this year and is joining the NFL as the new head coach of the Los Angeles Charges.
&#8220;Jim Harbaugh is leaving Michigan to accept the head coaching job with the Los Angeles Chargers,&#8221; ESPN&#8217;s Adam Schefter said. &#8220;The Chargers get their man while the national champions now have a head-coach opening.&#8221;
Harbaugh has had multiple successful coaching stints as a head coach, including at Stanford, Michigan, and the San Francisco 49ers.
Michigan <a href="https://www.nfl.com/news/chargers-moving-to-hire-jim-harbaugh-as-head-coach">reportedly</a> extended an offer to Harbaugh that would have made him the highest paid coach at the college-level but he turned it down and opted to go back to the NFL. Harbaugh led the team to a 34-13 win over the Washington Huskies in the College Football Playoff National Championship earlier this month.
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Harbaugh&#8217;s departure from Michigan comes as the program was engulfed in a sign-stealing scandal that could have resulted in him being charged with major NCAA violations, according to <a href="https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/as-jim-harbaugh-negotiates-with-chargers-michigan-now-willing-to-grant-immunity-for-ncaa-violations/">CBS Sports</a>. The scandal was reportedly a large part of his contract negotiations with the school because he wanted the school to provide him with immunity from termination.
&#8220;Under the NCAA&#8217;s coach responsibility provision, which was strengthened just one year ago on Jan. 1, 2023, Harbaugh would be charged with a Level I violation in the sign-stealing scandal if any member of his staff is found to have committed a Level I violation,&#8221; the report said. &#8220;The charge itself cannot be argued; however, the severity of the penalty can be debated before the NCAA Committee on Infractions. The Level I finding would remain on Harbaugh&#8217;s record no matter his level of compliance, monitoring or diligence in the matter.&#8221;
Harbaugh and Michigan were also under NCAA investigation for alleged recruiting violations during the coronavirus pandemic, the report said, noting that he was charged with a Level I violation for allegedly misleading NCAA investigators over the alleged infractions.
The report added that had Harbaugh stayed at Michigan he could have been &#8220;on the hook for substantial legal fees&#8221; to fight both cases, according to legal experts in the sports world.

2024 CFP National Championship – Michigan v Washington

Jim Harbaugh Leaves Michigan, Takes NFL Job: Report

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Adapted from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/why-brian-kelly-won-t-leave-lsu-for-michigan-ron-slay">“Crain &amp; Co.,”</a> January 24, 2024. 
Jake Crain: Brian Kelly would be clinically insane to leave LSU for Michigan. Why? Not because Michigan isn&#8217;t a fantastic job or that there&#8217;s anything wrong with Ann Arbor, but because he&#8217;s already at a place where, believe it or not (at least in my opinion), it&#8217;s easier to establish dominance than at Michigan.
Brian Kelly left Notre Dame, which is an established brand in college football, to go down to Baton Rouge. He saw what Bama looked like in the tunnel before they got run over in the National Championship when he was the head coach of the Fighting Irish. He wanted to be able to recruit and sign the best of the best, a true even playing field. Louisiana is a state filled with talent every year to the brim from the top to the bottom, from the east to the west. And LSU is the only power in that state. There is no Sparty and nobody’s spurning LSU to go to Louisiana Tech. (Sorry guys.) But Kelly has already found success there, and he&#8217;s building a monster in a place where the biggest monsters roam. He’s compiled an elite staff around him, and he just had the Heisman winner. Why would you leave Baton Rouge where you have all of this momentum to go follow the greatest season ever in Michigan history? There&#8217;s nowhere to go but down.
Michigan&#8217;s going to remain relevant regardless of what Harbaugh does, but the best chance to win bigger for longer is at LSU. Some will say the SEC is the toughest conference in the country. That is true, but the Big Ten just added Oregon, Washington, USC, and UCLA. It&#8217;s not getting any easier, and there’s no division, which will create more division. Ryan Day is trying to put the new Justice League together at Ohio State through the transfer portal, and Brian Kelly has already shown that he can succeed in the SEC. He won the West in year one and the emperor Nick Saban just left Tuscaloosa. 
The fact of the matter is you can&#8217;t make work-place decisions based purely on emotion and fandom. And though Kelly&#8217;s accent may be fake, his chance to dominate is not. While some may believe the smoke if Harbaugh does leave to go to the Chargers or the Falcons, it smells like a Jimmy Sexton special to me, which is always a good play.
Harbaugh hasn&#8217;t gone anywhere yet, but we keep hearing that for Brian Kelly, it&#8217;s a dream job. Michigan is an incredible place. They just won the National Championship. Nobody&#8217;s saying that Michigan is a bad job. But when LSU gets hot, they can get hotter than just about anyone. For Brian Kelly, he’s already there. He’s already established. He’s gotten the hard part out of the way. He won early, he won the West. Yes, he lost to Georgia in the SEC Championship game, but he beat Alabama’s Nick Saban. Then in year two, his defense got run through like a finish line, but he had the Heisman winner. He has an elite staff, he’s recruited really well, and it seems like a pretty good fit.
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David Cone: Brian Kelly is not leaving LSU. No way. I agree that this feels like a Jimmy Sexton special to try and get a bigger contract or a new extension. It’s not because I view LSU as that much better of a job than Michigan. I see them both as the top six or seven jobs in the country.
I do find a couple of things interesting though. First, Brian Kelly is the winningest coach in Notre Dame history. He left and gave that up to go to LSU for a lot of the reasons we always talk about; you can put a fence around that state and the high school recruiting is better there in that state. Also, from a historical and traditional perspective, Notre Dame and Michigan are very similar. So I think it&#8217;s interesting Brian Kelly had to watch Michigan go undefeated and win the National Championship. That is what Jim Harbaugh was able to do at a very similar Midwestern school that Kelly was not able to accomplish while he was at Notre Dame. Then, two of the last three coaches at LSU have been rumored to be leaving LSU. The Les Miles thing was a caveat, and I think it&#8217;s a completely different situation.
Ultimately, we still don&#8217;t even know if Jim Harbaugh is going to leave. Harbaugh may remain at Michigan — even though the news could break any minute that he&#8217;s going to be the next coach of the Chargers. So we&#8217;ll have to see. But from my perspective, Kelly has gotten the hard part out of the way. He already built the foundation at his new place, he took the risk which paid off early, he won the SEC West, and he just landed the number one quarterback in the 2025 class. I don&#8217;t see Brian Kelly going anywhere.
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Jake Crain is co-host of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/%22https://www.dailywire.com/show/crain-and-company/%22">“Crain &amp; Company”</a> the Daily Wire’s sports show hosted by former athletes and coaches Jake Crain, Blain Crain, and David Cone. Follow him: @JakeCrain_
David Cone is a co-host and producer of the Daily Wire’s sports show Crain &amp; Company, as well as a contributor to Morning Wire. David is also a former quarterback for the University of Michigan. You can follow him on Twitter/X and Instagram at @davidadamcone

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University of Michigan head football coach Jim Harbaugh, who led his team to a national championship victory over the Washington Huskies earlier this month, briefly addressed the crowd gathered for the 51st annual <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tens-of-thousands-expected-to-join-march-for-life-in-snowy-d-c" target="_blank" rel="noopener">March for Life</a> in Washington, D.C., on Friday. 
Harbaugh <a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?533055-1/pro-life-advocates-supporters-attend-march-life-rally">appeared on stage</a> to introduce one of the rally’s speakers, former NFL tight end Benjamin Watson, but before he introduced Watson, the Michigan coach gave the crowd some encouragement. 
“Thank you all for being here. It’s a great example that you’re setting,” Harbaugh said. “It’s a testimony to the sanctity of life.” 
“It’s a great day for a march!” Harbaugh added as snow fell on the crowd that had braved the below-freezing temperature to attend the rally and march. “This is football weather! Let’s go!” 
The 2024 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZErpllQ1u8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">March for Life</a> is expected to attract between 50,000 and 100,000 people, according to the organizers. Those who spoke at the rally included House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), and Focus on the Family President and CEO Jim Daly.
Harbaugh, who played quarterback for Michigan and for five different NFL teams, has been interviewed by multiple NFL teams interested in hiring him as their head coach following his 15-0 national championship run at Michigan. The Daily Caller met up with the coach at the march on Friday and asked him what the pro-life cause means to him. 
“You know, we all talk about human rights. There’s really no rights that are important unless you have the right to life,” Harbaugh <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2024/01/19/coach-jim-harbaugh-march-for-life-michigan-wolverines/">told</a> the Caller. “This is a great day for a march. It’s a great day for the sanctity of life, and football weather. Let’s make it a great day.”
Harbaugh, who is a Catholic, has been unabashed in stating his beliefs on the sanctity of life inside the womb. The coach even said in 2022 that if one of his players or staff members were involved in an unplanned pregnancy and felt they or the mother couldn’t care for the child, then Harbaugh and his wife would help raise the baby.
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&#8220;I&#8217;ve told [them] the same thing I tell my kids, boys, the girls, same thing I tell our players, our staff members. I encourage them if they have a pregnancy that wasn&#8217;t planned, to go through with it, go through with it,” Harbaugh <a href="https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/34295976/michigan-wolverines-football-coach-jim-harbaugh-says-help-raise-baby-member-family-program-involved-unplanned-pregnancy">said</a>. “Let that unborn child be born, and if at that time, you don&#8217;t feel like you can care for it, you don&#8217;t have the means or the wherewithal, then Sarah and I will take that baby.&#8221;

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Jim Harbaugh Addresses Crowd At March For Life: ‘It’s A Great Example That You’re Setting’

Jim Harbaugh Addresses Crowd At March For Life: 'It's A Great Example That You're Setting'

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Adapted from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/jim-harbaugh-michigan-win-the-2024-national-championship-tim-brando" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Crain &amp; Co.,”</a> January 9, 2024. 
Jake Crain: Michigan took on Washington in the College Football Playoff National Championship game last night — the game that the whole college football season comes down to. It was the Midwest versus West Coast. Smash-mouth versus spread-it-out. The Great Lakes versus, well, the ocean. Like I said yesterday, this matchup wasn&#8217;t the Coca-Cola classic that we&#8217;re used to seeing with the team representing from the South; however, I also said I didn’t think that meant it wouldn’t be as delicious. After all, in the long run, it&#8217;s better for you to have an alternative every once in a while.
That&#8217;s why I called last night’s national championship matchup “The College Football Natty Zero Sugar.” We haven&#8217;t seen an SEC-teamless-Natty since the inception of the College Football Playoff in 2014. But make no mistake, this wasn’t a mistake. These two teams are elite and both have a roster full of the unteachable intangible — which is experience.
Now, both identities are polar opposites — there&#8217;s more than one way to skin a cat — but they&#8217;re both as deadly in effectiveness. Before the game, I said it was no time to get cute. It was no time to reinvent the wheel. It was time to dance with the one that brought you. One, if by ground in Michigan, and two, if by air in Washington. I predicted we should have been in for a doozy of a matchup either way, especially in a year where more teams have been capable of winning the whole thing than ever before. And my hope was that maybe, just maybe, this year will be the new norm (and not just a parody of so-called parity). 
Then we all watched Jim Harbaugh and Michigan win the 2024 National Championship. To the Washington fans, players, and everyone associated with the Huskies program, be upset; it’s tough. You don’t know if you will get back to this stage. You don’t know if you’re ever going to get back to this stage. But those young men have nothing to be ashamed of. Michael Penix Jr. did not have his best game last night, but he has nothing to be ashamed of what they accomplished to elevate Washington to another National Championship — the first one since 1991. They wanted to win it. No one plays this game to lose. No one puts in all the work to finish second, especially with the veterans they had on this team with the way they played all year. But Kalen DeBoer proved that not only can Washington get there, but they have the potential to win.
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This was a dog fight. It showed the type of team, culture, and young men that DeBoer is cultivating. Early in the game, it looked like it was going to snowball, but they were able to regroup and stay in the fight — especially the Washington defense. I know at the end it unraveled a bit in the last two possessions, but Washington’s defense kept them in that game. They showed a ton of fortitude, and this is only just the beginning. I’m excited to see where they go from here. 
Typically, each day on our show, I regale listeners and watchers with an epic monologue that sets up the day, gives hope, happiness, friendship — all those good feelings. But today&#8217;s a special day after Michigan won the National Championship last night. It makes sense, then, that I kick it over to my Nephilim friend, six-foot-seven former Michigan quarterback, David Cone.
David Cone: That’s a lot to live up to, but today, I’ll speak to the news of the National Championship. I’m often asked why I chose to play football at Michigan. The short answer is: because they gave me a shot. And every day since I set foot in Ann Arbor, I have been proud to be a part of that brotherhood. 
It feels like I speak for many when I say, Michigan ever winning another championship on the national stage began to feel unattainable. One reason for this is that the Southeastern conference has been the dominant force in this sport for more than a decade. The second reason is that the Buckeyes proved to be the gold standard in our own conference for more than a decade. And then the 2024 season happened.
I want to speak directly to the players, the coaches, and staff members inside of Schembechler Hall, many of whom I played with and played for. This is your achievement. You’ve made a lot of people proud along the way, but you did this. You just won the first National Championship in the history of Michigan football. Why do I say that? Because every title up to this point was claimed or awarded by the media or by the coaches.
Not this time. This was won.
People asked all season, “Who Michigan had beaten”? The answer is everyone.
You beat your rival. You won your conference. You went toe-to-toe with the greatest coach in college football history, Nick Saban, and came out on top. Then you finished by holding the most prolific offense in the country to 13 points. Jim Harbaugh, this championship is on you, all because when things got tough in 2020, you pointed at yourself and said this isn’t good enough. We haven’t been good enough, but we will be.
Whatever happens to this group in the days and weeks to come, just know, we all can’t wait to see what you accomplish next. Some of you will play professionally, some will start businesses and become husbands and fathers. Whatever you do, use this moment as a stepping stone to further achievement in life, and take pride in the fact that you men, in that locker room, are now responsible for the greatest season in the history of Michigan football.
Go Blue.
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Jake Crain is co-host of <a href="\&quot;https://www.dailywire.com/show/crain-and-company\&quot;">&#8220;Crain &amp; Company&#8221;</a> the Daily Wire&#8217;s sports show hosted by former athletes and coaches Jake Crain, Blain Crain, and David Cone. Follow him: @JakeCrain_
David Cone is a co-host and producer of the Daily Wire’s sports show Crain &amp; Company, as well as a contributor to Morning Wire. David is also a former quarterback for the University of Michigan. You can follow him on Twitter/X and Instagram at @davidadamcone

Jim Harbaugh & Michigan Win The 2024 National Championship

The University of Michigan has built a sprawling diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) bureaucracy, which now boasts over 500 jobs dedicated to advancing the agenda, and costs the university more than $30 million every year according to an analysis by one of its own professors.
The university has at least 241 employees whose main duties “are to provide DEI programming and services as either their exclusive or primary job responsibility,” according to an <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WbFztg7z0oQKdNlL73L6q9FeMaCSucq0/edit">analysis</a> conducted by Mark Perry, an economics professor at the University of Michigan-Flint, on behalf of <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/umich-now-has-more-than-500-jobs-dedicated-to-dei-payroll-costs-exceed-30-million/">The College Fix</a> reveals.
Full-time DEI staff at the university cost the institution an estimated $30.68 million every year, with $23.34 million for staff salaries and another $7.44 million for benefits. The total sum could pay for in-state tuition and fees for 1,781 undergraduate students, according to Perry, who is also a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.
Some DEI staff at the University of Michigan raked in enormous salaries, with Tabbye Chavous Sellers, UM’s Vice Provost for Equity and Inclusion &amp; Chief Diversity Officer, enjoying a whopping $402,800 a year, roughly double what the average full-time professor on campus makes in a year.
But Sellers isn’t the only one pulling in a lucrative salary while engaging in DEI work. Thirteen DEI staff members earn over $200,000 every year while another 66 make more than $100,000 per year. The average yearly salary for DEI staff members is $96,000 not including benefits.
In addition to the full-time DEI staff members, there are also another 76 faculty and staff members who serve as “DEI Unit Leads,” who push the diversity agenda across the university’s various schools in service of the institution’s <a href="https://report.dei.umich.edu/">five-year DEI plan</a>.
When accounting for those who push the DEI agenda in both full-time and part-time capacities, as well as unfilled positions and those who further DEI at the institution on an unpaid basis, it “brings the total number of UM employees who advance DEI on either a paid or unpaid basis to well more than 500 and possibly as high as 600,” Mark Perry explained.
The University of Michigan disputes the findings, however, calling the analysis “misleading&#8221; and claiming “Diversity, equity and inclusion are core values at the University of Michigan. As such, there is not a specific budget set aside for diversity outreach and recruitment.”
“Most employees working on DEI are not solely dedicated to DEI efforts but do so in addition to their other roles and responsibilities,” a university spokesperson continued. “The university’s DEI efforts are appropriate to the size, scope, and complexity of our university – spanning the university, including 51 units over our three campuses, our academic medical center, and our over 100,000 students and employees.
The institution’s five-year academic plan mandates that DEI practices be implemented across the university, with even non-academic units like its botanical gardens, IT department, art museum, and athletics, among others, each being required to adopt a DEI plan.
Perry blasted the institution’s DEI bureaucracy, asserting that the University of Michigan’s diversity plans “are reminiscent of the Soviet Union’s and Communist China’s five-year central plans to achieve ‘Ideal Communist Societies’ which are examples of top-down oppressive bureaucratic blueprints to socially engineer outcomes decided by the top leadership of the dictatorial regimes.”

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The following is adapted from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/michigan-vs-washington-championship-preview" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Crain &amp; Co.,”</a>  January 2, 2024. 
Jake Crain:
As the final play ended in the Alabama/Michigan game last night in overtime, Wolverine fans rejoiced at finally winning a playoff game, albeit in a fashion that definitely took some years off their lives. But make no mistake, this core in-group did not come back just to beat Ohio State again and win the Big Ten. They did not come back just to make the College Football Playoff or win a game in the College Football Playoff. They came back to win a national championship and put Michigan&#8217;s name once again at the top of the college football mountain.
But that goal is still four quarters away. So don&#8217;t celebrate yet because they are going to face a Washington team that doesn&#8217;t have the letters “SEC” on their chest, but they do have a few guys with just an “S” and Michael Penix, who does more frozen ropes in subzero, is the main one of the bunch.
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Now, this matchup stylistically is about as far away on the spectrum as it gets from one another. One team is a smash-mouth, downhill, run-game team that lives off play-action and defense. The other is a team that typically passes to run, and even though that&#8217;s the case, don&#8217;t confuse air superiority with softness. The Huskies can run it when they have to and defensively, they hit with a vengeance. We&#8217;ve seen that.
Now which side will flinch? Well, let&#8217;s break it down — because either way, it&#8217;s going to be a doozy. I’m going to bring in my former Michigan quarterback — now getting ready to finally see his team play for a national championship — David Cone.
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David, I want to break down both of these games from last night. But just from a 30,000-foot view, how rewarding was last night being a Michigan fan, with the last two years having watched the team get there, lose a game that they were really supposed to lose against a juggernaut Georgia team, and then lose a game against a TCU team, that kind of snuck up a little bit? But you got over the hump, and you did it coming back in the last four minutes of overtime.
David Cone: 
Yes, it was really incredible. I know we&#8217;re going to recap both of those semifinal games last night, but just from a personal perspective, that program believed in me coming out of high school when all I wanted to do was play college football; they gave me a shot. So to see them in this position to play for a national championship for the first time since before I was ever even affiliated with this university is incredible.
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Yesterday was some of the most fun I&#8217;ve had watching football in a long time, and it wasn&#8217;t just about Michigan winning. We had an awesome playoff and we said for an entire month, Florida State, without a doubt, deserved an opportunity to be in that college football playoff, but when they put Alabama in there instead, we all knew it was going to create very compelling matchups, no matter how they ordered it. Well, that&#8217;s what we got in that Michigan/Alabama game going to overtime, then we had Washington/Texas coming down to a wire. It was awesome football to watch.
The best team of the bunch to me was Washington with the best player on the field, Michael Penix Jr. Whatever he wants to do with the football he does. I think he&#8217;s the best pure passer of the ball that I can remember in the last half-decade. I&#8217;d put Joe Burrow up there as well. But whatever he wants to do with the football, he does. I noticed this at Indiana. He had some injuries he was dealing with, he transferred to Washington, and to see the type of year they&#8217;ve had has been incredible. I had them in my college football playoff, and yet they&#8217;ve still exceeded all the expectations I had.
I think the matchup is going to be fascinating. They had a 65% drop-back percentage through the first half of the season, like you said, throwing to run the football. But then on the back half, Dillon Johnson averaged 135 yards on the ground. They had over 100 yards rushing when they played Oregon and in the conference championship again when they played Oregon. Yesterday, they beat a Texas team that really, down the stretch of the season, looked almost unbeatable.
I think two things here: one, that benefits Washington, one that benefits Michigan. For the last couple of years, what&#8217;s the hump that Michigan has had to get over? It was beating Ohio because you can&#8217;t even beat your rival. So when they finally did that two seasons ago, they exhaled — and you get drummed by Georgia. Well, last year, what was the hump you couldn&#8217;t get over? Beating Ohio on the road. You did that, you exhaled, you overlook TCU, and you got beat. That created a new hump to get over for Michigan: winning a college football playoff game. You did that yesterday.
I&#8217;m wondering, does this team exhale now and say, ”Oh, Washington, we got the easiest possible draw in the championship? We&#8217;ve already accomplished what we set out to do, which was win a college football playoff game.” Do they exhale before they finish and win a national championship?
But then, on the flip side of that, I think they already played their tight game. They played as tight as they could yesterday, which I know we&#8217;re going to break down. I don&#8217;t think you&#8217;ll see some of the same mistakes again, and if they&#8217;re able to do what their strength and their identity is, which is run the football, they&#8217;ll keep that really great quarterback, Michael Penix Jr., on the sideline — more so than Texas was able to do yesterday, who ran five plays in the third quarter.
Jake Crain:
Without a doubt. And we’re going to dive deep into what happened in those games yesterday.
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Rose Bowl Game – Alabama v Michigan

Michigan And Washington Set The Stage For An Epic CFP National Championship Showdown

University of Washington

Growing up in south Georgia, all I wanted was to play college football. To compete in a packed stadium on Saturday afternoon as sounds from the marching band permeate like thunder. I never anticipated going a thousand miles away from home to do so, but when the University of Michigan gave me the opportunity to join their brotherhood, despite being the son of a Columbus, Ohio, native, I accepted with enthusiasm. 
The years that followed were equal parts demanding and rewarding, as it should be with any worthy endeavor. I was present for Coach Bo Schembechler’s last speech the night before he died. I was on the field for Coach Lloyd Carr’s final game the day before he retired. I met presidents and movie stars … and all I had to sacrifice, was everything.
Such is the case this week for hundreds of young men who will run through tunnels across America to play their final football games. They’ll contend for Apple cups, Golden eggs, Wooden Boots, and, over the course of three hours, some dreams will be realized and others shattered. There will be broken hearts and broken bones, because that’s the price paid for just a chance at greatness. 
For a few hours, sports will represent the best America has to offer, not the worst. For a few hours, football will instill the values we need in young men today. For those few hours, when the ball kicks off, whatever vitriol is spewed, should still be a welcomed reprieve from the typical Thanksgiving arguments over politics and current affairs. 
<div id="attachment_656965" style="width: 874px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-656965" decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="size-large wp-image-656965" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/11/GettyImages-1724836588-864x576.jpg" alt="COLUMBUS, OHIO - OCTOBER 07: Head Coach Ryan Day of the Ohio State Buckeyes lines up before taking the field for a game against the Maryland Terrapins at Ohio Stadium on October 07, 2023 in Columbus, Ohio. (Photo by Ben Jackson/Getty Images)" width="864" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/11/GettyImages-1724836588-864x576.jpg 864w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/11/GettyImages-1724836588-300x200.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/11/GettyImages-1724836588-768x512.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/11/GettyImages-1724836588.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px" />Ben Jackson/Getty Images</div>
For the second consecutive season, the Wolverines and Buckeyes will meet as undefeated foes. This marks the first time in the storied history of this century-long rivalry that both teams are unbeaten in back-to-back years, and, for the third straight year, these programs face off while each is ranked in the top five. As if the stakes could not get any higher, Michigan will enter the matchup in Ann Arbor without its head coach, Jim Harbaugh, who will serve the last of a three-game suspension for in-person scouting violations. 
Not a single day has gone by over the past four weeks without Coach Harbaugh’s name being mentioned in the national media. From allegations of cheating to speculation that he has coached his final game at Michigan, the media circus has been relentless. Despite these distractions, however, the players on both teams seem focused for a showdown where everything is on the line; a division title, a conference championship berth, playoff aspirations, and, most importantly, bragging rights for the next 365 days.
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A win for Michigan will mean three victories in a row against the Buckeyes, which would be the longest streak for the Wolverines since 1997. Should the Buckeyes prevail, they will have taken 16 of the last 20 installments of “The Game.”
For all who make time this Thanksgiving holiday to tune in and watch football, remember, never take the game for granted, because there is no guarantee that the next generation will care to preserve the sport, as we have. For that matter, there is no assurance that any generation can navigate football through the tumultuous waters of an ever-changing landscape. 
For those fortunate enough to compete this weekend, understand, what you do, win or lose, will echo in eternity. Come Saturday — lock the gate, and leave a legacy. There is no greater privilege than the pressure of high expectations. 
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Michigan v Ohio State

Michigan Vs. Ohio State: A Showdown For The Ages

Ohio State University

Read many of America’s greatest writers about race and legal equality, and you’ll find a similar theme: policies that divide Americans by race, or increase their perception of racial differences, spawn tribalism, separation, and hatred.
<a href="https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/1867-frederick-douglass-describes-composite-nation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Frederick Douglass</a> warned that policies fostering racial identity, rather than shared American values, sow “dangerous seeds of discontent and hatred.” <a href="https://repository.law.umich.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?filename=33&amp;article=1105&amp;context=books&amp;type=additional" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Justice Thomas Cooley</a> wrote that distinctions based on race would “assail the very foundations of [our] government.” <a href="https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/163/537/#tab-opinion-1917400" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Justice John Marshall Harlan</a> said that nothing could “more certainly arouse race hate” and “a feeling of distrust between these races” than segregationist polices. And <a href="https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/488/469/#tab-opinion-1957711" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Justice Antonin Scalia</a>, quoting <a href="https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300021196/the-morality-of-consent/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Professor Alexander Bickel</a>, called racially discriminatory policies “destructive of a democratic society.”
Scores of others, like Thomas Sowell, Justice Clarence Thomas, and Shelby Steele, have said the same.
The University of Michigan did not listen to them, and it is learning its lesson the hard way.
As reported in The Michigan Review, one of the university’s student-run publications, the school launched a major Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) <a href="http://www.michiganreview.com/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-of-dei-1-0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">initiative</a> in 2016 that made racial identity a key focus for <a href="https://diversity.umich.edu/strategic-plan/dei-1-0-unit-strategic-plan-summaries/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">all of the school’s programs</a> and vastly increased the size of its <a href="https://www.heritage.org/education/report/diversity-university-dei-bloat-the-academy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DEI bureaucracy</a>. At the same time, the school conducted <a href="https://diversity.umich.edu/data-reports/climate-survey/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Climate Surveys</a> of its students. Comparing those surveys to ones conducted in 2021 reveals some of the harmful effects of that initiative.
Students are increasingly self-segregating. Although black and Hispanic enrollment rose slightly, students are increasingly avoiding students of other races, ethnicities, and political views. The Michigan Review reports:
<blockquote>The number of students who interacted with people of different political persuasions decreased by more than 11 percent, of different religious beliefs by over 9 percent, of a different national origin by 5 percent, and of different races by more than 3 percent.</blockquote>
Students are also increasingly unhappy.
<blockquote>By nearly every metric in the survey, students have become less happy since the beginning of DEI 1.0. They are less likely to believe that U-M has an institutional commitment to DEI and less likely to feel valued or that they belong on campus. The number of students who felt that they were treated fairly and equitably at Michigan fell by over 3 percent. Finally, the number of students satisfied with the campus climate overall fell by almost 11 percent.</blockquote>
The only thing that hasn’t changed, likely to the chagrin of the University’s DEI administrators, is students’ feelings about the racial climate on campus.
The school is about to launch a new DEI initiative, and this time it ought to pay some attention to the great minds quoted above.
Frederick Douglass offered advice in a 1867 speech called “<a href="https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/1867-frederick-douglass-describes-composite-nation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Composite Nation</a>.” Much of his wisdom is directly applicable to modern universities. Let’s hope they take it.
Americans in 1867, Douglass said, “def[ied] all the ethnological and logical classifications. In races we range all the way from black to white, with intermediate shades which, as in the apocalyptic vision, no man can remember.” Then, as now, the country was “of all extremes, ends and opposites.”
What policy, he asked, should the nation adopt towards its many ethnic groups, which were only increasing?
The answer, he said, could not be racial separation: “Those races of men which have maintained the most separate and distinct existence … are a standing confirmation of the folly of isolation.” Besides, America had tried that already. It had previously chosen to be governed “by race pride, rather than by wisdom.” And that policy “filled the country with agitation and ill-feeling and brought the nation to the verge of ruin.”
This was entirely predictable. After all, prejudice “is an ancient feeling among men … peculiar to no particular race or nation.” But that is no reason to accept it, Douglass argued.
Instead, he urged Americans to embrace America’s founding principle, “that is the principle of absolute equality.” That principle transcends base and arbitrary classifications like skin color: “Man is man, the world over,” and we have much more in common than not.
Rather than adopt policies that separate us along racial lines, we ought to receive all others “as friends and give them a reason for loving our country and our institutions.” In fact, Douglass argued that we must adopt such a policy.
A nation like ours, unique in the world for its diversity of color and creed, has only two paths before it. On the one hand, it can tolerate tribalism and, in that case, allow “the very soil of the national mind [to become] barren,” or, on the other, it can set aside tribes and unite a disparate people under a greater principle.
It is worth remembering that these were the words of a former slave who had every reason to be resentful and to think that America’s founding principle was false. But he did not. Instead, he believed that root of the evil he suffered “was never our system or form of Government, or the principles underlying it; but the peculiar composition of our people, the relations existing between them and the compromising spirit which controlled the ruling power of the country.”
The principles were noble, the people were not. But if the people actually lived up to their principles, they could be.
Our nation, he said, “will be great, or it will be small, according to its own essential qualities.” So, we ought to adopt essential qualities greater than our small, divisive tribal loyalties.
The DEI administrators at the University of Michigan have chosen small tribes over greater uniting principles. No wonder its students are unhappy and self-segregating. Nothing at the University of Michigan inspires them to something greater than human nature’s petty tribal instinct.
The solution is not a new DEI plan, or more anti-racism initiatives, or segregated dormitories and graduation ceremonies. The solution is “the principle of absolute equality,” which is the only path away from human nature’s tendency toward petty prejudice.
GianCarlo Canaparo is a Senior Legal Fellow at the Heritage Foundation’s Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies.
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The University Of Michigan Is In A DEI Mess. Frederick Douglass Could Help Them Out Of It.

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When the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/university-of-michigan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Maize and Blue</a> face off against their in-state nemesis <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/michigan-state-university" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michigan State Spartans</a>, families divide and tempers flare. But when the two rivals meet on the basketball court in Ann Arbor on Saturday, the century-old hostilities will take a back seat.
In the wake of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/police-warn-of-shots-fired-at-michigan-state-university" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shooting</a> that took three lives on Michigan State’s campus earlier this week, the University of Michigan has planned to honor the victims and show support for its rival school during its annual basketball game against the Spartans at Crisler Arena.
Michigan is preparing a host of recognitions for MSU, including “specially designed team warm-up shirts,” a “Spartan Strong” flag displayed in the Michigan student section, the Michigan band learning and playing MSU’s fight song, and a moment of silence for the victims.
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Special things slated for Saturday&#39;s game with Michigan State &#8230;.
✔️ Honoring the Michigan State victims and community 💚💙 ✔️ A Maize Out ✔️ 2013 Final Four Reunion
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&mdash; Michigan Men&#39;s Basketball (@umichbball) <a href="https://twitter.com/umichbball/status/1626333281787736064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 16, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Students Brian Fraser, Alexandria Verner, and Arielle Anderson were killed, and five others were injured Monday night after a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/police-reveal-possible-motivations-behind-michigan-state-university-shooting" target="_blank" rel="noopener">43-year-old man</a> opened fire on students at two locations on the Michigan State campus. The suspect, who was unaffiliated with the university according to police, later committed suicide.
Michigan State University canceled classes through the end of the week, and the men’s basketball team postponed a home game scheduled for Wednesday against Minnesota as the campus reels from the tragedy. The Spartans’ game against Michigan will be its first time taking the court since the shooting.
Long-time Michigan State head coach Tom Izzo <a href="https://www.freep.com/story/sports/college/michigan-state/spartans/2023/02/16/michigan-state-basketball-tom-izzo-michigan-rivalry-msu-school-shooting/69912934007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that after talking with mental health professionals earlier this week, they decided that it’s important for the team to play to begin the healing process.
“We&#8217;ve had a lot of help from some mental health professionals that I think really helped me,” Izzo remarked on Thursday. “They felt that if (MSU’s basketball team) played it would help not only themselves, the team, but maybe the campus heal a little better. And so we agreed that would be our battle cry.”
The legendary MSU figure added that playing on Saturday against Michigan will represent far more than another rivalry game.
“There’s some things that aren’t rivalries. There’s some things that are bigger than the game,” he said. “The game is gonna be really important to me, as it has been for all 28 years I&#8217;ve been here. But there&#8217;ll be a little asterisk on it. And I&#8217;m gonna have to do a good job of holding my emotions, their emotions. Everybody&#8217;s emotions.”
Despite the game taking on a much bigger meaning after the tragedy that unfolded in East Lansing, Michigan head coach Juwan Howard is still expecting a hard-fought contest.
“I expect two competitive teams to still go out there and compete,” Howard said on Friday, <a href="https://www.mlive.com/wolverines/2023/02/in-atypical-atmosphere-michigan-expects-typical-competition-vs-michigan-state.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to MLive. “Me and Coach Izzo … we put our hearts into our players and helping them go through whatever they go through, and preparing them to play the game they truly love.”
“We know once that ball goes up it’s going to be all about the game of basketball, and both teams trying to, at the end of day, win,” he added.

Juwan Howard/Tom Izzo

‘Bigger Than The Game’: Michigan Basketball Plans Touching Tribute For Rivalry Matchup With Spartans Days After MSU Shooting

Michigan Basketball Plans Touching Gesture For Rivalry Game With Spartans Days After MSU Shooting

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There was a ton of attention paid to the release of the final <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/the-committee-got-it-right-ep-197" target="_blank" rel="noopener">college football playoff rankings yesterday</a> as the committee decided to put Georgia, Michigan, TCU and Ohio State in the final playoff — and in that order from a seed perspective.
After all of the talk on whether Bama, Tennessee or Clemson should have made it, when you look at the very loose criteria the committee says they use with a mix of the ‘eye test,’ when it comes to the final four, I believe they got it right.
If you’re a fan of a team that got in, or got left out, you are going to side with your team and that’s expected. But if you want to get a true analysis, you have to take a sociopathic look at it — you can’t go with feelings or fall in love with brands.
We also have to be able to separate the teams that are deserving compared to those who may be favored by Vegas on a neutral field. In the case of Ohio State when compared to some that were left out, they lost one time all year to the number two team who went undefeated in Michigan, when you look at TCU they lost one time in an extra game in overtime.
Now compare those two teams with Bama — who lost twice, including a loss to a now four-loss LSU team — and their best quality win was against 20th ranked Texas, who TCU beat worse than Bama did.
Now if Bama played TCU on a neutral site I would take Bama, but you can’t make decisions based on hypotheticals when the most important metrics are so one sided.
Some of you will be upset at these picks because your team didn’t make it in. That’s okay. But to quote the great philosopher Lil Tunechi: “Men lie, women lie, but numbers don’t lie.”
Jake Crain is co-host of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/crain-and-company">&#8220;Crain &amp; Company.&#8221;</a> the Daily Wire&#8217;s sports show hosted by former athletes and coaches Jake Crain, Blain Crain, and David Cone. @JakeCrain_
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

LSU Tigers v Georgia Bulldogs

Why The College Football Playoff Committee Got It Right

Georgia

The Big Ten Conference announced new disciplinary measures against Michigan State University after seven of its players and one staff member were involved in altercations with the University of Michigan, a rival school that had just beaten them when the incidents happened.
The incident occurred at Michigan Stadium, home of the Michigan Wolverines, which is nicknamed “The Big House,” at the end of October. The teams were walking back to their locker rooms after Michigan&#8217;s 29-7 win when several Michigan State players attacked two Michigan players.
&#8220;The conference determined that during the postgame, seven Michigan State University football student-athletes participated in the hitting, kicking or using of their helmet to strike University of Michigan student-athletes,&#8221; the conference said in a statement. &#8220;A Michigan State University football staff member was involved in a separate sportsmanship matter, which was in violation of the Big Ten Conference Sportsmanship Policy.&#8221;
The Washtenaw County Prosecutor’s Office has since filed criminal charges against the seven Michigan State University players.
Defensive back Khary Crump was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/7-michigan-state-football-players-criminally-charged-for-violent-attack-at-football-game">charged</a> with one count of felonious assault for allegedly hitting Michigan defensive back Gemon Green in the head with his helmet.
ESPN <a href="https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/35093005/seven-michigan-st-football-players-charged-tunnel-melee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a> that defensive lineman Jacoby Windmon, who was charged with one misdemeanor count of assault &amp; battery, was seen in the same video “hitting and kicking” the player.
Itayvion Brown, Angelo Grose, Justin White, Brandon Wright, and Zion Young were all charged with one misdemeanor count of aggravated assault in connection with an attack on Michigan defensive back Ja’Den McBurrows.
The Big Ten Conference announced several disciplinary actions over the incident, including a public reprimand for the University of Michigan for not providing &#8220;adequate protection for personnel of both home and visiting teams when entering and leaving playing arenas.&#8221;
The conference fined Michigan State University $100,000 and leveled suspensions against the players involved, including, Khary Crump, four games from the incident date, plus the first eight games of the 2023 season; Itayvion Brown, four games from the incident date; Angelo Grose, four games from the incident date; Justin White, four games from the incident date; Jacoby Windmon, four games from the incident date; Brandon Wright, four games from the incident date; and Zion Young, four games from the incident date.
The Big Ten Conference said that the school&#8217;s self-imposed suspension on Malcolm Jones was sufficient and had already been completed. They added that their handling of the staff member who was involved was adequate.
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2022 Big Ten Conference Football Media Days

The Big Ten Conference Takes Action Against Michigan State After Postgame Altercations With Rival School

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On Thursday afternoon, November 16th, 2006, Coach Bo Schembechler addressed the University of Michigan football team within the hall that bears his name. Despite retiring from active coaching duties sixteen years prior, the iconic leader still made time to speak with the team when necessary — that Thursday it was necessary.
The undefeated Wolverines, ranked second in the country, were but 48 hours from facing their greatest rival — the number one ranked Ohio State Buckeyes. No man present that afternoon knew he was listening to Coach Bo’s final speech, but that was the case. Less than sixteen hours later, the winningest football coach in Michigan history, the man who went toe-to-toe with Woody Hayes, and so many others, died of heart failure.
I was incredibly fortunate to be a freshman quarterback on that Michigan team. Six months prior I was graduating from high school in South Georgia, now I sat seven rows away from the patriarch of Michigan football.
Coach Schembechler did not bring up our quest for a national championship, nor did he make mention of the ‘team down south.’ Instead, he reminded us of the opportunity that lay ahead, not merely the chance to win a football game, but the privilege we had of representing our team, our state, and our families, as so many great players had done before us.
Coach did not draw any X’s and O’s, or pass along any schematic advice, rather, he made clear his expectations for us as Michigan Men, reminding each player that our team’s greatness would ultimately be determined by the quality of husbands and fathers we would eventually become. 
The news of Coach Schembechler’s death spread swiftly the following morning. Even Ohio State held a vigil in his honor, and offered to postpone the pending contest — a true testament to just how much respect can exist between the most bitter of rivals. Michigan head coach Lloyd Carr graciously declined the gesture of postponement, and the stage was set in the Horseshoe, under the lights, for the first and only No.1 vs. No. 2 matchup in the history of the rivalry.
After a 60-minute shootout for the ages, which many lauded as “The Game of the Century,” Ohio prevailed 42-39, propelling the Buckeyes to their first outright Big Ten conference championship in over twenty years. With this, they earned a berth in the national championship, and their star quarterback Troy Smith walked away with the Heisman Trophy.
Sixteen years later, the stakes are just as high. Michigan and Ohio State will once again meet in Columbus as undefeated foes. The division, the conference, the college football playoff, and the Heisman trophy are all on the line. 
The Buckeyes are ranked second nationally, and have beaten every opponent this season by double digits. Michigan sits at third, and is looking to win the Big Ten championship in back-to-back seasons for the first time since 2003/04. Out of the previous 116 installments of a rivalry known simply as “The Game,” twelve of those matchups came with both programs ranked in the top five — with the home team having won ten of those contests.
Come Saturday at high noon, more than 100,000 spectators will gather in Columbus, and another twenty million will watch from their televisions, to witness yet another prime example of what makes college football great. Yes, there will be vitriol, yes there will be contempt, but no great rivalry can survive on hate alone, for without respect, the fabric of the feud falls apart.
I will neither have the honor of sitting in Michigan’s meeting room this week, nor will I travel with the team as they make their 188 mile trek into hostile territory. I will not take any snaps, or score any touchdowns for the Wolverines on Saturday. Instead, I will watch from home, this time as a husband and a father, and I will reminisce, as I do every year on this week, back to the fifteen minutes of wisdom I was able to soak up from the final address of Coach Bo Schembechler.
Win, lose, or draw, I will sing “The Victors” proudly, for I know I’ve done my part, to the best of my abilities, to live in accordance with the Michigan mantra: THOSE WHO STAY WILL BE CHAMPIONS. 
Go Blue.
David Cone is a co-host and producer of the Daily Wire’s sports show Crain &amp; Company, as well as a contributor to Morning Wire. David is also a former quarterback for the University of Michigan. You can follow him on Twitter and Instagram at @davidadamcone
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