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发帖数: 1936 | 1 Jim Harbaugh-49ers marriage, and how it went wrong
By Mark PurdyMercury News Columnist
POSTED: 12/02/2014 06:22:14 PM PST3 COMMENTS| UPDATED: 88 MIN. AGO
What is his deal, anyway?
We have pretty much established that 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh will not soon
be appearing with team owner Jed York and general manager Trent Baalke on a
warm and fuzzy Christmas special entitled "Home For The Holidays Unknown To
Mankind."
This perception has been validated by events of recent days. This includes
the Thanksgiving night loss to Seattle, the subsequent York apology tweet,
the leaks from (most likely) somewhere inside the 49ers building about
Harbaugh being traded to the Raiders or Jets in the offseason.
Harbaugh and the 49ers, most now concede, are headed for a parting of the
ways in the offseason, one way or another.
But I still hear many people ask: What the heck happened? The 49ers have won
many more games than they lost since Harbaugh showed up. So what does
Harbaugh do, exactly, to make his employers so eager to have him out of
their hair? Or what have York and Baalke done to induce Harbaugh's imminent
potential exodus?
So I should try to explain.
Harbaugh comes from a family of coaches, as we know. They've all been
successful because they put the focus squarely on winning, period. Anything
that stands in the way of winning is considered an impediment and must be
eliminated. The tricky question is, who gets to decide what those
impediments are?
I gained great insight into Harbaugh's professional mojo several years ago
during an interview with the first person who hired him to be a head coach -
- Ky Snyder, the athletic director at the University of San Diego.
Snyder loved having Harbaugh as the USD coach. Harbaugh won often, brought
great spirit to the school. Harbaugh could also amuse Snyder by showing up
in his office and requesting resources that USD, which competes in NCAA
Division 1-AA, could not provide. Snyder would tell Harbaugh no. And he
would keep asking. Sometimes, Harbaugh would conclude such a discussion by
saying that obviously he just needed to come up with better arguments to
convince Snyder, then would be back in a while with those arguments, even as
Snyder kept saying no.
"From a human standpoint, there are times when it can wear you out," Snyder
told me. "But the pieces of his personality that tire you out are the same
ones that make him so successful."
I also recall Snyder's cogent observation about Harbaugh: "He leaves a large
wake. But it's great being on the ship."
As we all know, Harbaugh's ship soon left USD and sailed to Stanford, where
he also made administrators weary with his constant entreaties about things
that he perceived as impediments to victory. This included moving the team's
bench to the shady side of Stanford Stadium, putting up a tarp around the
practice field and modifying the traditional pregame walk through the
tailgate area. These "improvements" all met initial blowback until Harbaugh
nagged enough people about them. And of course, Harbaugh won many games at
Stanford. So the administrators were willing to put up with Harbaugh's
quirks.
When the 49ers hired Harbaugh, York and Baalke surely had to know what they
were bringing aboard. Harbaugh's personality has never changed. He hates
those perceived "impediments" to winning. He bugs his bosses about them. And
I know that at least one 49ers front office member was heard saying this
about Harbaugh: "He's never happy." And that was a couple of years ago.
What could Harbaugh's nagging "impediments" be with his current employers?
Personnel matters. Draft choices. Game day details regarding the new Levi's
Stadium logistics. The head coach's salary. Decisions about suspended
players. Those are all educated guesses. In Harbaugh's mind, it's all
connected to winning. His record gives him some ammunition for that view —
or has, so far.
All I know is that at some point, York and Baalke must have grown tired of
the Harbaugh mojo. Perhaps a specific incident sparked it. Perhaps it was an
accumulation. College administrators at USD and Stanford were more willing
to ride with the Harbaugh flow. In the NFL, with so much more money and so
many larger egos in play, everything gets magnified.
Where is this headed? I think we know. Harbaugh will likely be with another
team next season. But we are really going down the rabbit hole with the
notion that Harbaugh might be traded to the Raiders this winter. Please.
Harbaugh will force the team to fire him rather than resign or accept a
trade.
At his press session earlier this week, I wanted to see if Harbaugh retained
any sense of humor about the preposterous situation. Intense image aside,
he does have a fun side to him. And so, with the Raider game upcoming, I
posed an absurd question.
"Can you confirm which one of the teams you'll be coaching on Sunday?" I
asked.
Harbaugh stared at me, gave a little smirk before muttering something that
sounded like: "Hmmmph." Then he turned to look for the next question.
Not trying to read his mind. But the smirk told me he understands the
preposterousness. The "hmmmph" told me that he wanted to stay focused on
Sunday's game as usual.
Harbaugh is a terrific coach. He has taken the 49ers to some thrilling
places, after they were stuck in sludge for way too many years. It's sad,
how things have gotten so far off track. But his fate may have been
preordained from the minute he accepted the job. That's just his deal. | k****e
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【在 t******g 的大作中提到】
: Jim Harbaugh-49ers marriage, and how it went wrong
: By Mark PurdyMercury News Columnist
: POSTED: 12/02/2014 06:22:14 PM PST3 COMMENTS| UPDATED: 88 MIN. AGO
: What is his deal, anyway?
: We have pretty much established that 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh will not soon
: be appearing with team owner Jed York and general manager Trent Baalke on a
: warm and fuzzy Christmas special entitled "Home For The Holidays Unknown To
: Mankind."
: This perception has been validated by events of recent days. This includes
: the Thanksgiving night loss to Seattle, the subsequent York apology tweet,
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