With a win over the Alabama Crimson Tide in the College Football Playoff semifinal, the Michigan Wolverines are now just one step away from winning their first national title in over two decades. And as he prepare his team for that challenge, Jim Harbaugh explained just what it would mean for his team to accomplish that goal.
“It’s what it means to these guys, to our players the most. To them to be champions,” Harbaugh said according to On3. “For their parents to have their son be a champion. Their brothers and sisters, their grandparents. For our coaches, for my kids to have a dad be a champion. My parents. Just those people to get to feel what that’s like.”
Harbaugh insists that the experience and the joy of potentially winning a national championship is much more for the players and not necessarily for him.
“That’s kind of long gone for me,” Harbaugh said. “My joy, my ecstatic joy is for our players and our coaches and our fans and our families that they get to experience that joy of being a champion.”
We’ll have to see if Michigan can win the title on Monday and achieve that “joy of being a champion” that Harbaugh describes.
[On3]
