Harbaugh once recruited Landry Jones, settled for Andrew Luck
Published: 1/21/2013 9:25 AM
Last Modified: 1/21/2013 9:25 AM
My three contributions to the Harbaugh mania gripping our world today:
* Jim Harbaugh once recruited Landry Jones
"Harbaugh came down to my school. It was after basketball practice," Jones told Oklahoma reporters during Sun Bowl prep in 2009. "We talked for a little bit. I really liked Stanford and Harbaugh has always been a great coach. I never took a visit there."
Harbaugh wound up signing another Elite 11 high school quarterback in February of 2008. Fella by the name of Andrew Luck.
* Jim Harbaugh and Bob Stoops once shared one of those little bags of honey roasted peanuts
It happened on a flight down to El Paso for a Sun Bowl press conference in '09. Stoops told us he and his Stanford counterpart used the trip to get to know each other.
(Not to go Te'o here, but OU beat writers still aren't completely sure this ever happened. The chance meeting would have had to occur on a commercial flight. A Southwest flight, if they wanted to sit next to each other and chat away. We can't picture Stoops in the B group, standing in the terminal trying to figure out if he's with the 6-10 crowd, or the 11-15. Though it's fun trying.)
* The Harbaugh-Stoops connection came up again last September
After the Sooners lost to Kansas State, one OU madman asked SI.com columnist Stewart Mandel: "Is it time to pull the plug on Bob Stoops and back a dump truck full of money to Jim Harbaugh's house yet?"
To which Mandel replied: "I need a second to process which part of this email is more delusional: the notion that Oklahoma should fire Bob Stoops or Kevin's apparent belief that Harbaugh would voluntarily leave his gig as the coach of a Super Bowl contender to come to the Big 12."
Written by
Guerin Emig
Sports Writer
