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According to CBS promo, Jim Harbaugh is Michigan’s mascot
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Say what you want about Jim Harbaugh, but he’s a Michigan man through and through.
As a child of a former Michigan assistant, a former star Michigan quarterback and the current Michigan football coach, Harbaugh bleeds blue in more ways than most.
The Wolverines, of course, don’t use a mascot. So in a promotion for the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament, CBS decided that Harbaugh could represent the Wolverines.
Check out the guy in the upper left corner:
The Sweet 16 Dance has a little bit of everything. pic.twitter.com/hYDlUtgN61
— CBS Sports (@CBSSports) March 20, 2017
And just in case you needed to zoom in, here’s a closer look at Harbaugh as Michigan’s mascot:
The headset is the giveaway that it’s definitely Harbaugh. Oddly enough, Harbaugh is now an even bigger supporter of Michigan hoops now that is brother-in-law, Tom Crean, is no longer coaching at Indiana.
Michigan will still continue to operate without a mascot in the foreseeable future. Still, maybe CBS was on to something.
Adopting Harbaugh as the official Michigan mascot would be uncharted territory, but that never stopped him before.
Connor O'Gara is the senior national columnist for Saturday Tradition. He's a member of the Football Writers Association of America. After spending his entire life living in B1G country, he moved to the South in 2015.