Skull Session: Jim Harbaugh Didn't Get The Vikings Job, Ohio State's Hoops Game Could Be Postponed, and Jim Knowles' Defense Will Be “Aggressive”

It's a good day to be a college student.

OSU Columbus in-person classes canceled Feb 3. Classes scheduled online occur as planned. Campus remains open. MORE: https://t.co/u4Ls7QUyyW
— OSU Emergency Mngmnt (@OSU_EMFP) February 3, 2022

This is probably the only time this will happen in your entire collegiate career, so live it up.

Word of the Day: Equivocate.

GAME? NO GAME? Speaking of stuff getting canceled, there's an extremely solid chance that tonight's hoops game doesn't happen.

Per Ohio State, Iowa will not be able to make it into Columbus tonight, but is still making every effort to get here early tomorrow morning. Game still on for now.
— Griffin Strom (@GriffinStrom3) February 3, 2022

An update from Iowa's end, pretty much mirroring what we've heard from Ohio State. Game still on at the moment, but the weather in Ohio figures to be a factor as the Hawkeyes try to travel tomorrow. https://t.co/MSn3fEQ3zG
— Griffin Strom (@GriffinStrom3) February 3, 2022

Until you hear otherwise, the game is on. But you might not have to wait long before hearing otherwise...

HE'S BACK! If y'all somehow haven't heard, the funniest possible scenario has come to fruition: despite his best efforts, Jim Harbaugh is returning to Michigan.

After a month of publicly dicking around the university, telling players and recruits that he wanted to go to the NFL, talking to multiple NFL teams and even interviewing for a position, and earnestly preparing to become the next head coach of the Minnesota Vikings, Harbaugh will be back at Michigan next year simply because he blew a job interview.

My read on the Harbaugh/Vikings situation in speaking with sources: Harbaugh was in the mix for the Minnesota job because of his connection to Kwesi Adofo-Mensah. He operated under the assumption that the job was his and prepared for the interview as such.
— Courtney Cronin (@CourtneyRCronin) February 3, 2022

nature of what the in-person meeting was all about. The Vikings brought Harbaugh into Minnesota to interview, just like they did with Pat Graham on Tues. Followed the same format and everything.
— Courtney Cronin (@CourtneyRCronin) February 3, 2022

So basically, this guy spent the past month doing everything he possibly could to leave Michigan, left their offer on the table while he went job shopping, and left Ann Arbor on Wednesday fully intending to never come back.

... and then it switched and actually he wanted his old job back. All the while, the fanbase had pretty much completely turned against him.

MELTDOWN ALERT #Michigan #GoBlue pic.twitter.com/99ubhg3Ihx
— Message Board Geniuses (@BoardGeniuses) February 2, 2022

But now he's not only back, but he's also almost certainly getting a gigantic raise!

If this all sounds completely and hilariously dysfunctional, that's because it is! And everyone knows it!

Austins final words here on Harbaugh are the whole shabang. Not that he cares.

No one else in football operates like this. Michigan people who work for him have been guessing since November.

If he comes back I mean. That in itself would feel like one for the books https://t.co/McEAuVtbae
— Nick Baumgardner (@nickbaumgardner) February 1, 2022

And for the final time I will type here on this app that no one at Michigan not the President, AD, board, support staff, custodian, groundscrew or the people who punch tickets screwed over Jim Harbaugh.

He does what he want and has since he walked in the door.
— Nick Baumgardner (@nickbaumgardner) February 1, 2022

Honestly, I could not have scripted a better and more hilarious end to this entire debacle. God bless you, Michigan. God bless you, Jim. We'll see you in November.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I think I'm going to spend the next month of my life on Tinder before informing my wife that I'm actually going to stay with her because couldn't find anybody else better who was interested in me.

ATTACKING DEFENSE. We're going to have to wait until spring to get any real preview of Jim Knowles' Ohio State defense.

But I think you'll like the sound of this...

Oklahoma State transfer safety Tanner McCalister says Jim Knowles defense is going to be aggressive.

A lot of defenses react to what offenses like to do. Coach Knowles wants offenses to react to what we like to do. pic.twitter.com/JHeruhCfse
— Dan Hope (@Dan_Hope) February 2, 2022

I have seen that type of defense only once in the past five seasons at Ohio State and it led to one of the most efficient and dominant Buckeye teams in recent history that only the Sugar Bowl referees could slow down.

If Knowles can bring it to Columbus for the foreseeable future while Ryan Day continues to do his video game stuff on the offensive end, I think the Buckeyes may just be on to something!

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT. Please stop falling for (and sharing!) this fake Joe Burrow "quote." It is not real. He never said this or anything else like it. It is fake.

The "quote" itself goes completely against anything else Joe Burrow as actually said on the record.

But more than that, the caption of "Joe Burrow on Ohio State fans claiming him as the first Buckeye to make the Super Bowl" should proooobably tip you off that this is a gigantic troll.

SONG OF THE DAY. "A Case of You" by Joni Mitchell.