The PR pitch hit the inbox with an alluring subject line: “Coach Harbaugh interview?” When Jim Harbaugh is being made available, you always take the interview. Because you never know what the Michigan football coach is going to say.
Harbaugh was making the media rounds in a partnership with Wolverine boots and SkillsUSA, which promotes trade and technical schools. SkillsUSA was having a “signing day” to raise awareness of trade schools as an educational and vocational alternative to four-year colleges. The nation certainly needs all the qualified auto mechanics and plumbers it can get, and Harbaugh is an appropriate pitchman, given his embrace of a roll-up-your-sleeves work ethic that goes along with football.
After discussing the project at hand, the logical question to ask was this: If Harbaugh hadn’t gone to Michigan and become a famous football player and coach, what skilled trade would he have undertaken?
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