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U-M tailback Mike Hart is no fan of Jim Harbaugh. He heard the Stanford coach's comments in May to a reporter about how Michigan athletes are admitted under easier standards and was predictably perturbed. "He's a guy I have no respect for," said Hart, who said he has no interest in meeting the former U-M quarterback. "Maybe he wants to coach here. He just accepted one of our transfers (quarterback Jason Forcier). He wants guys like at our school and maybe he can't get them." Always a team spokesman, Hart's loyalty and appreciation for U-M has grown over the years and he feels he needs to defend the program. Hart also hinted Harbaugh has blown his chance to coach the Wolverines. "That guy got me angry," Hart said. "I don't know if he's doing it for a recruiting standpoint. He can say what he said and not talk about Michigan. … There's always a coaching ladder. He coached at San Diego and could have spent a (few) years at Stanford and maybe come to Michigan. But I don't know what he was thinking. It was a dumb move." Harbaugh told the San Francisco Examiner in May that Michigan's athletic department "has ways to get borderline guys in and, when they're in, they steer them to courses in sports communications. They're adulated when they're playing, but when they get out, the people who adulated them won't hire them." Harbaugh later told the Ann Arbor News that even serious student athletes are encouraged to take easier majors. Michigan coach Lloyd Carr called Harbaugh's comments "elitist" and "arrogant." -- Detroit Free Press

Wolverines blast alum Harbaugh for academic criticism