ESPN's Cowherd Ends Jim Harbaugh Clunker Interview

Colin Cowherd

It's never a good thing when the only story to develop from an interview is how much of a train wreck the interview was.

That puff of smoke over the horizon, though, is all that's left of a Wednesday morning conversation between Michigan's Jim Harbaugh and ESPN's Colin Cowherd. according to MLive.com.

In a painfully awkward interview on "The Herd," Cowherd's ESPN Radio sports talk show that's simulcast on ESPNU, Harbaugh answered bad questions with worse answers, ultimately leading to Cowherd cutting Harbaugh off the air and ending the interview.

"I've been in the business 10 years, folks," Cowherd concluded by saying."That was a clunker. There isn't much I can do about that. I tried. I asked every open-ended question I could, but he's got nothing to say."


Cowherd claimed no ill-will, laughing off most of the back-and-forth, and said the interview simply wasn't working.

In my experience of participating in interviews, I've found it takes 2 to produce a clunker! I'll take 50% responsibility 4 this clunker.

— Coach Harbaugh (@CoachJim4UM) July 1, 2015