Jim Harbaugh takes responsibility for Shemy Schembechler saga

Michigan football landed in hot water weeks ago when it was discovered that new football staffer Glenn “Shemy” Schembechler — son of former former head coach Bo Schembechler — had liked an array of insensitive tweets. Late this week, head coach Jim Harbaugh took the blame for the younger Schembechler getting hired.

Some of the Tweets that Schembechler had liked said things like slavery and Jim Crow laws were good for Black people in America. Schembechler resigned shortly after he was hired and the social media activity came to light.

“Once we became aware of things that were just offensive, offensive to me, offensive to other members of our team, we just didn’t want that mindset around. It’s disappointing. I’ve known Shem for a long time, but there’s no sacred cows, it’s not who we are, it’s not us,” Harbaugh said

Harbaugh said there was outside vetting of Schembechler prior to his hire, including of his social media, but that the insensitive tweets hadn’t surfaced.

Michigan has moved on to using a new company for vetting hires, Harbaugh said.

“I’ve read the report myself, the — we have a company that vets that, social media came back OK. So we’ve got a new company doing, but we’ve gotta be better. And I’ll take responsibility for that. It’s not — if somebody can find that in a day, then we have to be able to be on it ourselves. Sometimes you gotta do stuff yourself,” Harbaugh said.

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