So
Dan Patrick was building up today's interview with Stanford football
coach Jim Harbaugh all week and debating how to bring up whether or not
he was interested in the head coaching job with the Oakland Raiders.
Poor Dan is stuck in an undisclosed location for the Sports Illustrated swimsuit model shoot, and this had to be his toughest assignment of the day and maybe the week.
I've
been there as a reporter and lived in similar shoes where you want to
get a scoop or story and try to creatively get it out of an
individual. In fact, I was known at Syracuse for being the go-to guy
during sensitive times like when the women's basketball coach resigned and when the lacrosse team
got put on probation because of my personable style of getting along
with everybody. I even told former Syracuse QB Marvin Graves once that I
literally wasn't trying to be a pain in the ass but simply wanted to do a feature
on him for the school newspaper, and he responded by giving me his
phone number and inviting me over to his crib for the interview.
Anyway,
this interview Patrick did with Harbaugh started by them discussing the
big USC game and how he would handle it this year after his Cardinal
pulled off the monster upset last year at the Coliseum. That game ended the Trojans' 35-game home winning streak. What followed was just pure comedy as Patrick asked Harbaugh about the Raiders, as I felt like I was listening to Sarah Palin talk about where she and John McCain stood on the issues during their campaign.
I'll let you listen to the rest, so you can judge for yourself how Jimbo really feels 
