Jim minick michigan biography

JIM MINICK grew up eating blueberries, and for eight years he and his wife owned and operated Minick Berry Farm, a certified-organic, pick-your-own blueberry.
Michigan football history.
Jim showed up with Jim Minick.

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When I took Kathy to my meet my parents, Dad got out his boarding-school yearbooks. He’d never done such a thing, shown anyone the elegant 1930s volumes—certainly never to one of my girlfriends. I suppose her work as an educator made his sharing of that lost world relevant, but he also was showing a pretty young woman the smoldering dreamboat he’d been. His pilot’s career had taken him from Michigan’s snows to coral atolls in the glittering Pacific to the firebombed ruins of Tokyo and finally to Florida’s unruly interior.

I think Dad sensed more about Kathy than their short acquaintance would suggest. His sense of her happened in the way we know some people at once, or presume we do, how we see in their countenance what we admire and need. Perhaps he saw her strength. Kathy had launched herself into the world almost as fiercely as he had. She didn’t share my fear—of drifting rootless, alone and unknown—but must have had his terror: of being trapped, unable to take off for the horizon. Growing up, a willful chil

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Jim Harbaugh describes his Saturday watching his team at Sherrone Moore's house

Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh got up early Saturday, as he always does, in preparation for gameday. This time, though, he didn’t head to Michigan Stadium for the Wolverines’ game with ECU, suspended for the opener and two more games. Instead, he accepted offensive coordinator Sherrone Moore’s invitation to watch the game with him at his house.

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Moore, also suspended one game for a recruiting violation, had lunch ready for him when he arrived. The two watched intently while their players dominated ECU, winning 30-3 in a game not as close as the score. Defensive coordinator Jesse Minter was the interim head coach while quarterbacks coach Kirk Campbell filled in for Moore calling plays.

“I said, ‘hey, let’s watch the game together,’ and he said, ‘why don’t you come over?’” Harbaugh said with a grin Monday. “H

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Chapter 2
SWEET HOME
ANN ARBOR:
THE BIG TEN,
THE BIG HOUSE,
THE BIG TIME

A ROOMIE WITH A VIEW
JERRY QUAERNA
“Q,” as Jerry Quaerna is known, grew up in Janesville and Fort
Atkinson, Wisconsin. He was recruited by all the Big Ten
schools, but once he walked in The Big House, it was all over
for the other schools. Q lives in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, and
commutes to Lincoln, Nebraska, where he is a vital cog working
for the Department of Homeland Security.

I was recruited to play football at Michigan. When I went
there, Jim was my roommate. Jim and I were paired up as
freshmen. We didn’t know each other. Then we lived together
as fifth-year seniors. I got to see Jim before he was a big star
and after he was big time.

I had a long trip over from Wisconsin. I got unpacked, and
I was sleeping on my bed in the dorm when Jim showed up
with Jim Minick. He grew up with Minick in Ann Arbor. M