Jim Harbaugh trying to inspire Michigan football team with horticulture

Jim Harbaugh motivated Michigan players like defensive lineman Mike Morris using … plants.

It is not the least bit shocking that Jim Harbaugh has thoughts on plants and will use them to help motivate players like his former star defensive lineman Mike Morris.

Morris is preparing for the 2023 NFL Draft after a stellar career in Ann Arbor. He was the Big Ten’s Defensive Lineman of the Year last fall and was certainly a huge reason why the Wolverines made it back to the College Football Playoff.

While appearing on The Momentum Truck Podcast, Morris recounted something so incredibly on-brand for Harbaugh that we cannot make this up.

It goes without saying that Harbaugh is all about football, and Morris echoed those sentiments.

"“Michigan was definitely a grind. Coach Harbaugh really doesn’t care about anything but football. Like, he cares about us as players, but if you’re not making the team better or doing anything to make the team better, you’re not really benefiting the team.”"

I’m totally on board with that, but here is where Harbaugh goes out into his own field again…

"“He calls it a ‘houseplant.’ You know how house plants need to be catered to, you gotta put them in the sunlight, you have to fertilize it —  a nice, little, cute houseplant. He’s like, ‘If you’re a houseplant, you’re not good for the team, but if you’re a field crop, all you need is some rain, a little bit of water here and there, and you’re going to grow and flourish.’ So he’s like, ‘Always be field corn and never a houseplant.’”"

Hashtag Team Field Corn, to be honest. You and I both know Morris was Team Field Corn for sure.

"“We were like, ‘OK.’ We used to joke around when someone would complain, we would be like, ‘Yeah, you f*****g houseplant, you don’t wanna do s**t.’ Coach Harbaugh was like, ‘You wanna stay inside and be all cute and s**t, fertilizer?’ ‘Nah, I’m a f*****g field corn.’”"

Here is the entire clip of Morris discussing why you should never, ever be Team Houseplant.

Jim Harbaugh says you’re either Team Houseplant or Team Field Corn, what is it?

This, this right here, is why college football is the absolute best and why those in the know will ever truly understand. These motivational tactics are not going to work in corporate America at all, but you better believe that I’m ready to run through a field of field corn for Jim Harbaugh. I had a houseplant once and it was too needy for me. We tried for a year and a half, but it didn’t work out.

But with the power of my teammates and a never-ending supply of two percent, I’m going to run into the corn like I’m ready to conquer the entire state of Nebraska. Usually, when people try to motivate students with horticulture, they are more of the bad-seed variety. These degenerates we all knew in high school got really into electricity, closet space and Phish shortly there afterward.

Even if the Nervous Bird himself is the furthest thing from a hippy, he knows how to relate to the kids because he still is one at heart. Harbaugh is not for everyone, but he is right for just enough impressionables to field one helluva football team on the reg. They may be slow and cannot hang with the Georgias of the world, but give them props, or better yet field crops, for trying to do so.

Harbaugh is doing more for plants in the state of Michigan than Henry Ford and his family ever did.

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