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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1988-05-31-8801040010-story.html
BEARS` HARBAUGH IS ARRESTED ON DISORDERLY CONDUCT CHARGE

I try to judge behaviors as themselves rather than judge people for their behaviors. So whereas I believe in lies, I don't have any use for blanketly calling a person a liar/smelly/failure/success. I only have use for specifically pointing out the times they lied/smelled/failed/succeeded.

And (aside from the benefit of limiting my judginess) here is another situation where the distinction seems to matter. You're noticing  that Swenson was told that he had to do X to get Y, didn't do X (work out in front of coaches), lost Y (his scholarship), and are effectively responding that "this thing that wasn't a lie feels like the sort of crummy thing liars would do."

Ah, then you are just mistaken. Prior to the summer camps Michigan hosted 6+ months before signing day, they told Erik he had to work out or that his scholarship could be taken at any time. From there, the situation was mismanaged by both sides. Harbaugh made bad mistakes of style and timing (should have pulled the trigger a month sooner). But his original warning stood as precisely true and delivered well in advance.

Like I said earlier, Michigan is clearly fielding a good football team again. If Harbaugh is the ONLY coach in the Big Ten you wouldn't let an athlete play for, then you have questionable judgment of character at best.

I'm good with a guy that passes along the message of his mentor "when you guys come back 15, 20, years from now and we know what kind of men you are, what kind of husbands you’ve become, what kind of fathers you are, then we’ll now how good this football team is.”

I see Harbaugh taking his team to Rome and trip trying to shape who they are as people as much as he's trying to shape them as athletes. That's the one guy you wouldn't want someone to play for? Really?

I don't have any major problems with him.  At the end of the day, coaches spend 99% of their energy on winning football games, and it's all this other stuff that they don't care about that gets thrown around.