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Jim Harbaugh's simpler approach could help Michigan football win games

Nick Baumgardner, Jeff Seidel and Shawn Windsor talk after the Michigan football news conference on Monday, Aug. 27, 2018, in Ann Arbor. Nick Baumgardner and Shawn Windsor and Jeff Seidel, Detroit Free Press

It began with a players-only meeting after a bowl loss and continued when the head coach decided he needed to simplify things.

Both off the field — how he talked to his players; how his staff trained them; how they fed them — and on, in how many words they used to call plays.

The players wanted to hold each other more accountable.