CHICAGO — He wore a gray sports coat with a blue shirt and a navy tie. Oh, and a blue baseball hat. So yeah, naturally someone asked Jim Harbaugh about it. His answer included something about needing a haircut — it had been five weeks — and how he only had to wear suits at weddings, but someone told him he also had to do it at Big Ten football media days.
“I just felt more comfortable,” the Michigan coach finished, “with the hat. And I like the ‘M.’ ”
In other words: because Harbaugh.
And if the overall look was of an introductory news conference — the school welcomes the new coach, he tugs on a cap, the camera strobes flash — it was somehow fitting.