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'We will not cower from it' — Why college football coaches want to try to play in 2020

Jim Harbaugh is not a scientist. Jim Harbaugh is not an infectious disease expert.

Jim Harbaugh is a football coach who, per Bleacher Report, once advised one of his Michigan quarterbacks to avoid eating chicken because he considered it, “a nervous bird.”

Unorthodox nutritional theories are just part of his personality quirks.

Yet as college football sits on the brink of being shut down, Harbaugh made as bold, organized and compelling of a case as anyone on why, if nothing else, the season shouldn’t be killed without at least trying.

“We have developed a great prototype for how we can make this work and provide the opportunity for players to play,” Harbaugh said in a statement Monday.