Richard Sherman still hates Jim Harbaugh. It seems Sherman will always hate Harbuagh. The San Francisco 49ers cornerback didn’t mind discussing the grudge. And the story, while not necessarily new, is pretty epic.
“There is nothing to mend,” Sherman told The Mercury News this week. “The bridge was burned down, torn down and built another bridge at another place. But the bridge in this particular relationship will never be rebuilt. I don’t think he is interested in it, and I’m not interested in it.”
Back when Sherman and Harbaugh were at Stanford, they began to get into arguments. At the time, Sherman was a star on and off the field. While excelling in school work as a double major in communications and classics, Sherman was also playing well as one of the team’s receivers. He would later move to his current position, cornerback. That move came after the peak of Sherman and Harbaugh’s beef. Harbaugh blamed Sherman for quitting on the team in 2008, and the coach suggested the star should transfer. Instead, Sherman elected to stay at Stanford, where he was getting an amazing education, something he valued after growing up in Compton, California.
Harbaugh and Sherman agreed to stipulations to keep the student-athlete with the Cardinal. To distance himself from his coach, Sherman elected to move to defense, where he worked his way up the depth chart as a cornerback and earned a starting role.
Having played in the offense, Sherman had a significant advantage during practices for the Cardinal. He made sure the whole defense benefited from his knowledge, per The Mercury News:
“Having been a receiver, Sherman knew what the offense was going to do by the way it lined up. So, he would yell out the formations and splits during practice to aggravate Harbaugh, Lynn said.”
It’s fair to wonder whether Sherman might be a star NFL receiver — and not a star cornerback — if not for his grudge with Harbaugh.
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