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Jim Harbaugh vs. Pete Rose 8-18-25
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In this episode, Scott Becker reviews a Twitter poll asking who is more unethical, Jim Harbaugh or Pete Rose.
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This is Scott Becker with the Becker Business podcast, the Becker Private Equity Podcast. Today's discussion is based on an X Twitter poll. Who is the most unethical, Jim Harbaugh or Pete Rose? And here the results might surprise you. So Jim Harbaugh, long term coach at Michigan. Just recently the NCAA handed out their decision on sort of the Michigan improprieties. Jim Harbaugh is essentially banned from college football till he's about 74, 75 years old until I think 20, 36 or so. Pete Rose of course famously was banned for baseball for life just now may become eligible again for the hall of Fame again, but was banned for life. We're essentially betting on baseball. Hub Roll had a myriad amount of violations. Part of it the sign stealing stuff, all the COVID up of the sign stealing stuff where they tried to steal signs from other clubs but, but also lot of recruiting issues and so many other things. So we did a poll as to who is the more unethical and I think in some ways not surprisingly Jim Harbaugh in this X or Twitter poll comes out as the more unethical. Getting 65% of the vote, impute rose getting 35% of the vote. You might say why is that unexpected? Or why is that not surprising? And I'd say it's not surprising because of the following. Everybody knew and it's been long discussed that Pete Rose was, was kind of a shady character. In fact, one person who responded the poll said, you know, I legitimately love Pete Rose and I'm agnostic on Harbaugh, but Pete was on another level of shadiness. Personal life was a mess too. Another person says Rose also dated and lived with a minor when he, when he was in his twenties. Now the, the, the concept here of how could Pete Rose be viewed as not as unethical as Jim Harbaugh. And I think here's why. Everybody knew that Pete Rose was a very sleazy person. It's almost like the same concept of when you look at President Trump who gets railed on for being shady or sleazy or womanized and all these kinds of things and Bill Clinton for that matter, people somewhat take it in stride, although Bill, I think it's that it's run out a little bit because he again portrayed himself as relative clean cut then he had in a fear when he was the president and President Trump in some ways gets a pass because people know he's a shady guy. I don't mean that in a bad way about the president or political way, but people sort of take him for what he is. He said one time, famously on tv, that I just grabbed women by the pussy. I mean, you can't. He doesn't hide that. He's kind of a sleazy guy in his own way. So. But I think that might be the issue here with Harbaugh vs Rose. Harborough paints himself as the most clean cut, you know, apple pie American person and at the same time loses in this poll. And somebody who's a Michigan fan might say, well, that's just anti Michigan hate. But I think it's deeper than that. I think it's part of when people portray themselves different than they are, then they really take it on the chin when people find out that they're really quite sleazy. Another person says in the discussion, Pete Rose had sex with a 14 year old when he's in his 30s. So Peter Rose, clearly a sleazy, sleazy guy. But. But in terms of who's more ethical, at least in today's Twitter poll, not surprisingly or surprisingly, Jim Harbaugh takes the crowd at 65% to 35%. A fascinating study in humanity. Thank you for listening to the Becker Business podcast, the Becker Private Equity Podcast. Thank you very, very much.