Harbaugh answers adorable boy’s question about milk

If there's anything Jim Harbaugh loves more than football and khaki pants, it's got to be milk, which the Michigan coach credits for helping him grow to 6-foot-3-inches tall.

At Michigan's media day on Thursday, first-grader Brady Carpenter melted Harbaugh's heart when he asked him, "How much milk do I have to drink to be big enough to be a quarterback?"

Harbaugh replied, "Can I give you a hug?"

After hugging it out with the aspiring signal caller, Harbaugh said, "That is a great question, and I love that you're thinking about that. Drink as much milk as your little belly can hold. Could be chocolate milk, could be the two percent but the ideal is the whole milk. As much as your little belly can hold."

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During an HBO "Real Sports" piece earlier this year, Harbaugh told Andrea Kremer that as a third-grader he was already determined to be an NFL quarterback but, hailing from a family where no one was taller than 6-foot, he knew the odds were against him. So he turned to milk to help him grow.

"I had heard that if you drink milk it builds strong bones and convinced myself I was going to drink as much milk as I possibly could drink. Prayed about it a lot, 'I want to be 6-2, I want to be 6-2,'" he said. "And then when I went to (elementary) school I got a job as the milk distributor. So we just started delivering all the milk every day and we got one free milk for delivering all the milk. But every kid that was absent, that tray would go back to the little milk room and I would just drink as much milk as my belly could hold.

"I drank a lot of milk, Andrea. A lot of milk. Whole milk, though, not the candy ass two percent or skim milk."