Harbaugh and Chargers are in “striking distance” of getting a deal done, per Mike Garafolo
per Mike Garafolo of NFL Media
Harbaugh wanted the job last year, but it wasn’t open. He’s currently interviewing for the job a second time. As one league source tells PFT, “He wants it.”
Harbaugh is in LA today for another meeting with the team.
Let's hope PFT's reporting is wrong again.
January 23rd, 2024 at 1:24 PM ^
Thanks for the resurgence and the National Championship Jim. Now please make a decision so that the program knows where its headed and with whom
January 23rd, 2024 at 1:58 PM ^
Yes, please make a final decision and not this yearly dalliance with the NFL, as this is NOT good for recruiting.
January 23rd, 2024 at 3:05 PM ^
We won a national title. What are we bitching about?
January 23rd, 2024 at 3:17 PM ^
If he'd have listened to me we'd have 8.
January 23rd, 2024 at 6:26 PM ^
Exactly, I say the same & I am fuming!
January 23rd, 2024 at 5:09 PM ^
I think the fact Jim said he wasn’t going to do this every year is the problem, maybe?
January 23rd, 2024 at 9:54 PM ^
This is a tired excuse.
We won a national title with guys who were on the team BEFORE this annual NFL bullshit.
We are just now getting to the guys who arrived while Harbaugh was doing this stuff...and we'll see if they can maintain the success of their predecessors, but let's not act like we didn't just get arguably the best QB, RB, C, EDGE, NB, and K all on the same team or within a year of each other. Along with the winningest player in school history.
And that's not counting Haskins, Bell, Hayes, Keegan, Vastardis, Zinter, Jenkins, Smith, Morris, Colson, Ojabo, Turner, Hill, and Robbins.
Sustained success is what fans are looking for...and we've had that for 3 years, but now comes the true test. Do we reload or do we have to rebuild it all back up?
Really think about that for a second. McCarthy, Corum, Oluwatimi, Hutchinson, Sainristil, and Moody...these are GENERATIONAL talents. And we got them all in a short run.
We haven't had anything close since Henson, Terrell, Perry, Edwards, Henne, Hart, Manningham, Graham...and that was far from a 3 year stretch.
Michigan is going to have to truly work to keep this thing rolling now that most of the core guys are gone.
January 23rd, 2024 at 4:53 PM ^
Harbaugh has next to no buyout right now. A new contract should come with a buyout of a sufficient amount to end any NFL interest in the near future.
January 23rd, 2024 at 2:00 PM ^
At this point, I just want a resolution. If that is Jim, great. If it isn't, okay lets go. Tired of there being a sword of Democles hanging over the program. I'm happy to see what Sherrone can do in the top spot
January 23rd, 2024 at 2:26 PM ^
I would've loved to have Harbaugh longer, but the reality is that the years left with him were going to be rocky every offseason, and he probably only had 10 years or so left at best of his coaching prime (as we've seen this coaching cycle with Saban and Carroll finishing up in their early 70's).
The exciting part to me about Sherrone is that he's not even 40 yet. We know he has great character and is loved by the team. If he's successful, we could have a coach for the next 40 years. And if he's truly in the Harbaugh tree, his network for assistants should be plentiful.
January 23rd, 2024 at 2:29 PM ^
Not sure if this is the popular take, but if Harbaugh leaves, can we give those wins to Moore? Especially if he's the head coach. I mean he was technically the coach for the games he won.
January 23rd, 2024 at 3:38 PM ^
No- geez. Jim coached the teams on 6 of the 7 days each of those weeks and he was the architect of the team.
January 23rd, 2024 at 4:55 PM ^
I can't express how much I loathe this sentiment.
January 23rd, 2024 at 2:42 PM ^
He probably had 10 years where, if he wanted, he could have built Michigan into a perennial power. Winning a National Championship is a big deal, but Gene Chizik has one. Now TWO National Championships for a coach. That's something...
January 23rd, 2024 at 2:51 PM ^
One is also something, especially if you did it at Michigan.
January 23rd, 2024 at 6:30 PM ^
I mean yeah, it's something. But like the guy said, Gene Chizek has one.
You wanna be really remembered, like Dabo-level remembered- gotta get at least 2!
January 23rd, 2024 at 3:18 PM ^
He could also end up being like Dabo (who has two titles) who couldn't even get an interview with Alabama. His stock is as high as it likely will ever be right now. He's cashing in. It's a smart move on his part if Superbowl is the #1 goal now.
January 23rd, 2024 at 2:49 PM ^
I'd take 10 more years of Harbaugh in his prime over an extremely hypothetical 30 or 40 years of an unproven/first time coach, be he Moore or someone else.
January 23rd, 2024 at 3:14 PM ^
But would you take 2 more years of Harbaugh, with yearly offseason NFL interviews. Or 5 more with yearly offseason interviews. Etc etc.
That's the difference. We'd all love 10 more years of Harbaugh fully committed to Michigan, but it doesn't appear that would ever be the case. It's just essentially one year contracts at this point. It's better to move on with a coach-in-waiting around to possibly keep the momentum going. The last thing I want to see again is a Carr to RichRod complete gutting and rebuild of the program.
January 23rd, 2024 at 3:48 PM ^
Yes to both. If Moore is such a great potential HC, why isn't he getting attention / interviews from other teams? Bama and Washington just hired coaches, why didn't they call him? What about Arizona? They just hired the HC from San Jose State, surely Moore would have been a better choice.
If Jim was/is going to leave, he should have done it in such a way that we could have hired the best HC available, instead of having to take a chance on an internal promotion.
Moore may be a great HC someday. I'd just much rather he have some experience at the position before we give him the keys to the kingdom (4 games don't count with harbaugh coaching during the week).
January 23rd, 2024 at 5:53 PM ^
I will take as many Harbaugh seasons as we can get, as he obviously doesn’t let that offseason stuff effect what happens the next season.
That said, the whole “not a yearly thing” statement he made makes me very disappointed in him.
I hope his heart for Michigan overwhelms him and he one day decides he always needs an office in Schembecler hall and will always be around the program a la Bo or Alvarez.
My gut instinct on Moore is he needs to prove it at a less prominent program that he can fully handle the ins and outs of being a head coach.
January 23rd, 2024 at 3:01 PM ^
You expecting Sherrone Moore to be out there at 80 like Joe Paterno? 😐
January 23rd, 2024 at 3:04 PM ^
Hopefully not EXACTLY like Joe Paterno.
January 23rd, 2024 at 3:07 PM ^
I'm about the same age as Sherrone, so I'm hoping that in 40 years medical science will have greatly improved, lol.
But yes, I should have said 30-35 years, not 40.
January 23rd, 2024 at 6:39 PM ^
If medical science wouldn’t have improved for 20 years after I was your age, I would be dead right now. I Think barring a freak accident you have a long life ahead of you.
January 23rd, 2024 at 8:50 PM ^
*Damocles
sorry, this is a Michigan blog
January 23rd, 2024 at 2:03 PM ^
Agree, we need to move on one way or the other. Hope JH returns but
January 23rd, 2024 at 2:09 PM ^
Yep. Thank you and please decide soon.
January 23rd, 2024 at 2:51 PM ^
As I said yesterday shit or get off the pot it’s been 15 days he said he needed a week, we need to recruit and hit the portal not have the Jim Harbaugh tour.
January 23rd, 2024 at 3:28 PM ^
JTP,
If I'm a VERY successful anything, the last thing I'm going to worry about is some random nobody telling me to shit or get off the pot when I'm leveraging the final years of my life.
Final years worth 8 Godamn figures.
Ya'all need to shut up or let me come tell you what to do with the the next 10 years of your lives.
Idiots!
January 23rd, 2024 at 3:34 PM ^
Program needs an answer sorry but it does
January 23rd, 2024 at 1:25 PM ^
Yeah and Sarah came. Anything actually new here?
January 23rd, 2024 at 1:25 PM ^
Time to wrap our brains around that he is gone. Time for the next Era. Please hope for very few portal transfers like happened at Bama.
January 23rd, 2024 at 2:37 PM ^
I think he always saw this as a 2-3 year gig tops! After the 2015 bowl win, he told the team, "Next year, we go for the big one (i.e. National Championship). Refs screwed him in Columbus in 2016, then 2017 happened. Couldn't leave at that point. The problem was it took him 3 more years after that to realize Don Brown's scheme couldn't cover Ryan Day's offense. After 2021, Jim said he felt the program was in "good shape" (as in, "I think it's time to leave now"), but then the Vikings left him at the alter.
Just be thankful that one of the best NFL head coaches out there loved his alma mater enough to take an extended sabbatical away from his real job for a while. That's all this ever was. He's been "passing on the torch" to his replacement all year.
January 23rd, 2024 at 2:49 PM ^
in JUB's book about the 2018 team, he mentions Jim and Jack talking about how the only good way to leave a program is by retiring right after a national title. I think this was always the idea, too
January 23rd, 2024 at 1:25 PM ^
have we confirmed this dude isn't a college junior?
January 24th, 2024 at 1:18 AM ^
Recently seen slinging shots at Rick's.
January 23rd, 2024 at 1:25 PM ^
Cool story Keith..
January 23rd, 2024 at 1:26 PM ^
Imagine being the coach of a team that plays 17 away games per year in a city that is indifferent to your existence.
January 23rd, 2024 at 1:44 PM ^
Imagine being a football coach who claims to care about ‘feeling the love’ and getting emotional ‘bear hugs’ only to leave the one place that offers that to go to the one team people couldn’t care less about.
January 23rd, 2024 at 1:54 PM ^
Yeah, this is the silly part. Just say you want to try and win a Super Bowl. No one at Michigan will care and everyone will wish you well.
I mean, everyone for the most part will anyway, but its just dumb to draw it out like this and make it seem like its about something that its not.
January 23rd, 2024 at 3:20 PM ^
he's literally said multiple times that he wants to win a super bowl.
January 23rd, 2024 at 3:35 PM ^
Sure but he's also said he would stay at Michigan as long as Michigan would have him and that this wouldn't become a yearly thing. For the last month or two, all we've heard is how this is about him being shown "love" and the "bear hug" and its not about money, etc.
What I'm saying is that if Jim Harbaugh wants to go to the NFL, he should resign and allow Michigan to move on and should have done it right after the parade/celebration. He shouldn't leave the program he built in limbo like this.
January 23rd, 2024 at 7:25 PM ^
Yeah well, he's said other stuff too...
Which should we believe?
January 23rd, 2024 at 6:00 PM ^
Yeah, I’m not sure I fully believe JUB’s schtick about Harbaugh.
I think Jim likes championships and new challenges.
I challenge him to go after 8 championships to best Saban.
…..hope your reading Jim
January 23rd, 2024 at 2:00 PM ^
I guess the Chargers can out-happy happy, or whatever JH said about his love for being our coach.
January 23rd, 2024 at 2:12 PM ^
Did Harbaugh ever say those things? I only remember JUB saying that that's what he wanted.
January 23rd, 2024 at 2:15 PM ^
to be fair, he really hasn't said shit. We just get what people are guessing and some take it straight from JH. My only issue with what he has done/said, was last year when he said he told Warde he would be at UM if they would have him and that his flirting with the NFL was a one time thing. I know things change and J Mfing H can do as he pleases, but that quote stings a bit.
January 23rd, 2024 at 2:25 PM ^
He said that the NFL flirtation was a one-time thing two years ago, after signing his new contract:
Harbaugh has tried to get ahead of future rumors. After returning to the state, he told The Michigan Insider that his "love for Michigan is strong," and he reportedly told Manuel that the NFL "would not be a re-occurring issue, and he would stay at Michigan as long as it wants him," per Adam Schefter.
Last year, he said the "no man knows the future" stuff.