Is "News" Of JH to Raiders Just Rank Speculation, Too?

The difference is that the good vibes on the UM end are coming from people who are associated with Jim Harbaugh, Jack Harbaugh, or the AD.

The Raider vibes are coming from people associated with...Mark Davis.  Nobody in the Raider organization could even make contact with Jim or anybody close to him without jeopardizing being nailed for tampering.

You decide which vibes are more credible.

Simple: Michigan/college guys say he is coming to michigan, raiders/NFL say he is staying in NFL and going to Oakland..the problem is there is NO in between guy that can say the truth..give it time and will find out..oh yeah no one knows..just assumptions. Certain media guys just hope they are right so when JH decides they can pump their chest and say "See I told you"..oh yeah also ask for a raise

Curious = Harbaugh's agent saying "Yes, please feel free to send us an offer, so that I can maximize the bidding for my client."

Just No. Raiders will always suck.

 

I am not sure right now may be good for a magic eight ball but when your job is to tell people information you have to go with the best information you have.  If your best information is by adding 1+2=3 and you say that you are doing your job.  If you state it as fact then that would be an issue.  I think he did the first one, but the real math might look like     15(2+x)/X8^2=zx2+w and no one knows what x X z or w are. I hope he comes if that is what he wants. I don't want a coach that doesn't want the job, or that took the job because the money was better.  That is not to say that he shouldn't be paid what he is worth. 

They both can't be true, but the obvious question is...why do both reports exist from "insiders"?

Here's my thoughts. SF has one year left on his contract.. Barring off-the-field issues, you don't just fire a coach with the track record of Harbaugh when he has 1 year left on his contract. No, you try to get value out of it...trade him. And it's obvious the trade talk has centered around the Raiders. So the fact that "Harbaugh to the Raiders is getting real" has come out is that, perhaps, a trade has been proposed and accepted by both sides in principle (behind the scenes, obviously, given the NFL rules) by those in the NFL organizations with a vested interest in Harbaugh and his contract value. The key here is that what Harbaugh wants to do could mean nothing when it comes to trade talks. I'm not sure what Harbaugh is actually telling the 49ers management or the Raiders, but that is somewhat inconsequential in my mind. And even still, it's quite possible Harbaugh is saying he's interested while at the same time telling others something else. And its also possible Harbaugh is actually considering both options...in terms of likelihood, who knows what is the more likely option for him. 

Now, add in the increasing intensity of "Harbaugh to Michigan" insider info. What do insiders in the M community have to possibly gain by getting the fans' hopes up? Nothing. Because if M does not get Harbaugh, there will be many angry people here, and many will be quite upset with the insiders. As far as I'm concerned, that's too much of a risk to get the story out there unless you really know something is going on with the "Harbaugh to Michigan" stuff behind the scenes. If Jim were really not going to take the job, we would surely know by now, and insider chatter would slowly start the "let-down" process for fans to prepare for that "no" answer. That isn't happening though, at least so far. The opposite is. And as for Jim himself, I keep going back to...Jim loves Michigan. He wouldn't be stringing us along unless he was at the very least heavily considering the option

My sticking point: I guess I just have a hard time seeing M insiders getting giddy over nothing, given how much it could really hurt the whole process to go from HE IS DEFINITELY COMING YOU GUYS to, ...nope...especially with what has happened in the last 2 coaching searches.

I can't believe the Niners would trade Harbaugh to their cross town rivals.  These people have egos.  If Harbaugh turns around the Raiders and the Niners fail to get back to their NFC Championship game level in Harbaugh's first 3 years, the Niners management would be reminded of that every day in the papers, radio, tv, etc.

If Harbaugh wasn't coming to Michigan, he would have turned it down by now and we would be hearing at least SOME chatter about other coaching choices. 

I just don't think Jim would put Michigan in the position of being left in the dark until he can "weigh his options" while michigan's options start getting dryer and dryer. 

 

 

 

 

whatever he really wants, it all seems to come down to whether or not Jim Harbaugh wants to go through all the recruiting work that is required of a college coach.  That seems to be the biggest difference here. 

In the NFL, there is drafting, trading and free agents, but recruiting makes the college job almost 24/7 and a lot schmoozing with kids and parents.  So really what would Jim H rather do?  If he just wants to coach and get paid...stay in the NFL.  If he wants/likes recruiting and resurrecting his alma mater, then come back to Michigan. 

The suspense is killing me.  My biggest fear is we don't seem to have a plan B.  If Harbaugh stays in the NFL what the hell will we do then?

There were rumors yesterday of The raiders possibly moving to San Antonio and the Rams going to LA.  That might help us in the decision process for Jim H.

I have a hard time believing that SF would trade JH across the bay and risk ruining their fan relations by having him win big just a few miles away. That would be a PR nightmare...It would make much more sense to trade him across the country where he would be all but forgotten by most fans within a few years. 

But I think its all a moot point anyway...the fact that their appears to be no Plan B is really telling. I don't get the impression that Hackett is a dunce...his track record indicates that he knows how to recruit and negotiate at a very high level. If JH wasn't damn near in the bag there would be some serious Plan B names being floated around from inside the program...not happening -  Plan A must be pretty solid. 

 

It's not speculation, it's absolutely true. Harbaugh will coach Michigan and the Raiders at the same time. 

Firesign Theater once asked, "How can you be two places at once when you're not anywhere at all?"

Well, Jim will be in two places at once thanks to the help of our friend and his, Quantum Mechanics.