Chargers complete interview with Harbaugh
January 15th, 2024 at 7:51 PM ^
Or even when an NFL team makes him an offer
January 15th, 2024 at 5:13 PM ^
Incoming thread: “Harbaugh takes whizz immediately following Chargers interview”
January 15th, 2024 at 5:18 PM ^
If he's using their toilets already that's probably a bad sign ...
January 15th, 2024 at 6:39 PM ^
Depends. I'm ok with him taking a whizz. However, if he's going #2 at their facility, he may as well just move in. Pretty intimate.
January 15th, 2024 at 7:10 PM ^
But if it's an upper decker that is all you need to know about his feeling towards the Chargers after the interview.
January 15th, 2024 at 8:03 PM ^
Did he write his name in the sand? Can the Chargers use that for his signature?
January 15th, 2024 at 5:16 PM ^
I mean is this even an update? I assume that all interviews must end once they have started. But sure, I guess it’s always good to know. Anyone know if he took a pre-interview dump? If not, there’s no way the interview went well.
January 15th, 2024 at 5:33 PM ^
idk lots of our fans were in denial that this would even happen
remember when he was DEFINITELY announcing he was staying on Saturday?
January 15th, 2024 at 5:41 PM ^
No actually I don't remember that.
January 15th, 2024 at 5:22 PM ^
And so it ends. They interviewed him last and they are making a decision over the next 48 hours. He is gone if he gets an offer.
January 15th, 2024 at 8:28 PM ^
I don’t see anyone in this thread that agrees with your take that Harbaugh has only interviewed once in 9 years. Do you have any evidence you can provide? Where are you getting your information?
January 15th, 2024 at 5:22 PM ^
Seems odd for a team to announce its interviews like this.
January 15th, 2024 at 5:24 PM ^
I don't know what Harbaugh intends to accomplish considering the lions will be winning the next 10 super bowls in a row.
January 15th, 2024 at 5:26 PM ^
it's kneecap biter season
January 15th, 2024 at 5:24 PM ^
Strange, posting on twitter that you just finished interviewing someone? Just seems odd
January 15th, 2024 at 5:29 PM ^
The NFL requires teams to disclose who they've interviewed when the person is under contract to another NFL team. They didn't have to disclose the Harbaugh interview because he's not a NFL coach, but having disclosed the others, makes sense to do the same.
January 15th, 2024 at 5:46 PM ^
Not odd. The chargers are leaving it up to the fans. They are going to count up the total number of reposts and positive/negative comments. If the positives are >60%, they will make an offer.
January 15th, 2024 at 5:24 PM ^
The post we've all been refreshing for. Lol.
January 15th, 2024 at 5:28 PM ^
The idea that people are sure this is going one way or the other after what's happened the last two years is very funny to me. I hope he stays, but I also still don't have any idea which way this will go. And neither do you.
January 15th, 2024 at 6:37 PM ^
I am absolutely 100% certain this is going one way or the other.
January 15th, 2024 at 5:28 PM ^
AFC is strong. Hard for me to imagine Chargers winning a Super Bowl in the next years. If offered, I would take the Cowboys job. That is me . Not Coach Harbaugh. I am going to put on my lucky outfit which is 28-0 since I have been wearing it. I hope a decision comes soon, or I will look ridiculous at work for the next days. Go Blue.
January 15th, 2024 at 5:33 PM ^
Harbaugh is an intense competitor. Going up against Mahomes is going to fuel him, not frighten him.
January 15th, 2024 at 5:37 PM ^
Never stop wearing that outfit on game day.
January 15th, 2024 at 5:51 PM ^
I can't imagine the relationship between Jim Harbaugh and Jerry Jones would last very long.
January 15th, 2024 at 6:42 PM ^
Could be one of those weird couplings, like Macauley Culkin and Mila Kunis, that works for a while and then doesn't.
January 15th, 2024 at 7:37 PM ^
Yeah but that too will be Warde’s fault.
January 15th, 2024 at 5:33 PM ^
We all love Jimmy and what he accomplished for the University. From what I read - the players love him. Seems like a great guy. But this game of interviewing with the NFL every year has gown old. It has to impact how recruits (including portal players) look at this program. I think it is time for UM to move on. We should have a coach that "cherishes" being UM's HC and views it as their dream job. Time to let Jimmy go......
January 15th, 2024 at 5:44 PM ^
A ton of people said the exact same thing last year. A ton of people enjoy complaining, or seem to.
January 15th, 2024 at 6:16 PM ^
The "he won a Natty" thing kinda mitigates it. But that's just me.
January 15th, 2024 at 6:47 PM ^
Seriously. "I don't care how many titles you win, why do you keep hurting recruiting?"
January 15th, 2024 at 6:12 PM ^
As for a coach that cherishes the job, maybe someone who would walk here from San Diego for it.
January 15th, 2024 at 6:15 PM ^
This is patently ridiculous. If we win and retain great players, etc, Harbaugh being himself is A OK. If we can't get kids to come here and stay here, and the team starts to suck, then yeah complain away. But note that this has already actually happened and the outcome was a dominant team and a national championship.
Just let Harbaugh be what he is and love him for it.
January 15th, 2024 at 6:19 PM ^
Time to let Jimmy go
Letting the coach go, who just had the best three year stretch in school history, is a very rational response. Maybe you should be AD. I look forward to more of your galaxy brain management decisions. The main criteria should obviously be someone who cherishes being at Michigan. Brady Hoke is back on the market. What do you think AD?
January 15th, 2024 at 7:41 PM ^
Only if he brings a gigantic macaroni noodle and 100k free sodas with him.
January 15th, 2024 at 6:22 PM ^
He interviewed this year, last year, and where/when else?
January 15th, 2024 at 6:50 PM ^
Harbaugh interviewing with Vikings in person on Feb 2
The first comment got 38 upvotes:
It’s time to cut the rope here right? Recruiting will only get worse each year if he’s going to do this every offseason i would think?
January 15th, 2024 at 7:31 PM ^
I was actually surprised at how balanced the comments were. A plurality were not completely ridiculous. But of course there were plenty of the same comments you STILL here now.
Call me old fashioned, but I like my HC to not be interviewing on National Signing Day. Let’s get him out of here. Thanks for this last year, enjoy Kirk Cousins.
The second he lands in Minnesota Warde needs to inform him the University is moving on from him and pay him his low buyout. Announce Harbaugh is persuing NFL opportunities and Michigan will be looking for a new HC.
Here is a big brain energy from salvadorquattro
1-5, 3-4, and 1-5. He hasn’t been the coach we thought we were getting. He has been good, but not great.
Let’s stop pretending he has been a huge success here because he hasn’t. If he leaves he is leaving behind h program stronger than he found it. That is true. But he also leaves a legacy of spotty performances. Can UM do worse? Sure. But they can also do better.
Sorry but Jim has brought this on himself with all his nonsense about how he would do this job for free, and NO-body has it better than us, etc etc. A huge part of his appeal to the fanbase was his passion for Michigan and all of his ties to the area. If its just another job to him then he is just another coach who can be easily replaced. It won’t be too difficult to find someone else who can beat OSU once in 7 years and lose almost every other big game we play.
January 15th, 2024 at 5:36 PM ^
They’d be dumb not to want him, so it should really come down to Jim and whether he wants to:
1. Try to win a Super Bowl
2. Try to win us another Natty
Like a lot of people, I think he’s going back to the NFl. He played in the league for ages and, being the competitor he is, probably wants to see if he can be the 3rd coach (that I’m aware of) to win it all at both the college and pro levels.
That said, the thing about Harbaugh is that he follows his heart. If he’s decided to stay in Ann Arbor, no offer or argument will sway him.
I do feel confident that Moore would be an excellent replacement - and he might even be able to keep most of the staff together. We joke about Ryan Day leading the 3rd base index but ideally you do want the internal promotion to start with as big an advantage as possible.
January 15th, 2024 at 5:43 PM ^
I'm very concerned about Moore being the replacement. That would be a huge gamble, and from what I've seen of his in-game strategy, I'm not confident he would be a successful head coach.
January 15th, 2024 at 5:45 PM ^
I like Sherrone, but he literally only has 12 hours of "head coach" experience. That's it. Harbaugh was still the head coach during all the weeks he was suspended, just not during the games.
That is not much to go on.
January 15th, 2024 at 5:56 PM ^
This guy was wearing three hats simultaneously and his unit is BY FAR the most successful over the last three years. What more do you want Sherrone to do?
The players love him and he provides continuity.
Fisch and DeBoer are off the market now. Moore is the optimal choice. Minter isn’t staying in college if Jim leaves.
January 15th, 2024 at 6:07 PM ^
The defense is by far the most successful unit.
January 15th, 2024 at 5:47 PM ^
3 already- Jimmy Johnson, Barry Switzer, Pete Carroll.
January 15th, 2024 at 5:50 PM ^
Jim is, of course, a former Charger himself 
January 15th, 2024 at 5:53 PM ^
I like their old unis much better.
Maybe Jim will change them back.
January 15th, 2024 at 8:56 PM ^
Nothing will beat the Dan Fouts era unis
Eff I am old.
January 15th, 2024 at 5:41 PM ^
The longer this drags out, the more clear it is what's going on. The NFL is driving this timeline. Not the Michigan contract process.
At the end of the day, this will be the NFL's decision.
Not Harbaugh's.
Not Warde's.
If an NFL team wants him badly enough, he is gone. He wants to chase his Super Bowl dream, and Warde realistically cannot guarantee him protection from a vindictive NCAA. Those two things add up to him leaving if the NFL legitimately wants him.
That is why nothing has been decided yet. Because the NFL has not decided yet.
January 15th, 2024 at 6:22 PM ^
I don't understand why you keep making this point as if the NFL will be forcing Jim to put ink to paper. It'll be his choice in the end.