Bruce Feldman Reports Harbaugh Extension coming until 2026

The buyout would probably be 20 million dollars knowing the way this athletic department operates.

Big problem is Warde has to navigate politically without pissing off the big donors who liked Harbaugh. Warde gave him an out with lower buyout money and lower base pay. If Harbaugh doesn't do well next season, that makes it easier to fire him without having to pay a significant amount of buyout money.

Another Hank Hill appearance? 

To me there were 2 options: extend Harbaugh or hire Campbell. Unless you want to take the shot in the dark on Hafley. If we somehow bring in Moorhead, that’s the ideal offensive staff. If we also get 3 elite defensive coaches including a top flight DC and an excellent DL coach then we had about as good of an offseason as one can hope. I’m waiting for the other announcements. The right staff can right this ship. 

If you haven't given them up the past 13 years, why would you in 2021?

I said it after the MSU game, call me a bandwagon fan all you want but I’m not renewing. The product on the field is too frustrating, and frankly it’s not even in the final result. Penalties, stubborn play calling and having no plan, not fun out in the field makes me way too frustrated to spend my money on it. The football team is like the Lions, it’s best season is always the off season

Keeping mine. Sat in the stadium during the worst years of all. 
 

but of course before Covid and this horrible year we upgraded to chair backs.  At least didn’t have to pay this year. 

No - after having season tickets for 18 of the last 24 years, including 1997. But mostly because the AD refuses to do anything about Paul Schmidt, who knew about the shit Robert Anderson was doing. As a victim of a sexual predator myself, I've refused to give another dime to the AD until something happens. I'm perfectly fine if that means never giving another dime for any season tickets, other one-off events, or merchandise.

I was already having reservations about renewing last season. The secondary market is shit, and I can barely give tickets away to family and friends when I can't go. That's becoming more frequent now with two kids playing sports that I coach. Also, the games eat up essentially 8 hours of my day if sports don't conflict, and that's if I decide not to drink. And good luck getting anyone to join me when we get a game with rain or bitter cold. So, it's kind of hard to justify sitting alone in four seats for ND 2019 knowing I paid on the order of $1,000 to go to that game (face + seat license) by myself.

Call me old fashioned, but after the season Android Lloyd put together in 1997, I guess I started to expect that Michigan would put together championship teams on the regular. After suffering through the worst of the RichRod and Hoke years, and seeing all the ways the AD/booster arrogance has gotten in the way of actually being able to put together a championship program, I thought Harbaugh would turn things around.

Seeing the AD's response to whole Anderson/Schmidt ordeal, combined with their seeming incompence in terms of stepping on their own dicks when it comes to football, and not really seeing the value in shelling out thousands of dollars to hope we stay "close," that we are "close," or we may be "close" next year to a championship team, for those reasons, I'm out.

It's a really good question.  I've had mine for over 10 years and I was THIS close to not renewing during the later Hoke years.  With that, I will likely renew this year, despite it being an inconvenience to go to all games (~4 hour drive from Chicago).

Believe it or not, I really like Jim Harbaugh.  He really is a good coach that is having some personal/health issues do deal with.  If we can get back to what he was in 2015-2016 (and make some key changes on the remainder of the staff), I think we can be a NC caliber program.  Overall though, I support the program and the school.  That alone will drive me to renew likely.

Didn’t renew for 2020, had tickets for 30 years. Multiple reasons - increased prices, game times not known until late (more difficult for reserving hotels, travel), games taking the whole day, and last but not least the product on the field. Much easier to tailgate with friends at home and to turn the channel when the game gets ugly. Also our tailgate pretty much disbanded because 6 other families gave their tickets up too.

The offense will have the guys to be very good. Here's to hoping we can make it happen!

This is too level-headed, intelligent, and subjective for the talk radio crowd in this thread so far.

Agreed! But, what about  the DC? 

There is a scenario where Harbaugh took a big cut to his base pay and got extra money for the staff so he can go hire a Moorhead and a Muschamp.  I don't love it, but it does give me some hope.

6 years he has not done so...how many years should he be given?