New Tweet from Joe Pequeno re: Harbaugh

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This is similar to his tweet from 7:00 PM yesterday. If nothing else, this confirms that the status quo hasn't changed (for better or worse) as of 3:01 PM today.

For what it's worth, John U. Bacon tweeted yesterday that Pequeno's reporting on this story has been pretty spot on as far as he can tell and that Pequeno has had things before most other reporters (things that JUB says have checked out).

Edit: Pequeno clarified in the comments that he was "just informed about verbal agreement." So that's the bit of information that's new and different from his tweets from yesterday. 

Source says verbal agreement in place for Jim Harbaugh to become new Michigan coach. No contracts signed, but UM feels real confident.

— Joe Pequeno (@JoePequenoCBS5) December 27, 2014
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LSAClassOf2000

December 27th, 2014 at 3:20 PM ^

All good news, of course. 

I am still waiting for "sources close to the situation" to confirm that Schiano's agent has strapped himself to the Cube and refuses to leave until he can at least have an audience with Hackett. I wait for this, of course, so I can take the kids down to the Cube so they can give it good spin, of course. 

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Indonacious

December 27th, 2014 at 3:25 PM ^

My pure speculation based logic as to who is contact is... He went to school at univ of Sourh Florida, where the current head football coach is willie taggart, who used be an assistant (as rb coach) under harbaugh at Stanford before Leaving for wku head coach and then usf head coach position. Maybe willie is coming back to reunite with harbaugh?

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The Reeve

December 27th, 2014 at 3:31 PM ^

I think this misses the obvious. Of course Harbaugh is still under contract and has verbally (or MOU) agreed and not signed anything. It is SF that has become the satisfied party in this, passing on exploring trading JH and being an obstructionist party. It was Baalke who said that Michigan acted properly in this because (IMO) Hackett has headed all difficulties off at the pass by compensating SF, which is in writing and which is beyond a point of no return. If SF had wanted to obstruct things, the could have taken an adversarial posture and evened the timelines between the NFL suitors and Michigan. Legal people, am I full of it?

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feanor

December 27th, 2014 at 4:26 PM ^

If Jim wants to be at Michigan, he will be at Michigan.  Jim can walk at any point, but he will need to pay whatever buyout that would be owed to the 49ers, or neogtiate with Michigan to have them pay.

My understanding is that this agreement is just to allow Jim to sign with M as fast as possible without giving the Raiders a chance to offer 10+ million.  Michigan pays some of the contractually obligated buyout to prevent the 49ers from exploring trade possiblilties(which if Jim wants to be at Michigan could be vetoed by him anyways), and 49ers waive the rest in exchange for not having to fire Jim and pay him a buyout.

Bottom line is the 49ers have no way to make Jim stay in the NFL if he doesn't want to be there, Jim could quit today, pay the $5 mil he would owe(No idea what his breach would actually cost) and be named the HC at Michigan tomorrow.  

So your not completely full of it, but there really isn't a way for the 49ers to be an obstruction to this happening.

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nappa18

December 27th, 2014 at 3:34 PM ^

Not to rain on anybody s parade, including mine, but a verbal agreement is only a tad better then no agreement at all. Monday cannot get here fast enough. However, it is hard to believe JH would string Hackett along until the last minute, but stranger things have happened. Worse then being left at the altar, JH not coming now would be as if a bride walked down the aisle and then turned and left. Ouch.

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DrueDown

December 27th, 2014 at 4:04 PM ^

He will sign once he's coached the final 9'ers game, and his current contract is void (fired or resigned).

He'll address his team, then address the media.
Signed, sealed & delivered.


Fap. Rinse. Repeat.

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JamieH

December 27th, 2014 at 4:45 PM ^

He CAN'T SIGN ANYTHING until he has coached his final game with SF.  So a verbal agreement is the best we can get at this point.  Anyone acting like that is anything but a great thing is wrong.  Harbaugh isn't going to back out IMO unless Michigan somehow welches or gives the appearance of welching on their end of the agreement, and I would be beyond stunned if Hackett did anything stupid like that.   Hackett seems way too savvy to have any kind of schenannigans like that going on.

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