Harbaugh interviewing with Chargers TODAY per Schefter

Has a coach ever won a NC and then left for a new job 5 minutes later? I just don't think it's likely.

An interview is not an offer from the Chargers. Simply mutual interest. 

When I hear an NFL team has 'extended an offer' then I my ears will perk up.

As with everything Harbaugh, this will unfold in a totally normal and not-weird way. Wish we could just get an omnibus update when he finally gauges the love metric and makes a decision.

Are the Chargers interviewing Harbaugh or is Harbaugh interviewing the Chargers?

The most shocking part about all of this is how people are surprised. This is the third year in a row Harbaugh has gone looking for an NFL job. It’s clear he wants to get back into the league – and that’s OK! He’s Uber competitive he’s already done everything he can in college football now it’s time for him to win a Super Bowl. This talk about Warde not showing the love or the JUB bear hug narrative is just a distraction. Harbaugh wants back in. There’s nothing that Ward can do about that. It’s just a matter of whether or not a team wants him.

Will be awhile before we know. Interviewing with only one team isn't enough leverage.  

I mean, this is what having Harbaugh as coach is going to be like.

you hire a successful NFL coach, and you are always going to deal with NFL interest.

The reason that guys like Saban didn't garner NFL interest was due to his failures at the NFL level - and he understood that. He scratched that itch.

Harbaugh was a 1 yard away from winning the Superbowl. So that is something that probably  irritates him to no end.

Guys fron NFL backgrounds that are successful in college will always get interest from the NFL.

Its the price of success.

I see nothing wrong in at least talking, and then receiving an offer to find out your worth at the NFL level, especially if it helps negotiating with Michigan. 

Next season, Michigan will be coached by Harbaugh, Moore, Minter, or someone great. 

The returning defense is A+. Offense has a big hole at QB. 

This is all going to work out fine, fellas. 

He’s gone. He’s interviewed with NFL teams each of the last three offseasons. Clearly he wants to go.

This is not surprising. I posted months ago, before they fired Staley even, that the Chargers were after Harbaugh and it was his most likely destination if he leaves. I’m not sold he’s going to the NFL at this point, but the Chargers were always the likely place. We’ll see what happens. 

Jim said he will be at Michigan as long as they want him.... and he said he wants to be where he feels wanted.    Michigan offering him a contract of $12m/year (there are rumors it could be more)  is going to be competitive with any other suiters.   Now that Belichick is out of NE, the contract Michigan is reported to be offering makes him the highest paid college coach and top ten paid coach in any sport.   The Chargers are not known to be big spenders, if he leaves it won't be about money.

If the hold up is Michigan not wanting to give him some protection from a NCAA or B1G witch hunt, then he should leave.    The man has done everything anyone could ask of him, even took a f'in' pay cut....... 

I believe he will stay, but like all the players who have decided to pass on their remaining eligibilty and enter the draft, what better way to leave than on top?

https://www.sportico.com/personalities/people/2023/highest-paid-coaches-2023-belichick-payton-popovich-1234747782/

Upside.  A new D coordinator will be handed a scheme and can grow into it.  While Sherrone greatly improved the offensive line (and he will be there to keep that monster going), the offense struggled against top defenses.  Sherrone will hire an O coordinator.  I hope the new O coordinator will improve the offense.  So I think the team will improve if Harbaugh leaves.  If he stays it will also improve.  The glass is full.  Just have a reasonable QB.

I live a couple blocks from their facility. I’ll bring him some whole milk in a bid for him to stay

I'm glad he got us the championship.  Past 3 years have been great. 

But this needs to stop. "I just want to be wanted"... "I need a contract"... "Don't out happy happy".  I don't know what else he needs.  We're only going to keep losing out on big recruits and the portal is gonna be crazy once he leaves.

Santa needs to can Warde’s ass if what Bacon has been reporting is accurate.

Anybody else wonder what "Meeting with" means? That could be a whole day in LA with the owner & GM or it could be a Zoom call in his office. Seems like that would be important.

I don't know why, but I'm afraid of the Cowboys hiring him. 

Jim came back, which wasn't ever close to a sure thing.  Then he lost his way for a couple years.  Then re-evaluated everything and everyone, including himself-which most people don't have the capacity to do.  Then found his guys, went back to Harbaugh football, and spent the last three years going 40-3 and capping it off with a National Championship.  He's more than earned the right to leave, and I will have nothing but good feelings for him forever.

I do think hiring Moore as the new HC is the right thing to do, though to expect him to be as good a coach as Harbaugh immediately is beyond stupid.  Big difference between a coordinator and head coach-success at one doesn't guarantee success at the other.  See Weis, Charlie.  Sherrone will make mistakes, the best we can hope is that he only makes the big ones once, then learns from them and doesn't make them again.

He'll have my total support-which I'm sure is a great relief to him-and I think he's earned the chance to take the reins.  Next year I expect a good but not great season with 2-4 losses.  He'll get 3 or 4 years to make his mark and prove himself, and hopefully will have 15 or 20 years as our head coach.

People just have to remember that 40-3 isn't a realistic expectation.  Based on our history, it's a once in 50-year run.  I think 1971-1974 was probably the last period that approached those numbers.

Obviously. I want him to stay for my fandom reasons, but it also seems it would be fitting for him to stay to continue to be a voice of change for the college athletes to obtain revenue from the huge TV contracts. Leaving sort of feels like he’s taking his shots at the NCAA/Conferences, etc, and then leaving without actually changing the situation, just saying words about what he thinks is right, and then going to the near soulless NFL. 

Maybe I’m being too critical since NIL and Portal have obviously become a thing since Harbaugh showed up here. 
 

I don’t know, just my 2 cents. 

The most important thing...he can go, but that beautiful banner stays.

I hope this time is it one way or the other.  This yearly dalliance with the NFL is exhausting as a fan and damaging to recruiting.  I love JH and I hope to hell he stays, but man lets just rip the bandaid off already.  

They have the gall to interview him!?  

At this point? If this is accurate? I hope they make Coach an offer that he loves and he accepts. After the BS that the B1G and the NCAA have put him through, he could surely use a fresh start doing something other than college football. My parting words to him will be: thanks for bringing us back to greatness, the three-peat, and the perfect Championship. You went out on top. 👍👍

Edit/add: were I his boss, I would publicly express huge gratitude - and privately breathe a quiet sigh of relief at his departure. Coach is brilliant --- and probably an energetic handful to "manage".

Standing by for further news ....

Chargers' ownership and management have been generationally dysfunctional. 

We all love Jim but he ain't the easiest guy to get along with, and with the clowns running the Chargers, it's not the best fit. Not to say that if anyone can turn the Chargers around it's Jim.

Hopefully Jim decides to stay at Michigan.

That being said it's his life, his wife and family, and his aspirations. Hopefully the UM administration can get things in order to make Jim's choice less difficult.

Please don't leave. I don't want Moore as the head coach, I have zero faith in his ability to run the program. I have a feeling if he's the coach, next year this team falls off and finishes 8-4 and all the momentum is gone and we return to winning 9/10 games a year.

I really wish we could just turn all this success into better recruits, better NIL, and a OSU-like run through the conference (although the conference is way harder now than when OSU dominated it). 

I won't be mad if he leaves because he did so much for Michigan and won a freaking national championship but I would be sad to thing that era is over so fast and gone for a long time.