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Agreed. This was the perfect hire for Michigan. And absolute difference maker.

Only thing I think might foil it is if Harbaugh's heart is still in the NFL. After Saban's stint with the Dolphins I think he knew he was finished with pro football for good. Not so sure about Harbaugh, who's far more of an NFL guy--I suspect the fact that he got to, but didn't win, the Super Bowl, will continue to gnaw at him.

 

He's 51 years old. He could do the Michigan gig for 8-10 years and still be ready for the NFL.

Carroll was 58 when he went to Seattle.

 

Harbaugh brought joy to SF fans after SF had sunk to the lower depths of the NFL (they were picking in the top ten in the draft) for I think nearly a decade.

York and Baalke are delusional when they think they are a bigger part of the success than Harbaugh; York's local radio interview with KNBR just showed how clueless he is about how he's viewed and what path he's chosen.

If York/Baalke did a proper due diligence before they hired Harbaugh, they know four years later they got exactly what they pursued; now after a SB and 3 straight NFC championship games and one 8-8 yr they show that guy the door? Simply a recipe for disaster.

 

I think he will eventually go back to the NFL, but this could end up being like his good friend Pete Carroll, go kick ass in college for five years or so, wait for the right situation and then jump back to the league.

 

York actually sat up there yesterday and said it the next coach doesn't win a SB within two years, they'll "reassess"

This team is nowhere close to contending for a SB. Kaepernick isn't the player they thought he was and the rest of the team is rapidly aging and quite a few of them aren't likely to be back.

 

York got absolutely destroyed on the radio today by Brian Murphy (former sportswriter whose name might ring a bell). It's worth a listen on KNBR's website.

Jed is so out of his league it's comical.

 

Watching York babble about how it is his job to win the Super Bowl every year
was laughable. But it did look like he wants Tom Cruise to play him in the movie.

 

Apparently, the Harbaugh deal is being worth a lot more than the new $5 million a year that was reported today.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co...igan-contract-has-base-value-of-40-1-million/

 

Apologies if this was already posted in the thread, but I thought this was pretty funny:

http://www.sacbee.com/sports/nfl/san-francisco-49ers/article5187357.html

 

He's left Stanford a full cupboard for Shaw, and I love what Shaw has done. Harbaugh will make Michigan relevant again within 2 years.

 

The only thing that *could* turn his contract into "a lot more" than his deal with the Niners is the weirdly worded "compensation agreement" after the 2015 season. Otherwise, it's a 7-year deal worth about 5.7M a year. The base salary is $5M/year. The signing bonus and a couple raises will bump it up a little.

 

I would assume there would be a fairly hefty contract with Adidas, and all of his appearance fees as well.