Top Michigan Wolverines boosters have been informed that Jim Harbaugh will become the football program’s next head coach.
The Michigan Wolverines were favored to hire Jim Harbaugh, and now that the NFL season is over, the program has made good on it’s promise to fans. That promise was to find a head coach who could take over and immediately make the team better and that’s what has happened.
Former Michigan Wolverines quarterback Jim Harbaugh has returned to his alma mater to coach the team he once played for and has always supported. His hiring isn’t yet official, but according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter — who also happens to be a Michigan alumni — the top boosters for the Wolverines have been informed Harbaugh is indeed coming to the school.
Michigan has told its biggest boosters a deal for Jim Harbaugh is done and a press conference is scheduled for Tuesday, per sources.
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) December 29, 2014
The hiring is hardly surprising, but there was late drama on Sunday and Monday morning as teams in the NFL were making a lat minute push to get him to stay. The Oakland Raiders even had a meeting on Monday morning with Harbaugh to try and convince him to come to Oakland and not Michigan, but that’s clearly not going to happen.
Nothing is official until it’s official and Harbaugh may find a last minute deal in the NFL that he likes, but all signs continue to point to the former 49ers coach moving back to Michigan to take over his old school.
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