Jim Harbaugh and the NFL are doing their holiday dance again. Is it finally time?

And … here we go again. Well, not me, but you, dear Michigan football fan. The holidays are here, and so are reports about the NFL’s interest in your football coach.

The latest comes by way of Los Angeles, where a head coach vacancy opened up a couple weeks back. The Chargers are reportedly interested in Jim Harbaugh, which makes sense, as long they aren’t listening to the advice of Paul Finebaum, Harbaugh’s anti-muse.

The college football analyst, or rather, provocateur, joined the Freep’s “Hail Yes!” podcast this week and called Harbaugh a “dinosaur” — an interesting choice of words considering the best football league in the world (sorry, SEC) apparently is packed with paleontologists, based on their yearly interest.

Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh waves at fans to celebrate U-M’s 26-0 win over Iowa in the Big Ten championship game in Indianapolis on Saturday, Dec. 2, 2023.

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The Wolverines’ coach may be a lot of things — stoic, quirky, intense, single-minded, unconcerned with (self-defined) frivolous NCAA rules — but “dinosaur?”

The same guy who took a sleeping bag on a recruiting visit and stripped his shirt off for a little touch football run?

Come on. Let’s get serious.

Early in his time in Ann Arbor, Harbaugh ordered a stage built for a “Signing of the Stars” performance to announce his latest recruits. A few years later, he flew his team to Italy. He has jettisoned entire swaths of his coaching staff when he thought things were getting stale and he has overhauled his offensive approach at least twice.

He is forever in search of the current and the new, and he considers himself a student of the game as much as a teacher. He is not — no matter how broad the definition — a dinosaur, at least when…

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Author : Detroit Free Press

Publish date : 2023-12-22 11:09:09

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