Jim Harbaugh helped Michigan win the Rose Bowl in Pasadena before leading the Wolverines to the national championship. It turns out Harbaugh should’ve also been looking for real estate while he was in Southern California.
Harbaugh has agreed to a deal to become the Los Angeles Chargers’ head coach, the team announced Wednesday night.
ESPN was the first to report the news.
The deal officially marks Harbaugh’s much-anticipated return to the NFL.
Harbaugh spent the past nine years with the Wolverines, compiling an 89-25 record in that span. His time at Michigan didn’t come without controversy. Harbaugh was suspended by the school for the first three games of the 2023 season because of a recruiting violation and subsequent failure to cooperate with an NCAA investigation. He was then suspended for Michigan’s final three regular-season games by the Big Ten for alleged sign stealing.
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Despite the rocky 2023 season, Harbaugh led Michigan, his alma mater, to its first national title since 1997.
“Jim Harbaugh is football personified, and I can think of no one better to lead the Chargers forward,” team owner Dean Spanos said in a statement. “The son of a coach, brother of a coach and father of a coach who himself was coached by names like (Bo) Schembechler and (Mike) Ditka, for the past two decades Jim has led hundreds of men to success everywhere he’s been — as their coach. And today, Jim Harbaugh…
