Jim Harbaugh has been on the Michigan soccer sideline for 9 seasons. Earlier than he returned to Ann Arbor to educate his lama mater, Harbaugh loved appreciable success teaching on the NFL degree.
He led the 49ers to a Tremendous Bowl throughout his four-year run in San Francisco. On Monday, Harbaugh will coach the Wolverines within the Faculty Soccer Playoff Nationwide Championship recreation in opposition to the Washington Huskies.
Though Harbaugh is placing closing touches on preparations for the sport that would finish Michigan’s 26-year nationwide title drought, hypothesis continues to develop about his potential NFL future. Harbaugh fielded questions on Saturday in Houston, the positioning of this season’s nationwide championship recreation, about whether or not his rumored curiosity in professional soccer could be impacted by the results of Monday’s recreation.
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“I don’t know about that,” Harbaugh stated. “I couldn’t be extra completely satisfied to be right here. It is a large metropolis. They do all the things massive in Texas, and that is cool. That is proper the place we wish to be. That is the place we labored, to get there.”
Harabaugh additionally downplayed the notion that he was one of many greatest tales heading within the title recreation.
“(Followers) actually do not come to observe the coaches, they do not come to observe the directors, they arrive to observe the gamers,” the Michigan coach stated Saturday.
Harbaugh dismissed a bevy of NFL-related questions all through the press convention. The 60-year-old coach is reportedly weighing a 10-year, $125 million contract extension. The supply is believed to incorporate a clause that will forestall Harbaugh from taking a job on the NFL degree for the 2024 season.
Harbaugh hinted that he would focus on his future plans someday after Monday’s recreation. “I am going to gladly speak concerning the future subsequent week,” Harbaugh stated. “And I hope to have one. How about that? Future? I hope to have one.”
At one level within the presser, Harbaugh shrugged off a query concerning the distinction in time administration with regards to teaching on the faculty soccer degree vs. within the NFL. “I haven’t got that listing in entrance of me,” he stated. “I haven’t got that listing.”
However, Harbaugh was prepared to share his stance on sharing income with gamers.
“There was once a saying, previous coaches — my dad’s used it, my brother’s used it — we’re all robbing the identical practice right here,” Harbaugh stated.
“So that should change. It is one factor for anyone to say, properly, they’re getting NIL. However the billions which are being generated, they don’t seem to be getting a lot of, very small proportion. They’re getting the identical quantity as I acquired within the 80s. You are getting scholarship, room, board, books and tuition.”
As of Saturday, Michigan is a 4.5 favourite over Washington for the nationwide championship recreation.
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