College GameDay Emergency Pod: Jim Harbaugh Leaves Michigan To Coach Chargers

The Adam Schefter Podcast

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🗓️ 25 January 2024

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Pete Thamel and ESPN Senior NFL Insider Adam Schefter convene for an emergency podcast to talk about the news of Jim Harbaugh leaving the national champion Michigan Wolverines to coach the NFL’s Los Angeles Chargers. They get into what kept Harbaugh from getting on the plane to Atlanta, what this means for the Michigan program, and the possibility of Michigan offensive coordinator/offensive line coach, Sherrone Moore, stepping into the head coach role. 1:33 What kept Harbaugh from going to Atlanta? 2:10 What’s next for Michigan? 2:34 Who will be Michigan’s next head coach? 5:36 Adam Schefter’s Harbaugh memories 7:44 Expectations for Sherrone Moore 11:20 How well does Harbaugh pair with Charges Quarterback Justin Herbert? 12:55 Where is Michigan Quarterback, JJ McCarthy’s, range in the draft? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the college game day podcast.
0:08.4	Pete Thammel here.
0:10.1	And we are stretching into the NFL today.
0:12.6	Our friend, Michigan graduate, Adam Schaefter, joins us.
0:16.0	ESPN's intrepid NFL insider.
0:18.5	He broke the biggest news of the day,
0:20.2	maybe the biggest news of the year
0:21.6	in the college football space. Jim Harbaugh leaving Michigan for the Los Angeles Chargers,
0:28.0	signing a five-year deal. Adam, your immediate reaction to the news of Jim Harbaugh leaving Michigan
0:33.9	in the wake of the national championship. Well, Michigan was offering to make Jim Harbaugh the highest pay coach in college football.
0:40.1	But the fact of the matter is no matter what Michigan offered him, it couldn't offer him
0:44.6	the chance to win a Super Bowl.
0:47.3	There was just nothing that Michigan would do.
0:48.9	And he had won a national championship there.
0:51.2	He wants to go back to the NFL and win a Super Bowl.
0:53.5	And I think once he
0:54.9	won the national championship, and even if he hadn't won it, like he had taken Michigan to the
0:58.9	final four three straight years. He had turned around the program. They had beaten Ohio State.
1:02.5	He made Michigan a national power again. He had returned the program to prominence. And because
1:09.7	of all that, then it was a case of him wanting the next
1:14.5	challenge, the next frontier. And with the money at the NFL level for coaches exploding and with
1:21.0	his bargaining powers being at their peak leverage abilities, this was the time to do it. To me, he was going to the NFL.
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