Reacting to Jim Harbaugh's contract extension

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🗓️ 9 January 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we discuss the Michigan football team and Jim Harbaugh agreeing to a five year contract that will extend Harbaugh through the 2025 season.

First we discuss the simple question of if this was the best choice for Michigan. We look at the financial situation behind the extension, why firing Harbaugh and hiring a new head coach may not have been as seamless as many think and what to make of the extended timeline.

Then, we start to dig into the tea leaves presented by the extension. We discuss how we interpret the greatly reduced buyout, why it might point to Michigan and Harbaugh viewing 2021 as the ultimatum year and why Harbaugh might have agreed to it.

Finally, we look at the biggest question mark of it all, and ponder if Harbaugh and Michigan backed into the deal, and if they can legitimately be all-in on the extension moving forward, or if there is still tension and discontent on either side.

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0:24.8	Hello everybody.
0:25.6	Welcome to the Wolverine 24-7 podcast, your audio source for all things.
0:28.7	Michigan football, basketball, and recruiting.
0:30.9	I'm your host, Zach Shaw.
0:31.8	Steve Lorenz here with me.
0:34.1	Well, Steve, we've got some news to talk about.
0:36.4	This was stuff that we'd been kind of, I don't know, just waiting for it to happen.
0:42.0	I don't think we ever fully knew 100% that it was going to happen,
0:46.8	but I think pretty much you and me and pretty much everybody in the media and probably
0:52.2	the readers and the fans were expecting this at some point.
0:57.5	Some details are surprising. We'll talk about it. But Jim Harbaugh has signed a four-year extension
1:03.0	with the Michigan football team. So I say four-year extension. It is a five-year contract,
1:10.4	but my understanding of what Word Manual sent,
1:14.5	the memorandum of understanding is that the first of the five years starts on Monday.
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