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Harbaugh turns down $5.2 million Michigan offer!
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hawkeye12345
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Agreed. Plus the Niners have some pretty serious talent on their team once Gore gets healthy. No Thunder, not that Gore, I'm not singing the praises of your beloved but rather Frank Gore.
How is that? The two highest paid coaches in the league are the only ones makeing more than the Michigan offer. As far as I know, no NFL team has decided that a college coach that is completely unproven deserves more money than 90% of the coaches in the league, including ones with Super Bowl rings. Notice there are no current NFL offer amounts. They will not pay him top 5 coach money. He is too much of an unknown.
hawkeye12345
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San Fran picks 7th in this years draft. Could you imagine the season ticket sales for San Fran if they get Harbaugh and Luck should they make a trade with Carolina for the #1? Wow.
GravyJones
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The state of North Carolina should secede if they trade that pick and get anything less than an entire team's draft plus a solid NFL player.
Iowafarmgirl
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Jim Harbaugh is the hottest coaching commodity in the past 10 years. Pete Carroll got $7 million dollars last year, and Harbaugh is in much higher demand than Carroll was, and Carroll was a .500 NFL coach. He has Michigan and 4 NFL teams competeing against each other. Simple economoics tells you that when demand is high, the price of a commodity increases.
Harbaugh will make $7 million plus, and I will bet anyone who disagrees. Name your terms.
HawkeyeMike23
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Yeah I'm sure Carolina is real excited about the Jimmy Claussen era. Good try though, kid, but why don't you leave this convo to the grown ups?
DuffMan
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Dude you look pretty stupid here. ESPN is already reporting that Miami will offer enough money to make him among the highest paid coaches in the league at between 7 and 8 million per year. Pete Carroll who's already failed once in the NFL got close that to go to fricken Seattle.
Maybe so, but I think I am still ahead in the intelligence curves when compared to teh front offices at SF and Miami. The guy who won the super bowl with the freaking Saints doesn't make close to this. That is just ridculous. I reiterate, the Saints!!
Also, it says in the article that only Belechick and Shanahan are making over 7 million a year. Carroll may have signed a $7 million dollar contract, but it is not being paid in one year if the source is to be believed. Where did you get that Pete Carroll number?
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GravyJones
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Bill Belichick, Mike Shanahan, Pete Carroll, Jeff Fisher, and Lovie Smith all make more than the imaginary offer from Michigan.
GravyJones
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I don't know if the numbers have ever been made public officially, but rumors were he was getting close to $8M/year when he signed his extension 2 years ago.
DuffMan
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When you look at his complete resume it's nothing short of amazing. He's much more than a lowly college coach who struck lighning in a bottle this year.
As a player he nearly led the Colts to the superbowl despite the fact he played a lot like Jim Harbaugh.
He was the QB coach for the raiders when some journeyman named Rich Gannon led them to the super bowl.
He led San Diego to a 7-4 record his first season and then back to back 11-1 seasons before leaving for Stanford, which has also worked out pretty well.
The dude is as hot an coaching prospect as I can ever remember and rightfully so.
And I guarantee you the guy at the Saints is down on his hands and knees right now praying that Harbaugh gets offered 7.5 million by the Phins.
As a player he nearly led the Colts to the superbowl despite the fact he played a lot like Jim Harbaugh.
He was the QB coach for the raiders when some journeyman named Rich Gannon led them to the super bowl.
He led San Diego to a 7-4 record his first season and then back to back 11-1 seasons before leaving for Stanford, which has also worked out pretty well.
The dude is as hot an coaching prospect as I can ever remember and rightfully so.
And I guarantee you the guy at the Saints is down on his hands and knees right now praying that Harbaugh gets offered 7.5 million by the Phins.
Are there that many coaches bunched at 5 million? Every one here says Carroll makes 7 million a year, but Reuters says Fisher is third with 5.3 million, with no mention of Carroll. But it still goes back to paying Harbaugh a couple million over market in my mind. This is going the way of MLB salaries, where the idiotic Rangers heaped money on ARoid, and now all of a sudden a guy who waddles off the bench, strikes out, and waddles back, never to see the field, commands 15 mill a year.
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DuffMan
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Not only did Pete get 7 million a year, he got it for something like 5 years.
GravyJones
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Teams don't always make coach salaries public for whatever reason, as in the case of Sean Payton. It's been over 2 years since his extension, and I still haven't seen anything official regarding his salary. As I said before, the prevalent rumor was that it was in the 5 year/$40M range.
Mike Smith in Atlanta is likely going to be getting an extension somewhere in that range as well.
GravyJones
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Yikes, re-checking Forbes and see that Mike Tomlin, Ken Whisenhunt, Andy Reid, and Tom Coughlin can be added to the list of NFL coaches who make more than the imaginary Michigan offer.
That Michigan offer would still make him the highest paid college coach for a year. I think someone has a contract that floats to make them the highest paid D1 coach(Brown I believe?).
At 5.2 million a year at Michigan, I am betting you could get a pretty good coach from a current college power to come on up. Bob Stoops might leave for that.
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GravyJones
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Huh? Miami won 7 games and did not make the playoffs
GravyJones
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And again, the story announcing the $5.2M offer has never been confirmed. They said it came from Reuters, but Reuters has nothing on it.
