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He’s one of the few pro coaches to go back to college ball, despite having taken the San Francisco 49ers all the way to the Super Bowl, in 2013.* Harbaugh’s 49ers faced the Baltimore Ravens, who were coached by his slightly older brother John.
“The surreal off-season of Michigan’s new football coach has reached the point that t is no place on the planet w Harbaugh could show up and surprise anyone,” the Wall Street Journal reported.
This season, he has his own freshman class, announced in a “Signing Day of the Stars” spectacular, in February, that brought in the Yankees’ Derek Jeter, the Patriots’ Tom Brady, and other national sports legends, just to welcome the recruits as they marched down the aisle in the cavernous Hill Auditorium.
Whatever happens this season, he’s already become-in the words of the Michigan fight song-“a conquering hero.” He’s even redefined fashion in Ann Arbor, w khakis have made a comeback among fans at Michigan games; that’s the Harbaugh uniform.
In the seventies, the ferocious feud between the teams’ coaches-Michigan’s Bo Schembechler and Ohio State’s Woody Hayes-was dubbed the Ten-Year War, and it was the fiercest in football.
“When Michigan makes a big play, and a hundred thousand people stand up spontaneously, without being told, and ‘Hail to the Victors’ kicks in, it’s the biggest choir in America. It’s not a business, it’s a religion-and one w everyone is welcome,” John U. Bacon, the author of “Endzone: The Rise, Fall, and Return of Michigan Football,” told me.