There’s always another shoe to drop - the OTHER contract sticking point

Anison · Jan 16, 2024

According to Dan Wetzel’s article detailing the contract sticking points, including “immunity” from for-cause termination over the existing NCAA investigations - and also this interesting nugget.

As some of us have said - Jim wanted the NFL all along and there’s nothing anyone could do about it.

Harbaugh is also seeking a delay in the start date of the new contract to maintain a lower buyout that NFL teams would have to pay Michigan to hire him away. The buyout in his current contract dropped from $2.25 million to $1.5 million on January 11. Michigan is seeking that to rise to about $4 million in a new deal. Harbaugh has sought to have the new deal not start until Feb. 15, thus maintaining the lower, and more favorable, buyout number until after the NFL hiring cycle has concluded.

wfallot11 · Jan 16, 2024