Names and Faces: DeSean Jackson, Jim Harbaugh

Is Jim Harbaugh worth $5 Million a Year?

Published 3:46pm, Wednesday, July 1, 2015

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LOS ANGELES, CA - JUNE 28: Professional football player DeSean Jackson attends the 2015 BET Awards at the Microsoft Theater on June 28, 2015 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images for BET)

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Michigan football coach Jim Harbaugh looks on during the Coach Jim Harbaugh"s Elite Summer Football Camp, Friday, June 5, 2015, at Prattville High School in Prattville, Ala. (Albert Cesare/The Montgomery Advertiser via AP) NO SALES; MANDATORY CREDIT

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Names and Faces: DeSean Jackson, Jim Harbaugh

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DeSean Jackson

The Cal alum and current Washington wide receiver is no fan of his former team and had plenty to say about the Eagles during Tuesday nights premiere of his Home Team reality show on BET. I was at the top of the top and then I got released, Jackson said. It was a smear campaign. ... I mean, its their loss. I got a second chance to play in the NFL now with the Washington Redskins and Im proving Im one of the best receivers in the game. Around the time the Eagles released Jackson last year, reports surfaced about his possible affiliation with a gang. Many believe those rumors were planted by the Eagles in an attempt to justify unloading him after he had a career year in Chip Kellys offense. When I was released ... I felt they tried to paint a picture that definitely wasnt true. It was a slap in the face. Thats cold how they did me. He later added, I call myself a Cowboy killer, and a Giant killer. Now Im an Eagles killer.

Jim Harbaugh

The former 49ers coach and new head coach at Michigan was interviewed by ESPNs Colin Cowherd on Wednesday morning, an exchange widely described as awkward and which ended with Cowherd hanging up on Harbaugh. The coach, who parted ways with the 49ers in December after not reaching the playoffs for the first time in four years, played defense for most of the interview, offered little insight and stonewalled Cowherd on a number of open-ended questions such as Is your day much different coaching college versus pro football? Toward the end, Harbaugh criticized Cowherd for firing so many questions at him. That opened the door for Cowherd to vent his frustrations. Youre not giving me a ton to work with, coach, he said. Cowherd then noted that most other coaches from big college programs Urban Meyer, Nick Saban, Steve Sarkisian are happy to sell their programs. Cowherd then cut Harbaugh loose.

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Michigan wants to make Jim Harbaugh rich but that isn"t enough

First Take - Has Jim Harbaugh Lost The 49ers Lockeroom ?

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According to reports, Michigan wants to make San Francisco 49ers head coach Jim Harbaugh the highest paid coach in college football. The offer according to the NFL Network would see Harbaugh paid $8 million per year for six years. Its an offer that makes all the sense for the university.

Michigan is broken and fractured on and off the field. Theres likely only one person who couldright the ship by simply being present. Harbaugh istheanswer for Michigan, and the Wolverines are throwing everything they have at him.

The problem is that money can only carry you so far with a person like Harbaugh. Michigan is asking him to step into an athletic department that is in chaos, led by an interim athletic director, and a university president who has said out loud that he is still learning about being at a big school with a big athletic department. Not to mention the last two guys to have this job didnt leave on great terms.

College is not the NFL. Its rife with NCAA rules, regulations,and recruiting. Theres a lot more than football at play should Harbaugh head to Ann Arbor.

There also isnt a Super Bowl.

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Every NFL team that fires its coach this season will make a run at Harbaugh. They, like Michigan, would be stupid not to. They, unlike Michigan, afford the coach an opportunity to reach the pinnacle of football. In his first three seasons in the NFL, Harbaugh wentto three consecutive NFC Championship games, and made one appearance in a Super Bowl.

Harbaugh wont be back to the NFC Championship this year. And his tenure with San Francisco seems destined to come to a close after Week 17. As luck would have it, that other NFL team in the Bay Area has a job opening up and has a bright, young quarterback who could use anoffensive genius.

Harbaugh knows the Oakland Raiders. He was the quarterbacks coach for the Raiders in 2002 and 2003. You might remember the last time Oakland reacheda Super Bowl was in 2003.

Someone wired like Harbaugh doesnt easily walk away after coming so close not once but four times. Someone like Harbaugh also doesnt leave thewest coast, where his family has been for the past 12 years, and thrust them into anything less than an ideal situation.

The money at Michigan is great, but it isntlikely Harbaughs motivation. He could get money just about anywhere. A Super Bowl is far more precious.

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