Jim Harbaugh makes decisions around the clock.
U-M assistant Jay Harbaugh wasn’t surprised to hear from Jim with major news around 11:30 p.m. on a January night while in Houston.
Jim wanted Jay to move from coaching tight ends to running backs, filling Tyrone Wheatley’s absence.
After the call, Jay lay awake, thinking about the new position.
He had no experience directly coaching running backs, but during wide offensive experience at Oregon State, with the Baltimore Ravens and at Michigan, he picked up pieces.
“The way coaching works is, if you’re doing it right, you’re kind of absorbing everything,” Jay Harbaugh said Thursday after a spring practice.