It’s that time of year. It annually falls right about now, in that purgatory stage between the end of the college-football regular season and the bowl games. This is when Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh, who led the Wolverines to a 10-2 record in this, his fourth season, is suddenly linked to NFL vacancies by “sources." Lots of sources, perhaps of the don’t-actually-exist types of sources. Maybe the kind of source who, over a couple glasses of whiskey, says, “Hey, how about Jim Harbaugh coaching Brand X NFL team?” And off goes the rumor and speculation.
It happened again this week, with various media members citing sources that Harbaugh is interested in the Packers and Browns.