When the call was confirmed, you could feel the college football earth shift ever so slightly.
Michigan, slogging through three less than superb seasons under Brady Hoke, needed to connect on its home run swing toward its next football coach hire. There was really only one name that fit the bill, a man who played quarterback for and learned the game of football under the eyes of the great Bo Schembechler: Jim Harbaugh.
"Throughout my life, I have dreamed of coaching at the University of Michigan," Harbaugh told the media Dec. 30, the day the school officially announced his hire.