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Jim Harbaugh's Michigan football pay cut restores balance after 10% raise

Michigan AD Warde Manuel, with Darryl Conway and Dr. Sami Rifat, discusses the plan to get student-athletes back to campus for workouts June 18, 2020. Detroit Free Press

The world works in mysterious ways — shifting and readjusting, pushing and pulling as competing forces work to maintain an equilibrium.

There was life before the COVID-19 outbreak, when this planet was humming along, sports were played without interruption and Jim Harbaugh became the recent recipient of a 10% raise baked into his contract.

There is the trying existence we now lead during a pandemic, when nations across this globe have been paralyzed, games of all kind have disappeared from the calendar and the Michigan football coach is subjected to a 10% pay cut that is just another consequence of this nasty virus.