Michigan's Jim Harbaugh answers questions from reporters on a Zoom call about playing football in 2020, COVID-19 and more, Wednesday, July 8, 2020. Detroit Free Press
Back in January, Jim Harbaugh received a 10% raise following his fifth season as Michigan football’s coach.
The salary bump was tied to an automatic escalator stuffed into his seven-year pact with the school.
But the agreement itself, which is set to expire following the end of the 2021 season, hadn’t been extended — raising doubt about Harbaugh’s long-term future with the program.
After all, it’s become a standard practice in college football for university athletic departments to lengthen coaching contracts to four years and beyond as a way of maintaining the perception of stability that appeals to both recruits and fans.