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Pete ThamelESPN
The Minnesota Vikings reached out to the College of Michigan and obtained permission to talk to Jim Harbaugh about their open head-coach job, a supply advised ESPN’s Courtney Cronin.
Although a proper interview has but to happen, the Vikings had conversations with Harbaugh on Saturday afternoon, with the edges gauging curiosity in one another, the supply mentioned.
Harbaugh has emerged as a candidate partially due to a robust relationship with new Vikings normal supervisor Kwesi Adofo-Mensah, with whom Harbaugh overlapped whereas he was head coach of the San Francisco 49ers. Adofo-Mensah was in San Francisco’s entrance workplace in analysis and improvement and labored with Harbaugh in 2013 and 2014.
A supply advised Cronin that the connection between Adofo-Mensah and Harbaugh is among the major drivers of the franchise’s curiosity in Harbaugh.
Harbaugh is coming off a rejuvenating season at Michigan after going 2-4 in 2020. Final season, Michigan went 11-2, gained the Massive Ten title after authoritatively beating nemesis Ohio State and earned a spot within the School Soccer Playoff.
Harbaugh took a pay lower after the 2-4 marketing campaign, as his base wage decreased from $8 million yearly to $4 million. Michigan has but to formalize any kind of latest settlement with Harbaugh after the rebound in 2021.
Harbaugh spent 4 years as the pinnacle coach of the 49ers. He went 44-19-1, and he holds the fifth-best profitable share in NFL historical past, forward of any energetic coach within the league. Harbaugh led San Francisco to an look in Tremendous XLVII, however was fired after going 8-8 in 2014.