The Miami Dolphins had the most dazzling firing of the head teaching cycle, parting ways with Brian Flores no matter Flores being the first head coach for the reason that merger to birth a season 1-7 and attain with a winning chronicle. Whereas Flores went 24-25 in his three seasons with Miami (including 24-18 in his closing 42 games), the Dolphins determined to share ways with the first coach to manual the team of workers to consecutive winning seasons since Dave Wannstedt.
Miami proprietor Stephen Ross can possess fired Flores in pursuit of a candidate his organization has courted for years — Jim Harbaugh. The Dolphins tried to rent Harbaugh from Stanford lend a hand in 2011 sooner than he within the fracture ended up with the San Francisco 49ers, as Ross became once willing to salvage Harbaugh the top-paid head coach within the NFL.
Will Ross mediate to court docket Harbaugh once extra? The situations are a chunk alternative this time around.
“I’m no longer going to be the actual person who takes Jim Harbaugh far off from Michigan,” Ross acknowledged Monday morning, by ability of Joe Schad of the Palm Seaside Post. “I’m hoping he stays there. He’s a powerful coach.”
Ross is a big donor to the College of Michigan, his alma mater, and the reference to Harbaugh is solid. Whereas Ross would possibly perchance perchance no longer are attempting to poach Harbaugh, what if Harbaugh wished to educate the Dolphins — whether it’s leverage to safe extra money from Michigan or no longer?
Harbaugh isn’t any stranger to success within the NFL, going 44-19-1 in four seasons because the head coach of the San Francisco 49ers. The 49ers obtained the NFC championship within the 2012 season and reached the convention championship sport for 3 consecutive seasons (2011 to 2013), as Harbaugh compiled a .695 expend percentage within the frequent season — fifth on the all-time list for coaches which possess coached for four seasons. Harbaugh left for Michigan after the 49ers accomplished 8-8 in 2014, going 61-24 for the Wolverines and a Big Ten championship with a College Soccer Playoff look this previous season — but is 0-3 in Fresh Year’s Six bowl games.
Harbaugh appears to be the crown jewel of this NFL teaching cycle, if he is enticed to depart Michigan. The 58-one year old Harbaugh will no doubt possess a deciding on of any NFL job he wants amongst the franchises buying for a head coach.
