Jim Harbaugh admits he has checked his biggest coaching box, addresses if he wants a Super Bowl

Jim Harbaugh needed that championship victory and a national title win Monday checked off his biggest coaching box.

The Michigan head coach has an uncertain future, whether he tries and goes back to the NFL and returns to Ann Arbor for another season. But, this win had to have been a big monkey off his back.

It seems like the only thing missing is a Super Bowl win, should Harbaugh want it. But we’ll let him answer that one.

“That’ll check the biggest box,” Harbaugh said. “For me, personally, just to be part of the family. With my dad, who won a national championship with Western Kentucky in 2002, and John Harbaugh, who won the Super Bowl 2012 season, 2013 Super Bowl. I get to sit at the big person’s table now. That feels really good. Just to be the only coach in your only family that hasn’t won a national title or Super Bowl, the championship, that feels great, personally.”

That’s when the follow up question came in. Harbaugh was asked if he wanted to add a Super Bowl to his resume.

While coaching the San Francisco 49ers in 2012, Harbaugh’s team lost to his brother John and the Baltimore Ravens in the Big Game.

“I just want to enjoy this,” Harbaugh said. “I just want to enjoy this. I hope you give me that. Can a guy have that? Does it always have to be what’s next, what’s the future? Like I said the other day, yeah, I hope to have a future. I hope there’s a tomorrow, a day after tomorrow, a next week, a next month, a next year. And just one last thing. I’ve got two great loves. My love at work, the people I work with — coaches, the staff, players. 

“And the love I have for my family at home. It just means a lot. I see a couple of the kids right here — Jimmy, Grace, Sarah, Johnny, Jack, Katie, Addi — the loves of my life. And my brother John being here, and my dad and mom being here. And then to be here with our team, and that’s those two families together celebrating, it’s glorious. It is just a beautiful thing.”

For now, there’s a big contract on the table for Harbaugh but NFL interest is there, once again. Michigan president Santa Ono certainly wants him back in Ann Arbor.“That’s a decision for him,” Ono said. “As you know, we’ve made it very clear that we want him to stay and I very much hope so.”