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Jim Harbaugh: Huge legacy, bigger shoes

Chris Balasby:Chris Balas01/23/24

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Former Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh passed the baton to his right hand man, Sherrone Moore. © Mark J. Rebilas-USA

Jim Harbaugh arrived back in Ann Arbor in December 2014 to a hero’s welcome, the proposed savior of a program that had suffered like few thought possible. Rich Rodriguez and Brady Hoke couldn’t get it done — only Hoke’s first season, the 11-2 2011 campaign, was a “Michigan type season,” and it took some good bounces to get there. 

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