FOOTBALLFOOTBALL STAFFSTAFF JJ.. IRAIRA ANDAND NICKINICKI HARRISHARRIS FAMILYFAMILY HEADHEAD FOOTBALLFOOTBALL COACHCOACH JJIMIM HARBAUGHHARBAUGH Jim Harbaugh is in his third season tallied a 49-22-1 overall record that included a 5-3 mark in the postseason as the J. Ira and Nicki Harris Family as 49ers head coach. Head Football Coach at the University Harbaugh led the Niners to a 13-3 regular-season record and to the COACHING STAFF COACHING of Michigan. Named the 20th coach in NFC Championship Game during his first season in 2011, earning the U-M football history on Tuesday, Dec. AP NFL Coach of the Year award. He followed up with an 11-4-1 regular- 30, 2014, Harbaugh became the sixth season mark in 2012, culminating with an appearance in Super Bowl former Michigan football player to be XLVII. Harbaugh’s 49ers lost a back-and-forth affair, 34-31, to the Baltimore named the leader of college football’s Ravens and his brother, John, in the only matchup of brothers as head winningest program. coaches in NFL history. He helped guide San Francisco back to the NFC Jim Harbaugh is one of four Big Ten title game after a 12-4 regular-season record in 2013 and posted an 8-8 coaches to win 10-plus games in each of mark during the 2014 season. his first two seasons directing a confer- Prior to making the jump to the 49ers, Harbaugh established himself as ence school. Harbaugh joined Fielding a leader of young men at the college level. He turned around a Stanford Yost (1901-02) as the only head coaches program that went 1-11 prior to his arrival. The Cardinal improved in each to collected back-to-back 10-win sea- of Harbaugh’s four seasons, culminating with a 12-1 campaign and FedEx sons in their first two seasons at U-M. In addition to Harbaugh and Yost, Orange Bowl victory over Virginia Tech in 2010. Harbaugh finished his ten- Ohio State’s Urban Meyer (2012-13) and Wisconsin’s Paul Chryst (2015-16) ure at Stanford with a 29-21 overall record (.580) and 21-15 mark in Pac-10 also accomplished the feat. Conference play. Harbaugh is the second fastest coach to 20 wins at Michigan, trailing After 4-8 and 5-7 records his first two seasons at the helm, Harbaugh only Yost; Harbaugh accomplished the feat in 24 games and Yost won the led the Cardinal to an 8-5 record and a tie for second place in the Pac-10. first 29 games of his U-M career before tying Minnesota (6-6) in 1903. The appearance in the Sun Bowl following the season was Stanford’s first In his first year, Michigan finished with a 10-3 record, including a 41-7 bowl game since the 2001 season. The program continued its ascension win over No. 19 Florida in the 2016 Buffalo Wild Wings Citrus Bowl. The in 2010, posting a 12-1 overall record and 8-1 mark in the Pac-10. Stanford Wolverines finished in the top 12 of the national polls for the first time was selected for a BCS bowl game and proceeded to defeat Virginia Tech, since 2011, ranking 11th in the Amway Coaches poll and 12th in the 40-12, in the FedEx Orange Bowl in Harbaugh’s final game with the pro- Associated Press media poll. gram. The Cardinal finished the 2010 season ranked fifth in the national In 2017, the Wolverines took another step forward, coming within inches polls, and Harbaugh was named the Woody Hayes Award as the nation’s of claiming their first Big Ten East Division title and a spot in the confer- top coach by the Touchdown Club of Columbus. He accepted the 49ers ence championship game. U-M finished 10-3 and listed 10th in both polls head coaching position on Jan. 7, 2011. at year’s end. In his first head coaching experience, Harbaugh led the University of Harbaugh has coached U-M players to five first-team All-America hon- San Diego to a 29-6 record during his three seasons directing the program ors; back-to-back honors for Jake Butt and Jourdan Lewis and consensus (2004-06). In his first year, the Toreros posted a 7-4 record after winning accolades for Jabrill Peppers in 2016. Butt won the Mackey Award as the their final five games of the season. The team proceeded to post 11-1 nation’s top tight end and Peppers received the Lott IMPACT Trophy, Paul marks during the 2005 and 2006 seasons, claiming the Pioneer Football Hornung Award and was a fifth-place finisher in the Heisman Trophy. League championship each season. A total of 21 players have earned all-conference recognition in both Harbaugh spent the 2002 and 2003 NFL seasons as the quarterbacks seasons. Harbaugh’s 2016 team set a program record with 23 Academic coach with the Oakland Raiders. He worked with the quarterbacks, help- All-Big Ten honors. ing quarterback Rich Gannon lead the organization to Super Bowl XXXVII Harbaugh came to Ann Arbor after an impressive four-year run in the after posting an 11-5 regular-season record and the AFC Western Division National Football League with the San Francisco 49ers. He led the fran- title. Gannon won the 2002 AP NFL MVP award and was selected to the chise to the NFC Championship Game in each of his first three seasons, 2003 Pro Bowl. winning the George Halas Trophy as NFC champions in 2012. Harbaugh Harbaugh began preparing for a career as a coach during his profession- JIM HARBAUGH’S YEAR-BY-YEAR COACHING RECORD YEAR SCHOOL RECORD CONFERENCE LEAGUE FINISH BOWL GAME/POSTSEASON (RESULT) FINAL AP RANK 2004 San Diego (FCS) 7-4 (.636) 3-1 (.750) Pioneer (2nd) 2005 San Diego (FCS) 11-1 (.917) 4-0 (1.000) Pioneer (1st) 2006 San Diego (FCS) 11-1 (.917) 7-0 (1.000) Pioneer (1st) 2007 Stanford 4-8 (.333) 3-6 (.333) Pac-10 (t-7th) NR 2008 Stanford 5-7 (.417) 4-5 (.444) Pac-10 (t-6th) NR 2009 Stanford 8-5 (.615) 6-3 (.667) Pac-10 (t-2nd) Sun, Oklahoma (L, 27-31) NR 2010 Stanford 12-1 (.923) 8-1 (.889) Pac-10 (2nd) Orange, Virginia Tech (W, 40-12) 4 2011 San Francisco 49ers 13-3-1 5-1 (.833) NFC West (1st) NFC Championship Game, (L, 17-20) 2012 San Francisco 49ers 11-4 3-2-1 (.583) NFC West (1st) Super Bowl XLVII (L, 31-34) 2013 San Francisco 49ers 12-4 (.750) 4-2 (.667) NFC West (2nd) NFC Championship Game (L, 17-23) 2014 San Francisco 49ers 8-8 (.500) 2-4 (.333) NFC West (3rd) 2015 Michigan 10-3 (.769) 6-2 (.750) Big Ten East (3rd) Citrus, Florida (W, 41-7) 12 2016 Michigan 10-3 (.769) 7-2 (.778) Big Ten East (3rd) Orange, Florida State (L, 33-32) 10 FCS 3 seasons 29-6 (.829) 14-1 (.933) FBS 6 seasons 49-27 (.644) 34-20 (.629) NFL 4 seasons 44-19-1 (.695) 14-9-1 (.604) Total 12 seasons 112-49-1 (.698) 55-27-1 (.676) 42 138TH SEASON OF MICHIGAN FOOTBALL COACHING STAFF COACHING CO al playing days. He spent eight years as an NCAA-certified unpaid assistant Did You Know? RECORD VS. OPPONENTS J. IRA AND NICKI HARRIS FAMILY HEAD FOOTBALL COACH coach for his father, Jack, at Western Kentucky (1994-2001). He worked as AC an offensive consultant and recruited for the Hilltoppers during that time. Harbaugh mentored two Stanford Illinois ..................................1-0 Indiana ...............................2-0 HI Harbaugh’s effort helped his father’s team capture the 2002 Division I-AA student-athletes to runner-up finishes Iowa .....................................0-1 national championship. in Heisman Trophy voting: Toby Ger- Maryland ...........................2-0 NG N Harbaugh played for five different organizations during his 15-year NFL hart (2009) and Andrew Luck (2010). Michigan State.................1-1 G JIM HARBAUGH Minnesota .........................1-0 career (1987-2001). He completed 2,305-of-3,918 passes for 26,288 yards S Nebraska ............................0-0 TA and 129 touchdowns in 177 games. Harbaugh made 140 career starts. He Harbaugh is the only coach to win Northwestern ...................1-0 was named the AFC Offensive Player of the Year, the NFL Comeback Player both the AP NFL Coach of the Year Ohio State .........................0-2 FF Penn State .........................2-0 of the Year and a Pro Bowl selection after leading the Indianapolis Colts to (2011) and Woody Hayes Coach of the Purdue ................................0-0 the AFC Championship Game in 1995. He was inducted into the Colts Ring Year Award (2010). Rutgers ...............................2-0 Wisconsin ..........................1-0 of Honor in 2005. Record vs. Big Ten ... 13-4 As a collegiate player, Harbaugh was one of the most efficient passers Jim Harbaugh joins Gustave Ferbert in NCAA history. In 1985, he led the nation in pass efficiency and finished (1897-99), Elton “Tad” Wieman (1927- Arizona ...............................3-1 as the runner-up in 1986. His career pass efficiency rating was the NCAA’s 28), Harry Kipke (1929-37), Bennie Arizona State ....................2-2 Oosterbaan (1948-58) and Bump California ...........................2-2 top mark for more than 12 years. Harbaugh won the Chicago Tribune Big Colorado ............................1-0 Elliott (1959-68) as former Wolverine Ten Most Valuable Player award, earned first team All-America honors and Oregon ...............................1-3 players to serve as head coach. Oregon State ....................3-2 finished third in the balloting for the Heisman Trophy following the 1986 UCLA ...................................2-2 season.