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College Football Fans Couldn’t Stop Laughing at Jim Harbaugh’s Decision to Hire His Dad

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Michigan football coach Jim Harbaugh is serving a self-imposed three-game suspension to begin the season following an NCAA investigation into recruiting violations that took place during COVID.

In the midst of the self-imposed suspension, Harbaugh and the Wolverines program announced the coaching roles for the first three games of the year with Harbaugh out. Listed in the release as an assistant head coach is Harbaugh’s father, 84-year-old Jack Harbaugh, who was an assistant at Michigan in the 1980s and later served as the head coach at Western Michigan and Western Kentucky. He retired in 2002 after Western Kentucky went 12-3 and won the Division I-AA championship.

Once a coach, always a coach, but it’s been two decades since Jack has graced the sidelines of college football. The game has changed a lot, but Jack has been a staple around the Michigan program, as well as in Baltimore at the NFL level supporting his other son, Ravens coach John Harbaugh.

Despite all of this, college football fans couldn’t believe that Jim named his dad the assistant head coach while he is out on suspension. Here are some of the best reactions to the news that broke Thursday evening.

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