Earlier this week, we learned that Carolina Panthers owner David Tepper recently held a conversation about his team’s head-coaching job with Jim Harbaugh. And where there’s smoke, there’s fire.
MMQB senior editor Albert Breer reported on Saturday that the leading man over at the University of Michigan didn’t speak with Tepper just for kicks. He’s told that Harbaugh actually has thought about a return to the NFL with the franchise he once quarterbacked.
Breer writes:
“So … does Harbaugh leave Michigan? The program is in good shape, and he has a really good team coming back. But NCAA sanctions are looming, and those calls to the Panthers were made, I’m told, because of his curiosity over that job, which says to me he’s really thinking about it.”
Given those sanctions and that smoke, it feels as though the possibility of Harbaugh landing in Carolina is some gaining steam. But is Tepper once again willing to hand over a decent amount of control to a head coach and shun the people’s and players’ choice, Steve Wilks, in the process?
