Jim Harbaugh headed back to the NFL as Los Angeles Chargers' new head coach
The decision comes shortly after Harbaugh won the College Football Playoff National Championship with the University of Michigan. Jim Harbaugh is headed back to the NFL, this time as the head coach of the Los Angeles Chargers. “Ladies and gentlemen, we got him,” the Chargers posted to X on Wednesday. The announcement comes on the heels of an ultra-successful season in which Harbaugh led the University of Michigan to its first national championship since 1997 and after a nine-year stint as the Wolverines’ head coach. “Jim Harbaugh is football personified, and I can think of no one better to lead the Chargers forward,” Chargers owner and chairman Dean Spanos said in a statement. “The son of a coach, brother of a coach and father of a coach who himself was coached by names like (Glenn Edward “Bo”) Schembechler and (Mike) Ditka, for the past two decades Jim has led hundreds of men to success everywhere he’s been — as their coach," the statement read. "And today, Jim Harbaugh retu...