With considerably less flair and much, much less style or swag, Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh nonetheless casts a similar public persona to resident college football lightning rod: Deion 'Coach Prime' Sanders.
See Harbaugh, like the Prime one, never minds to ... speak his mind.
On topics from milk and beef jerky-starched khakis to taking his time to the Vatican to pro-life rallies, recruiting, the world of sports and college football, Harbaugh tackles seemingly all topics.
It's not surprising, then, that Harbaugh recently was discussing his own Michigan Wolverines coaching staff and made what technically is the earlier on-the-record comments about the impending annual college football coaches' carousel.
See, Harbaugh believes it's going to have a heavy Michigan hue, per multiple reports.
"Every one of our assistant coaches will be a head coach," Harbaugh was quoted as saying. "And I would even say probably four (assistants could land head coaching jobs) after this season.
"The coaching acumen and talent is really good."
Turnover in recent years has become quite the norm for Harbaugh's Michigan staffs. Noteworthy among those departures in recent years include Al Washington, who went from Michigan to Ohio State to now Notre Dame; Greg Mattison to the NFL's Baltimore Ravens; Josh Gattis from Michigan to Miami and now Maryland; Mike Macdonald to the Baltimore Ravens, and Matt Weiss, among more recent turnover.
Star Wolverines offensive coordinator Sherrone Moore is engineering one of the most remarkably rapid ascents in recent years in college football, and industry sources continue to tell FootballScoop that Moore is in that prime target category of "future head coaches."
Similarly, Michigan defensive coordinator Jesse Minter is another rising commodity and, tracing to his work at both Indiana and Michigan, Wolverines running backs coach Mike Hart was labeled a "flat-out stud" by a peer who spoke to FootballScoop.
Jay Harbaugh is among the top special teams coaches anywhere in football.
The Wolverines, coming off back-to-back College Football Playoff appearances and consecutive Big Ten titles, open their 2023 season with four-straight home games, three against non-Power 5 foes and their Big Ten Conference opener Sept. 23 against visiting Rutgers.