Being the 20th director of the University of Michigan Michigan is something that he has said that he'd dreamed about. He said that now that Madden 23 coins it was time to live it.

It is time for a change, and in part because his relationships with 49ers management became so cold and fractured that a split was in order. It seems that it reached a pinnacle during the negotiations for his contract before last season, in which the 49ers caused him to feel unimportant. If you cause Jim Harbaugh feel unappreciated, marginalized, and unworthy He's not the type of player to stick around. It's the right time, in part, as there's a need at Michigan football and a need to be answered. A welcoming door, wide-open embrace, appreciation and the feeling of being appreciated was a blanket laid over the player by Michigan management. Michigan's approach and need for help captivated him.

"This is a decision that I made from the heart,"'' Harbaugh said.

A few pundits insisted that Harbaugh could never be let go of Madden NFL 23 in the role of coach. They were not aware of the long-lasting pull of Bo Harbaugh's affection and devotion to Michigan. The need for him to feel valued. Appreciated. Comfortable. The desire for one's self to be stroked and for his hearts to be felt.

He used to share stories with me in Michigan about how as a teenager he would keep individual statistics on his batting rate for baseball, scoring score in basketball , and touchdowns in football. He knew them by heart. Very few of his peers would play with preteen Harbaugh because of his ferocious determination and the ego. It was at Michigan where Harbaugh realized the core of Schembechler's adage The Team, the TEAM The TEAM.

If you create Jim Harbaugh feel unappreciated, insignificant, or unworthy, he is not the type of person to hang around.

In his first news conference on recruiting that he will be selling something is something he "believes in to the core.'' Selling something he is familiar with as well as "you have your name." That will not be an easy task the man said. He also spoke about relationships. Especially renewing spirited and meaningful ones at Michigan also Ann Arbor. Ann Arbor.

But what he left out spoke volumes: that his departure from the 49ers with those kinds of relationships in tatters, broken and mut coins too broken to repair.

He won't rest on what he's done when coaching. That's yesterday's success. He'll push it all forward. He will insist on pushing hard.