Jim Harbaugh

Harbaugh up to $7M with Michigan paying insurance premiums

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) – Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh is receiving $2 million a year on top of his base salary of $5 million. The raise is actually the $2 million annual premium the university is paying on a life insurance policy on Harbaugh. Michigan will make the payment each year from 2016 through 2021 if Harbaugh is coaching the…

NCAA reverses course on football satellite camps

UNDATED (AP) – The NCAA Division I Board of Directors has rescinded a proposed ban on satellite camps thus shooting down a request from powerhouse conferences in the South. The move clears the way for coaches to hold clinics far from their campuses this summer. The board’s decision came almost three weeks after the Division I Council approved a proposal…

Harbaugh says he hopes board members ‘get it right’ on camps

DETROIT (AP) – Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh says he hopes members of the Division I Board of Directors “get it right” and allow satellite camps in college football. “It benefits who we’re supposed to be benefiting here,” Harbaugh said. “I can’t look you in the eye and say I’m expecting one thing or another.” Harbaugh was at Comerica Park on…

In win for SEC and ACC, NCAA bans satellite football camps

UNDATED (AP) — In a victory for the SEC and ACC, the NCAA has shut down so-called satellite camps, prohibiting college football coaches from holding or working at camps and clinics for high school players on other school’s campuses. The NCAA announced Friday that the Division I Council had approved a proposal requiring Bowl Subdivision schools “to conduct camps and clinics…