I've said it for years, but I'd much rather be an elite-level college football head coach than be in the pros. Pro HCs, even good ones, are disposable. Good college HCs are dictators with lifetime security. Stanford is not an elite job right now, but Harbaugh staying and building it in his image would make it into one. It's easy for me to say, but is the difference between $3 MM and $5 MM really that big of a deal? Silver-plated diapers will work just as well for the kids as gold-plated.
Michigan will still be able to hire Harbaugh in about 4 years or so when he's fired after SF goes 9-7.
Absolutely. If I were Kill, I would've been in this kid's ear about staying home ever since Stanford made the Orange Bowl and the pants of every NFL GM with a job opening got tighter.