Jim Harbaugh named head coach of the San Francisco 49ers

BREAKING NEWS:

Jim Harbaugh has accepted a 5-year deal worth $25 million to become the new head coach of the San Francisco 49ers.

Jim Harbaugh probably won’t need to rent a U-Haul. He doesn’t even have to put his house on the market. Harbaugh is taying in the Bay Area.

Like Bill Walsh, his mentor, Harbaugh is moving from the Stanford Cardinal to the San Francisco 49ers.

The deal is rumored to be five-years and $25-million and the deal is set to be discussed at a 6:30p.m. ET press conference scheduled by the team.

Harbaugh has been successful at every stop of his coaching career. His 58-27 record in college football is nothing to sneeze at. He was an assistant in Oakland during their Super Bowl run in 2002. He moved to coach at San Deigo University and won back-to-back division titles in 2005 and 2006.

In 2006 he was hired by Stanford and quickly turned a 1-11 program into a respectable 8-5 team that won a berth to the Sun Bowl in 2009.

He finished 11-1 with the Cardinal in 2010.

Now, his job is to turn around the once-proud franchise that is 5-0 in Super Bowl history. His job is to turn around a team that was picked to win the NFC West this season, then began 0-5. It was the worst start since 1979.

The same year Bill Walsh started with the team.

The 47-year-old Harbaugh was a standout at Michigan – where there also is a coaching vacancy. He played 15 seasons in the NFL piling up 2,305 completions on 3,918 passes for 26,288 yards and 129 touchdowns in his career.

Mike Lederer and Nick Lilja contributed to this report