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Jim Harbaugh: 49ers Left Me

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Getty Jim Harbaugh?  SQUARESPACE CACHEVERSION=1423923717625Ralph Freso/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh told “The TK Show,” a San Jose Mercury News podcast on Friday that he wanted to return as the 49ers head coach, but it was their choice to move on.

Harbaugh led the 49ers to three consecutive NFC Championship games and a Super Bowl appearance during his time in San Francisco.

“I was told I wouldn’t be the coach anymore,” Harbaugh said. “And then … you can call it ‘mutual,’ I mean, I wasn’t going to put the 49ers in the position to have a coach that they didn’t want anymore.”

“But that’s the truth of it,” Harbaugh continued.  “I didn’t leave the 49ers. I felt like the 49er hierarchy left me.”

Harbaugh was 49-22-1 in four seasons and he admitted in the podcast that others inside the organization began treating him differently.

“I wasn’t reading anything that was on the Internet, I was really focused on doing my job, but definitely walk down the halls and people look away or they look at you and you know something’s going on,” Harbaugh said.


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