Jim Harbaugh, the man who has taken 5 different teams as a head coach from San Diego to the Chargers , from laughingstock to legit contenders, leaving nothing but winning records. He asked his father, Jack , a legendary coach himself, “ When do you know it’s time to stop coaching?” Most people might consider family, health, or maybe even a bucket list. Not a Harbaugh.

“You coach as long as you possibly can until you cannot do one more script,” his father responded. “ You can’t walk out on the field for one more practice or do one more game plan. That’s when you know you should coach for two more years. When you get to that point, give it two more years.”

As Jim would later joke about his own retelling , “My delivery wasn’t near as good as my dad’s on that.” Jim’s stats? a

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