Fountain City Blues
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Was in the running at the time. Was a real candidate. Came within an inch of it happening. It has never been disclosed why then AD Lew Perkins didn't seal the deal, but it is/was very real.Wait......really? Harbaugh was going to leave Stanford in 2009 for Kansas?
Now at Michigan, Jim Harbaugh was once very close to coaching at Kansas
Stanford had not really been turned around at that point
"It was done," a source close to the situation told CBS Sports.
Harbaugh was so interested in Kansas at that time that he left his Stanford phone behind so it wouldn't be tracked by the school. Meanwhile, he and Merle drove over to Lawrence to check out the facilities.
"He was on my radar because he was at Stanford," said Perkins, 71, now doing work for USA Boxing. "Everybody knew, though, that he wanted to go to the pros.
"He's a handful, but he can coach."
KU football went down the tubes from that failure going forward until now. They have never recovered.
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