Michigan Football May Already Know Who Its Future Offensive Coordinator May Be

Speaking on 'Inside Michigan Football' radio show, Jim Harbaugh has a plan for tight ends coach, Grant Newsome.

Newsome, 26 years old, is one of the youngest full-time coaches in the country. The former Michigan offensive lineman had multiple offers in the financial field that he could've pursued as a career, but the coaching path is the one Newsome wanted. So instead of taking a huge salary, Newsome talked with Harbaugh and stayed on at Michigan as a graduate assistant before earning his way as a full-time coach.

Harbaugh believes Newsome is on his way to being a head coach -- eventually.

"He's going all the way," Harbaugh told Jon Jansen. "He's going to the highest level of coaching, head coaching. It's not a matter of if, it's when. Still the youngest full-time coach in Power Five football, I think, in all of Division One -- I don't know for sure. He's just a guy that's checked every box from the time he stepped on campus as a freshman, I think he's still our highest GPA — wicked smart. Extremely hard-working. Gets along with everybody. Players respect him, like him. All the other coaches love him. Just so precise. He could've been doing anything."

"I had people calling when he was coming around for graduation and grad school. Goldman Sachs wanted him. The National Committee, they wanted him. They had big plans for him. The financial Wall Street had big plans for him. He wanted to coach and I had to have a conversation with Grant's mom about that. I'm trying to tell him that he oughta pursue one of these other — this is not an exaggeration, Goldman Sachs wanted to pay him like $400,000 right out of school. He turned that down to be a $70,000 GA. Have his school paid for and get a stipend. Then I had to reassure his mom. I talked to him, I tried to talk to him about this."

Current offensive line coach and offensive coordinator, Sherrone Moore, is a hot commodity. If it's not after this season, then it will probably be the following when Moore gets a head coaching offer he cannot refuse. Harbaugh not only hinted, but told Jansen that Michigan is grooming Newsome to become the next O-line coach, and then when he gets a few years under his belt, he will become the Wolverines' offensive coordinator.

Harbaugh is confident in Newsome's coaching ability. He told Jansen to mark his words that Newsome will become a head coach down the road -- wherever that may be.

"But, man, is he going to be a good coach.," stated Harbaugh. "I've been to this movie bunch of times and he is going to go all the way. There's no doubt he picked the right profession. Selfishly, I'm super happy about it. He's a tight end coach now but already grooming him to be the offensive line coach. Once he has maybe a year or two under his belt as offensive line coach, just like Sherrone Moore, he'll be the coordinator. From then, at that point, when we can't give him any more money or titles, somebody will snatch him up to be a head coach. Mark my words and mark them well. That will happen."