The Jim Harbaugh mystery multiple NFL teams are considering

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On the field of Hard Rock Stadium on New Year's Eve, Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh was talking with some friends and acquaintances he’s known for years — people who have coached in the NFL, led teams to NFL conference championships on the personnel side, and others. And Harbaugh told all of them he intended to remain the Wolverines coach.

He told them he had no intention in jumping back to the NFL.

Except Jim Harbaugh interviewed for the Minnesota Vikings head coaching job over the weekend.

Except Jim Harbaugh would welcome a chance to coach the Miami Dolphins.

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And so what we have is something of a mystery brewing.

What we have is people in Ann Arbor and at various NFL outposts not sure how exactly to address the possible NFL return of a coach who spent four years with the San Francisco 49ers and took them to the Super Bowl while winning .695 percent of his games, and then spent the past seven years at Michigan, winning .717 percent of his games.

FILE - In this Feb. 4, 2019, file photo, Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross speaks during a news conference in Davie, Fla. Ross says he's confident the NFL will play in 2020, with or without spectators. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson, File)

"He will be the coach of the Ross Wolverines or the Ross Dolphins," a plugged in former Miami Dolphins employee told OutKick.com over the weekend.

Ross is Dolphins owner Stephen Ross, who is a Michigan alumnus and one of the school’s biggest donors.

Ross’s love of Harbaugh is no secret. He tried to hire him to be the Dolphins coach in 2011 — infamously flying across the country to Palo Alto to try to convince him to jump