Niners Still Haunted by Jim Harbaugh Mistake
The 49ers are still paying the price for ejecting Jim Harbaugh after the 2014 season. The question now is, how many years will they have to continue paying it?When push came to shove in 2014 in a battle between the head coach and general manager Trent Baalke, 49ers CEO Jed York sided with Baalke. Now, two seasons after, Baalke is gone, too, having been fired along with head coach Chip Kelly at the tail end of a 2-14 season.There are the pre-Harbaugh 49ers and the post-Harbaugh 49ers, and both have been ugly. The Harbaugh era, however, stands like a beacon. Consider:In the eight seasons before Harbaugh arrived in 2011, the 49ers hadn't had a single winning season and were a cumulative 46-82. In the two seasons since he was let go, the 49ers are 7-25. In the four seasons Harbaugh was on the job in San Francisco, the 49ers were 44-19, went to three straight NFC Championship Games and a Super Bowl and never had a losing season.Even at the time Harbaugh was losing the internal power struggle, it seemed obvious to many that the franchise was backing the wrong person in Baalke over Harbaugh. Successful and dynamic head coaches don't come along all the time – as Jim Tomsula and...
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