Los Angeles Chargers fire head coach Brandon Staley and GM Tom Telesco
Los Angeles Chargers have fired head coach Brandon Staley and general manager Tom Telesco, the club announced on Friday.
“I want to thank Tom and Brandon for their hard work, dedication and professionalism and wish both them and their great families nothing but the best,” team owner Dean Spanos said in a statement. “These decisions are never easy, nor are they something I take lightly – especially when you consider the number of people they impact.
Following a very successful season in which Harbaugh guided the University of Michigan to its first national championship since 1997 and following a nine-year tenure as the Wolverines’ head coach, the announcement was made.
“I can think of no one better to lead the Chargers forward than Jim Harbaugh—he is football personified,” said Chargers owner and chairman Dean Spanos in a statement.
The statement said, “For the past 20 years Jim has led hundreds of men to success everywhere he’s been — as their coach.” Jim is a coach’s son, brother, and father who was personally coached by Glenn Edward “Bo” Schembechler and Mike Ditka. And Jim Harbaugh is back with the Chargers today, this time in the role of coach. Who is in a better place than us?
Drama marred Harbaugh’s final season at Michigan; two different investigations resulted in his suspension for the entirety of the regular season.
After he was discovered to be involved in a sign theft, the Big 10 conference punished him for the final three games of the regular season. After agreeing to the university’s decision to suspend him in the wake of allegations that he had given misleading testimony to NCAA inspectors investigating possible recruiting violations during the coronavirus outbreak, he had already missed the first three games.
The NFL noted in a news release that Harbaugh’s new job validates circulating speculations that he would return to the NFL to showcase his skills after interviewing with the Minnesota Vikings and the Denver Broncos, respectively, over the previous two off-seasons.
Following two interviews with the Chargers, Harbaugh was officially named the new head coach, according to an NFL news release.
The Chargers dismissed their previous general manager and head coach following their crushing 63-21 loss to the Las Vegas Raiders in their previous game last month.
A month later, on January 15, Harbaugh had his first meeting with the franchise, as reported by The Associated Press. Harbaugh was the eighth candidate out of 15 to try their hand at the position with Spanos and his family.
As reported by the AP, he was the only one to receive a second interview.
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