Tomsula Must Buck History to Succeed — bleacherreport.com

Jim Tomsula has a very difficult road ahead of him replacing Jim Harbaugh as head coach of the San Francisco 49ers.  Harbaugh leaves the NFL with the fifth-highest winning percentage of all time—the fourth-highest if you only include the modern Super Bowl era. Harbaugh, in a radio interview with Tim Kawakami, confirmed one fact about the coaching change and implied another.  Harbaugh confirmed the decision to part was not mutual, as had been insisted by Jed York and Trent Baalke.  Rather, Harbaugh was informed that he would not be the head coach anymore after the December 14 loss in Seattle—the “mutual” part of it came with Harbaugh agreeing to step down at the end of the year rather than publicly be fired.

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