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Michigan has contacted the San Francisco 49ers regarding coach Jim Harbaugh's status.

"As long as it's handled correctly, (it's OK), and I think the University of Michigan, in reaching out, did handle it correctly," said 49ers general manager Trent Baalke in his weekly appearance on 95.7 The Game in San Francisco. "As I look at it, it's very simple: He's the head football coach of the San Francisco 49ers. You read reports, not just on coach (Harbaugh) but on a lot of coaches … . We heard the same thing last year, with the University of Texas and USC and a couple others making overtures to him. He's a good football coach, and people want good football coaches.

"Anytime there's an opportunity for a place like a University of Michigan or the University of Texas to look into good football coaches, they do that. That's to be expected. You'd rather have somebody that's coveted than somebody that's not."

Harbaugh refused Monday to address speculation about whether Michigan had connected with the 49ers about his status. But Baalke confirmed it.

As for the NFL Network report about U-M making a six-year, $48-million offer to Harbaugh, Baalke wasn't so sure.

"I'm not going to get into fact and fiction once again," Baalke said. "I don't know that it's been offered to him. I don't know that it's been offered at all. I've not seen the report that there's been a contract that's been handed to him, and he's mulling it over at this moment."

As for Harbaugh's status with the team, which is reported to be ending early next week, Baalke said: "We're worried about this Sunday. We're going to discuss things (later)."