Jim Harbaugh may have already found his first new adventure for the upcoming offseason. The man-about-town Michigan coach said Wednesday he wouldn't mind being in the entourage for a WWE wrestler, and he'd love it if that happened at the Big House.

Harbaugh's radio interview with Detroit's 97.1 FM Wednesday morning veered toward wrestling when the coach said his favorite WWE star was Ric Flair. Harbaugh met Flair and invited him to give a pregame pep talk to the San Francisco 49ers a couple years ago when he was still coaching in the NFL. That meeting caused a bit of a tiff with Carolina Panthers' receiver Steve Smith.

Asked if he'd ever hop in the ring for a WWE fight, Harbaugh said he'd prefer to be a referee or stay on the other side of the ropes.

"I'd be one of those guys coming out with a towel," he said. "I'd be a cornerman. I'd be a good cornerman."

Harbaugh, who is in Orlando preparing to face Florida in the Buffalo Wild Wings Citrus Bowl on Jan. 1, then called back into the radio show after his segment had ended to suggest that Michigan Stadium needs to host a Wrestlemania event.

"Why not the Big House?" he asked the hosts of the Stoney and Bill Show. "140,000 [people], I bet we could get in there for Wrestlemania. They're trying to break the attendance record at Jerry Jones' stadium in Dallas. [There's] a great Canadian presence in wrestling. Why not Michigan and the Big House?"

Michigan's other previous tie to the world of professional wrestling is graduates Rick and Scott Steiner, who were a tag-team duo in the 1990s and made a brief comeback about a decade ago. Harbaugh said he was in school at the same time as the Steiner Brothers and considers himself good friends with both of them.

It wouldn't be much of a surprise to see Michigan's head coach slapping the canvas at a WWE event at some point in the next few months. Harbaugh served a one-day stint as a first-base coach for the Oakland A's after coming to Michigan last year. Maybe wrestling is next.