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Sports
The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com
Thursday, February 4, 2016 — 5A

‘M’ introduces 2016 class

Star-studded 

bunch helps unveil 
recruits on National 

Signing Day

By JAKE LOURIM

Managing Sports Editor

Michigan football coach Jim 

Harbaugh said he just wanted 
to do something different to 
introduce his 2016 recruiting 
class this year.

Of 
all 
terms 
to 
describe 

Wednesday’s “Signing of the Stars” 
ceremony at Hill Auditorium, it 
was certainly different.

In his return to college 

football last year, Harbaugh 
was at Michigan for just over a 
month before he introduced the 
2015 class, recruited largely by 
former coach Brady Hoke.

This year, with more time 

to prepare, he had something 
bigger in mind.

“How can we do something 

fun 
and 
a 
celebration?” 

Harbaugh 
wondered. 
“I’ve 

been watching this process, 
experienced it myself, how they 
pull a fax out of the fax machine 
and the coach stands up and talks 
about them, usually says some 
of the same things. We wanted 
to do something different, do 
something awesome. I was really 
pleased. I think today did that. It 
was awesome with a capital ‘A.’ ”

No one knew what to expect 

going 
into 
the 
celebration 

Wednesday. 
Harbaugh 
made 

his first appearance around 
11:40 a.m., introduced by host 
Randy Sklar, after the Michigan 
Stadium 
introduction 
video 

featuring James Earl Jones 
played on the big screen.

He opened and closed his 

opening remarks by asking the 
crowd, “Who could possibly 
have it better than us?” Then, 
he and Sklar sat on a couch at 
one end of the stage in front of 
a packed auditorium. At the 
other end, football analysts 
Mike Shanahan, Todd McShay 
and Lou Holtz sat at a desk and 
broke down Michigan’s class 
as 
different 
celebrities 
and 

Michigan alumni.

New 
England 
Patriots 

quarterback Tom Brady — a 
Michigan alumnus — introduced 
the 
first 
recruit, 
four-star 

quarterback Brandon Peters.

“I don’t know how to put 

it into words,” Peters said 
afterward. “Tom Brady is one of 
the greatest players to ever play. 
I’m a quarterback, too, and he’s a 
quarterback. You just look up to 
someone like that.

“I was kind of nervous at first, 

walking up on that stage and 
seeing all those people. I had a 
bunch of adrenaline, but once I 
got settled in 
and 
started 

seeing things, 
I settled down 
a little bit.”

More 

celebrities 
made 
appearances 
throughout 
the ceremony. 
Former 
New York Yankees shortstop 
Derek Jeter introduced four-
star 
running 
back 
Kareem 

Walker, 
four-star 
defensive 

end Ron Johnson and three-
star defensive tackle Michael 
Dwumfour. Baltimore Ravens 
coach John Harbaugh, Jim’s 
brother, introduced three-star 
tight end Nick Eubanks.

As they were introduced, 

six of the seven early enrollees 
joined Harbaugh and Sklar on 

the stage (the only exception 
was three-star tight end Sean 
McKeon). 
Several 
former 

football 
players 
also 
made 

appearances, including former 
quarterbacks 
Jake 
Rudock, 

Denard Robinson and Devin 
Gardner, former walk-ons Joe 
Kerridge and Jordan Kovacs and 
former linebacker Jake Ryan.

The event was packed all-

around with famous faces, even 
those with no ties to Michigan 
or sports. Many more sent in 
comments 
on 
video: 
ESPN 

broadcaster 
Dick 
Vitale, 

former 
NFL 

coach 
Mike 

Ditka, former 
Michigan 
basketball 
player 
Jalen 

Rose 
and 

actor 
Vince 

Vaughn, 
among 

countless others.

Perhaps the most enthusiastic 

guest was former professional 
wrestler Ric Flair. Harbaugh 
said 
afterward 
that 
Nate 

Johnson gave him the idea to 
invite Flair during a recruiting 
visit at Johnson’s home in 
Tennessee.

“I was telling him about what 

this event was going to be like, 
talking about some of the people 
that were going to be here,” 

Harbaugh said. “I said, Tom 
Brady! Tom Brady’s going to be 
here, the greatest quarterback 
of all time, four Super Bowl 
trophies. They said, ‘We’re a 
wrestling family. You’re going to 
have Ric Flair there. It doesn’t 
get any better than that.’ ”

Toward 
the 
end 
of 
the 

two-hour 
ceremony, 
interim 

Athletic Director Jim Hackett 
introduced 
the 
final 
early 

enrollee, 
four-star 
defensive 

end Carlo Kemp. As Kemp spoke 
with Sklar and Harbaugh on the 
stage, Rashan Gary, the nation’s 
No. 1 recruit, was in New Jersey 
committing to come to Michigan 
next season. The audience found 
out and let out a loud cheer, 
and the early enrollees subtly 
expressed their excitement.

The two-hour show stood 

out. Most schools announce 
their recruits by compiling 
a list of players who send in 
National Letters of Intent and 
holding a press conference to 
discuss them. Michigan took 
over 
the 
conversation, 
for 

better or for worse.

“I 
think 
people 
will 
do 

something similar or they’ll 
criticize it,” Harbaugh said. 
“What do I think of that? I 
probably won’t think much 
of it. It worked for us. It was 
wonderful for us. And why not? 
We’ll be back to work at 2:30, but 
why not have some fun?”

ALLISON FARRAND/Daily

Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh introduced his 2016 recruiting class at an extravagant ceremony Wednesday.

“We’ll be back 
to work at 2:30, 

but why not 

have some fun?”

Harbaugh turns 
fantasy to reality 
on Signing Day
I

t started with his usual 
rallying call.

Host Randy Sklar 

introduced 
the man of 
the hour, 
the day, the 
week and the 
year, and out 
came Jim 
Harbaugh, 
ready to put 
on a show.

“Who 

could 
possibly have 
it better than us?” Harbaugh 
asked the crowd, firing them up 
while also reminding them that 
on Wednesday especially, the 
answer was nobody.

Harbaugh put on a spectacle 

to be remembered at Hill 
Auditorium, as his National 
Signing Day special event 
“Signing of the Stars” repeatedly 
crossed back and forth from 
being completely surreal to 
being too Harbaugh-esque to 
not be true.

Ric Flair 

was there, 
reminiscing 
about a 
weekend 
spent at the 
Beta house 
while on a 
recruiting trip 
to Michigan, 
where he 
apparently 
signed a National Letter of 
Intent to play for Bump Elliott. 
Former Michigan quarterback 
Jack Kennedy rapped to open 
for country singer Josh Gracin, 
who opened for Sklar. Tom 
Brady and Derek Jeter sat on 
a couch and introduced high 
schoolers, and then Todd 
McShay, Mike Shanahan and 
Lou Holtz analyzed their film 
on a studio set. Jim Leyland 
dabbed. Let me say that again, 
just so it doesn’t get lost — Jim 
Leyland dabbed.

This was Jim Harbaugh’s 

vision, overset onto the reality 
the rest of us inhabit. With the 
auditorium filled to capacity, 
Harbaugh created a weird, 
fascinating and fun signing 
day carnival that had a little 
something for everyone.

Brandon Peters, Harbaugh’s 

potential quarterback of the 
future, was elated to meet Tom 
Brady. Kareem Walker, one of 
the nation’s top running back 
recruits, was most starstruck 
by Migos. Sklar was taken with 
Flair, Brady and Jeter, but also 
by meeting one of the early 
enrollees, linebacker Carlo 
Kemp.

The fans got their dose of 

Harbaugh, which will sustain 
them only until his next idea 
gives them an opportunity they 
literally cannot get anywhere 
else. The team is going to Florida 
for spring practice in less than a 
month, and you can bet there are 
more big ideas on the horizon.

“This is a perfect example 

of how Jim Harbaugh’s mind 
operates,” Desmond Howard said 
after the conclusion of the event.

And it was a perfect example. 

But it was only a slice of his 
imagination. Signing of the 
Stars brought so many aspects 
of Harbaugh’s first year into 
one big event, including a peek 
inside Harbaugh’s mind, which 
is at once a total mystery and 
squarely in the spotlight.

Wednesday, he took a vision, 

propped it up into 3-D, and made 
it come alive.

Even as silly as it was at 

times, Wednesday was a 
spectacle. Michigan’s early 
enrollees mingled with Super 
Bowl MVPs, MLB All-Stars, 
NFL coaches and analysts and 
more backstage.

Ric Flair charmed and 

disarmed the crowd, and every 
player had a cardboard cutout 
of himself in the lobby. In fact, 
with less than 30 minutes 
remaining in the ceremony, 
the nation’s No. 1 recruit, 

Rashan Gary 
committed 
to the 
Wolverines. 
By the time 
the ceremony 
ended, 
there was a 
cardboard 
cutout of Gary 
in a Michigan 
uniform 
standing in 

the lobby.

These things are uniquely of 

Harbaugh’s conception because, 
if anyone else had the idea, they 
would dismiss it as a fantasy. 
Harbaugh embraces his ideas 
and turns them into reality.

One recruit Skyped in to talk 

about Harbaugh’s sleepover at 
his house. Harbaugh threw a 
pass into the stands and shot 
jokes across the stage with 
Lou Holtz. His brother, John 
Harbaugh, was there, shaking 
hands with Jim’s new players 
and telling a story about how, 
when Jim sent him a picture 
of new tight end signee Nick 
Eubanks, John told him to send 
Eubanks straight to the Ravens. 
And for the love of God, Jim 
Leyland dabbed.

While all of this was 

happening, Gary was going 
through the final moments of 
his selection process. Gary, of 
course, committed to Michigan, 
leading the fans to chant, “GA-
RY, GA-RY,” even though the 
coach couldn’t publicly comment 
on him yet.

Gary missed the spectacle, 

but by signing up with 
Michigan, he won’t miss the 
next one. No one’s really sure 
what that will be, but with 
Harbaugh at the helm, it’s sure 
to be weird, it’s sure to be wild, 
and it will probably be a roaring 
success.

Bultman can be reached 

at bultmanm@umich.edu or 

on Twitter @m_bultman.

ALLISON FARRAND/Daily

Michigan’s “Signing of the Stars” was complete with a star-studded cast.

“This is a perfect 
example of how 
Jim Harbaugh’s 
mind operates.”

MAX
BULTMAN

