In 2017’s early signing period, the Michigan Wolverines football staff gathered around fax machines, eagerly awaiting the results of a hard fought recruiting battle over one of the nation’s top recruits. Instead of getting the result they had hoped for, the target of that battle, Eyabi Okie, committed to Alabama.
It took four years, three programs and a mountain of life lessons, but Okie eventually found his way to Ann Arbor — having found it as an entirely different man than when he made his initial decision.
“I was given everything very quickly,” Okie said at a media availability Tuesday evening.