Heads turned. People whispered. The room stopped.
Everybody knew Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh was in the building.
“Right now, he’s kind of that rock star, right?” said Steve Walsh, the director of football at IMG Academy in Bradenton, Fla., a private high school with a roster loaded with more than 20 Division I prospects. “He is the new darling. Urban (Meyer) had it a couple of years ago. Now, it’s Harbaugh. There is some cache there when he walks into the building.”
Harbaugh went to IMG during U-M’s bye week on a recruiting visit, and Walsh set up a room to talk about his roster.