On the National Signing Days of 2016 and 2017, Michigan football coach Jim Harbaugh presided over an event he’d created — “Signing with the Stars.”
It was part unveiling of the high school recruits who would be play for the Wolverines — prospects such as Rashan Gary, Devin Bush and Donovan Peoples-Jones.
Mostly, though, it was a celebration of Michigan football and the carnival barking of Harbuagh hopefully gaining the attention of future recruits. He was newly arrived in Ann Arbor and trying to rebuild a program that had fallen on hard times, going just 24-32 in Big Ten play from 2008-14.