As Michigan continues its quest for the College Football Playoff, coach Jim Harbaugh remains committed to his program's historic tried and true recruiting practices.
John U. BaconBacon, who has authored three books that chronicle life inside of Schembechler Hall and the Big Ten, relies on meticulous details to not only provide an insider’s look at Michigan’s closely guarded football secrets but does so from the lens of the behind-the-scenes personalities that Harbaugh has entrusted to help keep the Wolverines on track.
Selecting whom that money is allocated on each year is part of an arduous two-year recruiting process begins with 4,900 names – a list that is first whittled down to 300 and then eventually shaved to 150 scholarship offers. Each year, 25 players will accept those scholarships to become members of that season’s recruiting class.
“Name another school that competes with the bluebloods athletically – we’re talking Ohio State, Alabama, Clemson – while competing with the bluebloods academically: Stanford, Northwestern, Princeton. Most of the players we recruit are good enough to play for Alabama or Clemson and smart enough to play for Ivy League schools. If you don’t win in the classroom on Monday, you won’t be here for many Saturdays.
His comments, which were first made in a radio interview and then defended in a conversation with a columnist from the , drew sharp criticism from within Michigan’s program and its fanbase. But the episode also caused Harbaugh to consider the practices he now uses to build a program that he once criticized and that changed the expectation he demands from staff members, like Dudek, on a daily basis.
While Harbaugh and Dudek stop short of making direct allegations on how specific programs in the national spotlight go about their recruiting business, neither is afraid to speak to the sullied nature that that the business of big-time college football has become. Bacon, the author, details the covertly clever tactics programs use in paying players.
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