BlueCube

September 2nd, 2015 at 7:33 AM ^

tweet after tweet about how Harbaugh was the first one to contact them. It was one thing when it was the top recruits from Michigan, but then it was many top recruits around the country. Imagine if he actually liked recruiting.

I assume Dantonio is looking good, because he had plenty of beauty sleep before contacting the recruits. Some need it and some don't.

lilpenny1316

September 2nd, 2015 at 9:13 AM ^

I've never seen a top-5 team with a 1st round, preseason All-American, fringe Heisman candidate at QB try to play the disrespect, "something to prove", card so much.  Then again, when was the last time Sparty was a top-5 team?

I wanted to hand these douchebags their first L of the season, but now I want us to hang their third of fourth L on them.

Dawkins

September 2nd, 2015 at 8:02 AM ^

There's a free article on 247 about this from yesterday. No need to bother giving freep clicks to get this info. They likely got the info from 247 anyway.

TheFugitive

September 2nd, 2015 at 8:03 AM ^

Did he have to wait until 12:00am local time or could he start sending them at 10:00pm in Utah because it was 12:00am in Michigan?  

alum96

September 2nd, 2015 at 8:28 AM ^

The recruiting site DawgNation, which covers Georgia recruiting, told a few stories in a piece today about Harbaugh's relentless approach, including one player who wasn't even considering U-M as a finalist, but still got 20 hand-written letters from Harbaugh before committing to Georgia.

The family recalls Harbaugh wrote Charlie, his father, his sister, his uncle Scott Woerner and even his girlfriend. He was always encouraging him to think about Michigan.

BlueCube

September 2nd, 2015 at 8:36 AM ^

blueblue

September 2nd, 2015 at 9:26 AM ^

You can spend a month working with staffers on how to approach each recruit and what to tweet when midnight rolls around. Harbaugh could send it out himself or someone else could do it. He's not sitting up at night composing tweets after midnight just before the first game of the season. That doesn't make it insincere. It just means he has quickly built an organization that is highly skilled, well organized, fully bought-in, and totally enthusiastic. His tweets come from him but they come from the whole program. He is the program and the program is Harbaugh.

mrkid

September 2nd, 2015 at 10:44 AM ^

This was a punch to the gut:

Another major difference? The head coach was sending direct messages (DMs) on Twitter.



While former U-M coach Brady Hoke refused to have a Twitter account, Jim Harbaugh not only uses it for promotion, he used it aggressively this morning, sending DMs to many of the top prospects...

This isn't groundbreaking information but seeing it side by side and seeing the response from current recruits, it was a real punch to the gut for me.