Per Sam, Michigan will also hold satellite camps in Samoa and Hawaii
Nailed it, michiganfanforlife!
Harbaugh will not recruit penguins. I hate penguins.
For at least half the year, any blue blood HC position has to be at least an 80hr/week gig. As much as we lambast those SEC coaches for whining about the extra work that comes with camps, I think we can agree that none of them are exactly slackers. Harbaugh just looks for areas where he can work harder and do more.
How many camps does this make? Seems they're going to run out of summer.
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Hehehehe
Our coach is awesome.
So many reasons this is brilliant...
1. Potentially find one or two great players.
2. Groom interest from younger players in the region and maybe get one or two down the road.
3. Spreads interest in youth football at a time when it is being attacked by the timid.
4. Marketing you can't buy. Michigan is sending its celebrity (and/or his assitants) to spread the word of "Michigan football" in a way that you cannot buy with marketing dollars. This should increase interest in Michigan athletics now and in the future. Potentially creating more Michigan fans or at least those that feel connected to the program.....
5. Based on the above, this trip likely pays for itself from a merchandise sales, marketing, etc. standpoint.
6. Staff gets to visit cool destinations.
My only question is... What the heck are other coaches doing during June? Are the Michigan coaches missing out on film review or something?
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That seems true too.
It also makes me think of another benefit:
8. Connections with coaching trees that may come back to benefit Michigan in the future. (Especially tight-knit coaching trees.)
the jump to American College Football is not a big jump. They willingly play with reckless abandon and with no regard for their bodies ... without any pads! The physicality, speed and toughness required to play ARF are perfect breeding grounds for fullbacks, linebackers and maybe even lineman (all with some coaching of technique of course). This is also a bonus in additon to a P/PK type that we are obviously after. The lure to the athletes is a world class education for free. If we can land just one or two position players from Aussie land and they become contributors on gameday, they will instantly become fan favorites and the pipeline will be born.
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Like our very own Canadian man! :)
small, I wouldn't be surprised if the real effect is on those of Samoan decent that happen to live in the contigous US. I know if he held one in my home town, people remember that for a long time.
I agree. The biggest benefit will be for recruiting players in the 50 states that are of Polynesian descent. There are very few D-I players that actually played HS football in American Samoa. Nearly all of the Samoan NFL and D-I players went to HS in Hawaii or on the mainland, though there are a few exceptions.
Can you immagine a couple of sumo wrestlers as offensive linemen!
This is fabulous stuff. Spreading the Michigan brand internationally through nothing but hard work, building a pipeline of Michigan fans worldwide. Hope he plucks a kid or two out of Samoa or Hawaii and offers them, showing the NCAA and the SEC just how valuable these camps can be to develop opportunities for kids that would have never had them otherwise.
The football players (Courtney Morgan, Zach Kaufman) from SoCal who were in my Sports Management classes used to talk all the time about how the sound of football was different when they would play teams with a lot of Polynesian players on them. My first exposure to the concept of "hearing football".