Michigan football and Jim Harbaugh have been getting some strong backlash recently after failing to keep two big-time in-state quarterbacks at Michigan.
In the 2023 class, the Wolverines looked to be in a good position with five-star Dante Moore who plays at Martin Luther King (Michigan). The Wolverines were the first school to offer Moore back in 2018 and many speculated that he would be a maize and blue lock. But as we know, things changed and that’s not how it happened. Moore took a few visits to Oregon, and on July 8th he announced his commitment to the Ducks.
Just about everyone thought Michigan would land 2024 prospect, CJ Carr. Carr would have been a legacy commit with strong ties to Ann Arbor, especially with his grandfather Lloyd Carr having coached the Wolverines. The five-star gun-slinger that goes to Saline high school in Michigan didn’t have the same plan as everyone else. On June 9th he committed to rival, Notre Dame.
Of course with Michigan getting neither five-star quarterback from the state of Michigan, the Wolverines are getting strong criticism from the fans and media. The narrative surrounding Michigan football, right or wrong, is that the Wolverines aren’t playing the NIL game right, which is why these top signal-callers are going elsewhere. The other narrative surrounding Jim Harbaugh is that he cannot recruit the quarterback position consistently as the head coach of the Wolverines.
That is inaccurate.
Harbaugh took the helm at Michigan back in 2015 and he finished off the recruiting class that former coach Brady Hoke had built. Let’s go back to 2015 and show what quarterbacks Harbaugh has had sign in Ann Arbor (rankings are from 247Sports composite):
2015: four-star Zach Gentry (No. 174 nationally and No. 8 QB)
2016: four-star Brandon Peters (No. 61 nationally and No. 6 QB)
2017: four-star Dylan McCaffrey (No. 123 nationally and No. 5 QB)
2018: four-star Joe Milton (No. 204 nationally and No. 9 QB)
2019: four-star Cade McNamara…
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