Tonight, Jim Harbaugh will be in his element.
The 6 p.m. spring game at Michigan Stadium will finally give the U-M coach a chance to see his team’s growth from last year’s 10-3 season.
After beginning spring practice a month ago in Florida with light shells, then progressing to padded practices but controlled contact, this will be as real as it gets until the fall.
It may last only a few hours.
But they’ll be crucial to Harbaugh.
“What I’m excited to see is a real football game,” Harbaugh said Thursday on WTKA-AM (1050).