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Jim Harbaugh gets creative with birthday cake recruiting

Who doesn’t like birthday cake? Linebacker recruit Jonathan Jones certainly does, and he got a special birthday cake sent to him digitally by a few Michigan coaches on Wednesday.

Jim Harbaugh, defensive coordinator D.J. Durkin and recruiting coordinator Chris Partridge posed for a picture with a personalized birthday cake that read “Happy 18th Birthday Jonathan Jones.”

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This isn’t the first time Harbaugh has gotten creative with his recruiting efforts with this class. Defensive lineman Boss Tagaloa saw his prom proposal recreated by Harbaugh and reworded with a recruiting pitch.