Like everyone else, Jim Harbaugh is aware that his recruiting tactics are under scrutiny.
The process of accepting verbal commitments and then pulling the prospects' scholarship offers, directly or indirectly, has drawn national attention the past two weeks.
Yet the Michigan football coach proudly defends the tactics.
“We’re very much out there; we don’t hide how we operate and what we do,” he said after the introduction of Warde Manuel as U-M’s new athletic director. “It’s a meritocracy, like everything we do in our program. It’s going to continue to be that. We’re going to bring the finest student-athletes and character that we can to the University of Michigan.