Jim Harbaugh came to Michigan ahead of the 2015 season with as much hype as any head coach has ever received in a new job, but also inherited a bit of a mess coming out of the Brady Hoke era. The program’s perception was at a modern low and a small recruiting class was left in shambles due to the coaching change.
Harbaugh had a few weeks or so to scrape together a respectable class and wound up doing so with eight commitments leading into National Signing Day 2015. From there, it was for his staff and the players to figure out how to make it work.