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Meet Michigan football's next 'total package' QB, a diamond in the Long Island rough

The lunch meeting took place at Umberto’s, an Italian joint in Wantagh.

Jim Harbaugh wanted a New York slice the old-fashioned way, with pepperoni.

The kid he rushed there to see ordered the Buffalo style.

It was early December and Harbaugh had somehow found himself in Nassau County, on Long Island, at a place well off the path beaten by football coaches like him.

It was here, where improbably, Harbaugh found Michigan football’s next quarterback, a player rated as the 1,374th-best prospect in the nation.

Meet Dan Villari — signed on Dec.