(Photo: David Guralnick, Detroit News)
Ann Arbor — Nearly a year after he committed to play for Michigan, freshman slot receiver Mike Sainristil still hears the recruiting pitches occasionally. Only now they come from within his own team.
Sainristil was targeted by Michigan defensive coordinator Don Brown and secondary coach Mike Zordich as a cornerback coming out of the Boston suburbs, and his high school coach, Theluxon Pierre, was one of Brown’s former players at UMass.
But Sainristil had his mind set on playing offense in college, and once head coach Jim Harbaugh agreed, it was settled … mostly.