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U-M football goes big in every way with class, event on Signing Day

Midway through Wednesday’s second annual Signing of the Stars event, Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh explained his goal with this year’s recruiting class.

Midway through Wednesday’s second annual Signing of the Stars event, Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh explained his goal with this year’s recruiting class.

The Wolverines were seeking size.

Though Harbaugh meant it in a small context about players, from top to bottom, that’s what this class became: large in every way.

With 30 players, the class had more prospects than any class in modern Michigan recruiting history and was the largest in the nation.