So Jim Harbaugh and the Michigan Wolverines are going to host a football camp in Australia of all places on June 3rd.
According to Mark Snyder of the Detroit Free Press, the Michigan Wolverines and head coach Jim Harbaugh are going to hold a satellite football camp on June 3rd in Australia. Yes, that is correct.
It seems that since the NCAA revoked its ban on satellite camps that nobody has gone to the extremes to put on these type of camps quite like Michigan’s Harbaugh. Not only is he creeping down into ACC/SEC territory to find premier talent to bring to his Ann Arbor Big 10 powerhouse, but he is now eyeing talent overseas in Australia.
The flyer for the camp states that Michigan plans to coach all positions and not just potential special teamers, the position group most likely to garner the eyes of Power 5 football coaches like Harbaugh at Michigan.
Australia may be college football’s next great untapped market, as rugby and Australian rules football dominate the nation’s landscape. By holding a camp down under in early June 2016, Harbaugh could be laying unprecedented groundwork in finding talent in that region of the world.
Harbaugh is absolutely an innovative head coach and could conceivably create a pipeline of southern hemisphere talent to the Big House in Ann Arbor. While Australians are familiar with strange marsupials on their great expansive continent, just how many Australians are familiar with what a wolverine is all about?
With all the fuss about satellite camps being thrown in Harbaugh’s direction, who would have thought that he would host a camp in a foreign country? Either Michigan is about to get an extra stellar special teams group from Australia or Harbaugh is laying the foundation for future Wolverines coming from the most unlikely source in the land down under.
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