Jim Harbaugh didn’t spend his summer vacation going to Disney World or at an overpriced beach rental in the Caribbean. After a successful first season as head coach of the Michigan Wolverines and a winter full of sleep-overs with recruits, he traveled deep into SEC country hosting satellite camps to attract top-tier southern talent to the Big House. It’s a rare thing to see a college football coach making himself a constant topic of national conversation during the summer, but this is Harbaugh we’re talking about. Sure, conference media days are usually good for a juicy quote or two, but they tend to quickly fade from the memories of all but the most dedicated fans who’d rather be outside and not thinking about autumn football. Maybe Harbaugh’s antics only amused Michigan fans, maybe it’s a regional thing; whatever it is, the University of Alabama’s Nick Saban, among other SEC coaches, didn’t take kindly to the Michigan coach’s appearances across the SEC’s bailiwick, and Harbaugh could seem to care less. For all of Ohio State’s recent success under Urban Meyer, the epicenter of college football has been the Southeast for the last two decades (excepting USC’s brief period of dominance in…
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