Harbaugh's a tough S.O.B. as a winning system coach. He can't possibly be Daddy Teddy Bear like Hoke in the living room, so his first year of recruiting will probably be just OK. We have that year to establish ourselves as the superior destination. Once he reconstitutes Michigan as a Superthug team, the recruits will scramble to get to Ann Arbor --- but even then I'll bet he pulls more away from Urban than us. We need to hold Indiana, Chicago, Minnesota, southern Ohio, a bit of Cleveland, and our often successful of poaching Michigan. Then, with dashes of Texas, California, Florida, and an increasing mid-Atlantic presence, we should hang tough. If we got just ONE superior football player out of each of those areas per year that would be half a class --- I think that Kelly will get at least two in the average year. There is a lot of talent out there, and we work hard to get it to come to ND --- "if only they all had their Spanish classes passed..." {italics intended}.
