Michigan has set up camp in New Jersey, essentially turning Paramus Catholic into its own farm school. The alma mater of Jabrill Peppers and Rashan Gary (along with a number of future Wolverines, no doubt) invited Harbaugh to speak at its graduation ceremony, will play at Michigan Stadium ahead of the maize and blue’s season opener this September, and hosted Jim Harbaugh and company at a satellite camp on Wednesday.
Every action has an equal and opposite reaction, and Michigan’s flag-planting in New Jersey sparked a secret society at Rutgers to ask him to leave in a less-than-kind manner.
Harbaugh's satellite camp in NJ has angered Rutgers -- some "vandalism" at host Paramus Catholic, & a letter for JH pic.twitter.com/shxJbG02nV
— Pick Six Previews (@PickSixPreviews) June 8, 2016
Read the letter again and note the first capitalized letter of each line.
Apprised of the day’s events, Harbaugh fired off his own response Wednesday evening.
History has documented many "secret orders" that have brought our country great shame.
— Coach Harbaugh (@CoachJim4UM) June 9, 2016
Rutgers’s football program had its own response to Harbaugh’s encroachment. Scarlet Knights head coach Chris Ash scheduled his own satellite camp and invited Urban Meyer and his Buckeyes to join -- which Harbaugh said he was fine with.
“I was all for it,” Harbaugh told MLive. “All for it. Whatever’s best for the youngsters. The more opportunity for them the better. That’s my feeling on it.
“It really wasn’t competition at all. As coaches, there’s no competing going on. It’s just coaching the players. That’s all it is. Whatever’s best for (the players), I think is great.”
Michigan and Rutgers square off in Piscataway on Oct. 8.