Michigan coach Jim Harbuagh pumps iron at recruit's high school gym

Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh has long been known for his antics on the recruiting trail. He infamously planned a sleepover at a high school kicker’s house after a recruiting dead period, scaled a tree for another recruit, and even mimicked rapper DJ Khaled’s mantra that business is “boomin.”

The 58-year-old appears to be willing to do just about anything to impress recruits. Thursday, that included getting the weight room. Harbaugh was in Florida visiting the school of four-star 2023 linebacker Troy Bowles Jr. when he was snapped at the high school weight room’s squat rack.

Bowles is the No. 45 prospect in the 2023 recruiting cycle and holds offers from the Wolverines, as well as Ohio State, Rutgers, Georgia and a number of others.

For college coaches such as Michigan's Jim Harbaugh, life on the road recruiting can make it difficult to get in a daily workout.

So today in the Oliva Weight Room at Jesuit, Harbaugh worked some squats into his visit.#AMDG l #GoTigers l #GoBlue pic.twitter.com/KeoftiJP4s

— Jesuit Tigers Football (@JesuitTigers_FB) January 20, 2022

Harbaugh has been rumored as a leading candidate to take the Las Vegas Raiders’ vacant head coaching job. But he has remained on the recruiting trail since Michigan’s season-ending loss to Georgia on December 31.

The Wolverines had a strong finish to the 2021 season on the field and an equally impressive one on the recruiting trail. Harbaugh’s revamped coaching staff landed the nation’s No. 9 recruiting class, according to the On3 Consensus Team Recruiting Rankings. And that has carried over into 2023, where the Wolverines have already amassed four commitments, including top-100 linebacker Raylen Wilson.

Whether or not Jim Harbaugh leads the Wolverines out onto the field in 2022 remains to be seen. But at least for now, he appears to be attacking the team’s recruiting efforts with an enthusiasm unknown to mankind.