This Day in Harbaugh Trivia: Harbaugh Will be Facing a QB in 2015 He Recruited at Stanford

Trying to sleep.  Failing.  Too excited.

Decided to look over Harbaugh's four Stanford recruiting classes to see how they shook out, how they progressed in quality over time, how many players I recognized and the like... and as I skimmed his 2009 class one three star, Idaho QB stood out like a sore thumb. 

Taysom Hill

If you are not a general college fan who watches games all day Saturday like some of us addicts, you may not know who he is and even more so you may be asking how could a guy from a class in 2009 ago still be in college?  Well he is a Mormon.  Who went on a mission.  And transferred to ... BYU.

Who UM just so happens to plays in the 4th game next year. 

Not only that, this guy is sort of a dark horse Heisman candidate (not a guy who would win but a guy who could finish top 10) who was rolling up some nice #s at BYU this past year before getting hurt.  More interesting - it tells you the type of QBs Jim likes.  We knew he liked mobile passers (i.e. Troy Smith types) but this is the more of a true dual threat QB.  (i.e. Russell Wilson) He basically will throw for 200 yards a game/run for 100 yards.

He is going to be 25 years old when he rolls in here next fall!

Small frigging world. 

Hill was a star quarterback out of Highland High in Pocatello when he signed a national letter of intent with Stanford, and then-coach Jim Harbaugh, in February 2009. That was before Hill experienced a change of heart and signed a scholarship agreement with BYU in April 2011.

"There were a few things that transpired while I was in the mission field," Hill recalled this week. "One of which being coach Harbaugh going to the San Francisco 49ers. Then they also didn't allow incoming freshmen to come until June or August because of the academics at Stanford. At that point, I began to question a few things and see what else was available to me." 

Stanford's coaching staff wanted Hill to come home five months early from his mission so he could be on the Cardinal team for the 2011 season, he said. But Hill didn't want to do that, meaning he would have to wait to begin classes at Stanford until June 2012. Eventually, Hill chose BYU, which allows incoming freshmen to enroll in January.

Unrelated but Jim took 2 QBs in three of his four Stanford classes which I love. Most important position in sports and limiting each class to 1 puts you more in a hit or miss situation. A larger pool = more chance of hitting a home run or at least a triple.