Intel on the In-Home Visit With Nyckoles Harbor
As we know, Michigan was in-home with 5-star 2023 WR Nyckoles Harbor on Tuesday. A lot of sites have paywalled intel, but I got all of this from a non-paywalled video. The Harbor discussion starts at 4:15. Among the highlights:
- Harbaugh and the entire Michigan offensive staff were on the visit, which would confirm that he'd be coming here to play offense.
- Track is not as big a hurdle (no pun intended) when it comes to him coming to Michigan.
- Harbaugh is willing to let him mainly concentrate on track his freshman year (I don't know what this means in practical terms). Harbor wants to make the Olympic team in 2024.
- They spent a lot of time talking NIL.
- Oregon is a serious player.
January 27th, 2023 at 12:33 PM ^
My uninformed opinion: He’s going to Oregon.
These just aren’t battles UM seems to win. Too much pay-to-play money floating around, and this track BS doesn’t help.
January 27th, 2023 at 12:40 PM ^
Wait ! we were told earlier in the cycle he's not concerned about money because he said he'd get NIL money anywhere he goes!
January 27th, 2023 at 1:37 PM ^
Some of those quotes are straight from Harbor. I will trust Harbor's opinion on his recruitment more than random board member who claims it is because of NIL without proof of such.
January 27th, 2023 at 12:36 PM ^
Good stuff. Thanks for sharing. Like the move by Coach Harbaugh to let him concentrate on Track freshman year, and for Olympics. If he wants a future in football, Michigan seems to have a real shot here based on what was shared.
January 27th, 2023 at 12:51 PM ^
Until proven otherwise I think he winds up at Oregon because those guys tend to wind up there but who knows? UM has as strong of an argument as any that he'd have success at end or on offense at UM.
January 27th, 2023 at 1:43 PM ^
FWIW, Steve Wiltfong published an article ($) today on remaining unsigned 2023 recruits. Bottom line: he believes Maryland leads for Harbor with Oregon making a strong, late push. Maryland’s track coach, Andrew Valmon, won a couple gold medals and was head coach of Olympic track team in 2012.
In better news, he thinks we’ve got a real shot at flipping Stanford DL commit Cameron Brandt.
January 27th, 2023 at 2:19 PM ^
so this is really recruiting him for transfer portal from Oregon post Olympics, got it.
January 27th, 2023 at 6:07 PM ^
I remember another high school track star who decided to play football at Michigan and occasionally dabbled in indoor track. He was a pretty good sprinter and even beat Ohio State in the 60M in a dual meet. I think that he's still hanging around the football program. LINK