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Michigan begins frantic camp schedule this week
- Updated: June 1, 2016
10:15 AM ET
Six members of the Michigan football staff climbed out of a plane late Monday night on the largest of American Samoa’s seven islands in the Pacific Ocean. The group had just completed the 20-hour trip from Detroit to Pago Pago and would soon begin a full day of learning about the territory’s culture.
On Wednesday, the coaches will host a camp for 430 high school football players on an island that only has a total of seven high schools. They will leave the camp, drive directly to the airport and fly another 3,000 miles to the southeast corner of Australia for Round 2. Meanwhile, head coach Jim Harbaugh and another contingent will be starting their own hectic schedule on Wednesday morning in Indianapolis. Thus begins the unprecedented month of June for the Wolverine staff — four weeks of leaving no recruiting stone unturned and spreading the gospel of football to every nook and cranny of the globe that will have them.
Michigan’s coaches will participate in more than 40 camps during a 29-day tour that will take them to 22 different states and begin and end on the other side of the world. To visit each stop in order (the staff is splitting up to cover all this ground) one would have to travel more than 17,119 miles in the continental U.S. That doesn’t include the bookend journeys to American Samoa, where Harbaugh will visit at the end of June to teach the game to a group of Pop Warner-aged players.
“There’s already talk on the island about him coming at the end of the month,” said …
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