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Harbaugh draws cascade of stars to Michigan for signing day

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) - College football's recruiting circus seems to have found its ringmaster: Jim Harbaugh.

The coach has turned the Wolverines' signing day into a "Signing With the Stars" spectacle.

Tom Brady, Derek Jeter, Jim Leyland and even Ric Flair are expected to be in a packed auditorium on campus Wednesday. Minutes before the event started, fans started shouting, "Woooooo!" when they saw Flair, a former professional wrestler.

Moments later, fans in rose-colored, plush seats chanted, "Go!" and "Blue!" as if it was a football game.

Harbaugh's brother, Baltimore Ravens coach John Harbaugh, and his dad, Jack, were waiting to load a bus outside Michigan's football facility. Jack Harbaugh was an assistant for the late Michigan coach Bo Schembechler.

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FILE - In this Thursday, Jan. 28, 2016, file photo, Rashan Gary, of Paramus, N.J., talks to members of the media in Atlanta, while on hand to receive the Bobby Dodd national high school lineman of the year award at the Touchdown Club of Atlanta. The defensive tackle from Paramus Catholic High School in New Jersey and most-wanted recruit in the country is weighing whether to play for one of those Southern power programs such as Alabama and Clemson or head to Michigan to be part of the Wolverines' rebirth under Jim Harbaugh. Clemson recently gave Gary’s mother a cake. Every little gesture can help. (AP Photo/John Amis, File) The Associated Press
FILE - In this Nov. 28, 2015, file photo, Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh looks up at the scoreboard in the fourth quarter of an NCAA college football game against Ohio State in Ann Arbor, Mich. Harbaugh, who has rarely shied away from the spotlight since taking over as Michigan’s coach about 13 months ago, recently spent the night at the house of Quinn Nordin, a top kicking prospect from Rockford H.S. in Michigan. (AP Photo/Tony Ding, File) The Associated Press
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