The Wolverine

March 2015 Signing Day Edition

The Wolverine: Covering University of Michigan Football and Sports

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2015 RECRUITING ISSUE to get there. It's going to be a differ- ent Michigan; it's not going to be the same." Cole did entertain a few schools. He visited Nebraska, Purdue and Wisconsin late in the process, and that had some Wolverine fans wor- ried. In Cole's mind, he always knew that he was going to be enrolling at Michigan in January as an early graduate — but he smartly kept other options available just in case. Once Jim Harbaugh was hired, he no longer needed those other options. "Some guys in the class decommit- ted, but they left too early I think," Cole explained. "They didn't even know who the coach was yet. I wanted to see who the new coach was going to be and when Harbaugh came in, I knew I made the right de- cision. "Decommitting never really crossed my mind. I just had to keep these other places in my mind just in case. Really those other places were just my backup plans. In all areas of life it's good to have a backup plan, but I always wanted to be at Michigan." — Brandon Brown Cole was recruited hard by Nebraska, Ohio State, Purdue and Wisconsin, but ultimately stuck with the in-state Wolverines. PHOTO BY TIM SULLIVAN

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