Comedian says Jim Harbaugh asked for jokes to use while recruiting

Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh reached out to a comedian for help in his recruitment pitches.

Randy Sklar told Big Ten Network's "On The Bench" podcast that Harbaugh hit him up for jokes before meeting with a running back in the 2022 recruiting class.

"He texted me one time, he's like, 'You got any good jokes?' Out of the blue, 'You got any good jokes,' he texted me," Sklar said. "And I was like, 'Yeah, OK.' And I wrote a few jokes and I sent them to him - like, just jokes that your dad could tell someone, you know what I mean? Even though he's, like, not that much older than us. I was like, I gotta do it in a way that he could.

"And he did; it was so great. He's like, 'I'm about to talk to this running back from Cleveland, or Cincinnati, from 2022. I'm gonna use one of these jokes.' And he did. It was great."

Harbaugh has gone to interesting lengths to impress recruits, once sleeping over at a defensive lineman's home.

The 57-year-old signed a four-year extension with Michigan in January and is now under contract through the 2025 season.