Jim Harbaugh gives scholarship offer to 9th-grader at satellite football camp

Jim Harbaugh is at it again.

Harbaugh, the University of Michigan head football coach, attended the team’s satellite camp in Hawaii this week where he was impressed with a young quarterback — a ninth-grader — and extended him a scholarship offer to play for the Wolverines in 2020, according to ESPN.

The quarterback, Sol-Jay Maiava, was thrilled.

“BLESSED 2 say I received my FIRST football scholarship offer from the University of Michigan! #WOLVERINES #GOBIGBLUE,” he tweeted.

Wednesday morning Maiava was still blown away by the scholarship offer.

“Lol hasn’t soaked in yet,” he tweeted.

The Wolverines’ satellite camp tour took the Michigan staff to 22 states to hold 39 camps, including Las Vegas earlier this month at Chaparral High School, but Harbaugh did not make an appearance for that camp.

Michigan’s satellite camps have become a controversial issue with some believing the camps are used for recruiting during the “dead period” when teams aren’t supposed to recruit. The NCAA, whose membership approved the camps in the spring amid the controversy, plans to revisit the idea of satellite camps this fall.

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