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Just because JD Johnson can no longer play football doesn’t mean he isn’t still a Michigan commit. Johnson, a four-star quarterback recruit in the Class of 2020 according to Rivals, announced Wednesday that his football career has ended due to complications stemming from a coarctation of his aorta, a heart issue, that cannot be treated through surgery. Because of those issues, the No. 10-ranked pro-style quarterback’s college career will end before it even begins. That didn’t stop Jim Harbaugh from telling Johnson he still has a scholarship at the University of Michigan. And that there’s a staff position waiting for him when he enrolls. Johnson, a native of Phoenix, Arizona, had been committed to Michigan since Dec. 2018. Obviously, this is a great thing for Harbaugh to do. Not just morally, but to show other recruits that a commitment to Michigan holds true for the school as well. The loss of Johnson means Michigan now only has three quarterbacks under scholarship for next season: sophomore Dylan McCaffrey, redshirt freshman Joe Milton and freshman Cade McNamara. You’d think Harbaugh will try to add another passer on the recruiting trail soon to boost that number. Dave's thoughts: As a Michigan fan, this does not surprise me. People like to look at Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh as a weird dude. They look at his antics when recruiting, they see in press conferences that he has strange turns of phrases nobody has ever heard of before, they see him as a guy who sometimes can be crass and testy... And lost within that, is the memory of who his coach was. Most of us all have that one teacher or coach who had a huge impact on our lives. Someone who inspired us, someone who taught us valuable life lessons, someone we would credit as helping to mold us, and shape who we became as adults, someone outside of our immediate family. Jim Harbaugh had Glenn "Bo" Schembechler as that role model. A man who epitomized integrity, respect, honor. When Bo gave you his word, he meant it. If he made you a promise, he kept it. This is exactly the kind of thing Bo would have done, had JD been one of his recruits. Not because of the good publicity, not to get favorable stories in the sports section of the newspaper, Bo would have done it for no other reason that it would be the right thing to do. Even if JD can't play football anymore, Bo would understand that he made as much of a commitment to JD, as JD made to him. It pleases me very much to see one of Bo's former players do his best to imitate his mentor like this. As Bo looks down upon the football landscape from heaven, Bo is grinning ear to ear at how proud he is of his former QB.
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