As the Harbaugh turns. UPDATE We are in full support of Coach Harbaugh’s statement of support of President Ono’s comments supporting Coach Harbaugh and the Michigan Football Team and look forward to continuing to support Coach Harbaugh who is in full support of President Ono’s support of Coach Harbaugh and https://t.co/jOHBu6h1vc — Shapiro Undergraduate Library (@UMichUGLI) January 13, 2023 More seriously, John U Bacon asserted yesterday that the chances he stays are "growing by the hour" after Santa Ono got directly involved. I do not buy for one second that Pete Thamel report that Michigan might not be able to get Harbaugh signed for "weeks" because of the NCAA whatever. It's 2023 and the president of the university appears to have an idea of how the world works. Yes, please. There's been some rumbling about changes to Signing Day coming up. I find myself in a somewhat unusual position of feverishly agreeing with the SEC commissioner: "We're crushing coaches in December," Sankey told The Athletic. "We're going to add playoff games (in December). We have to change early signing." Sankey elaborated on the issue during a gathering with reporters on Sunday in Los Angeles, noting that with coaches voicing their concerns about the overload of activity in December, conferences "have a responsibility to take another look at it." "From a remedy standpoint, I don't think you can go back to just the first Wednesday in February," Sankey said. December Signing Day is dumb from a media standpoint—February was a much bigger deal—and it is now very dumb because nobody has any idea who's going to be on their roster. I get concerns that committed players keep getting recruited when they have no interest in being recruited, so let's resurrect an idea this site has promoted previously: Players can sign a non-binding LOI basically whenever, but let's say starting a year before a restored February signing day. Players in the LOI database cannot take official visits to other schools. Coaches from other schools cannot contact players in the database. The LOIs become binding on the first week in February. This does a lot to cut down on useless attempts to get guys to flip, benefiting both players who don't want to be hassled and coaches who might like to see their kids faces, without locking either school or player in until most of the portal madness has settled.