A few years into Jim Harbaugh's tenure at Michigan, a handful of coaches and members of the recruiting department gathered in a room to study film of high school quarterbacks.
The group included Harbaugh, assistant head coach and passing game coordinator Pep Hamilton, director of player personnel Sean Magee and player personnel analyst Connor Anderson, among others.
They watched cutups of 10 or 15 quarterbacks before Harbaugh asked for the tape to be turned off and each person to find their own corner of the room.
From there, Harbaugh instructed everyone to rank their top three or four quarterbacks on individual white boards. "And everybody kinda went around the room and talked about who they liked the most and why they liked them," Anderson told FOX Sports. "And [Harbaugh] was always open to hear from different people.