{"id":626317,"date":"2026-03-02T07:01:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T07:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/626317\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T07:01:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T07:01:31","slug":"notre-dame-has-jim-harbaugh-michigan-dropping-the-ball-to-thank-for-jeremiyah-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/626317\/","title":{"rendered":"Notre Dame has Jim Harbaugh, Michigan dropping the ball to thank for Jeremiyah Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"inline-text-0\" class=\"mt-[18px] md:mt-0 mb-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5g\"><a href=\"https:\/\/slapthesign.com\/jeremiyah-love-may-have-just-solidified-his-place-as-the-top-non-qb-in-the-draft\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jeremiyah Love&#8217;s performance at the NFL Combine<\/a> once again reminded Notre Dame football fans just how lucky they were to have him, no matter how brief his stay in South Bend. For those who needed a further reminder, an interview where the star running back made it clear he almost went to Michigan should do the trick.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-1\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5j\">Appearing on the Rich Eisen show earlier this week, Love told the former ESPN personality that he nearly flipped his commitment from the Fighting Irish to the Wolverines late in the recruiting cycle. <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-2\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5m\">&#8220;I was committed to Notre Dame, and it came to signing day. I was literally this close to going to Michigan,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/news\/jeremiyah-love-reveals-he-was-very-close-attending-michigan-instead-notre-dame\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Love said Friday on The Rich Eisen Show<\/a>. &#8220;But I was like, \u2018I\u2019m committed to Notre Dame. I\u2019m just going to stick with them. Even though I kind of want to go to Michigan. I kind of want to go there. I\u2019m just going to stick it out with Notre Dame. I\u2019m going to stick with my first choice.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jeremiyah Love reveals how close Notre Dame football came to losing him to Michigan<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-4\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5s\">That he decided to stick to his first choice was also apparently a massive mistake by Jim Harbaugh and his staff. Love also told Eisen that he wanted to follow a high school friend to Ann Arbor, but the communication from Michigan wasn&#8217;t there.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-5\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5v\">&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cwDfvjBlB18\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">I ain&#8217;t talk to nobody<\/a>,&#8221; Love said. &#8220;But my homeboy, Fredrick Moore, he went to Michigan. I was kind of like, gonna go with him. And I remember it very vividly. I&#8217;m telling him, &#8216;I\u2019m trying to go to Michigan. I\u2019m trying to connect with y\u2019all\u2019s coaches. But nobody\u2019s hitting me up. I don\u2019t have any connection with anybody.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-6\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5y\">Love&#8217;s arrival in South Bend was followed by being just a few plays away from a National Title in 2024. <a href=\"https:\/\/slapthesign.com\/marcus-freeman-s-explanation-of-notre-dame-s-cfp-snub-will-finally-shut-the-haters-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">While snubbed by the CFP Committee<\/a>, it&#8217;s not hard to imagine Notre Dame would have had a real chance of winning it all in 2025 as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jeremiyah Love&#8217;s performance at the NFL Combine once again reminded Notre Dame football fans just how lucky they&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":626318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[1318,1317,1315,1316,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-626317","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116158299259286804","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}