Mark Snyder

Detroit Free Press

Now that Jim Harbaugh's early June is free from satellite camps, he is making other arrangements.

The Michigan football coach will be the commencement speaker for New Jersey's Paramus Catholic High School on June 9. The news was first reported by northjersey.com.

The graduation is scheduled to be held at the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J., near the school's campus.

“Commencement is an academic ceremony; it’s not connected to athletics,” school president Jim Vail told the site. “But I have gotten to know coach Harbaugh pretty well. I’m not a football guy, but I know a great educator when I see one, and he always impressed me as a great educator and great leader.

"He’s a very dynamic individual. He does many things that would make him a great role model for our students.”

Harbaugh has a strong tie to the school, with two Paramus alumni -- linebacker Jabrill Peppers and offensive lineman Juwann Bushell-Beatty -- on the U-M roster, former Paramus coach Chris Partridge now serving as the Wolverines' linebackers coach and Paramus defensive lineman Rashan Gary an incoming freshman at U-M. As a 2016 graduate, Gary would be expected to be in the audience at commencement.

U-M also is recruiting four-star Paramus outside linebacker Drew Singleton and four-star defensive lineman Corey Bolds for the 2017 class.

The commencement date conflicts with the Sound Mind Sound Body camp at Wayne State, but the NCAA Division I Council on Friday outlawed coaches from participating in off-campus camps.

Harbaugh gave the commencement address at his son James' school, Coronado (Calif.) High School, in the middle of last summer's satellite camp tour.

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