Jake Allen Says Jim Harbaugh Told Him He Didn't Care About His Grades

Florida quarterback commit Jake Allen claimed Michigan head football coach Jim Harbaugh said he didn't care about grades during his visit with the Wolverines.

Zach Abolverdi of SEC Country passed along Allen's comments about the situation after asking him about his funniest moment during the recruiting process:

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I was at a Michigan camp and talking with a couple other quarterbacks. We were all talking about our grades. I was messing around and said, 'I got a C in third grade.' Jim Harbaugh overheard and screams, 'I don't give a s--t about your grades.' Then he realized I was part of the quarterback group that had recruits in it so he just kind of walked away. It was weird. I couldn't wait to get out of there after that, and we left early.

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Allen later added: "Coach Harbaugh definitely rubbed me the wrong way."

The St. Thomas Aquinas High School standout is a 3-star prospect who originally committed to the Gators in July 2015, according to Scout.com. The Florida native is listed as the 36th-ranked quarterback among the incoming class of 2017.

Mark Snyder of the Detroit Free Press reported in November that the Michigan freshman football class of 2009 had a graduation rate of 79 percent. The number was a 10-year high, but it's 11 percent below Michigan's overall rate for all student-athletes.

In 2015, University of Michigan president Mark Schlissel told the Detroit Free Press he was "enormously impressed" by the way Harbaugh handled academics:

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What I was most impressed with was an early meeting he had with the players, the team he inherited where he told them that very few of them were going to earn their living as professional football players. And they have the opportunity to really get tremendous benefit and get a fantastic education that will set them up for their future, and he wants to be sure that they realize that is the most important thing in their time at Michigan, and he was going to hold them to account not just for their commitment to football and their performance, but making sure they take full advantage of their opportunities as a student.

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Harbaugh also highlighted the school's academic success among student-athletes last May:

No one else has verified Allen's claims so far.

It's impossible to know whether Harbaugh was being serious if he did make that statement or if he was trying to make a joke that fell flat.