Harbaugh Talks Big Sean Visit, Sione Houma's Emergence
By Ashley Scoby
@AshleyScoby
After Michigan drubbed Rutgers 49-16 Saturday, the team had a special guest in the locker room to celebrate. Rapper Big Sean, who is from Detroit, spent time at the game and visited the Michigan locker room after the win.
"What a guy," head coach Jim Harbaugh said of Big Sean. "Easy, easy to talk to and gracious as could be – you can imagine, here we are in the locker room after a great win, and there's Big Sean and all the fellas wanting to shake his hand or take a picture with him, etc, and he couldn't have been more gracious."
Between players, coaches and staff, Harbaugh estimated there were about 115 people wanting to shake the star's hand and take a photo with him.
A Cass Tech graduate whose mother went to Michigan, Big Sean is considered an honorary "Michigan man" by Harbaugh.
"You feel like you're around friends and family when you're around Sean," Harbaugh said. "Really a fine gentleman."
Another gentleman that Harbaugh has been especially pleased with recently is fullback Sione Houma, who's scored three rushing touchdowns this season.
After suffering through an ankle injury during the preseason, Houma has bounced back to become a vital cog in Michigan's offense.
"What a good player Sione Houma is," Harbaugh said. "Then he gets healthy and he starts running the ball from the fullback position, he's catching the ball out of the backfield, he's covering on special teams and blocking like the dickens, and then 'let's play him at tailback, and, yeah, let's play him at tailback.' … Now you just start going, 'Houuuuma!' They're not booing; they're saying 'Houma.'"
