Several top prospects trending to Michigan on 247sports
Let's hope their crystal ball predictions are more accurate in football than they are in basketball -__-
Word.
Do you think John has become NCAA-certified as an unpaid assistant like Jim was to help recruit for his dad's WKU Hilltoppers? Does he need to be?
Amidst the Summer of Harbaugh, this seems like too big of a story to have fallen through the cracks.
There were some cool tweets about John being the keynote speaker at the Rivals 5-star Challenge dinner, last night. Mike Spath from The Wolverine tweeted that John spent several minutes talking about Jim during his speech. And it sounds like John left a great impression; a few athletes in attendance tweeted very nice things about him, posted selfies, etc.
Can someone with a Rivals account elaborate on John's speech (or not if that's strongly frowned upon)?
Michigan has always recruited better than MSU. Last year MSU's class ranked higher for one reason alone, Michigan had an abnormally smal class. I check 247sports and the composite rankings show a consistantly higher caliber of player choosing UM. Even last year.
Michigan is virtually guarantted to have a class ranked higher than MSU this year simply because we can take roughly the same number of players.
I thought this was common knowledge.
I don't know. One would expect MSU to do a bit better this year after two recruiting cycles of very good seasons and impressive bowl game performances. Some HS players will probably start to believe those were not fluky seasons and that MSU is going to be a strong team going forward. Is Michigan's brand still bigger and better? Sure, but they unfortunately closed a lot of the gap. I would not expect us to have a higher class ranking than MSU if it weren't for the Harbaugh add. Even so, it could be very close.
That said, I don't understand why smaller but very strong recruiting classes don't get higher placement in national rankings. I don't know the details of the methodology, but it seems off.
because the recruits are big.
can sign that guy.
I hate to say it, but most of these recent crystal balls come from one michigan.247sports.com Basketball writer. He could just be on a personal tear.
I understand all of the predictions came from that one guy. But you got to believe he got info from somewhere/someone to put the crystal balls in. I mean c'mon, do you think this guy is going on a crystal ball frenzy for no reason, he can't be that stupid.
He's just throwing a bunch of bets out there hoping to get a few hits down the road
talking to all these recruits and they all gave him information that no one else knows? If so I have a bridge to sell you.
IIRC, he was a part of the Tremendous website that launched Steve Lorenz's career at 247 Sports. So yes, there's a good chance that he got some inside info from Lorenz and/or others over at 247.
That they would come from a Michigan writer. I'd be more suspect if they came from some guy in Saskatchewan.
it looks like it's just one guy who predicted like 20 different dudes to come to Michigan. Not sure that means much of anything for us
Deff not putting anything into 247 Crystal Ball Predictions since Jaylen Brown's fiasco. For all we know, Michigan is just the flavor of the week due to the satalite camps.
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Khalid Kareem, Jon Jones, and Terrance Davis are the 3 that have majority Michigan leanings. I'll take those 3 seriously and the others with a grain of salt atm. It is just one writer flipping his choices.
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that one recruit, who plays football sometimes.
Why would you want a recruit who only plays football sometimes? I like my recruits to play football all the time.
to play football sometimes, basketball sometimes, baseball sometimes, and even wrestle sometimes.
yep the dudes a baller, actually kind of moves like brian cole with the rock in his hands. i think hes by far the best WR they have a legit shot with (though im still shocked more top teams are not all over hawkins). hawkins and jones are 2 of the more underrated prospects in this class with michigan interest. i can think of very few id rather them sign
As much as I love crystal balls that are pointing our way, they were all made from a single source; a guy who probably couldn't sleep last night. Not putting too much into reading those tea leaves.
Bruh. It's amazing that every single one of them is plausible to commit to Michigan. Just glorious.
pick because it came from someone coverin Rutgers. The rest were all put in by one person at Wolverine Insider and I think you have to question why so many all at once. He only has a 45% success rate on very few picks that have committed. I really don't see one person throwing darts at the dartboard possibly to be thread worthy.
Ohio State and Michigan are supposedly Mitchell's top two.