Recruits from Ann Arbor
I was looking at 247's list of top players in Michigan and noticed that Anjuan Simmons from Pioneer HS has committed to OSU. I don't follow high school recruiting that closely but I'm curious as to how well Michigan has been able to recruit hometown talent.
Does anyone know?
mentioned before, if you or anyone has a link I would be grateful.
Not only is it "old news," the sad truth is that there isn't a lot of Power Five talent coming out of Ann Arbor on a regular basis. Even Harbaugh doesn't count as an Ann Arbor kid since he ended up in Palo Alto.
Harbaugh actually wasn't highly recruited. Michigan didn't offer him until the week before signing day. If ranking services existed back then, he would probably barely crack the 3-star range. He ended up outperforming expectations, but he wasn't a blue-chipper in high school.
Daelin Hayes. Also Fred Jackson's son was in the same class and is headed to VT to play QB.
One or the other, maybe. Daelin Hayes originally attended Orchard Lake St. Mary's before going to California and then coming to Ann Arbor, where he graduated. Josh Jackson started off in Ann Arbor (at Huron, where Jeremy Jackson went) but finished his career at Saline.
It makes it hard for me not to think of it as a local school. In any case, they were both local players. No reason to try and split hairs.
Okay, well, I guess we could throw in Vince Helmuth, too. And maybe players from Ypsilanti or Dexter or Chelsea.
Not trying to split hairs. I'm just trying to answer the question, which was about Ann Arbor, not the general Ann Arbor area.
I pay taxes for Ann Arbor schools, but not for the city itself. The lines for school districts are different than for cities. I attended two schools in other cities, but in my local school district. There's one subdivision which is half in Saline schools and half in Ann Arbor. They all have Ann Arbor street addresses.
Staff didn't really make him a priority (wasn't part of the whole "Pipeline 9" thing iirc).
We've gotten guys from columbus that they didn't really want. Jaron Dukes recently, to name one.
If he gets moved to the top of the recruiting board at his position, I'm sure he'll come across the street.
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And Marcus Ray.
I hope you're right and I hope our staff decides to make him a priority. By the time the final rankings are issued, Simmons may be in the top 100. He deserves a closer look from the staff.
You can be sure our staff has given him a close look. They've seen him a lot and he's been here on several visits. The truth is that he was not a priority, Josh Ross and Drew Singleton are. Maybe that will change, but it would probably be because we're missing out on players we like better.
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Michigan doesn't go after a ton of Ann Arbor talent, but they have done fairly well in recent years. Some players from Ann Arbor over the last decade or so include Drake Johnson, Jeremy Jackson, and Carl Tabb. Ricardo Miller moved to Ann Arbor after growing up mostly in Florida.
Fielding Yost and Andy Moeller are a couple other notable Ann Arbor products, not to mention Jim Harbaugh (who grew up here but then moved away shortly before coming back to play in college).
Generally, there's not a ton of talent in Ann Arbor. This year is actually kind of a banner crop with the likes of Simmons, Treshaun Hayward, Charles Jones, Hunter Rison, Derrick Hubbard, etc.
True, though the post seems to be asking about football prospects.
Magnus!
Yup.
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He was on the team in '29-'30-'31. According to the UM database, he never started a game.
We did miss out on November Von Bonghit from Commie High back in the late 80's.
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and I think Ann Arbor is the perfect distance. It's not so close that my parents are hovering over me, but not so far that I can't come home when I want to. I'd hate to have to road trip or take a plane every time I wanted to see my dog. Plus, I didn't grow up a Michigan fan and had never been to A2 before my senior year of high school, so it still feels like I'm discovering a new city.
I think you made a wise choice in not venturing too far away for school.
I was born and raised in Ann Arbor and Michigan was the only school I applied to and the only school I wanted to go to. Then and now, I can't imagine going anywhere else. To each his own I guess, but I loved Ann Arbor and never had any desire to leave for college. I was open to leaving for law school, but UMLS is a great school (and I didn't have the grades for Harvard, Yale, or Stanford), so it didn't make sense to go anywhere else.
Even though Matt Mitchell is just a walk on, I'm tickled that my HS finally contributed a rostered player to the Michigan squad.
Meyer has the #1 class in the country and may have to turn away highly ranked recruits because of numbers but you think he's recruiting Simmons out of spite? That's nonsense. If Simmons was committed to Michigan you would be complaining that he's underrated and you would probably be right. Also he qualified for The Opening so he's almost assured a ratings bump.
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recruits to keep them from Michigan. Obviously that's not out of spite, it's competition, but he's got to love the extra PR from taking a recruit right out of Ann Arbor. Meyer isn't just trying to put together the best classes he can. He's also trying to beat us in recruiting.