Nice Article About Incoming Freshmen
The Detroit News has a nice bit about our incoming class and the impressions they are making. The quotes from Lewis are the best! I love seeing a leader on the team who is genuinely excited about feeling competition from the freshman. Entitlement is the infection that kills champions and we have none of that here.
Who's got it better than us?
http://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/college/university-michigan/wol…
NOBODY!!!
How could you possibly know this, now that Miss Cleo is dead???
An All-American Senior who says things like, “They’re way better than me at that age – they might be better than me now,”
Humble and classy in addition to being a ridiculously good football player. I love that guy
I agree. I was just thinking about how Lewis has reached that top group of favorites for me - with guys like Dhani Jones and Mike Hart - and this only solidifies that. He's a great leader who's smart, funny, and humble; a great player who outperforms his physical stature; and he's done all kinds of other endearing things like recruiting remarkably well for a current player, coming back for his senior season, and publicly embracing Harbaugh, Brown, and all things Michigan.
Jake Butt is another guy who is jumping into that group for me for very similar reasons.
JD, Butt, Darboh, Peppers, Chesson, Glasgow, Wormley. Just a great bunch of guys. If we do something big this year, we're going to look back in 5 years and remember these guys were a big reason why.
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Not once they have been replied to.
is its no big deal
There's a difference between a blue chip talent and a blue chip talent with desire and work ethic. I like to think we have a staff that can spot the difference, and early indications suggest they can.
He's probably been learning the hard way that that doesn't work in the NFL.
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who would neg this? WTF?
We're gonna look like a pro team in 18 & 19
It is going to be so much fun when we are stocked full of Harbaugh's recruits with 4-5 years of his coaching under their belts.
I know people are worried about the youth/inexperience in 2017 but they'll see how talented the players are. The 2016 class has the luxury of learning as back-ups this year before some of them become full-time starters next year.
If we get a few of the players from the 2014 class back (like Peppers and Mone) for 2017, the drop-off won't be as significant as some expect. And we need some other players from the 2014 class (like Drake Harris and Maurce Ways) to step-up for 2017.
I agree with this.
Don't get me wrong--we are light years better than we have been in the last decade or so. But I still think we are at the level of a normal/good year is 10-2 or possibly better if we get lucky and a rebuilding year is 8-4 or 9-3 plus hopefully a good bowl win. Meanwhile, OSU and Alabama are a notch higher where their 10-2 year is a rebuilding/reloading year and their typical years are 12-0 or 11-1 with a NC if they catch a few breaks.
That's not to say we couldn't beat them on any given Saturday of course, but the overall roster and talent trend just isn't quite there for us to just produce annual NC contenders no matter who we lose on the roster. Another 4-6 years of roster management & recruiting by Harbaugh could fix that.
This also brings me back to a corollary question I had the other week. My first question that got to the Mail Bag from Ace was about roster balance in terms of position groups---"surging" certain positions like QB or TE or OL to guarantee solid performance, even though it may create a bit of an imbalance in the short term.
My corollary question relates to roster balance in terms of seniority. Do all teams necessarily *want* balance between the classes, so they have roughly even experience year in & year out? The up side here is you are never in a really low point or a true "rebuilding year." Or do teams ever strategically bunch up their recruiting classes so they get get a "high tide/low tide" cycle? The theory being--sure we would have to suffer through the occasional rebuilding year when our rostes are extremely young, but there will be a golden 2 year window where our team is totally stocked full with experienced starters-thus giving us a better shot at a NC run.
Anyway, I have faith that Harbaugh is our guy. Until prove otherwise I'm going to assume that 2017 will represent a small step back for the team, if only because we lose so much talent next year to graduation & the NFL.
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So no 30 pound overweight surprises?
Getting back to players being honored to play for Michigan rather Michigan being honored that a player chose Michigan.
Good times
These are the good times
Leave your cares behind
These are the good times
Good times
These are the good times
Our new state of mind
These are the good times
Anytime you meet a payment. Good times.
Anytime you meet a friend. Good times.
Anytime you're out from under.
Not gettin' hassled. Not gettin' hustled.
Keepin' your head above water
Making your wave when you can
Temporary layoffs. Good times.
Easy credit ripoffs. Good times.
Scratchin' and surviving. Good times.
Hanging in a chow line. Good times.
Ain't we lucky we got 'em. Good timesssssssssss
Harbaugh freaking out? That sounds like a story coming from Ace Williams...
Oh shut the fuck up. Funny how it's always the new accounts spewing the bullshit. I wonder what other accounts you have had...
Hey it lasted a week buddy, head up
from this frosh class. We need more real playmakers backing up Darboh, Chesson, and Perry IMO. At TE, we seem to have a glut of talent available. Not so much at WR and Slot. And, WR looks pretty scary for next year with the departues of Darboh and Chesson, and no new commits (at least so far) on the 2017 recruiting trail.
Michigan got some good WR recruits in 2016. I think two or three of them will be pretty good by 2017. Plus we'll have a junior Grant Perry and a redshirt junior Maurice Ways, who I think is pretty good. I'm not too worried about WR, but I will miss Chesson and, to a lesser extent, Darboh.
“They want to play. They want to get out there on Saturdays. They don’t want to just watch us. They don’t want to learn from the bench, they want to be out there experiencing. That’s something I haven’t seen in a long time in a recruiting class, guys coming in there trying to get early starting time. It’s just really refreshing.”
It is rather refreshing, and these seem like players ready-made for Harbaugh's approach, which as we know involves constant competition and the players being driven to improve. I know we speculate about how many of the freshmen will see playing time this year a few times a day almost - I suspect we might be pleasantly surprised by the ones that do find the field this season.
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