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Submitted by blueheron on

As most of us know, Hoke and UMich have been killing it for '11-'12 in the state of Michigan:

http://rivals.yahoo.com/footballrecruiting/football/recruiting/rankings…

Interestingly (to some more than others, admittedly) a local paper chooses to highlight only one of them here:

http://www.freep.com/article/20110812/SPORTS07/110812001/Recruiting-Fiv…

Now, their aim might have been to focus on "sleepers," but there's no mention of that.

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northdakotamaizefan

August 12th, 2011 at 9:35 AM ^

devin funchess stats rival those of burbridge. I know he is being recruited as a tight end but i think he will end up splittin out wide. He is very talented and is a jump ball kind of a reciever we are going to need in the coming years. Secondly our instate linebackers are going to be studs. I think out of our instate guys these three are going to be our best. Wuh wait i take that back ben braden throw him near the top he is way under the radar.

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northdakotamaizefan

August 12th, 2011 at 10:20 AM ^

but in high school he is used as a wideout. Now if you have a chance compare funchess to junior hemingway given that funchess will get bigger and he is much taller than hemingway. Now i am not saying he would beat burbridge in a foot race i might put my money on funchess on a post corner route. In college height can sometimes be such a mismatch that speed has little to do with it. Mike williams at usc was tall not very fast but killed in college. I will still put money on him being out wide.

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northdakotamaizefan

August 12th, 2011 at 10:21 AM ^

but in high school he is used as a wideout. Now if you have a chance compare funchess to junior hemingway given that funchess will get bigger and he is much taller than hemingway. Now i am not saying he would beat burbridge in a foot race i might put my money on funchess on a post corner route. In college height can sometimes be such a mismatch that speed has little to do with it. Mike williams at usc was tall not very fast but killed in college. I will still put money on him being out wide.

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Moleskyn

August 12th, 2011 at 9:06 AM ^

I don't think he was trying to list the top 5 players in the state or anything like that. He might not have blatantly said that he was listing 5 sleepers, but he acknowledged that Ruben Lile (from Cass Tech) doesn't get as much publicity as some of his teammates. IMO, nothing really to see here and nothing to get worked up about.

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Blue boy johnson

August 12th, 2011 at 9:28 AM ^

The article seems random and pointless, plus rather uniformative. Appears the author drew some names out of a hat and wrote a couple sentences about them.

I am not sure what the point of this post is and the title of the post reveals nothing. 99% of the world are not M fans so pointing out articles that aren't Mcentric is rather blase'

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