Andrew Raym to Oklahoma
Did not see that coming.
Right?
Shame, it would have been nice to get the top prospect out of Oklahoma two years in a row.
On the Michigan insider, there is a note about a 5 star prospect who is committed to Stanford. I don’t have an insider account, but I assume it’s about Myles Hinton. Hopefully Michigan is still recruiting him and we can flip one from Stanford as payback for all the recruits they’ve flipped from us.
Myles is coming
Not Sandy Myles, right?!
He’s an angry elf
By far my favorite scene in that movie. "Go ahead, call me an elf one more time!"
Coming to what? To Michigan for good? Or just for a recruiting event? Or just to Ann Arbor to drop off his brother?
You would be correct in your assumptions/hopes in this post.
The "note" is a board post by an anonymous user who noticed that some of Michigan's coaches "liked" one of his tweets. Oye.
Huh. Weird that Lorenz would write an article about that. I was hoping he was coming to the BBQ at the big house.
I think ya'll are talking about 2 different things. There was a board post in victors club earlier today about the tweet, and Lorenz posted a seperate article tonight that was not about the tweet.
My bad.
I'll go in the corner and cut myself so as to atone for my error.
Not getting many top 100 players in this cycle.
....then when???
... and you reliably showed up to state the obvious in a Maizenesque way. Thanks a bunch.
Uhh.. they have two top100 commits and may get back in on a third, a 5* even, plus we probably have four candidates to end in top100.
That's not counting what they could do before signing day.
Basically, they've lost a bunch of top100 battles that if they had won it would've been more top100 than they've ever had.
As of right now 4 or 5 top100 seems easy to reach.
Well we have two now. Rankings aren’t finalized for another 8 months and this time last year Charbonnet wasn’t top 100 (he was #186) before finishing in the top 50.
We finished last class with 3 top 100 players. We already have two. We still have spots to fill and rankings will continue to change.
Can't blame him for going to Oklahoma. They have a great OL coach who has developed OL into NFL draft picks.
Man, we really ought to get one of those. Oh wait,I think we did....
Difference is OU has produced day 1/2 draft picks while Michigan had very few in the last 10 years. That's the difference between both schools. One has track record and other doesn't.
Pretty sure we have one of those as well. Still getting a few OL prospects that would otherwise choose Oklahoma would be a nice bonus. Of course, I think this is a 2020 kid, if I am not mistaken, and when there is still plenty of time left in a given recruiting cycle, hope does seem to spring eternal, especially around here.
We can get some of those OL. The problem is, the guy who lives in the state of Oklahoma is going to be tough to get when you’re going up against Oklahoma.
A lot of people have some unrealistic expectations of Michigan recruiting. We haven’t won a conference title in 15 years. Oklahoma is routinely winning the Big 12 and going to the CFP. Michigan has a big brand and some pull where we will always compete for top recruits, but until the results follow it’s going to be an uphill battle to out-recruit teams like Oklahoma, OSU, Bama, Georgia and Clemson. Especially if they’re recruiting a guy from their own backyard.
Imagine how we would have reacted here if DPJ committed to Florida over Michigan. That’s how Oklahoma fans would feel if this kid chose us. It wouldn’t make much sense to lose an in-state kid like that.
Realistically, Oklahoma OL--especially with Oklahoma's explosive offense and young coach--are going to be a tough pull.
Omg we didn’t get the best player from Oklahoma because he went to. Oklahoma?
He was all Oklahoma from the word go.
There's no one here that thought he maybe, just maybe, might choose Michigan, right?
He decommitted from Oklahoma and outside of a few rare exceptions, decommits generally don’t recommit to their original school. He took an unofficial and an official to UM right before he was supposed to decide. We were firmly in his top three.
I’m not saying I expected him to go blue, but based on the above it wasn’t ridiculous to have some hope.
So another Aubrey Solomon? You’re saying we may have a shot at him in a year or two?
I had read somewhere he was going with Oklahoma even with that.
But yeah, the "insiders" can be wrong too. So maybe there was a chance he would end up elsewhere.
Here's some real news for Michigan: not one 2020 OL with a score of 90 or higher is committed to Michigan. I'm hoping Ed Warinner will keep turning that O Lineman recruiting Queen Mary and Michigan will start landing top 10 O Linemen.
No Michigan M on the list yet, no matter how far down you scroll:
https://247sports.com/Season/2020-Football/RecruitRankings/?InstitutionGroup=HighSchool&Position=OG
Here's what's nuts: Clemson has 2 of the top 10, and 3 out of the top 20.
If nuts are now currency in South Carolina, then yes, it's a lot of nuts.
We have two 90's so far (1 tackle and 1 center). That link only lists guards. We have 3 guys on the OT list and 1 on the center list.
Ahh, sorry man.
Had a strange day at work yesterday. It was a distraction. I should have looked a little closer.
Yeah that’s a guards only list. Michigan rarely recruits guards in the first place. Usually Michigan recruits tackles and then moves guys around. Bredeson for example was #39 overall recruit, 5th ranked tackle. And he’s a guard. Mason Cole is another example of a tackle recruit who Michigan found was better suited for the interior.
Obviously there are exceptions (Ruiz and Onwenu for example) But Michigan doesn’t tend to recruit interior players specifically.
well,that’s a punch to the Dong.
Getting Mr. Raym would have been quite the catch-love this kids film. Flipping little Myles would be a much bigger deal-this kid is an OL difference-maker.
Michigan needs to show out and have a 12 win season to break into the cache of five stars.
Agreed!
Zinter would probably be ranked the same as Raym as an OG, he just has the versatility to be ranked as an OT.
Myles is a great kid, from a great family, whom it just so happens is a rare OT talent, I'm sure he'll be a success wherever he goes, I just really hope it's A2.
A lot of people ignore this. Michigan hasn’t won (or even played for) a conference title since 2004. But people expect Michigan to recruit (and in many cases out-recruit) with teams who are CFP regulars. There’s just not much logic in that expectation.
Obviously we still have the big name recognition to be able to pull a few of these guys, but until we win on the field it’s not realistic to expect to go head to head with these teams and win recruiting battles.
Daym