Max Preps Top 100 has 5 Michigan Recruits
I realize this might be the least credible recruit ranking source, but it is interesting.
Max Preps Top 100 players in the country include the following five Michigan recruits:
- 33 - Terry Richardson
- 61 - Kyle Kalis
- 79 - Eric Magnuson
- 94 - Mario Ojemudia
- 98 - Anthony Standifer
While this list does include a large number of prospects we are still in on, it suprises me that none of our LBs make the list.
Edit: It appears this is Tom Lemming's list which makes the absence of any of our LBs even more puzzling since he's a midwest guy.
Linebackers or not it is still nice to see.
You see none of our linebackers are going to Notre Dame, so Lemming isn't going to rank them high
ND has 2 kids on that list...
Lemming used to be the big dog at ESPN. Ultimately he was fired (released?) because he's a f*cking dirtball.
Anyone who runs their recruiting rankings through a guy who used to (still does?) sell recruits on Notre Dame isn't worth sh*t in my eyes.
The weird thing is those top 3 guys are no surprise, near-unanimous top100 guys, and the other two are actually two of our lower ranked recruits in this class.
The awesome part about our recruiting class is that at least one service or guru is high on almost all of our recruits, and most of our recruits are guru approved by all services. Ojemudia is the only one who's not at least a 5.7 to Rivals, but he's a 4 star to Scout and top-100 to Lemming. And he was invited to The Opening.
Point is, there are almost no unanimous "meh" guy in the class.
Gant.
They just ranked Gant #24 in Ohio, one spot ahead of Strobel and ahead of a large majority of the 3*s. They have Kalis #1 and Wormley at #4.
Do you have a link for that or is it paywalled?
Thanks a lot, that's a good list. Not really any OSU over UM bias either, seemingly.
However, not near enough love for Caleb Stacey and AJ Williams. They are solid prospects are are way down in no-man's land.
Pharaoh Brown and Stroebel underrated too, IMO, but then again guy like Wormley and Ringer were a lot higher than I expected. Bolden as the top LB is nice to see.
and Mattison, then I am more than happy to have him as one of our recruits!
I think the consensus on this board is that Gant is vastly underrated. His lowest grade comes from ESPN, who has him listed as a WR, so they're obviously wrong.
Don't be a dick. We want all these recruits. I personally think Gant is gonna surprise a lot of people and be a very solid player
Yeah, I disagree with the Gant comment as well. He may be our lowest regarded recruit, but I still don't think he falls into the generic "meh" that a handful of our recruits have over the last few years. Rivals has him as almost a 4 star, btw.
And Gant has his reasons for lower ranking. He hasn't gone to many (any?) camps where a lot of these ratings are generated, and he doesn't have much of an offer list because he said from the beginning he was interested in UM and OSU and little more.
What we know about Gant: He's big (6'2", 210), he's fast (many good reported track times) and he lays big hits. Also, his dad was a good college football player, which can only help.
Rivals ranks the top 50 safeties, 16 of them have 4+ stars. Gant is 22nd. Wilson, by comparison, is 13th. Considering that list combines FS and SS, Gant is somewhere around a top 10 SS nationally.
Well MO is a LB to some people, so its like 0.5 of a LB recruit in the top 100
I'm sure someone must have linked the article linked below (from rivals) already, but I'd love to see this happen, so fuck it.
"Kalis' commitment instantly makes him the headliner of the Wolverines' stellar 2012 haul, which already included five offensive linemen and nine players from Ohio. Five of them bear a four-star rating from Rivals, and Kalis and California lineman Erik Magnuson are both in line to pick up the rare fifth star later in the process."
Boom. Also nice they're linking to Mgoblog.
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/blog/dr_saturday/post/Headlinin-8…-?urn=ncaaf-wp3463
I haven't been able to find Jarrod Wilson in their rankings. Am i missing something or have they just not ranked him?
Ojemudia is one of those guys that you look at his hieght, weight, 40 time, etc and think of him as a so-so recruit, not really big enough for DE and not really fast enough for LB.
But everything single word I hear about his play on the field is very positive. And I'd rather have that guy than the recruit with measurables off the charts but doesn't know how to put it together.
Rivals puts a lot of stock in NFL potential. As Ojemudia is a tweener of sorts, that is Rivals doom regardless of if it translates well to the college game.
as seniors probably explains it too. At this point the rivals rankings are pretty much in lock step with the caliber of their scholarship offers sheet. I don't think it's too much of a stretch to assume that he's ranked as a midling 3 star on rivals instead of a top 100 recruit here (or as a 4 star on Scout) because they haven't seen much of him yet. In Hoke I trust.
Very true. I'd just also want to add the very obvious fact that this UM coaching staff can recruit well. They aren't just adding kids to fill spaces. You don't offer Plan B kids this early in the process. The fact that many of our "so-so" commits (and I find it hilarious that 3/4* tweeners are considered our "so-so" commits) were offered in May or earlier says that this coaching staff wants them. You don't offer "meh" kids when you're in on so many great prospects.
We had like 300+ offers out I'm sure some of those had to be plan B guys.
^ This, I hate it when the any draft comes (looking @ you Darko) and you pick the 17 year old European wunderkid instead of the 23 year old PG who has played 4 years in a college system.
This is why I think Andy Dalton will be loads better than Cam Newton, somone who can play in a system rather than being the system.
Everything the scouts say about Mario is that he is just a non stop player and the NFL is saturated with players who were to short/fat/slow to be a NFL caliber player but dominate year in and year out.
I don't know if I agree with your post from the football standpoint (NFL being saturated with players too short, sat etc) but I hear you in the NBA draft portion. I am a raptors fan and wish BC would be fired asap. What that guy has done with his draft picks is on par with Millen.
now - if he can coach (I believe he can) we be in businesssssssss!
not sold that he can coach but he is surrounding himself with people who can.
one of the most important, and least appreciated, aspects of a head coach.
I think it is already just desserts for Ohio that this is one of the best crops of players in OH, PA, and the midwest in general in the last ten years, and all they can do is watch players who once would have been locks for them go somewhere else. It's even more just when that "somewhere else" happens to be a school 162 miles NNW of them.
The year might have started out shitty, but it certainly has been a great spring and summer so far. If we're lucky, the NCAA will apply the coup de grace in Columbus later this year.
So Magnuson getting his 5th star, plus maybe picking up Dunn and Diamond/Garnett, who already have their 5 stars? Holy crap. Three 5* OL plus three underrated 3/4*s blocking for a 5* RB is Texas-style recruiting. I think I like this class.
As far as Texas-style recruiting goes, MaxPreps already has Michigan #1 and Texas #2 overall.
Does that mean that in future years, when Texas gets a great class, they will sat, "this is Michigan style recruiting"? Because that would be fairly awesome.
Texas wants to be the Michigan of the west.
Apparently, MaxPreps either doesn't realize or doesn't care that Se'von Pittman committed to MSU.
That Terry Richardson committed to Michigan
Goes to show how much thought actually went into that listing, but hey whatever.
yah im surpirsed to that none of the lbs made it in. but im kinda surprised anthony made it in
It seems odd (although encouraging) that Standifer is listed as a top 100 recruit here when all of the other agencies have him as a mediocre 3-star.