Michigan commits on All-USA Team
In the USA Today paper this a.m., in addition to having Drake Harris pictured on the front, they listed the "American Family Insurance All-USA" football team - and it was loaded with Michigan commits: George Campbell, Mason Cole, Drake Harris, Michael Ferns, and Jabrill Peppers. I'm never quite sure how legit some of these All-American teams are and whether they've been "regionalized" to draw clicks. But a search on Google turned up the same list: http://www.usatodayhss.com/amfam/article/american-family-insurance-2013-preseason-all-usa-football-team. At the bottom of the article, it said: "The team was compiled by USA Today Sports' Jim Halley after consultation with high school coaches and recruiting analysts Tom Lemming of CBS Sports Network and JC Shurburtt of 247Sports.com". So, I guess make your own judgement. But either way, it's nice PR for Michigan football.
August 16th, 2013 at 9:39 AM ^
August 16th, 2013 at 12:05 PM ^
Good press is good press.
At the end of the day we all know it doesn't matter til their feet are on the ground in Michigan Stadium.
August 16th, 2013 at 9:42 AM ^
August 16th, 2013 at 9:56 AM ^
litered with future M commits Hand and Fournette
August 16th, 2013 at 11:30 AM ^
Josh Rosen was also mentioned as a 2015 QB either getting interest or an offer from Michigan. Great stuff...
August 16th, 2013 at 11:35 AM ^
August 16th, 2013 at 12:23 PM ^
George Campbell thinks otherwise. #Project136
August 16th, 2013 at 12:33 PM ^
obviously i missed that, then. i'm not a huge recruitnik.
August 16th, 2013 at 9:58 AM ^
Considering that the one area of need, according to many, is WR, let me take a look at who is reeling in those top-notch WRs. Hmm--appears one school has all the WRs. And that would be...
Yeah, I think we can feel good about our recruiting these days. This is why the podcast tries to talk about recruiting but devolves into girlish laughter.
/laughs girlishly
August 16th, 2013 at 10:25 AM ^
August 16th, 2013 at 10:26 AM ^
ALL OF THE RECRUITS!
August 16th, 2013 at 11:26 AM ^
Man I love this picture; it gets me everytime.
August 16th, 2013 at 10:43 AM ^
I would definitely take it as at least a small compliment to the class that Hoke and the staff have put together when Michigan commits make up nearly a quarter of the list. If nothing else, the attention is not bad at all. I must admit that I hadn't seen the summary of Fournette's stats from last season, but...
"Ran for 2,136 yards and 31 touchdowns on 196 carries and had 313 yards and three touchdowns on 15 receptions."
I believe that comes out to 10.9 YPC for Fournette. Wow.
August 16th, 2013 at 11:03 AM ^
11.6 yards per touch.
0.967 points per touch...wow is right.
August 16th, 2013 at 11:19 AM ^
This looks pretty good (except for the verboten logo):
And here's a related tweet from earlier:
And people say the newspaper business is dying ... enjoyed reading my USA Today Sports this morning. #GoBlue #michiganfootball
— Chris Singletary (@CSing57) August 16, 2013
August 16th, 2013 at 1:19 PM ^
for this all American team.
August 16th, 2013 at 3:44 PM ^
Well, that's a nice little chart.
Not surprised - the recruiting part of this staff continues to amaze me.
August 16th, 2013 at 6:03 PM ^
August 16th, 2013 at 6:33 PM ^
That chart looks ridiculous!