Michigan moves into top 5 of all-time draft picks
Passed Nebraska after this year's draft (they only had 1 pick and our 11 picks puts us ahead by 4 with 362)
Just imagine where we'd be if Michigan made the right hire in 2007.
4th on the list
With Harbaugh at the helm, we'll pass Oklahoma soon anyway.
It will be tough to catch OSU though.
Insightful
What was the "right" hire in 2007?
I'd like to know that, too.
In 2007, the likes of Ron English and Mike DeBord were in the conversation.
for him to say Les Miles, who would've steered the program along underachieving most years just like he did at LSU. And we wouldn't have Harbaugh now.
If Harbaugh is the perfect fit, then Rodriguez was indeed the right hire. The real wrong hire was in January of 2011. If the AD had shown the man love, we'd be in year 7 of Harbuagh instead of year 3.
Miles would have dominated the B1G and established a pipeline of recruiting second to none.
Although he would have had an anemic offense, poor clock mgmt and some downright crazy shit happening.
He would have NEVER gone 3-9 or even 5-7. Under Miles 9-3 would be a bad season and we would have most likely played in(and lost) a NC.
Miles would've led Michigan to a winning record in his first year with Michigan if that's the case? Michigan lost a lot of talent and weren't going to get Mallett back regardless. You're left with Threet and Sherdian and a Miles recruited QB who undoubtedly will be bad if you based on his history of developing QBs.
His defense would hold the B1G to about 6pts a game so Threet & Brandon Minor would be sufficient to win most games.
I wouldn't change the past because of where it led us. But Miles was the right hire in 2007.
We would be sittting here complaining about his offense and how they can't score worth a shit despite the talent.
who could have manufactured fertizier out of shit
Keep getting great recruits, develop them, and this is the result.
When was Nebraska getting all those draft picks?
Even in their glory years of the '90s, they weren't doing it with unreal NFL talent.
They were doing it more with a specific system (and steroids).
They were a monster program in the 1960s-80s...
April 30th, 2017 at 10:53 PM ^
For sure. As an OU fan then student, I hated the corn(redacted)s. Johnny Rodgers in 71 still gives me nightmares.
but nothing Harbaugh would not have done so I salute them. They never had a scholarship FB. All their scholarships for offensive backfield went to qbs - who weren't normally drafted and RBs who were. They had a shit ton of walk-on OLmen who, along with the scholarship OLmen added up to a lot of picks. Many of the blackshirts were picked.
11 has to be more than Hoke had, right?
I think your argument here is that these guys wouldn't have been drafted if not for their development under Harbaugh, correct?
While I agree JH has proven better than most at developing talent, I think Hoke should at least receive credit for this group's recruitment and signing.
By that logic, Hoke's sugarbowl belongs to rich and rodriguez
I'd say it belongs in equal parts to RR & Mattison.
April 30th, 2017 at 11:46 PM ^
I don't disagree with that. As such, he is certainly deserving of credit for that. I doubt he and Gerg would've won the Sugar Bowl with them, but that is a different conversation entirely.
If you squint, then maybe you can glean that.
Hoke had 2 years of recruiting highly ranked players and didn't do shit with anyone other than dlinemen. Whoopie.
And I say highly ranked bc he was a star gazer. See Derek Green.
April 30th, 2017 at 11:51 PM ^
The Dline was the deepest and best unit in this team. Several victories were due, in no small part, to its ability to stifle opposing offenses.
That site is really cool. We need to start scheduling all the teams we have losing records with so we can have a winning record against everybody.
That losing record to Toledo is from the late 1800s, right? I don't recall playing them more recently.
I also try to forget about the Rich Rod years.
Sparty may have had more picks than Bama before Saban left EL.
Man what is the record for drafts + free agent NFL signings in a single year? We have got to be near the top but can't find this info.
Ohio State had 14 drafted in the 2004 draft. According to Wikipedia they had no notable UDFA.
Unfortunately, I think #1 is 2004 Ohio State with 14 total draft picks, and #2 is 2016 Ohio State with 12 drafts picks.
IIRC, Michigan tied with 2002 Miami and 2015 FSU with 11 total draft picks this year.
Ya but I'm saying what is the totals with UFA signees? We have an ungodly total with the two types added together.
OSU I get because Ohio, but it is a shocking statistic to think ND has had 30% more NFL recruits than us. Implies Michigan has done more with less, which is too much of an MSU party line for my liking. Hopefully after the Harbaugh era, especially the way ND is going, these numbers will balance out a bit.
Am as disappointed to see MSU so close to us, and as equally surprised how well Purdue has done...wow Purdue
If you had good teams in the 60's, when the draft had 17 rounds, you are going to have some high counts in these numbers. This number gets slightly offset due to the fact there were less teams. If they normalized the numbers so that they just counted the first 7x32 picks in ever year, it would show a better portrayal.