Opening the South Florida Pipeline through Satellites

If we can start getting all those Samoans ND always seems to get, I'd be happy.

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Has underrated Eskimo linebacker JuJu jones ! Can smash through an igloo with no pads on

Austrailia is in play. Every team needs a punter.

currently have 5 commits from Florida, with Gil, Mettelus and Bush as notable. Two more from Alabama. Perhaps not yet a "pipeline" but certainly progress.

I honestly think that a large reason we are taking 2* and 3* guys from Georgia and Florida is to build a pipeline for more highly regarded recruits in the future.  Not that those guys don't merit the offer, but Harbaugh seems to be targeting specific schools to get his foot in the door.  That's why we have so many sets of teammates coming in.

Well the 5 for '16, and the 3 (who will all play next year) more in '15. I would have to say the work done in S.Florida has been undeniably significant.

Harbaugh has done well in not only in Florida, but obviously NJ. Texas is starting to looking promising as well with Elliott and potentially Jean Delance.

Recruiting on a national scale is wayyy more exciting than just hitting the midwest

Per Capita Rankings :

Lousiana 
Alabama 
Florida
Georgia.

I think Georgia is a real good spot to start hitting on and if Smart cant get things going these kids are going to look elsewhere. I trust the staff is onto this notion and knows what they are doing and will start attacking other states with rich talent as they did Florida this year. 

Right. Follow the offers. That's all you can do.

By my count, Michigan has offered 24 players in Georgia for the class of 2017. That's roughly one-sixth of their offers so far. So when 16% of your offers are going to one state far away, I'd say that's a pretty good indication of a place Harbaugh wants to recruit. So far it has panned out with Taylor and Holloman.

True.  And the Mad Hatter is likely gone after next year.  Even if he's not, his stronghold has to be suffering due to the hot seat.

It is currently an almost impossibility to pull a kid from Louisiana that LSU or Alabama wants for an SEC school, let alone a northern school like Michigan. Even Meyer struggles as he has never and I mean NEVER, pulled a kid from LA in his entire coaching career. If Harbaugh can in some way pierce the iron curtain that Nick Saban built around that state and Les Miles has maintained...

But the OP said the threat is long term. This years class is a great start and success breeds success

I will admit that I've been curious as to why that might be, considering that Michigan recruited Ohio heavily in the past. I wonder if it is something relatively simple such as the relationships that the current staffs have when it comes to recruiting being largely elsewhere, but all the same, this staff has its hands in places where the talent is the most plentiful, it seems.