Space Coyote

July 21st, 2015 at 10:14 AM ^

Every year, they will pick a position to enter the recruiting cycle, and recruit exactly 82 players at that position in hopes of getting about a dozen or so commits. With this strategy, the schemes will change drastically year-to-year, and constantly be completely innovative and surprising.

Personnel numbering will no longer apply. 50 personnel? Nope, not 5 OL, 5 RBs, and a QB, because it could also be with 5 RBs, 4 QBs, and 2 OL. How will defenses adjust when a pulling RB takes the jet sweep only to toss it back to the left QB who throws the wheel route to the right wing back as he rolls back the other direction? You can't even conceptualize what I just said, that's how difficult it'll be to stop.

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Btown Wolverine

July 21st, 2015 at 10:17 AM ^

Unless he has a lot of positional flexibility I don't see why we'd take him considering we have as many as 4 RBs in this class already (depending on who moves to slot and such) and don't have a lot of scholarships open.

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Magnus

July 21st, 2015 at 10:33 AM ^

Also, Ahmard Vital (the author of the linked article) should not be writing professionally:

"But one thing that was reveled, the 6-foot, 209-pound Boyd did mention two schools (of the 26 that have offered) that are high on his priority list. And maybe even that feeling is mutual."

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Magnus

July 21st, 2015 at 11:01 AM ^

I truly think it's just a matter of whether you're willing to put in the time/effort to do it. There are certain (I'm not naming names) writers from the Michigan blogosphere who have moved on to more national positions as writers, and they have very little talent for writing, either. I think it speaks to the sheer number of recruiting-related jobs that have opened up at Rivals, Scout, 247 Sports, etc. Add to that the fact that you're generally pulling from a small pool of people (young, energetic males with no qualms about interviewing high schoolers for a living), and there probably aren't a ton of highly literate writers clamoring for these jobs.

That's no excuse. I will still shake my head and make fun of the crappy ones. But I guess that's the way it goes in the recruiting world.

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TyTrain32

July 21st, 2015 at 3:28 PM ^

Thats probably because you knew you werent as football saavy as you lead on to be, and Brian also probably quickly figured out that you copy and paste from paysites. No real talent, just time to waste apparently. Do you have a lady Magnus? Go spend some time on that if not, I promise its much more rewarding than mgopoints.



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