Recruit offer acceptance rate

Submitted by iawolve on
If I have tallied the Michigan offers correctly, it breaks down as follows DL- 1 DE- 4 LB- 6 CB- 4 S- 2 QB- 6 RB- 10 OL- 6 Rec- 10 (4-5 could be slot guys) I am not a recruiting specialist, nor do I claim to be one. However, this breakdown seems fairly interesting (granted it is very early still). By just looking at this, RB seems to be the biggest need and an area we have a low confidence in securing due to the high numbers. I would assume other RB offers would go out later in the year and we would not take more than 4 (right?) with 3 leaving via graduation. Since everyone tries to label this a “run first” offense, I would think that RB would be easy to fill. Not sure what this means and implies a 30 or 40% success rate for those prospects. Seems like we are also recruiting safeties to play safety and LBs to be in that position instead of “growing” people into the position due to the low numbers of safety offers. I absolutely believe we can get 2 QBs again this year. Just interested to see who that will be. I have low confidence on Bolden and feel Green is destined elsewhere regardless of Sam Sword. To me it looks like the die has been cast for Gardner + 1. Either way, you have no better than a 33% success rate there. Only 1 DL means that you have lots of work to do, banking on a DE recruit to move down, like what you have and expect 100% hit. I would assume that they have more work to do. Still it seems like a low number. I don’t have the historical numbers, but would be interested in seeing if there is any historical trending in offer success rate by position. My hunch is that there are too many variables (how high the star ranking offered, recruit location, numbers offered compared to current depth chart, etc) to get any reasonable analysis. However, there has to be some method here or all these offers would not go out in the first place. Any input from the gallery?

lunchboxthegoat

March 3rd, 2009 at 6:08 PM ^

I think its gotta be pretty rough to figure out a "hit" or "miss" rate considering offers will change based on who accepts, who leaves the program, who decommits...etc, but if we're talking initial offers I think it would be do-able. We'd just need to find some way to acquire a list of scholarship offers by position over the past few years.

heisman2

March 3rd, 2009 at 6:25 PM ^

I am a little surprised by only 1 DL offer so far. Again, it is really early in the process, but Michigan is so thin at DL that I would have expected a higher number of offers.

Magnus

March 3rd, 2009 at 6:30 PM ^

DL = defensive lineman DT = defensive tackle We have offered at least two defensive tackles. One (Jay Guy) committed to California. Another (AJ Cann) is still up for grabs. I agree with most of this post, but we have definitely offered some linebackers who could turn into defensive ends, Caleb Lavey being one.