Recruiting in the midst of an NCAA Investigation
I haven't seen any of the other boards talking about this, but I am fearful to know how this will impact the 2011 recruiting class. With these allegations out in the open, I can only imagine the amount of negative garbage is going to be thrown at any potential Michigan recruits. I wonder if Tom VH or Brian anyone else has talked to any potential recruits and can share their thoughts with us.
February 24th, 2010 at 1:37 PM ^
One silver lining in this might be that our recruiting class was going to be small anyway. It's easier to convince 15(ish) kids that this is all BS than to convince 25(ish).
February 24th, 2010 at 1:39 PM ^
Do you work for the government?!
February 24th, 2010 at 1:46 PM ^
Thanks Block M. After all the B.S. the past few days I needed a good laugh. The answer is no.
February 24th, 2010 at 3:01 PM ^
That's pretty great.
That sort of thinking would enable him to easily work for a Canadian government.
February 24th, 2010 at 1:40 PM ^
That is definitely the silver lining. The follow up to that, however, is what to do if none of the players we want (stars be damned) will come here because of it?
February 24th, 2010 at 1:40 PM ^
It's still early, but I haven't heard a single word about it from the recruits I've talked to. I haven't brought it up either, so take that FWIW.
I think once the actual decision and sanctions come in is when it will be talked about more.
February 24th, 2010 at 1:43 PM ^
I find it a true shame that I have nearly 75% the (admittedly worthless) MGoPoints that you do, because I contribute about uh, 0% of the useful type of information that you do.
Commence posbang.
February 24th, 2010 at 1:46 PM ^
As long as we can still go to bowl games and be seen on TV I don't think it will hurt us too much.
February 24th, 2010 at 1:57 PM ^
LongLiveBo has posted in this thread.
He wrote
As long as we can still go to bowl games and be seen on TV I don't think it will hurt us too much.
February 24th, 2010 at 2:08 PM ^
Nice. :-)
February 24th, 2010 at 1:41 PM ^
Answer: It depends on how much we win.
We win 8 or 9 games, and things are obviously on the rise, it won't hurt us one bit. It MIGHT cost us a scholarship or two, maybe. But there are ways to finagle with that, too. The only schools that will try to negatively recruit with it are those that already negatively recruit, and students don't care one whit about penalties unless those penalties will keep them from wins, post season appearances, etc.
February 24th, 2010 at 1:41 PM ^
But I did stay at a Holiday Inn express last night
February 24th, 2010 at 2:12 PM ^
What, 8 wins in 2 years didn't make recruiting difficult enough? On field results will usually trump other issues among the minds of most high school kids.
February 24th, 2010 at 2:42 PM ^
I think that by the time signing day 2011 comes around, this news will be history. If MSU managed to keep their relatively strong class intact after the Rather Hall debacle, then UofM should be fine if nothing else emerges from the smoke. It's not like the JLS days where we were competing against MAC schools for our talent. We had some big-name competition for some of our recruits (Lewis, Bullough, Gholston, Hicks)
February 24th, 2010 at 3:04 PM ^
I read the Freep about that matter; it seems it was just a minor misunderstanding between some math guys at a potluck and Glen Winston's fist.
February 24th, 2010 at 4:05 PM ^
Because local Detroit radio said it was so this morning, that the Freep was ALL over that story, and grilled MSU for it. They also took alot of heat for posting the players faces/mugshots in the paper....:/
February 24th, 2010 at 3:47 PM ^
It all depends on how we do this season. If we win eight or nine games this year and appear to have moved past this I don't think it will hurt.
February 24th, 2010 at 6:31 PM ^
USC just pulled in a top recruiting class with all of their stuff going on. I don't see why we can't do the same (if it gets to that point with the NCAA stuff)