Recruiting in the midst of an NCAA Investigation

Submitted by ontarioblue on

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.

WojoRisin

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).

TomVH

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.

Blazefire

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.

GoBlogSparty

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)

tjyoung

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)