Recruiting update: (MBB) Harold Baruti to Utah (FB) Lorenz finally CB'd DPJ to UM
Saw some posters asking about Baruti yesterday. Looks like he's headed to Utah. Not sure if Beilein will continue to pursue 16' prospects.
I can confirm the @Runnin_Utes have added Harold Baruti to their 2016 class, (6'6" & 6'11" wingspan. #UteNation
— Alex Markham (@AMarkhamRivals) May 20, 2016
In football related news, Lorenz & Clint Brewster put in crystal balls for DPJ to Michigan today. Expect for a flood of them to follow as they usually do when Lorenz puts in a crystal ball.
.@clintbrew247 and I have put in @247Sports #CrystalBall choices for Donovan Peoples-Jones to #Michigan: https://t.co/pE4QjSr0MF
— Steve Lorenz (@TremendousUM) May 21, 2016
waiting for Ace Williams to confirm before I tell my family.
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that's exactly why I pointed it out. Soon as Lorenz makes a choice, a flood of copycat choices follow. It's probably because of the same reason we respect his CB's more than most, he doesn't put them in if he doesn't know.
That's what I like about him. He's Mr. Ed.
He doesn't speak unless he has something to say.
"Donovan Peoples-Jones to Michigan"
RIP, Alan. Pull some strings for Nyquist up there.
Alan Young and Soupy Sales mastered Dutch Door Comedy...
As does a Lorenz CB.
but let's not kid ourselves, DPJ could be looking to major in slacking off and we'd still be recruiting him because he's a top 10, 5* guy in our backyard
Seriously, if a Lorenz prediction was worth ten points or something that would help
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Maybe we need some Golden Ballz or Platinum Balz.
Are you suggesting that coconuts migrate?
Tinkering with the formula won't make them meaningful. The crystal balls provide useful information without translating them to numbers.
Maybe it shouldn't tell you the person who puts in a prediction until a decision is made? It should just add it up as "annoymous" and reveal the users when the decision is announced?
I disagree...I think it would be pointless because those same people would just tweet their prediction causing others to follow.
But a pointless question to the complainer nonetheless.
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Hey DPJ is there any order to your top 7??
No
Are you planning on announcing at your All-American game?
No
Oh ok...when are you going to make your decision you think?
Idk
A lot of people think you are a Michigan lean what do you think about that?
EDIT: No one remembers Brandon Brown texting Malik McDowell?
Brandon Brown is a disgrace.
Exciting news about DPJ. He's probably as close as you get in recruiting to a 'must get'. Losing him would be painful.
A WR super class of DPJ, collins, and higgins would be nice after last year's haul.
Then there is Hoke's recruiting of WR: what was he thinking?
He was likely thinking that Chesson and Darboh would be pretty good. Mo Ways was getting tons of offseason praise before getting hurt as well.
But I get your point, his recruits weren't as dynamic.
big WRs. That's one way he was moving away from RR's offense. He wanted physical players who could block on running plays. He found a couple of good ones, but reached on others instead of going for complementary receivers.
3 guys and not much else. We were pretty fortunate the big 3 stayed healthy last year because the guys behind them did not look good. We started a lower ranked true freshman at slot. This year true freshman are going to be all over the WR depth chart.
WR recruiting was bad under Hoke and if you want to blame QB play and system as scaring off good WR recruits those were his fault too.
I guess the point is that Hoke was not running this program well. And water is wet.
Hey, I'll be the first to admit Hoke was not the guy for the job...clearly in over his head. Four years of very little player development, but he did do a decent job recruiting the majority of this team as it stands today.
We have a CFP caliber team....one where the vast majority of the starters are Hoke recruited players and that Harbaugh has cultivated into NFL draft picks. He is gettting everybit of talent out of these players because well that's just Harbaugh and what he does...everywhere he has been....period.
The future is even brighter as the talent level continues to increase. Can't wait to see it play out, can't wait to see more 4 and 5 star WR and QB development. He has only just started!
DPJ...come on down!
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Its a question of quality and quantity. In 2011 we took 0 WRs, 2012 we took 2 (Darboh and Chesson). In 2013 we took 3, but they were three of the lowest rated recruits in the class (dukes, york, and jones).
To be fair, we did get a lot of production out of TE. But Harbaugh took as many WRs in his first class as Hoke did in a 3 year span.
Yeah, but DPJ has hamstrings.
no one thought that he wouldh have this much of a lingering hamstring issue. When he pick UM over MSU we all thought we were going to see a record setting WR. Just too bad it hasn't panned out for DH yet.
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Yup. WR has got to be one of the positions most reliant upon the rest of the team so they can get production. Gotta have the right system and a decent QB or you're just a guy running around the sidelines a lot. Conversey, guards will always have people to block, linebackers people to tackle, etc. Having Harbaugh and a growing army of great, young QBs is a big selling point
did a really good piece regarding this for SBNation.
http://www.sbnation.com/college-football-recruiting/2016/5/2/11552986/n…
Chesson wasn't a good WR until Harbaugh got to Michigan. He was a fast runner and good blocker but wasn't a good receiver. Took a lot of coaching to get him to that point and I think Fisch deserves a ton of credit for the WR development.
QB play helped too.