Signing Day Pos Bang

OSU should be worried. Yes top five but distorted by overload at WR. Very little success on OL and DL, which we exposed as a weakness the last couple of years. I used the class calculator and deleted WRs #2 and #4 and their class is #12 right now.  Wheels starting to wobble a bit in Columbus. 
Harbaugh is doing a great job of roster management, especially when you add in transfers. Depth at every position solidified this year. Need some obvious home runs over time but a very solid effort. Not so much by Ryan Day. 

I mean sparty did have a pretty good ending to their class. Really, they have some good recruits plus that transfer from A&M. They did go 5-7 this year so yea they have a solid class and kind of annoying that they did that.

Oracle, what is the highest ranked OL who played on Michigan’s Moore award winning OL the past two seasons?

Stars can be important - but, having ENOUGH skill is what is necessary, IMO.

Texas A&M had the top ranked class last year, how are they doing?  How did their “creative” NIL work out this season?

And, if you think of the “root cause” why Georgia an Bama have the classes they do… look no further than the NCAA capitulation to the SEC / ACC which prohibited Michigan from camping in other talent rich parts of the country.

While that awesome Alabama is sitting at home and was beat down by Georgia last year. 

Or maybe most of the Top100 are mainly NIL motivated and that is not who Harbaugh wants or looks for.

If this year's class settles in about #15, we'll be fine. The guys who signed today were HS soph when we had that dreadful Covid season. They were HS FR when we ended 9-4 with beatdowns by Wisky, Ohio, and 2nd half by Bama. 

JH was looking like he was burned out at end of 2020, team morale was horrible. A lot of players these past two years talked about what happened (without naming names) about how people on the 2020 team seemed focused on themselves and NFL careers. Getting two important 4 stars today was huge. Whatever they sensed on the visits made them realize we have a championship mindset and work ethic.

The QB who dissed us, farted around with MSU, went to Oregon, only to end of at UCLA may become a star. Or he may become like the guy at Clemson who flamed out and is moving on after two underwhelming seasons and an 8 for 28 performance at home vs. South Carolina.

I think the future of CFB is 80/20 rule. 80% of your success is developing your own players, and the remaining 20% comes from getting the right guys, like Olu, from the portal. No one, UGA and Bama included, will win exclusively by HS recruiting only. NIL adds another twist.

I expect we will close the deal with the guy from DC (Harbor) over Maryland and maybe one other 4 star guy. 

This is very true, we need to make big improvements. This class is definitely a product of coaching turnover, relationships take time and we’ve lost a lot over the last 2-3 years. You need to have some sense of continuity—the top programs may have turnover too but the continuity they display is being in the top 5 and in the playoffs every year, we don’t have that yet. 
 

the truth is that the loss in Columbus in 2016 set the program back 5 years. People may not be ready to admit that but it was absolutely true. At that point Harbaugh was building some highly rated classes and was on the verge of a monster year. The program fell into turmoil after that loss, doubt started creeping in and we really started falling behind from that point on. It just looked like we weren’t going to be able to turn the tide on the Buckeyes and then next year made it clear to top recruits that we were not a serious competitor at that very top level. If they want to play for championships, Ann Arbor was likely not the place. We have a big opportunity here to now change that narrative. I hope we can seize it with the 2024 class. 

Well I tried embedding a twitchy gif but all it did was buffer for 5 minutes.  Im not patient with technology so fuck it, I give up.  Yeah I should have checked before posting.  Oh well.