Top/bottom 20 rated Michigan recruits

His potential went up in smoke.

Come on, man. Harbaugh's an awesome coach and I'm not worried about the low stars, but some players from this class won't even come close to making an impact on the field. Because that's how it goes for any recruiting class for any school, even Alabama.

No need to be sorry when you speak the truth.

that's very true, but a lot of your 2&3* players make up special teams and depth. I would love to have all 4 or 5* but every program has 2&3* kids that help out.

I'd say there is only one diamond in that rough, David Harris.  Even the other ones that played weren't all that good, certainly not difference makers.  It's fine to have those guys on the team but hopefully this class has more David Harris' and less Marquese Walton.

composed of guys wanted by everyone in the country.

We're going to have a mix, especially in this large class with a staff starting from behind. I know TMG and a few others prefer to bitch, but we should consider ourselves fortunate that we have coaches qualified to find players everyone else should have wanted. They don't have to hit on every one to build a great class.

 

 

But these once again are all FINAL RANKINGS. Half of the "two stars" Harbaugh has picked up lately haven't even been partially evaluated. If you recall, Canteen and Brandon Watson had similar rankings a couple years back until they were finally evaluated later on. Canteen turned out to be a solid four star composite and Watson a high three star composite. Wait until these guys get fully evaluated before you crash all over Harbaugh's recruiting strategy. And while I understand that you used the appropriate tools to validate an argument and were a lot less distasteful and much more subtle about it, this collection of thoughts needs to be put aside for down the road as a whole. Way too many people up in arms about the whole thing right now.

We are this year!

The stunning 1998 class, after our NC, had the #1 player.  Even more incredible, we had the #1 or #2 player in the country at each position for something like 5 different positions.

Lloyd in his prime was a machine.

BTW, the way most of these players were recruited back then was via their performance at Michigan camps.  

#YESTHEREWASLIFEBEFORERIVALS

That's only 3 guys anyway on second look.