TTB: Where did Michigan recruit in 2016?

Submitted by Magnus on

Michigan sent out 62 more offers in the 2016 class than any season I had tracked before. The most had been 195 in 2011, and I counted 257 offers in 2016. If you're interested in looking at where those offers went geographically, here's a breakdown for you:

www.touch-the-banner.com/michigan-recruit-2016/

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LSAClassOf2000

June 6th, 2016 at 12:53 PM ^

The top four alone - Florida, Texas, California and Georgia - account for nearly half (47%) of the body of offers made. Because those are four of the states that produce the most D1 talent per capita, I wonder how many schools like Michigan that recruit nationally and are in the Power 5 have a similar offer profile. Of the 122, they managed 10 commits or about 8% "success" - I wonder if that's typical. It would be interesting to look into that. 

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Magnus

June 6th, 2016 at 1:24 PM ^

I've looked at it in previous years. I don't find the percentages to be extremely helpful, simply because you can only take ~25 kids per class. Realistically, with more offers going out, the percentages are bound to go down even if you get the same number of kids. Off the top of my head, though, I think there was a year where we offered something like 43 kids from Florida and landed 1 of them.

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PopeLando

June 6th, 2016 at 1:30 PM ^

Magnus, the punishment for collecting cool data is to answer follow up questions about it FOREVER. I'm curious, what's Michigan's track record of commitments per offer? Do we historically offer fewer recruits when the class size is smaller, or are we just more selective when accepting?

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Magnus

June 6th, 2016 at 1:43 PM ^

2016 = 257 offers, 29 signees/commits
2015 = 149 offers, 14 signees
2014 = 128 offers, 16 signees
2013 = 153 offers, 27 signees
2012 = 193 offers, 25 signees
2011 = 195 offers, 20 signees
2010 = 192 offers, 27signees

EDIT: I have offer boards going back farther than 2010, but I thought seven years was a good start, at least.

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PopeLando

June 6th, 2016 at 1:56 PM ^

Hmm so there was definitely some consistency before Harbaugh, but not enough to posit a strong causal relationship. Harbaugh's number of offers will be an interesting trend to watch. Does he ease up after an initial blitz? Or is this the brave new world we now live in?

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Tater

June 6th, 2016 at 1:35 PM ^

0 for 34 in Texas.  I wonder if Harbaugh and staff are going to spend less time there and more where they convert better, or whether they are going to work even harder there to get that percentage up? 

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Rabbit21

June 6th, 2016 at 1:44 PM ^

I would say maintain their level of effort. Stanford got a bunch of guys out of Texas and it's too fertile of a recruiting ground to ignore. Best to look at it like Cali, hit rate won't be high but if you get 1-3 good prospects a year you're doing about right.



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Double-D

June 6th, 2016 at 9:06 PM ^

Michigan has about 80 kids "interested " that rank in the top 250 while MSU has maybe 20. Of their 20, Donovan Peoples Jones is the top ranked player on the MSU board and about 10th on our board. 2- 3 of MSUs top 5 are UM leans. UM has at least ten OL targets ranked higher than MSUs top OL target. When you get just outside the top 250 to high 3 star and low 4 star the the trend towards a string UM advantage continues. Harbaugh's efforts are paying off and I also think MSU getting spanked by Bama hurt more than it helped in getting to the playoffs. This should be a sign of good things to come for our in state rivalry.

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