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I was also a senior that same year and my buddy actually ordered Tom Lemmings recruiting journal out of Illinois, which I believed was published for college coaching staffs.  (We were crazy Michigan fans and as you stated, there wasn't much information to be had off season.)  As far as I know, he was the only guy covering this stuff year round at that time and he had both Amani & Mercury way up on his rankings.    

However, in the regular papers, there was not talk of ranking or how they rated nationally except that (as you said) they were from out of state and had crazy names.  Michigan, I believe had a great recruting class that year under Moeller, but that information was so much harder to come by for the regular fan.

When remembering back, it is amazing to see where this process has come and how it has progressed in 20 years.  

Don't let those cheatin' buckeyes get away with revisionist history, their coach lied and they cheated by playing ineligible players and then lying some more.  That season and those games were vacated.

The URL is deceiving without the peroid between the 3 & 4 :-)

and the revolving door at RB, it would be great for one or two backs to step up and establish themselves and bring some stability to the offense.  Last year we kind of lucked out.  We need to find that next big time back.

Mike has some huge shoes to fill and holes as well.  It will be interesting to see how Cardinal Nation embraces him after 16 years with Tony LaRussa and two World Championships.  This is a great baseball town and managing the Cardinals is a great job to have if you can get it.

The more I hear and read about this young man, the more that I like.  I think and hope that he and Jaron Stokes can be two bigger recruits whose upside continues to be realized by our coaching and conditioning staff.

16 Commits for a recruiting class that won't officially sign letters of intent for another 11 months!!!  That is bizarre!!!  The fact that 13-14 of them are already 4 Stars and there may be a couple blooming concesus 5 Stars in the group as well is AMAZING.  You sure wish this was a year you had 25-26 slots instead of 21-22.  

If we do take Ty as a 3rd RB and then Levenberry as a 3rd LB, doesn't that leave us too few slots for our remaining needs in the Secondary and Defensive Line?  Nonetheless, great work on the part of the Michigan Coaching Staff.  I don't know how they are creating the urgency with the recruits to sign, but it is great to see.  

Keep it going BLUE!!!

They do enhance a conversation about college football and also play the part of the foil well for the first night game in the Big House.

Hutch back to Tennessee...8 hours interivew today with them.

I think Moss still has some skills and has something to give to SanFran.  Harbaugh will do his best to get it out of him, the only issue is Alex Smith and the deep ball.  I am not sure Smith is the QB who can make it happen.  It does address an area of weakness for SF and we will see how he and Vernon Davis pair up.  

Finally, it does prove that Michael Crabtree is NOT what he thinks he was on draft day or is today.  Not the least bit ironic after his ridiculous holdout, and wanting #1 money when drafted #10 in 2009.  He is well on his way to the proverbial "scrap-heap" thus far.  

...hilarious!  That is so Laimbeer.  Probably wishes he had been part of it himself.

...That was a great team and back to back victories over Nebraska in the Fiesta and then the Rose Bowl on January 1 of 87 would have been great.  Why Bo struggled so much in the Rose Bowl still befuddles me...

is the worst, his voice, his opinions, he is a fill-in scrub

Woodson has been a confident yet classy player all the way back to his college days.  He has never let his ego become an issue and yet there is no doubt about the self confidence he has inherent within himself.  He plays with a swagger but he is not a jerk while doing it. 

now let's win the Super Bowl CW!

cookoo...cookoo...(crickets)

Suh is going to Hawaii even though he is injured to help recruit some reinforcements to the D...

http://www.freep.com/article/20110124/SPORTS01/101240364/1354/Lions-Ndamukong-Suh-will-try-to-sell-Pro-Bowl-players-on-defecting-to-Detroit

Woodson is accepted as a great player having a great season.  The problem is that in Dom Caper's defense he doesn't play a specific position.  He roams and is assigned CB as a designation. So when compared to other corners, he doesn't hold up as well.  However, for overall impact on defense, he is in the Polamalu realm for sure.

No it won't count, but it shouldn't need to.  Especially with another Super Bowl trip and hopefully a Super Bowl victory.

That is a great point.  Not many bigger big game players and the steady stats to back it up.

He should get it absolutely.

yes, definitely over reacting...at least a little

Woodson having as many Super Bowls as Manning as well as winning the Heisman and NC over him would be an extra special treat from the game.  "Go Pack Go!!!"

that is the best clip!!!

Come on Blue.  Keep it rolling!!!  Let's go, let's go, let's go!!!

Those are two more Ohio recruits right there.  We need to get back to Ohio and start draining those players from the B_____s.

I was at Parris Island, SC for MC boot camp and had to hear about it the next morning from the Drill Instructors and then received the newspaper story in the mail a week later.  I wasn't even there and it was a crushing event...

nice one!!!

I really liked the 30 for 30 docs and reliving the past 30 years of sports, many events of which I was not all that aware.  the Fab Five, 86 Masters and Bartman is a great combination of documentaries.  Way to go ESPN and great job BS.

And who ever said being a UM alum is not a financially profitable venture???  Old Les is making a killing off of being a Wolverine.  Wow!!!  7 year extension...

Well "Les Miles" you could help yourself out if you were to make a decision one way or the other.  Then you wouldn't have to come on the blog and ask us what was going to happen.  Give DB a call back and decide so we can all "sure know".

I hate KH, and all of his pretending to be "Mr. College Football".  He is still bitter that MO's teams beat the snot out of him when he was quarterback.  Then he plays this "nice guy" on television and becomes Mr. Primetime college football.  Then he goes back to his southern Ohio hole and his true colors come out... 

Please, please can we just beat OSU again soon???

I thought I recognized his font...

For the simple reason that they don't taste as good on a bacon and lettuce sandwich.  It has always been about the BLT.  The BLP sounds like a gas station...

My gut and his words honoring Bo and his Wolverine ties leads me to believe that he will embrace this challenge 110%.  Also, he may be wacky, but he fills a room with his persona and that is so helpful in a recruit's home.  I enjoy hearing him talk about Michigan...shoot he even sounds like BO.

Peterson, Patterson...tomato, tomato.  My bad.  It is late.

We might beat them occasionally, but not regularly.  Look at the Rivals top 10, these are the same teams who are vying for major conference and national championships year after year.  Occasionally the outlier gets in, but recruiting is vital to sustained success.  RR was getting "his" guys, but they were niche 3 star players.  Please show me where my logic is faulty as I will gladly defer if proven incorrect...

I hear and understand your thinking and it makes sense, but recruiting is too important at this point.  RR's 2-3 star recruits could not cut it.  We need 4-5 star recruits again and Miles (based on his current performance at LSU) gives us the best chance at that.  It would take Hoke years to establish that level of credibility if he ever does and then what???  We won't beat OSU with a 3.2 star recruiting average when they are pulling in annual 3.9 star recruiting classes.

Just heard Jason Smith joke about the forthcoming press conference for Mighigan and Les Miles on ESPN's All-Night.  Said "they were waiting until after the NC game to make the announcement."

That sounds AWESOME, I must get up to New England!!!

Go Ducks!!!  Cam seems as "dirty" as Pryor right about now...

I saw Gordie Howe getting off a red-eye at Detroit Metro in 1993...he wouldn't tell me anything about the coaching search either.

Not sure that is what Lucas had in mind way back when...

He had nothing to say...

I just realized tonight that only one of my five children has even been alive for a Michigan win over the Buckeyes.  That is sad beyond my comprehension.  Seven in a row is bad but when you equate it to the lifespan of your four youngest children, it takes perspective.  My second son Jonathan, with all of his vigor for life and passion for football right now has never lived through a Michigan victory (however he was 6 months along in the oven so I guess that counts for "living").  Please, please, someone come in, fix this thing, and put OSU back in the crapper where they belong!!!

Oh don't worry, you have nothing to fear.  DB is a devout obsever of the Sunday Sabbath.  Hopefully God blesses his efforts the week ahead...we are going to need it!!!

I am sorry you missed it.  I was 14 years old and they went to commercial break right before he shot them.  It was an amazing run in the first place and to then see him, shaq-like from the stripe, sink the two free throws.  It was just like Ollie out of Hoosiers...except that he didn't shoot them underhanded.

At this rate, your productivity for January is not going to go so well.  I hope you got the raise last year...

With a season-ending 4 game win streak and the apocalypse striking UM football, the Lions are probably pretty excited right about now.  They might finally sell some tickets.

Whoa there.  Are you sure you cleared that with Brian and the gang?  Level-headed thinking at this stage in the process is not permitted.  Only panic, despair, and clinically approved variatians of lunacy.  Some people...

Sorry my sarcasm wasn't more overt.  It just seems like JoPa will outlast everyone currently coaching in college football.  Stiil, I am not impressed with Schiano and wasn't 3 years ago either.

Ferentz, Schiano, was there no one who could have followed LC as Michigan football coach and done a good job and transitioned better than RR did?

I think he was sainted and a chariot of fire came to the earth and took him off to heaven...

What did Hoke ever do to you???  Hoke is the poor girl who nobody asked to prom who is waiting by the phone for the guy she has had a crush on forever and if he were to ever call, she would say "Yes" immediatly and be ready in 10 minutes.  I kind of feel sorry for the guy.

What are you trying to say???  Get off the fence, will ya???

I think that was a typo, he did mean broken grass...just like his hero and number one coaching prosepct, Les Miles.

The Simmons podcast is classic sports talk.

Oh come on, it would be fun!

...proof you don't need a coach to recruit.  What is Michigan's problem???

...for the opening game.  Did he skip wardrobe?

I so wish they would publish the transcript of that interview, er...discussion, er...negotiation, er...whatever went down between them.

She let BM set the pace and terms last time and although I don't believe RR was the wrong hire, meeting at a Denny's in Toledo is not the best way to bring in "new blood" to a school like UM.  It did not help RR that he did not know or research what he was getting into...which he didn't.

DB really Hoked on this crucial decision.

JH will be successful with the 49ers and I hope he is.  NFL job with a storied franchise with 5 Super Bowls, one behind the Steelers for most ever...I do not blame the guy for going pro.  Michigan could have gone after him in 07 when he was rebuilding Stanford and that was the risk we took.  I loved JH back in the 80s when he was stomping over the Cornhuskers in the Fiesta Bowl and predicting wins over OSU (and then delivering) and I wish him the best.  The 49ers are now my 2nd Favorite NFL team...GO LIONS!!!

RichRod came out of his home state of WV where he was worshipped as a football god.  Les Miles is an outsider who has been constantly harrassed by SEC football media and has managed to stay ahead of the hounds thus far, even with his peculiar antics.  I think Les Miles confidence and knowing what buttons to push via his Michigan background will help him avoid the pitfalls that RR seemed to stumble into.

Call him quickly!!!

There will most likely be a work stoppage/lockout; the salary cap will probably go into affect this coming year according to ESPN and NFL.com; Luck's father is AD at West Virginia and former NFL quarterback so he knows "the deal"; and Luck is just a different kind of cat with patience and willing to bide his time.  Mallet on the other hand: talented but impulsive, brash, not yet ready, very similar to how he was at Michigan as a Freshman.

...and appreciates what Bo and Michigan gave to him.  There is just so much money, prestige, fanfare, money, multiple once-in-a-lifetime coaching jobs, all being laid at his feet after 4 quiet years rebuilding Stanford and even quieter years at San Diego before that.  I would be perplexed as well...anyone probably would.