Pipkins awarded 5th star via Rivals?

Top 100 being released tomorrow; top 250 on Wednesday.

be really about that. And buckeye fans will be really upset about that.  I'm not sure who's been following this saga on twitter, but a few lowlife buckeye fans have nothing better to do than to keep telling Ondre that he's "gonna get his 3 star [butt] grilled against THE Ohio State University."  I wonder how their MAC level O Line recruits are gonna do against his 5 star "I can keep up with Stefon Diggs in a race" 330 lb force in the middle...

But I would think if Hoke and Co. would turn away other highly rated players at the same position they would be pretty damn sure Ondre will make it to campus.

Did they BKFinest it?

he wasn't staying in MO. No mention of grade problems then.

Eddie Goldman is the #2 overall recruit so I doubt he fell to 15th or lower if he fell at all. But honestly, the top players are all hard to distinguish from one another.

Instead of laughing, you should ask them why they think that.  Or what their definition is of oversigning.  We have 28 spots available, and per Big Ten rules, we're allowed to take 28 as long as at least three EE.  Three guys enrolled early, so we're good.

Generally, oversigning refers to teams that sign more guys than they have room for, and then make room between signing day and fall camp.  We are not doing that at all, in fact our numbers aren't even taking into account normal off-season attrition.

You should also tell your friend that from 2004-2006, MSU signed 31(!), 27, and 28 recruits, respectively.  Then ask him why oversigning is bad, but hypocrisy is A-OK. 

Then again, Sparties aren't good with the whole logic thing, so maybe laughing is your best option after all. 

I don't see any of those guys having a 4th star on rivals. 
5 stars = pipkins and kalis
4 stars = bolden, wilson, RJS, magnuson, bars, strobel, darboh, ross, richardson.

Rivals is the odd man out on Wormley.  He's got 4* from Scout, 247, and ESPN (247 is real high on him).  He's also the second highest listed three star SDE on Rivals.  He may get the bump, but I doubt it.  Really doesn't matter though, he's got the stars from other sites.

Ojemudia has a lot farther to go, and I don't think he will get it, but he's kinda in the same boat as Wormley, where Rivals is the low end of the appraisals.  Interestingly enough, Jamal Lyles, who is a MSU commit and basically Ojemudia without the senior year dominance (same size, strengths, etc), is ranked as a four star, so it isn't like his tweener status would keep him from getting that fourth star.

AJ Williams was recruited as a TE but spent his senior year as a tackle.  He's not going anywhere, but he does have a four star from Scout.

In the end, most of the three stars Michigan is bringing in could have been four stars, and often are four stars to another site.

With our O-line haul this year, they're going to need those elite D-linemen.

Wasn't Burgess like top 10?  Also Mallett was really up there.  I'm too lazy to actually look it up.

Amani Toomer was #1 overall recruit in the nation according to an article in Jan/Feb 2010 ESPN The Magazine. Can anyone link to it?

Mallett was #4, that's the highest we've had as far as Rivals goes back. 

Other guys who were very high, but I don't know exactly:

Drew Henson and Justin Fargas.  Also, I believe Ricky Powers, Tyrone Wheatley and Touchdown Tim were all the top RB in the country the years they came out, which was three consecutive years. 

who was Michigan's highest recruit we ever signed?

From what I remember from the the perpetual board boner anytime his name was mentioned it had to be Sam McGuffie...

 

RR would have lost half this boards support if he lost that kid on signing day.