December 27th, 2012 at 9:39 PM ^
2014 recruit Vincent Jackson. Michigan is practicing at his HS.
December 27th, 2012 at 9:41 PM ^
Just kidding of course. Hope he goes Blue soon.
December 27th, 2012 at 9:55 PM ^
That he'll end up at Michigan so I wouldn't get your hopes up.
December 27th, 2012 at 10:10 PM ^
Well we all know what happens when the Insiders think a guy WILL go blue, so maybe that's a good thing...
December 27th, 2012 at 10:15 PM ^
No shit. I just want to see ONE of those "hats on the table" selections that ends with a recruit picking Michigan ... and actually enrolling & playing at Michigan.
December 27th, 2012 at 10:22 PM ^
Denard Robinson
December 27th, 2012 at 10:50 PM ^
Okay..Okay..... Name another player.
December 27th, 2012 at 10:53 PM ^
Will Campbell.
December 27th, 2012 at 11:06 PM ^
Jarrod Wilson
December 27th, 2012 at 11:15 PM ^
Demar Dorsey. Didn't actually get on campus, but he did pick the hat.
December 28th, 2012 at 12:54 AM ^
So, then, uhh ... not Demar Dorsey at all.
December 28th, 2012 at 8:47 AM ^
He said, "I just want to see ONE of those "hats on the table" selections that ends with a recruit picking Michigan."
Obviously he didn't pan out, BUT he did pick the hat.
December 28th, 2012 at 4:27 PM ^
"... and actually enrolling & playing at Michigan" part of his comment.
December 28th, 2012 at 9:30 AM ^
flwolverine = robmorren2? I think so.
December 27th, 2012 at 11:26 PM ^
Well, I was talking about this year .... but thanks for the names nonetheless. So Jarrod Wilson & Denard are our two most recent "hat on table" selections? Thats a large time gap considering how many we seem to be involved with. I'm not saying anything bad about our recruiting, I'd just like to win some of those. It seems like all of the selections on TV are LSU, Bama, or Auburn lately.
December 27th, 2012 at 11:44 PM ^
There are fewer hat ceremonies when moar recruits are committing early.
December 28th, 2012 at 12:03 AM ^
I do agree with that. Shane Morris could have waited until whichever All-American game to pick the UM hat. In the end its all the same, and I get that. I am not saying that we don't get great recruits. It just seems like once we get down to the elite recruits at table time in the All-American games, they are all picking SEC schools, Cal, FSU, etc ... It'd be great to get one of those recruits to be the icing on this class. LMIII, Treadwell, Green ... whoever.
December 28th, 2012 at 12:57 PM ^
There's a reason that people who have a tough time deciding tend to pick the south; it's warmer there. If you feel like you've got a lot of options that are roughly equivalent, and nothing is really standing out to you, you're probably going to go way down the list in terms of deciding factors. If you get down to weather, Cal and FSU's winters have a hell of a lot more women in bikinis than Ann Arbor.
December 28th, 2012 at 12:01 AM ^
Branden Smith at the army bowl
December 27th, 2012 at 11:51 PM ^
Be careful what you wish for. Cullen Christian used a "hat ceremony", and kept everyone waiting for 2 weeks
December 28th, 2012 at 1:22 PM ^
Still wondering what could have been. Too bad he had to play as a freshman.
December 28th, 2012 at 12:04 AM ^
Seriously. I'm sick of 5 stars committing in August. Science has shown if they commit in Jan or later they're scientifically a better player.
December 28th, 2012 at 1:11 AM ^
All I'm saying is there are lots of players that wait until All-American games to announce. It would be great to get one of those key, late additions ... and all the suspense and excitement that goes along with the hat selection. I think it was Cal. who had a nice run of hat selections last year, and I was thinking how awesome their fans must have felt. I realize that we have lots of players, who are already committed, playing in those All-American games. I also realize that a player is the same quality whether he commits in August or January. I think Hoke has been an amazing recruiter thus far. All I'm asking for is a shot at that excitement that comes with a huge pickup late in the recruiting season. Don't hate me for wanting some frosting on the cake fellas! lol
December 28th, 2012 at 8:42 AM ^
Wasn't TacoPants the last 6* to announce on international TV he'd attend Michigan?
December 28th, 2012 at 9:26 AM ^
Yeah, it would have been great to be a Cal fan.
2012 Scout team rankings
Michigan 4th
Cal 34th
December 28th, 2012 at 1:32 PM ^
Touche ... I didn't say I wanted to trade recruiting classes with anyone ... I just want 1 of those big 4*/5* additions towards the end of the race. I'd rather have that than scrambling around at the end trying to fill holes. It's not a necessity or anything, just a luxury that would be nice to have. I think the Garnetts & Reeves of the world just left me a little bitter. I wants em all.
December 28th, 2012 at 9:58 AM ^
Cal had a nice run at the Army game, and then lost all those players when Tosh Lupoi went to Washington. So no, it wouldn't have been awesome to be a Cal fan this past January/February.
December 28th, 2012 at 1:28 PM ^
Good point, I just remember being at the gym & checking in on.the TV whenever there was a selection ... and for awhile it was Cal, Cal, Cal ... I thought I was in the twilight zone. I knew Cal had some decent classes in the past, but they were cleaning up on that day. All for naught though as you said.
December 28th, 2012 at 1:42 AM ^
One day soon enough it will be standard for elite players to hold a press conference when they announce the list of official visits they plan to take.
December 27th, 2012 at 10:29 PM ^
so called "insiders" generally know just as much about where a kid plans to go as we do. they just happen to get paid for displaying their opinion about it.
December 28th, 2012 at 9:42 AM ^
That sounds like a good gig...where do I sign up?
December 27th, 2012 at 10:03 PM ^
2015 ATH George Campbell also made it to a practice. Good to have a bowl game in a talent-rich state like Florida.
December 27th, 2012 at 11:49 PM ^
Yeah - after years of playing in the Idaho Potato Bowl, it's nice to see Michigan playing a bowl in a talent-rich state.
Outside of the years we weren't in a bowl - has Michigan ever played a bowl in a non-talent-rich state?
December 28th, 2012 at 12:01 AM ^
Bowl games
Michigan has played in 41 bowl games in its history, compiling a record of 20–21. Before missing a bowl game in 2008, Michigan had made a bowl game 33 years in a row, the second longest streak (as of end of 2011 season) in college football history.[84] From 1918 to 1945, the Big Ten Conference did not allow its teams to participate in bowls. From 1946 to 1974, only a conference champion, or a surrogate representative, was allowed to attend a bowl, the Rose Bowl, and no team could go two years in a row, with one exception.
Date | Bowl | W/L | Opponent | PF | PA |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
January 1, 1902 | Rose Bowl | W | Stanford | 49 | 0 |
January 1, 1948 | Rose Bowl | W | USC | 49 | 0 |
January 1, 1951 | Rose Bowl | W | Cal | 14 | 6 |
January 1, 1965 | Rose Bowl | W | Oregon State | 34 | 7 |
January 1, 1970 | Rose Bowl | L | USC | 3 | 10 |
January 1, 1972 | Rose Bowl | L | Stanford | 12 | 13 |
January 1, 1976 | Orange Bowl | L | Oklahoma | 6 | 14 |
January 1, 1977 | Rose Bowl | L | USC | 6 | 14 |
January 2, 1978 | Rose Bowl | L | Washington | 20 | 27 |
January 1, 1979 | Rose Bowl | L | USC | 10 | 17 |
December 28, 1979 | Gator Bowl | L | North Carolina | 15 | 17 |
January 1, 1981 | Rose Bowl | W | Washington | 23 | 6 |
December 31, 1981 | Bluebonnet Bowl | W | UCLA | 33 | 14 |
January 1, 1983 | Rose Bowl | L | UCLA | 14 | 24 |
January 2, 1984 | Sugar Bowl | L | Auburn | 7 | 9 |
December 21, 1984 | Holiday Bowl | L | BYU | 17 | 24 |
January 1, 1986 | Fiesta Bowl | W | Nebraska | 27 | 23 |
January 1, 1987 | Rose Bowl | L | Arizona State | 15 | 22 |
January 2, 1988 | Hall of Fame Bowl | W | Alabama | 28 | 24 |
January 2, 1989 | Rose Bowl | W | USC | 22 | 14 |
January 1, 1990 | Rose Bowl | L | USC | 10 | 17 |
January 1, 1991 | Gator Bowl | W | Mississippi | 35 | 3 |
January 1, 1992 | Rose Bowl | L | Washington | 14 | 34 |
January 1, 1993 | Rose Bowl | W | Washington | 38 | 31 |
January 1, 1994 | Hall of Fame Bowl | W | North Carolina State | 42 | 7 |
December 30, 1994 | Holiday Bowl | W | Colorado State | 24 | 14 |
December 28, 1995 | Alamo Bowl | L | Texas A&M | 20 | 22 |
January 1, 1997 | Outback Bowl | L | Alabama | 14 | 17 |
January 1, 1998 | Rose Bowl | W | Washington State | 21 | 16 |
January 1, 1999 | Citrus Bowl | W | Arkansas | 45 | 31 |
January 1, 2000 | Orange Bowl | W | Alabama | 35 | 34 |
January 1, 2001 | Citrus Bowl | W | Auburn | 31 | 28 |
January 1, 2002 | Citrus Bowl | L | Tennessee | 17 | 45 |
January 1, 2003 | Outback Bowl | W | Florida | 38 | 30 |
January 1, 2004 | Rose Bowl | L | USC | 14 | 28 |
January 1, 2005 | Rose Bowl | L | Texas | 37 | 38 |
December 28, 2005 | Alamo Bowl | L | Nebraska | 28 | 32 |
January 1, 2007 | Rose Bowl | L | USC | 18 | 32 |
January 1, 2008 | Capital One Bowl | W | Florida | 41 | 35 |
January 1, 2011 | Gator Bowl | L | Mississippi State | 14 | 52 |
January 3, 2012 | Sugar Bowl | W | Virginia Tech | 23 | 20 |
Total | 41 bowl games | 20–21 | 940 | 831 |
December 28th, 2012 at 12:15 AM ^
Fiesta Bowl in '86. Arizona isn't bad by any means, but it's no recruiting hotbed. Besides that, they've played twice in Louisiana, 3 times in Texas and the rest in Cali and Florida. Those states are the top 4 in the country for talent.
December 28th, 2012 at 12:10 AM ^
picked Michigan in the hat ceremony, then changed his mind.
December 28th, 2012 at 9:39 AM ^
Mike Jones
December 28th, 2012 at 12:13 AM ^
But where was LM2 ... that's the guy we need to convince (apparently). lol
December 28th, 2012 at 1:22 AM ^
I love this prevailing assumption that playing a second-tier bowl game in Florida (or anywhere else) gives Michigan a substantial recruiting bump in that area. It's nonsense. How many blue-chip recruits will lean toward Michigan because they played a game in Tampa? None.
December 28th, 2012 at 1:30 AM ^
My spin would be that if you have to play in a crappy bowl...might as well let it be in Florida because of recruits that can visit etc.
December 28th, 2012 at 5:39 AM ^
Why would you consider this bowl crappy? We've gotten an excellent draw in SC; they'll be a great test of where we stand. IMO, it's the teams that make the bowl game, not the name, location, date, sponsor, etc. of the bowl itself.
By your logic, would the Orange Bowl be non-crappy? How would you rate the Chick-Fil-A Bowl? The Rose Bowl?
December 28th, 2012 at 6:54 AM ^
All of them.
December 28th, 2012 at 6:48 AM ^
How many bowl practices are these kids typically going to? Kids in Florida could go check out a dozen teams in Florida bowl practices, same for kids in Texas.
And are these practices open to anyone or does a recruit have to get an invite? How does this align with the "dead period"?
December 28th, 2012 at 6:58 AM ^
Correct me if I'm wrong but from what I understand, as long as the practice is open to the public they are allowed to attend. No private sessions.
December 28th, 2012 at 1:44 PM ^
They can go, but the coaches can't talk to them because it is supposed to be a "dead period"
December 28th, 2012 at 8:27 AM ^
I remember Brandon Smith choosing UM..Big Will was not going anywhere but UM so his wasnt any surprise..I dont care how we get them just that we get them..we have missed out on some big oppurtunity..the Josh Garnett and Armani Reeves announcements would have been big to get..however we have an amazing class and if we hit on one of DG or LM3 i think its the cherry on top..we are solid as we stand tho
December 28th, 2012 at 9:07 AM ^
I will have a hat ceremony to appease all of you.
Yours truly, Mr. Asshat
December 28th, 2012 at 9:24 AM ^
is going to come here. He didn't elaborate with specifics on-air, but said there are recent developments that led him to that view.
I also noticed on another site that supposedly Derrick Green is now saying he's interested in Miami of Florida. If he really is interested in that ongoing tire fire down in Coral Gables, it's just another sign to me that he's not coming here.