Jabrill Peppers and Juwan Bushell-Beatty set up Michigan visit
Per Sam Webb on Twitter. I can't read the article on Scout (it's paywalled), but the description says they'll be visiting multiple schools in early April, so I assume that's when they're coming.
Peppers is a CB and the #2 rated player nationally according to Rivals. Bushell-Beatty is an unranked OL prospect. Both go to Paramus Catholic in New Jersey.
Pff... who cares about the #2 prospect in the country? He won't even be the best player to visit in the next month... What percent chance do we think that both Peppers and Hand both commit to us? 1.618% or so? Is it too early to speculate? You think it's too early to speculate. It's too early to speculate.
I wouldn't bet on it, but both have legitimate interest from what I've heard. That hasn't happened in a while.
If Peppers does not commit to Michigan, he can always play for Hoke in the NFL.... ;)
That rumor started at ohio and it shouldn't be endorsed on a site like MGoBlog! This is only serving to reinforce Urban's lies and I can't believe it got a 5. Hoke is NOT going to the NFL and anyone who tells you otherwise is a damn liar. Now let's stop spreading these baseless rumors about ourselves!
~Herm
Perhaps his health plan now covers Cialis?
Woosh!
(I think he was refering to DB coach Jon Hoke)
My pretending to be scientific guess: 25% chance with Hand x 15% chance with Peppers = 3.75% chance of both.
Well, as long as we're being scientific, I don't think we can assume these two events are independent.
Science.
Although I don't know any of the factors considered in increasing the percentage from 3.65ish to 4.152536%, the fact that you said science has completely convinced me.
Well, you see, they'd be very significant events.
...what, that's not how it works?
as Michigan can fend off Hoke from all those NFL suitors we have a chance..
edit: damn, beaten to the punch
And why is he in a wrestling ring?
Must be because of all the jerseys selling in New Jersey!
Yeah. Buddy.
then he will be here for an official.
I know it's not like they've committed yet or anything, but Hoke & Co.'s ability to bring top talent to the school is phenomenal. Perhaps I'm just living the here and now, but it didn't seem to me that previous staff got as many high-profile visits [I became a Michigan fan in 2008, picked a poor year, but whatever].
Also, and perhaps even more importantly, Hoke & Co. have been able to identify talent early and get offers out early to get advantages with recruits. When they blow up on all the recruit ranking sites, Michigan will have given one of the earliest offers to the recruit, and have that much of a head start against other schools.
Keep up the good work!
I'm just going to keep saying Hoke & Co. I feel like it'd be a good general store name or something.
We haven't been contenders for players ranked this high since the Carr era. There were a few under RR who we had legitimate chances at (Dee Hart, Sammy Watkins come to mind), but not as many as under Hoke.
Just sayin... Derrick green was rated higher on rivals than both Dee Hart and Sammy Watkins. The year before Ondre Pipkins was ranked higher than either of those 2, with Kyle Kalis being just a hint behind them. I think hoke has done just fine.
I said since the Carr era, as in terms of coaches. "but not as many as under Hoke."
Carr (yes)
RR (sometimes)
Hoke (yes)
the poster you replied to pretty much said the same thing.
to campus. But, Carr brought a fair number. It's just that there wasn't nearly as much visibility and scrutiny as to who was visiting in the earlier Carr years, especially in the absence of sites like this. For example, just recently Marcus Ray mentioned on WTKA how Peyton Manning was taking his campus recruiting visit to U-M the same weekend. And there were a few other well known names visiting that weekend too. So, Carr was pretty good for a while at getting great players to visit. He actually signed a couple of them too!
All other problems aside, RR did have problems landing some top talent in recruiting, but in his defense, if he wasn't under the gun for the entire 2011 recruiting class and then canned, he probably would have been able or at least had a good chance of landing Dee Hart, Kris Frost, and Sammy Watkins (although maybe him to a lessor extent). Not to say that Carr or Hoke didn't and isn't doing a better job of landing top talent.
The question now becomes, "When Michigan signs the top 16 recruits in the country, will they still be ranked below Texas A&M's 35 member class?"
I read somewhere that they only have room for 34 this year.
So, they'll be signing 48 recruits? Righteous.
I just want to throw out this, from 2006-2007 USC signed at RB (according to Rivals):
2006: Kenny Ashley (21 RB), Stanley Havali (3 FB), Stafon Johnson (2 RB, 18 Overall), Emmanuel Moody (9 RB, 70 Overall)
2007: Broderick Green (14 RB), Joe McKight (1 RB, 2 Overall), Marc Tyler (2 RB, 17 Overall)
Now, there is a very, very slim chance Michigan gets anywhere near this, but yeah, that's a crazy RB haul over a two year period. So other teams besides Alabama can have multiple great RB classes back to back.
Alabama from 2009-2013:
2009: Trent Richardson (2 RB, 6 Overall), Eddie Lacy (13 RB, 116 Overall)
2010: Corey Grant (5 RB, 180 Overall), Jalston Fowler (3 FB)
2011: Dee Hart (1 RB, 19 Overall)
2012: TJ Yeldon (2 RB, 12 Overall), Kenyan Drake (13 RB, 185 Overall)
2013: Derrick Henry (5 RB, 36 Overall), Tyren Jones (11 RB, 79 Overall), Alvin Kamara (2 APB, 45 Overall), Altee Tenpenny (8 RB, 53 Overall)
Don't get me wrong, the kid has talent, but I'll be interested to see how he does next year with a very green oline. He had the good fortune to run behind the best oline in the country this past year.
Dude broke a ton of tackles on his own.
Gray was plauged with some nagging injuries a bit last year. He still ran for 701 yards on 149 attemps on a team with a very young O-line and terrible QB play. Also had 11 catches for 151 yards. The kid is very good still and will be good going forward. I think you'll see his numbers uptick as the QB and O-line get experience and get better (O-line, at least, has talent is just young, QB for UT is still a huge question mark). I fully expect Gray and Malcolm Brown to be one of the best one-two punches at RB in the country within the next two years (assuming Brown can actually get healthy).
and our oline is already the best in the country?!?!? damn we're good.
You bring up a good point. If I was a top RB with good NFL potential, the last thing I'd want to do is carry the ball 25 times a game. Save my legs for the NFL.
I thought there was supposed to be big news coming out of there yesterday.
(edit) Wow. How did all those replies get ahead of me?
what did I miss in the Kate Upton thread? I NEEDZ TWO NO
Nothing but a visual account of the precipitous slide this board is taking towards the Red Cedar.
Utah, Florida, and now New Jersey?
Great... Dantonio is going to own Michigan and Ohio again
Hoping this is sarcasm?