Mike Weber seems like a very top end "4 star" type recruit, is at our pipeline school, and seems to be in love with Michigan.  I'd be over there with staff this afternoon if this is an open recruiting period. 

 

you're in the arms of the angel may you find some comfort here

i thought this was 2014, not 2013!

seriously, though, this stuff works itself out. kid looks like a stud, but if he is not coming here because of al borges, then so be it. 

But, important for the staff to keep us on his radar, get him back to campus, etc. 

And, bonus points for knocking it out of the park on the field next year to demonstrate that we are on on upward trajectory.

I'm not up on this stat, but I bet there are several kids that commit during their Junior year, only to decommit and go elsewhere.  That's a long time to wait for signing day.  I think if he truly is a Michigan fan, and UM plays well next year, to include showing off our RB's and WR's, we could certainly get both Campbell and Harris back.  They committed once because they loved it.  Lets show them the love is still there along with results!  Stay positive.  Hoke, Nuss, and crew can make it happen.  Work, work, work.  Lift, lift, lift. And above all play nasty!

We have plenty of good backs for the next couple years.

Awesome. Just what I wanted to hear. I might as well ignore the football program until August. Save me some stress.

If this is the result...we basically have to give up Harris in order to cut Borges loose, I am OK with that.  My only concern is, now that it looks like we won't get any of the 3 RB targets for 2014, will Nuss be good enough to make our offensive line competent enough to run the ball well and give us offensive balance next year and give us at least a 9-3 type-plus season?  I am very worried this recruiting thing may trend downward if we lost 4 or more games again.

Meh, it happened.  There was lots of smoke for a long time.  We'll see what happens, but with a whole other year of recruiting I'm not super-worked up right now.

              For all the people who bitch about only hiring Michigan Man, that's pretty much Mike Hart's sole qualification.  It's like people can't handle the fact that Borges was somewhat invovled in recruiting and his firing has some negative consequences.

Sorry for the second-hand resource stuff here, but I was told by a friend that he talked to Mike Hart at Little Brown Jug in summer of 2011 when Mike was released by the Colts and wanted to begin his coaching career. My friend reported that he said he called Brandon personally and left a voicemail saying he would be willing to take a volunteer job on the staff. He said Brandon never returned that call. He ended up as offensive quality control at Eastern, obviously.

If this is at all true (I don't doubt my friend and he didn't seem to think Mike was just playing around), don't expect to see Hart here while Brandon is. Wouldn't be surprised if DB had him blackballed because of PR concerns due to Mike's, uh, quotable nature.

the sky is falling and I want my mommy

replace "Mike Hart" with "Tyrone Wheatley" and we're good.

department. If Michigan lands Peppers, and there is still time for him to decommit, it will be quite and accomplishment. 

Michigan seems to have the ability to generate a lot of interest among top kids but for one reason or another can't close them. Not saying they won't retain Harris in the long run, but this pattern seems to be reminiscent of recent recruting year patterns that predate Hoke's arrival as head coach. 

I don't recall Lloyd losing out on a ton of guys late, and I think that was so only because recruiting wasn't as high profile and volatile during his tenure.  But he had drop outs and so did Rich Rod. I remember Sammy Watkins, Dee Hart and Kris Frost in particular. And, of course, there have been others. 

The idea that Michigan couldn't get one of three recent rb targets to commit based on the idea that Harris was coming up behind them or vice versa, now seems an invalid contention and argument.  

You simply cannot lose 11 games in 2 years and get 5 star kids. We need to win with what we have and then worry about getting the big fish. We have solid talent and Green and Peppers already. Every awful showing last year was a big deal and everyone needed to be freaking out because it ultimately led to this. No more room for error in Michigan football and the honeymoon of 2011 is over.

the win!

I know I'm probably in the minority but i've never been a fan & frankly I dont want him anywhere near the program.

and go 10-2, Harris will commit once again! We should have more top recruits wanting to play here as well. This only happened since we went 7-6.