Two new Michigan crystal balls from Steve Wiltfong
David Ojabo and Quinten Johnson. Johnson has the 8th highest Nike Sparq score in the country and is a 5-11 ATH. Ojabo is a 6-5 DE who has only been playing football for one year. He ran a 10.93 100M! He's from the same school as PSU signee Jayson Oweh last year. Would be a great pickup.
"Would be a great pickup."
Thank God the coaches have your blessing on this one. I think I speak for us all when I say that we can all sleep much easier tonight.
When I first read your post I wondered why you were being a dick. Then I saw bluey was the OP.
Ha! Same.
Grrrrreeeeaat!
Fuck you, Bluey.
Need a hug?
Are you still crying?
Is this real life? Did Bluey really just give his approval to TWO 3 stars???
He’s now going out of his way to not seem like a complete troll. I can guarantee he is unhappy about this
I'm going out on a limb and guessing that it's sarcastic. The exclamation mark seems suspicious coming from bluey.
Although could be legit, Olympic qualifying time in London 2012 for 100m was 10.18
3 stars with elite traits have always been fine by me. We've taken too many who don't. At least this is a nice change up.
Any idea which position Johnson projects to play at the next level?
Probably somewhere in the defensive backfield.
3 stars is 3 more than you had.
Is it often the case a 3 star stud is only 3 stars and not more because he didn't camp? I read somewhere that this happens .
Russian hackers posing as "msuizen".
The universe is merely one more positive Maizen post away from collapsing in on itself.
Super fast kid, great ball skills played WR as well. Should also be in for a heavy ranking bump too from the opening this summer as well. Getting johnson could also be a great piece not just as a player, but also as a recruiting key at St.Johns. We are also recruting their RB Keilian Robinson and 2020 WR Rakim Jarrett, who both are heavily interested in us.
Good boy! Now fetch us three more positive post worthy items and we'll let you have one negative nancy post.
Ojabo has a pretty impressive offer list including ND, PSU, Clemson, OSU, Texas A&M and a few other P5 schools.
Johnson was offered by PSU and just picked up an Alabama offer. Maryland, BC, UNC, UVA, IU have also offered.
I love when crystal balls turn into blue balls!
Wait a second!
Someone needs to buy some underwear.
Very impressed with the Ojabo film. Lots of potential there, looks very athletic. I like him more than that Dicosmo kid we are after.
I've heard of Ojabo, so I know a bit about his potential. It's first time reading about Johnson; I definitely like that 'Bama offer.
It happens quite a lot.
Just looking at the two most recent Michigan classes, there are quite a few 3* commits that simply don’t camp or were slated to play other sports that flew under the radar.
I mean look at the current class. Jack Stewart is our second lowest rated commit currently. He was outside the top 1000 when he committed. The recruiting sites said they’d never seen him play because he doesn’t camp. Then take a look at his offer list.
We'll find out if they flew under the radar. I still think last years class was a major clunker but I would love to be wrong. This year's class needs to be great. This season is massively important to the long term success of the program.
And I would still love to know what's going on with our in-state recruiting, because it's important to fix whatever is wrong.
In State recruiting
is a 2019 anomoly
because it was more than fine in 2016, 17 & 18
Major clunker according to who though? The recruiting sites?
That just proves my point. Why are we as fans supposed to listen to who they say is/isn’t good when it comes to individual players when Rivals just admitted they stopped paying attention to Cam McGrone (army all-American and one of the top LBs in the country) and ESPN only had an underclass evaluation on him?
I mean, this is one of the top recruits in the country and 2/3 sites all but ignore him. Why in the hell would I, as a rational fan, take the opinion of a site who hasn’t scouted one of the top linebackers in the country since his sophomore year into account?
Thats just pure laziness on the part of the recruiting services. No offense, but taking their word for how good a kid is at this point and calling a class a dud before the kids even arrive on campus is pure laziness too.
People get too caught up in where these kids are ranked at instead of looking at WHY they’re ranked where they are.
The “we’ll find out if they flew under the radar” comment goes both ways. You can get excited about a top ranked class all you want. But you can also play the “we’ll find out if they live up to the hype” game too. We had the “top OL recruiting class in the country” a few years ago. Our OL still sucked. One of our best OL in the past decade was a walk-on with zero offers.
I just think it’s high time we as fans STOP taking the rankings as if they’re holy scripture and do some of our own “scouting” on these kids before we determine how good of a class we have.
Amen to this Jonny!
To me, the entirety of the "Recruiting Site Class Ranking" is at the heart of the Michigan fanbase's frustration and polarization -- we're being jerked around from the Hype side to the Underachieving side of the discussion. The fact of the matter is, it's neither. Every program -- yes even OSU and Alabama -- has "can't miss recruits" who don't live up to their billing, and walk-on's with no offers who become integral team leaders. We see over and over again how these rankings are used to disparage the coaching staff for missing, settling, or not developing players.
It's pathetic to me, and I wish the recruiting sites would just disappear all together.
Nothing is wrong with in-state recruiting ...except for the fact that you and others insist that there is something wrong. It ebbs and flows, comes and goes, based upon a myriad of factors -- most of which we're not privy to. Yet, despite having only a sliver of the information necessary to make an actuate assessment, the pessimistic and self-flagellating Michigan fan continues to make the sky out to be falling and THIS year to be an OR ELSE year. Every year is import, as is every class. Every school hits and every misses some of their targets. Good lord has this fanbase become disappointing.
Call me a masochist, but my favorite part about this thread was thinking about how painful it was for him to write something positive.
Sadist. Dammit.
Freud?
Steve Lorenz with a ton of crystal balls today! Sounds like some kids balled out at Michigan camps.