Buckle Up??
According to Lorenz, more good news could be coming — and soon.
“I think it’ll be a good weekend for Michigan,” Lorenz said.
From today’s Freep: https://www.freep.com/story/sports/college/university-michigan/wolverines/2018/06/23/michigan-football-recruit-joey-velazquez/727247002/
And I'd bet money we never beat OSU and win the B1G if we keep recruiting like this.
You mean if we keep recruiting like Wisconsin, Iowa and MSU? I mean, we’re recruiting ABOVE their level still.
But three successful teams with wins over OSU? MSU and Wiscy have quite a few conference titles to their name as well.
You just named three teams that will never win a national title. Three teams who don't have half of the resources and tradition of Michigan. And two teams who play in the JV division of the B1G.
So wait, now it’s win a national title? What happened to winning the B1G and beating OSU?
Just going to continue to change your argument every time your shitty logic fails you?
But fine. Since national title is your argument this time, Michigan has recruited on the same level as Clemson over the years. Clemson has a national title.
current class avg recruit rank;
UM: 90.36
Clemson: 88.87
Michigan has a better class.
Clemson has 18 commits, 12 are 3* or below. That’s 2/3 of their class
Michigan has 11 commits, 6 are 3* or below. Just over half the class.
Again, Michigan’s is better.
Once again your shitty logic has failed you. You can now shut the hell up, and cease to exist on this blog with your horrendous viewpoints.
Cmon you know Bluey’s motto: “Never let facts get in the way of an opinion”
Clemson is irrelevant. OSU is the program that we need to be measuring against. Our road to anything of significance goes through Columbus for the foreseeable future
Your comments are irrelevant.
Clemson also had a top 5 recruiting rival to "get by" to accomplish "anything of significance" , how'd they do?
Dabo had a 2-4 record against FSU and had lost two straight going into into the 2015 season, than in year seven he blows by them, reaches two CFPs and won a ship.
That's the path I'd take.
Bluey, I think you're actually a mole from the athletic department, sent here to bring us all together in our disdain for your over-the-top pessimism. Honestly, it's gotten so bad that you're about as believable as a Scooby Doo villain. Burn this account and try again, please.
If we know anything, it’s that you predicting losses because of recruiting is a guarantee that we win a bunch of games with the guys we already have on the team. It worked with Beilein, so it will be working for Harbaugh this year
Me being critical of 2018 and 2019 recruiting has nothing to do with how I feel UM will do this year. I'm on record as saying I think we'll be very good. It's amazing how people continue to put words in my mouth and conflate the simplest of things.
“I would have gotten away with it too if it wasn’t for you meddling kids”
I’m not talking about this year only. We will continue to do really well moving forward because your predictions are always wrong and you have horrible opinions
Nailed it!
George Johnson has 3 CB's, all to FSU
Q Johnson and DJ Turner would be solid pickups
Q - .8797 composite, 468 overall
DJ - .8817 composite, 439 overall
if most 3-stars in the class are top 5-600, and we still get the same number of 4/5-stars as we get 3-stars we'll get an average of .9 or better and be in the top 10
right now the only 3 "flier" commits are Velasquez (who has been a baseball commit so likely not evaluated fully), Newburg, who Urban wanted to wait before committing as he looked like someone to help fill out OSU's calss towards the end, and Stewart, who has picked up decent offers from places like Auburn and TCU.
As long as we get 4 & 5 stars to go with the class we'll be fine - an entire class of 3-starts of course puts us at 5th or 6th in the B1G, and that is no good
Although as bad as the 2018 class was, it was still 3rd in the B1G, and overall since Harbaugh has been here he is easily out recruiting MSU and is out recruiting PSU, so win some more games and we'll be consistently in the top 2 of the B1G for recruiting
right now the only 3 "flier" commits are Velasquez (who has been a baseball commit so likely not evaluated fully), Newburg, who Urban wanted to wait before committing as he looked like someone to help fill out OSU's calss towards the end, and Stewart, who has picked up decent offers from places like Auburn and TCU.
LOL that's 30% of our recruiting class.
Except guys like Velazquez (Brown’s #2 Target at the VIPER position) and Stewart (only ranked as low as he is because he doesn’t attend any camps at all) aren’t actually “fliers,” they’re just the only ones idiots like you who don’t actually know what the hell theyre talking about can consider fliers.
Youre able to take a flier like Newburg when your class features two other commits at the same position that are considered elite.
You know who evaluated Velazquez for four hours last Monday... the whole dang football staff. I’ve been to most of the camps the last two years and usually a few coaches (Partridge,Jay) are out recruiting, but this most recent one had em all. I saw Jim, Jay, Pep, Brown, Mattison, Partridge, Washington, Warinner, McElwain, McDaniels, Smith, Kugler, Kovacs along with 30 or so current players all of whom can evaluate better than all of us computer screen scouts. Go Blue!
There’s your problem-you trust football coaches more than recruiting websites. Bluey is on record saying he trusts recruiting websites more than coaches
Yes, the recruiting matter. See Nick Saban and Urban Meyer. I'm sure you were a trust the coaches guy when rich rod was recruiting like shit too though so, yeah.
Yeah we need someone to do an analysis of players who commit during Michigan camps. Seems like every summer there is consternation about an under the radar camp commit. Now that we have a few years of data maybe we can get some perspective.
Now that is the type of info I like to read. To be honest if it was only Don Brown saying “I want this kid”, then that would be more than enough for me. Knowing everyone else got a look at him, I’m now looking forward to watching Velasquez make Bluey/Maizen/whatever he calls himself after the inevitable caving, eat more crow. Though in 20 years he will still be choking on Beilein crow for all the shade he threw in that direction.
That will be awesome. Unless Urban decides that he's a take sometime before November. I'm under no delusion that he wouldn't flip if Urban offered him.
Or they are ranked there because, you know, they aren't that good. That's why Velazquez only had Holy Cross and Bowling Green offers. This is exactly the type of shit rich rod pulled and all the mgoidiots wouldn't shut up about trusting the coaches when everyone who looked at the rankings knew we were in deep shit with many of the kids we took.
The maths are hard, eh?
I’d be curious to hear who your positional big board would be for the 2019 recruiting cycle.
Obviously it’d just be whoever the recruiting sites rank in their positional rankings, since recruiting rankings are the only thing he cares about.
Jump into the Blue, boys, the water's fine!
I'm assuming we get DJ Turner in a couple days - he's announcing on the 25th.
Washington DC DB Quinten Johnson (who has a committable Bama offer, for the haters) is likely. He's on the rise after some impressive testing numbers. Could also be George Johnson, another Michael Barrett type who GA Tech wants as a QB, but Michigan and Florida State are recruiting as an offensive weapon that could play multiple spots.
Wouldn't rule out Mazi either, but I don't know his timeline. Seems like we've been out in front forever, but I don't know when he wants to wrap things up.
Thank you for some actual inside information.
More 3 stars probably. yay.
Bluey has a small penis.
That's just a weird comment. You sound as if yourey speaking from experience with it.
Well he is a koala so...
I remember the good ole days when I didnt have to turn down the brightness and squint like a person trying to find Bluey's weiner to save my eyes from this sight. Those were such good times.
Stop feeding the Mai.... I mean troll
Looks like Bluey has given some people reason to get out of bed in the morning.
So, back to the post. We'll know by Sunday night who these fellows are?
According to Lorenz, yes ...
I'm so old, I remember when "Buckle Up" used to be informative. Times have changed.
You mean to tell me, you don't find it informative that every single one of UofM's possible commits is a big poopy head and doesn't even have enough skills to "create-a-player" in Madden?
JJH is one of the premier talent evaluators in all of football.
If he wants a recruit, I am going to go ahead and be enthusiastic.
Yeah but will it be Brandon Peters or John O'Korn level excitement?
All of that along with DPJ, McCaffrey, Milton, Gary and Hill level excitement with a Patterson kicker.
Rashan Gary thinks Harbaugh can't recruit either so Bluey must be right!! Oh wait....
Good thing we hired Partridge.
“We” didn’t hire anybody. JJH identified him as a talent, hired him, and retained him for this great program.
Partridge is a good hire regardless and a solid recruiter (as the award suggests). The answer to your next negative comment about Partridge is Alabama wanted him even though there was no Gary.
Gary is the crown jewel of Harbaugh's efforts at UM. I'm not sure how I feel about that but there it is.
If I had any guess of who will committing, I would have to say DJ Turner shouldn't be taken as a surprise given he is committing on monday. I would go with Quinten Johnson, Ojabo, Mazi Smith. There are also some surprise guys I would be waiting for too...
Buckle up boys. More 3 stars incoming! I trust that JH can mold them into all Americans. Can't wait!
We are 3 star University right now.
The OSU and PSU boards are all laughing at us right now.