Will Michigan Now Own N.J. Recruiting?
With the recent hiring of Anthony Campanile, Michigan now has two elite N.J. recruiters on staff. In case you forgot, this is his bio per MLive:
"Campanile, of Fair Lawn, N.J., also spent the previous four seasons on staff at Rutgers, his alma mater, where he coached wide receivers and tight ends and served as a defensive assistant. He played four seasons for the Scarlet Knights, from 2001 to 2004, at linebacker and safety.
His recruiting prowess -- 247Sports ranks him as the 19th best recruiter in the ACC -- would give Michigan an added boost in the state of New Jersey and northeast."
Prior to coming to Michigan, Campanile's Wikipedia page says his coaching career looks like this:
- 2006 Fair Lawn High School (LB)
- 2007-2009 Don Bosco Prep (DC)
- 2010-2011 Don Bosco Prep (OC)
- 2012-2013 Rutgers (Defensive Assistant)
- 2013-2015 Rutgers (WR/TE)
- 2016-2017 Boston College (DB)
- 2018 Boston College (Co-DC/DB)
So. Here's a guy who played 4 years of college football in N.J. and then coached there for 9 years afterwards, with 5 of those years at one of the best high school programs in the country, Don Bosco Prep.
Since he's been coaching in college he's had the impressive challenge of trying to recruit kids to Rutgers and Boston College. I'm sure he's excited to recruit for Michigan. Oh, and did I mention that Chris Partridge--arguably Michigan's best recruiter--is also on the staff? The guy who used to coach at Paramus Catholic? Yup.
Currently there are ten four stars in the 2020 class from New Jersey.
January 14th, 2019 at 3:59 PM ^
Do people put any stock in these rankings? There are so many variables with coach recruiting rankings. The player might have had multiple recruiters. The player might have been going to Michigan regardless of his recruiter. A recruiter at Alabama is being compared apples to apples against a recruiter at Vanderbilt depending on who they sign. A player might sign because of coach X, even though his primary recruiter was coach Y. I think the info is fairly inaccurate and incomplete, as not every signee details who his recruiter was.
This ranking just seems like an awful metric.
January 14th, 2019 at 5:18 PM ^
I'm assuming the metric is just the composite score of each of your players added up. I think it is tough though because it seems like most of these kids are visited by multiple coaches. It's team sales. OSU has 5 of the top 6 recruiting rankings in the B1G.
January 14th, 2019 at 7:13 PM ^
It is a bad metric. Every staff recruits in different ways and quantifying the one coach who might have "closed" is difficult to measure.
I do appreciate the effort in trying to use data and create a metric to determine the recruiting value a coach brings to the table. Unfortunately this particular metric is useless.
January 14th, 2019 at 5:57 PM ^
Jay was 11th/ 77th this year.
January 14th, 2019 at 5:50 PM ^
To be fair, he was 20th this year.
January 14th, 2019 at 3:37 PM ^
Michigan gets anyone in the door anywhere. After that its about your recruiting skills. Partridge recruits a bunch of states, Georgia in particular. Quite successfully.
January 15th, 2019 at 1:32 AM ^
We can do well in NJ but owning it isn't going to happen.
It can't get worse with another Jersey guy on staff.... I don't think Partridge is doing much in NJ. Quality coach but the guy isn't all that well-liked in NJ outside of Paramus Catholic. Burned a lot of bridges recruiting guys out of the public schools and being less than sporting with some of the big time programs.
Partridge brought Gary in '16 but in the 2017-19 classes since he was hired there were 25 Rivals NJ 4* guys.
PSU landed 5, Notre Dame landed 4, OSU landed 3, Bama took 3.
Michigan had one!
Penn State and Notre Dame aren't going to quit recruiting NJ and OSU replaced Schiano with Hafley who is a NJ born, Pitt/Rutgers guy who has strong relationships in NJ. The fact that Bama can muscle in just about anywhere they want isn't going to change. God forbid Dabo figures out they play football in New Jersey.
Right now I'd take a bigger slice of the pie.