2020 OT Josh Priebe to Northwestern
In just a few days, Michigan has missed out on a couple in-state targets. It was Detroit King WR RaShawn Williams (Indiana) a couple days ago, and now it's Edwardsburg OT/OG Josh Priebe to Northwestern. He's a 3-star, the #53 offensive tackle, and #635 overall. He also had offers from Auburn and Michigan State.
They didn't miss they simply have other guys higher on their board. This is why there are offers and "offers." Still a nice pickup for Northwestern, I like him better than Mazzccua.
Priebe is the higher rated of the two.
Shocker
Did they actually miss out on these recruits or are they prioritizing different players?
I don't want to sound arrogant, but would you rather play football at Northwestern or Indiana than Michigan?
If this kid is looking for a really good education and playing time, NU is a great option for him.
At least Northwestern has made it to Indy...
The BIG West was a game away from producing a non-bowl eligible division champion. Just saying.
Is there any actual evidence that as it stands Priebe was not a take for our staff? Did any of the insider sites say that? I haven't seen that.
The "evidence" is that no player of any consequence that Michigan truly wanted EVER picked Northwestern over Michigan.
You can toss Indiana in there too...
EDIT: And to any tempted to neg, please feel free to list at least one name that spurned a true pursuit by M to choose NW or IU when you do. Educate us...
The problem with your assertion is we don't know if there was a "true pursuit" by Michigan. That takes assumptions which are usually influenced by biases.
I guess the only way to gauge "true pursuit" (offer vs "offer") is:
Did the player visit Michigan (more than once even for in-state prospects)?
Did they list M as a favorite, perhaps in a group with schools like osu, psu, nd or even msu? NOT M + MAC schools or Indiana/Illinois
Were they CBd to M by any crootniks?
Were they mentioned in this blog or TTB, 24/7 etc as important M targets?
That's a decent list of ways to determine how aggressive Michigan's pursuit is, yeah?
Sampson James - composite 4-star RB - IU
Had an offer from Michigan and visited twice.
Had other offers from OSU, ND, UGA, UT, MSU.
Dominique Booth - composite 4-star WR - IU
Had UM offer, visited twice, visited both ND and OSU for the Michigan game, and had an in-home visit from Curt Mallory.
Had offers from Alabama, UT, amongst others.
Parrker Westphal - composite 4-star CB - Northwestern
Visited Michigan *five* times, one was an overnighter, and OSU for the Michigan game.
Offers from UF, OSU, ND, UW, MSU.
Get outta here with your "facts" and "evidence" and "actual version of events" which clearly don't fit the narrative of a guy who is clearly "owning his truth" that no real football player would ever snub Michigan over a lesser program.
Tommy Doles
Ifeadi Odenigbo
Sidd or Atticus?
Yes. Jerimy...Warren Central...we lived just down the street. One hellava safety-perhaps #1 in the nation. I believe we got to watch them win 4 state championships in a row. Evans, the RB, was the lead back at Virginia Tech. If you google him you might see why he did not end up at Michigan-for good (bad) reason.
Parker Westphall? Didn’t he have a committable offer?
What does that even mean? They offered him. That means they wanted him. The coaching staff evaluates prospects all the time...they know who is good, they know who’s D1 material. They wanted him, but didn’t get him, end of story. They didn’t “cool”, they didn’t prioritize other people. They missed out on him
If they didnt come here, then they are lesser players that weren't targeted by the coaching staff. It's obvious there are better recruits that the staff prioritizes over and above these two. So we didnt "miss out" on them.
It's weird but OL is actually one of the few positions where I'm not concerned in Michigan's ability to get good talent. Warriner has done a hell of a job identifying top talent and going after them hard. Michigan seems to be in great shape with Michael Carmody, Zak Zinter, and Noah Nelson. And also in decent shape with Andrew Gentry, Tosh Baker, Roger Rosengarten, and Andrew Raym. Still wish Michigan could have landed Myles Hinton though.
Carmody: OSU lean
Zinter: ND lean
Baker: ND lean
Rosengarten: Oregon or OSU lean
Raym: OU lean
Gentry: BYU lean
Nelson: UM lean
Still lots of time to turn things around, but that is where things stand at the moment. Still holding out hope UM will be able to sign Justin Rogers.
Fair. The only correction I would make is Zinter being a ND lean. I believe he likes ND but he's been to Michigan several times as well. His only crystal ball is to ND from Tom Loy which means absolutely nothing because he's very loose in his picks.
I believe Gentry is visiting twice to Michigan (once unofficially in mid May and once officially in June) so that will be something to watch. Since most of these players are from distant states, it is important to get them on official visits, especially for a game.
Gentry supposedly comes from a pretty devout LDS family and will be going on a one or two year mission trip immediately after high school so I'm not quite sure how that will affect his Michigan recruitment. He has big time game though and would be a great addition.
As for Zinter I agree with you that UM has a great shot but some ND writers think PSU is their biggest competition. Hard to know for sure. He has made three Notre Dame visits (two unofficial and one official) in the last month so it's probably safe to say they are right near the top.
im come from a strong LSD family too - tripping balls, man.
Zinter is not a ND lean. In fact Brian Dohn has said that Michigan would be his pick right now.
Michigan is also in the thick of it for Justin Rogers and Tosh Baker
FWIW, we're also in Washington, DC 4-star OT Anton Harrison's Top 6 as of early March. Haven't heard much since though.
He's going to a great school. Not Michigan obviously but call it a win win. We will still land some stud O linemen.
Yeah good luck to the young man. Don't really care about 3 stars who go to another school, but I guess this is OT season.
Yeah, it's awfully presumptive to call Williams a miss, and probably the same with Priebe. Recruiting is evolving and we don't know how hotly Michigan was pursuing these guys.
I wish both Priebe and Williams success when they're not playing UM.
Williams was probably more "trouble" than it was worth.
Mazzccua is as good a OG prospect as Priebe plus the pipeline he comes from makes a huge difference.
Zinter should be about as good as a OG prospect as Rodgers, but still has OT versatility.
And I really hope we get towering bookends from Zona.
Stay healthy, my friends.
Don't know much about either player other than measurables but what fuels your opinion on Zinter vs Rodgers when considered as guards? (I can see the OT thing as Zinter is 6'6", 300lbs)
Rodgers girth has always made him a strong kid, but his height keeps him on the interior, my guess is that Zinter would be in the top 100 as a guard right now and both will end in the #80-#120 range if ranked at OG.
Word on the street is that most of the schools who had offered Williams backed off in the last few weeks. Sounds like something's going on with him. You hope the kid doesn't mess up this great chance to get an education and possibly make something of his life playing a game.
I don't know if there is any specific reason but I noticed his Twitter handle was "trouble" and had to assume he was, at least, looking for the path of least resistance to the pros.
“Missed out” implies that they were a take, which is not the case.
How many Ol you think we take this year? I'm thinking max 4.
Just a PSA for you kids out there. We can't sign everyone. We already have an OL committed. We are going to have to pass on some good kids and miss on some good ones before this thing is over.
4 or 5 probably. We had a lot of swing guys in the previous class so I’m glad we’re focusing on more pure tackles. If 5, I hope it goes 2 pure tackles, 1 swing guy, and 2 guards. If 4, just take out one of the guards.
4 or 5 feels high. We took 5 this year. I would think that 2 to 3 is right. 4 could work if there is a 5* or two in group.
We took 6 this year actually. 2 pure tackles in Keegan and Jones. 2 swing guys (their best positions are probably guards) in Barnhart and Stewart, 2 guards in Rumler and Carpenter (Rumler could be center). However, we are also losing 3 starters at the end of this year (Runyan, Bredeson, Onwenu) and could possibly lose Ruiz to early entry to draft. At the very least we should recruit to replace those numbers.
We have 13 scholarship OL right now with 2 viable walk-ons who could play. I think it's best to have at least 15 scholarship OL at any given time, especially because of how long it takes an average OL to develop and because attrition happens.
Probably 4? Give or take one. We’re clearly trying to establish some depth of “Warinner guys”.
OP is a concern troll today.
I wouldn't say that, KBLOW. Magnus is far from a concern troll and spends a great deal of time following recruiting. He didn't explicitly state any concern, just an observation of a sequence of events.
I'm not concerned one bit. I'm reporting something that happened with an in-state prospect, just like I post about in-state guys getting offers.
This board eats it’s own more than anyplace I’ve ever seen. Calling out Magnus as a concern troll today is fairly laughable. He is one if the better known posters on the board and posts more fact than opinion, but you already know that. It’s kinda lazy to label someone as a troll just because you don’t like the content. I’m sure we ALL would have preferred he posted a thread about players sitting out bowl games so we could finally discuss that topic, but recruiting is what we got.
I think this is a bigger miss for MSU than Michigan, meaning good news overall for Michigan.
From what little I have read I have the same feeling. He could very well end up to be a great player but he seemed to be much more of a priority for MSU.
For Thunder and those above talking numbers.... It seems we are in it heavy for a TON of very well regarded OL in 2021, particularly if both the top 50 Michigan kids are OL (Spindler and ??) - how does that effect 2020 OL numbers of at all?
/\This was my 1st thought.