Swim Lanes - The Final Episode 2016
Last go around before we begin the 2017 swim lanes Wednesday evening.
Michigan got counter struck for Fuller, Hamilton was snake oiled away in the cover of darkness Indy Colts style. I am assuming Onwenu is staying in the class and is just trying to build some buzz.
Based on crystall ballz incl our own Acian ballz it seems Murphy to USC and Simmons to Clemson. Boss is up in air but as of this moment it seems like a toss up and other than a tentative ballz by Acian and a UM basketball writer none of the usuals want to put their ballz out for him to UM so I am not counting him in. So do the 2 Cal guys split up after talking of being together for months on end?
This looks like the projected close:
| 25 | Rashan Gary | UM / Clemson |
| 26 | Victor Viramontes | Silently |
| 27 | Lavert Hill | UM / MSU |
| 28 | Quinn Nordin | UM |
| 29 | Alaric Jackson | Snake Oiled late |
| 30 | Devin Asiasi | Left Coast v UM |
This would eliminate any need for grayshirts as spot 31 would remain open and instead of going to another recruit would give everyone a scholarship. Unless of course we flip Greg Little.
If any of the above in chart are misses maybe UM tries to find a lower rated guy from the state of Michigan to flip at last moment. I don't see Harbaugh as a "bank a scholarship" type of guy.
This would still be a great close even as it puts immense emphasis on DT and OT in the 2017 class. Get the #1 player in country, land 2 other top 125 players in Hill/Asiasi, get a developmental but good ceiling OT a year ahead of hopefully 2 very high level 2017 OTs, get a "Harbaugh player" in Vic, and get your local high ranked kicker. Done and done.
February 2nd, 2016 at 12:26 PM ^
Of the remaining targets, do we have any idea on how many & who were the silent commits? I seem to recall a week ago word got out that Harbaugh had asked kids to not commit openly until NSD--presumably b/c Harbaugh wanted to control the "roll out" of the announcements, etc. But then a day or so later we got a flood of kids over the course of 48 hours.
I guess my question is--was the Harbaugh "hold of announcing publicly until NSD" just fiction from the start? Or was the roll-out last week PART of an orchastrated plan? Or do we think that 3-4 of these kids have already told Harbaugh they're coming & their silence is just them playing along to help Michigan get more buzz out of the events tomorrow?