2013 Recruits by other offers
So... I wasn't going to post this as the information was not as interesting as I had hoped it would be, but someone had to break the silence today, no new posts at all (EDIT: While writing my novel, a commit watch arose).
I used the Rivals information for which schools offered scholarships to kids who have committed to Michigan. This only pertains to our 23 commits, not kids that are uncommitted or have pledged their services elsewhere. Unfortunately, I do not have the time or resources to do something that compares our recruiting win% in comparison to other schools, but I think that would be a great topic (hint, hint).
All in all, our recruits can claim 268 scholarship offers from 70 schools.
So here are the ten schools who offered the most players in our class of 2013:
| Tennessee | 12 |
| Purdue | 10 |
| Iowa | 9 |
| Michigan State | 9 |
| Syracuse | 9 |
| West Virginia | 9 |
| Boston College | 8 |
| Ohio State | 8 |
| Cincinnati | 7 |
| Illinois | 7 |
What stands out to me is the non B1G schools. It's interesting to see that these teams, moreso than others, have used a shotgun approach to extending offers.
Next is the B1G schools that offered our commits:
| Purdue | 10 |
| Iowa | 9 |
| Michigan State | 9 |
| Ohio State | 8 |
| Illinois | 7 |
| Wisconsin | 6 |
| Indiana | 5 |
| Nebraska | 5 |
| Northwestern | 5 |
| Penn State | 5 |
| Minnesota | 4 |
These makes sense, for the most part. I don't think geography holds much bearing here, but established recruiting grounds may, which is why Nebraska doesn't collide as often as the other powers. I think Minnesota and Indiana know the score. Purdue is likely trying to get us back for the signing day coup a few years ago. Also interesting is that we have beaten out OSU for 8 kids this year, yet the bucknuts seem to have a preconcieved notion that they get whosevah they want's tah get.
Finally, I have made a list of schools of interest, which is geared towards top 25 type programs:
| Tennessee | 12 |
| West Virginia | 9 |
| Notre Dame | 6 |
| Pitt | 5 |
| Stanford | 5 |
| Alabama | 4 |
| South Carolina | 4 |
| Texas A&M | 4 |
| Virginia | 4 |
| Florida | 3 |
| Florida State | 3 |
| USC | 3 |
| Arkansas | 2 |
| Miami YTM | 2 |
| Oklahoma State | 2 |
| Auburn | 1 |
| LSU | 1 |
| Oklahoma |
1 |
Teams of note that did not offer any of our 2013 recruits: Texas, Georgia
This is pretty great. Nice to see where Tennessee spends all of its crazy multitude of recruiting millions, too. This was compiled from only Michigan commits, right, and not from MIchigans 2013 offer sheet as a whole?
Yup, just recruits that are currently committed to us. I'm working this weekend and put the list together to kill an hour. Doing the entire thing would have taken much longer, and I'd prefer to stay gainfully employed... that being said, I think a more in depth analysis would be cool to see. I'm done pandering for content now though, someone has to make it happen.
If half the class hadn't committed a year in advance (including Shane and Dymonte before their Junior seasons) this would probably look much different. At least for this recruiting cycle, Hoke's just been too far ahead of the curve and many of the traditional powers never got involved.
Exactly! For example I know Shane has said that he has received more offers since he committed, but feels no need to reveal to the public who they are from.
I think the most telling information is that of recruits offered by national powers such as Alabama, LSU, USC, Oklahoma, Miami (YTM), FSU and Florida. What it shows it that 2-4 kids (10-20% of the class) are held in very high regard nationally.
What would really be an interesting thing to do would be to go back the last 10 years, look at the same thing and see if those kids were more likely to be "successful" (defining that would be key) than perhaps their star ranking (Rivals, Scout, ESPN) would indicate.
Six.
My main takeaway: OSU can suck it
Really cool photo of 2013 commits at Big House today from Sam Webb twitter:
From ESPN WolverineNation:
Another shot in the locker room:
Here are the top ten schools that offered the incoming freshmen this year:
| SCHOOL | OFFERS |
| Illinois | 17 |
| Cincinnati | 14 |
| Michigan St. | 14 |
| Indiana | 10 |
| Iowa | 10 |
| Vanderbilt | 8 |
| Missouri | 7 |
| Pittsburgh | 7 |
| Syracuse | 7 |
| Notre Dame | 6 |
The comprehensive list shows 260 offers from 76 schools. For the Big Ten schools, it would look like this:
| SCHOOL | OFFERS |
| Illinois | 17 |
| Michigan St. | 14 |
| Indiana | 10 |
| Iowa | 10 |
| Penn State | 6 |
| Ohio St. | 5 |
| Wisconsin | 5 |
| Nebraska | 4 |
| Purdue | 4 |
| Minnesota |
3 |
The Big Ten offers here total 78, or 30% of the total offers. The top 10 schools regardless of conference amount to 100 offers, or 38.46% of the total number of offers.
Nice to see that despite their focus on recruiting intergalactically, MSU had the time to offer 9 of our commits.