I think OSU and UM had similar boards for OLB/WDE types. If Sam Hubbard had gone to UM, I could see OSU offering Furbush. They also have Booker playing a similar position.
MaxPreps has his stats from this last season - LINK
In ten games played, Furbush had 74 solo tackles and 41 assisted, as well as 13 TFL (4 in one game at one point) and 6 games with more than 10 total tackles. Very effective indeed.
Welcome to Michigan, Noah Furbush!
Now paging magnus
Here you go.
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Are we still in the running for Dwight Williams?
ANOTHER 3 star?!?!
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I have to say our high school plays against Noah and this kid is a monster. I am really excited to see him commit to the Maize & Blue. I know it shows himas a 3* star, but this can run and he will put a hit on you. I could see him at the WDE if he gets bigger, but it would be nice to have someone like him that could play the SLB position.
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It would be better in pearl.
...and yet again, we've gone a step too far.
Well I have. I don't think you did.
What necklace?
Michigan is going to field a big-ass team over the next several seasons. With few exceptions, everyone is on the tall/big side of their position measurables. Athletic football players who all seem like they could play several positions so that gives Borges and Mattison a lot of options.
Sometimes I feel bad thinking "aww man, only 3 stars?" with Hoke & Co. recruiting the way they are.
That said, great highlight tape, great size, 4.0 GPA, wants to be an engineer. Ide take 20 kids like that every class.
Welcome aboard. Go Blue.
It would be so much fun to watch 'inside run' drills with our DTs and LBs going head to head with our outstanding OL.
I feel like there's a misconception about 3* players... Furthermore, we have had our share of players prove to be very underrated coming out of high school. Rankings are really just educated guesses, don't lose sight of the bigger picture. They're hit and miss every year based on perceived talent at the time. But a coach once told me "talent doesnt equal production". Just because you have the tools on paper doesnt mean you will produce. Which is why highly rated kids turn bust and star ratings cant be the lone measuring stick
MGoBlog needs to start an "All Name" team. Furbush would be on it, along with Jake Butt, Taco Charlton, and Mo Ways.
any thoughts of him growing into the weakside DE spot? he has the height
Any thoughts of you changing that avatar?
if you want to make another, fine, but we don't really go for that kind of stuff on MGoBlog.
Here's a question I'd make into its own post, if I had enough points to do so:
Are "glue guys" - read, lesser recruits - sometimes better than all high-end recruits?
Obviously on first blush, the more 5 stars (or equivalent in the coaches' personal rankings), the better. But that assumes all 5 stars who commit will stay with the team, regardless of outcome. I'm not sure that's true. What I wonder is whether 5-stars are more likely to leave by year 3 if they end up as ordinary starters, or even first-guy-off-the-bench types. In contrast, generic 3 star might be more content with a supporting role and isn't going to transfer off the team.
Now, the 5 star who transfers opens up a scholly for the next recruit, it's true. But I presume you want some depth from older, but less talented players, rather than having a depth chart loaded with talented-but-inexerienced players. Who would you rather have come onto the field in the second half of the OSU game after a MLB goes down; talented RS freshman X or less talented, but workhorse-like senior? My hunch is the latter.
Factor in the need to maintain pipelines/in-state relationships, and I think that the perfect class probably has a handful of mid-level players - strong commits, unlikely to transfer, high character guys - to provide experienced depth and continuity.
Granted, this hypothesis is totally inconsistent with what's been observed at Michigan in the past few seasons - BWC stayed till the end, so did Grady - so maybe this is just dead wrong and you want to get as many ultra talented bodies as you can.
In football, players who leave early for the NFL are pretty rare. The only ones I can recall doing it at Michigan were Woodson, Terrell, Shonte Orr, and Donovan Warren. I might have missed a name or two but it's not the type of thing that happens often enough to warrant signing lesser talents in the hopes of maintaining your depth.
lots of guys transfer . . .
come to mind immediately because they left our offense basically bereft of any talent at the skill positions. My the numbers they could have put up with their route running ability had they somehow been sophs and waited a year for Tate. Would have been something.
who has left early. Woodley, Mallet, albeit Ark, Henne, Grady, Fargas(possibly before *s but no. 1 h.s. rb and also ended up transferring, Schilling, Burgess. I am probably missing a few but most have stayed. Hell, even Rojo who took his talents to USC stayed there for 4 years.
You go after the best guys you can, and if you're recruiting them, you think they can play for you. You don't recruit anyone to be a back up or a good special teams guy. (This isn't the NFL late round picks). You be honest with them about competiting and hope you get character guys who want to be at your school even if they don't start, but you don't pepper the class with lesser guys just to fill rolls (unless it's a specialist like a long snapper).
But it matters for the rest of the '14 class. If they see him as a MIKE, any additional linebackers will almost certainly be SAMs. If they see Furbush as a SAM, a fourth LB could come from anywhere.
There's always room for a hard hitting S.O.B. at the LB position!
Go Blue!
Alright I'll be that guy. Our last 4 recruits have been three stars. Is nobody even the slightest bit disappointed about this?
Well, 3 of those four are 4-stars to someone, so it's not like they're all just middling 3-star sorts. They're mostly 3/4 star tweeners (except Watson) which every team takes plenty of. And they're all at positions where we already have a bonafide star committed and, outside of WR, have stars committed in the previous class as well.
Compare this to USC right now - they have 6 commits, total, and all 6 of them are 3/4 star tweeners. Every team has a handful of these kind of guys in their class, and before last week we had almost none.
That isn't nice.
How did you lose about 2500 points? What did I miss?
I started a thread asking whether DB was the worst Michigan AD in our history. LSAClassof2000 didn't appreciate it.