Gentleman Squirrels

March 25th, 2020 at 5:20 PM ^

Darn, you just beat me out. Well here’s his twitter post

https://twitter.com/gregcrippen/status/1242919448014708736?s=21

and 247 link

He’s listed as OG but most likely Michigan is recruiting him for OC so we’re probably not going to be recruiting in state OC Raheem Anderson moving forward.

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Larry Appleton

March 25th, 2020 at 6:07 PM ^

Welcome, young man!

 

I hate to point this out, but that might have been the longest gap between commits I've ever experienced as a fan.  Hopefully, this starts a rush of commits to the good guys.

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Sopwith

March 25th, 2020 at 6:53 PM ^

Searching the biomedical literature right now for reviews of Greg Crippen... I'll let you know if I find any randomized controlled trials with positive data that supersedes anecdotal and possibly misleading Crippen one-off data. 

Until then, don't be trippin' with Crippen.

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Double-D

March 26th, 2020 at 12:53 AM ^

Magnus.

I have been following your evaluations for years now and it seems like you put in quite a bit of time evaluating these players. Your accuracy ratio seems really good.  

Do you ever share your evaluations with Michigan coaches?  How do you choose who to follow besides Michigan offers?   Do you have a few examples of notable misses?  Both kids that exceeded your expectations and kids who did not meet them?

Thanks for your contributions. 

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Magnus

March 26th, 2020 at 8:03 AM ^

Thank you.

I don't ever share my evaluations with Michigan coaches. I don't think they would pay any attention.

I follow a lot of national recruiting guys from all regions of the country, so I check out lots of guys who get national recruiting attention. And if they visit Michigan (even without an offer), I almost always check them out just to see if I think they'll be getting an offer on the visit. And within the State of Michigan, I check out pretty much any guy who gets a Power 5 offer.

Off the top of my head, guys I've missed on (for various reasons):

  • Patrick Kugler (thought he would be good; he wasn't)
  • Nick Eubanks (thought he would be buried on the bench/transfer because of Asiasi; he's starting now)
  • Drake Harris (thought he would be good; he wasn't)
  • Michael Ferns (thought he would be good; yikes, I was wrong)
  • Jeremy Clark (thought he would be bad; he was good, but who saw that coming?)

Some of my misses can be explained, at least partially, by injury. For example, Harris could have been better if not for the repeated hamstring injuries. I also thought Chris Bryant, Chris Fox, and Antonio Poole would have better careers than they did, but knee injuries to the first two and a shoulder injury for Poole cut their careers way short.

So just like the recruiting sites, I have my fair share of misses for various reasons. My ratings are also team-dependent, so in the case of someone like Eubanks, I would have rated him higher if not for Asiasi being in that class.

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Jordan2323

March 25th, 2020 at 7:52 PM ^

We currently hold the highest recruiting average of all teams according to 247 rankings. This class may not be quantity but it seems its headed towards high quality players. 

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