Updated 247 Rankings for 2020

"People have been worried about Michigan not in contention with any top 100 type players, but current players out of the top 100 can still jump in over the course of the year." 

Braiden McGregor for example, is now #27.  We lead in CB's for him.  This would put us in contention for a top 100 type player, because he jumped into the top 100, given he was a current player out of the top 100 previously. 

Wow, 247 really likes this Mcgregor kid. 

The Martinez move seems like the classic "we discovered some other guys to slide in here" dip but you'd think he's one of those guys? I dunno.

Good point on the lines. Hopefully they can land one or two of those 6' 7" tackles.

Henning is going to jump back into the top 10-15 before its all said and done. Kid is a stud, but im a tad biased. Also interesting to see Bryan Bresee evaluated as a DT instead of DE, because I've always thought he'd fit well there. 

Henning is going to jump back into the top 10-15 before its all said and done. Kid is a stud, but im a tad biased. Also interesting to see Bryan Bresee evaluated as a DT instead of DE, because I've always thought he'd fit well there. 

Good point. I guess I was seeing those two guys in particular as the rarer "junior film makes them Tier 1 targets" type.

"While Michigan commits haven't moved much in these rankings, some of the early offers that Michigan made have actually risen significantly."

This is what I'm having a hard time understanding as I keep hearing this repeated here over the past couple of days.  We have 7 commits so far and 5 of them have dropped since they accepted their offer if I'm reading the OP's post correctly.   Where do you see that some of the early offers, with the one notable exception, are rising?

Not being snarky here - just genuinely confused by your post given the data the OP presented.

Ok now I'm even more confused.  There are exactly six top 100 players listed in the OPs post yet y you reference we are high choices for 12.  I'm assuming you've seen the entire list (I havent) and that's what your basing that statement upon?   Because the only thing I'm referring to is the OP's post data and none of what you claim can be pulled from that.

To be clear my only "bias" is that I want Michigan to do well on the football field and I know the better the player we recruit, the better our chances are of achieving that objective.  And when I see our actual commits to date, not our targets, our actual seven commits, having an average composite rating of 419 I get a bit concerned.  

And the honest truth is that every year we go through this same discussion, every year people complain about commits and how low ranked many of the kids are (especially after this first re-rank), and then what we find out is that most of them move up significantly throughout the year still.

Here is what we need to understand.

1) The 2019 class just signed completely. Recruiting focus on these services was mostly limited on the 2020 class until the 2019 class ended. That was literally less than a month ago even though I do acknowledge the early signing period should help speed up the process. Regardless, there is no way the services have the time to re-evaluate every single prospect over that short window of time (meaning already "ranked" prospects) as well as rank and review film of new prospects that are receiving offers from schools that previously were unknown to the recruiting services. There is too much Junior film to watch and too many prospects altogether. Plus, offers have been going out like wildfire over the last month, which usually delays evaluations of those prospects.

2) Most of the kids that "dropped" did not have a drop in recruit score but rather had other kids jump them who were either just re-evaluated or evaluated for the first time. If player X drops 100 spots, it is likely there were 100 kids who were just given a bump or first evaluated and not that player X is all of a sudden a worse recruit. This is also why the lower ranked the kid is, the more their recruiting ranking "lowered." I can't say this is the fact every single time this early, but chances are extremely likely that is the case. You would need to look at the recruit scores before and after to determine that. Most of these recruits who did "drop" likely have not been re-evaluated yet.

3) To go along with both of these, which again has been a discussion every single year that I can remember, the time to really start looking at recruit rankings is after the Summer Camp re-evaluations. While those aren't final, that is the first chance recruiting services really get a shot to both re-evaluate prospects as well as truly get a chance to even see these kids in action and get a good comparative analysis with other prospects in the camps. Not to mention the services have finally had the time to review all prospects and go over their Junior films completely and/or other scouting.

All that being said, these recruits you see that you expected either a rise or at least not to drop so much, just assume that they have not been re-evaluated by 247 Sports. I haven't looked to see if there is another planned "re-rank" before the summer camp evaluations, but either way that is almost certainly the case. And I have a feeling Sam Webb will get these same complaints and likely address them soon so that you don't just hear this from some Joe Schmoe who has no affiliation with any of the recruiting services but rather just gets frustrated at all of the pessimism and over-analysis of these "re-ranks" and therefore cannot help but vent such frustrations with the (long-shot) hope of bringing a little bit more understanding to all of this.

Dude aren’t you suppose to be picking up dennis’ damaged goods? Less recruiting, more magnum condoms. 

Your argument doesn't really work.  Our current class doesn't really have an impressive offer list.

Oh spare me, it's still early lol. At this point last year, Cade McNamara wasnt even on a radar for us, Zach Charbonnet was ranked in the 200's, Erick All was just outside the top 750, Trente Jones and Karsen Barnhart were generic 3 stars, and no one thought Dax Hill was a possibility.