Wingding article on weekend recruiting impact

There are only 3-4 teams with "virtually guaranteed" playoff appearances.  

Scheme does matter, and there's nothing inherently about Michigan's scheme that says we have to run the ball 50 times a game.  We are just good at it, and it works (so far).  We also have young, highly rated QBs to get balls to receivers.

Not saying Michigan would be more attractive to a WR than say, Oklahoma, but I think we are vastly overthinking one game's effect on a recruit's attitude.

Go read the snowflakes. Things got downright existential.

You think OSU wanted to play Oregon during the day?

Probably. Noon here is 9AM Pacific.

Kind of a shame they didn’t have a big, night time audience to watch them lose that game.  Plenty of time for them to recover, but a playoff without Clemson and without OSU would be a breath of fresh air.  Cannot even imagine how nice it would be if there were no Alabama.

Per the article this was his THIRD visit.

“This was their third time on the Michigan campus this year after checking the campus out in the spring and again in the summer for an official visit.”

He used one of his five OVs and then paid his own way twice. (Unless NIL now allows for unofficial visits to be paid for) 

Still almost no chance to get him but there has to be some level of interest. 
 

The reality of the situation is he will commit to Tennessee in a big live televised event and then very close to signing day he will decommit and on signing day he will sign with Alabama or Georgia.  

Per this article, it was actually his third visit.

Edit - This is what happens when you don't refresh the page for a while before replying :)

That’s a stupidly difficult schedule in an era where strength of schedule doesn’t matter and we already play one of the toughest schedules in the country… doesn’t make any sense. 
 

It may be more entertaining to have big name schools come in, but if our goal is actually to make the playoff then it really doesnt benefit the program to do so. Instead of playing a cupcake, Clemson and OSU now have to win out to have any shot at the playoff. And there’s a significant chance that at least one of them will be left out if they both win out. 

Here to give you the obligatory TO HELL WITH NOTRE DAME.

On a more nuanced level, I prefer to open with a cupcake.  And to not give Notre Dame the opportunity to erase the memory of their last performance in Michigan Stadium.

I too too have been the victim of some strange Android autocorrect

Somehow my "Good morning Sugar Plum; text to my ex-wife  was autocorrected to:

"You festering weasel faced bile bag. I hope you get dragged across the Sahara by a herd of Bedouin camels and die a slow and agonizing death inhaling sand and dromedary shit while being sauteed by the blistering desert sun!"

Weird right?

If you make a single mistake writing anything in the first few weeks of having your device, good luck. It will then start to get basic 3 and 4 letter words wrong. "The" will become "rhe" and it will do so automatically! Even when you type "The" the software will think "oh, you meant "rhe" so I'll fix that for you".

You can change that.  rhe can be manually deleted from the dictionary.

I started a new job in Feb and it's a Mac shop -- my MacBook pro does the same thing. Yes, very frustrating.