I really believe that once Harbaugh and staff start the in home visits, immediate results will follow. A huge benefit that often goes overlooked is age / energy. Almost our entire staff is full of young, energetic, intense guys. On the recruiting trail younger coaches can relate to the current generation in a better way, which often leads to valuable relationships with eventual commits.
I suspect the second the dead period ends, our staff will start slaying the recruiting trail. I believe the class will finish nicely, but I am much more excited to see what Jim does with 2016.
It's funny seeing his name again. Wasn't he kind of a flake and when he decommitted from somewhere we kinda just said, "yeah you had your chance but we have enough players at your position"?
While the large majority of players sign on signing day... I think it's important that we keep in mind that signing day is not a deadline. Recruits are free to put their decision off until after the 4th.
"I'm still 100-percent committed to Wisconsin, but I'm keeping all options open until Signing Day," said Moorman, ranked a four-star recruit by Scout.com and a three-star prospect by Rivals.com. "If Michigan comes calling I'll definitely listen. (Michigan incoming recruit) Alex Malzone keeps calling and texting me, saying I need to come to Michigan.
"There's been nothing official and I haven't heard from anyone on (Michigan's) staff, but if they called I'd seriously listen to what they had to say. I know Jim Harbaugh's a great coach. It would be an honor to get an offer from Michigan.
Out of curiosity, how are you assigning warm/cool/etc. evaluations? Based on your own interpretation of tweets/articles/roundups/SOURCES, or are you pulling the evaluation from another source?
If you got something to contribute about UM football, stick around.
But keep the Buckeye crowing/rooting to yourself. On this page, that's trolling. i wouldn't go to a Buckeye blog and start telling them about how UM is back and is going to stomp them, etc..
Currently a Rutgers commit and not highly rated. He is from Flordia though so I assume that Durkin knows him well. We certainly are in on higher rated guys though so we shall see.
CaliforniaNobody
January 11th, 2015 at 2:50 PM ^
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January 11th, 2015 at 8:37 AM ^
Communist conspiracy.
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January 11th, 2015 at 12:59 PM ^
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January 11th, 2015 at 6:33 PM ^
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January 12th, 2015 at 11:46 AM ^
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January 12th, 2015 at 11:47 AM ^
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January 11th, 2015 at 7:55 AM ^
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skwasha
January 11th, 2015 at 7:13 PM ^
Swag Mattison begs to differ ;)
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Waynes World
January 11th, 2015 at 9:34 AM ^
We really need a few of these players to commit. Only six so far worries me.
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m1jjb00
January 11th, 2015 at 9:45 AM ^
Cole and Malzone are enrolled (signed letter of intent).
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umhero
January 11th, 2015 at 12:42 PM ^
Done - changed their interest to "enrolled".
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January 11th, 2015 at 9:55 AM ^
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January 11th, 2015 at 10:15 AM ^
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Hoops McCann
January 11th, 2015 at 10:16 AM ^
did a good job of recruiting offensive linemen and running backs. I hope we can land a real difference maker at receiver and defensive end.
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93Grad
January 13th, 2015 at 10:26 AM ^
Sure a lot of them are still young, but i have seen almost no evidence that Hoke did a good job of recruiting OL and RB's.
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Srjr75
January 11th, 2015 at 11:00 AM ^
Don't forget this dude, though a transfer, he's done real well there and if I recall, it was down to us and FSU so...Has 2 years of eligibility left
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CaliforniaNobody
January 11th, 2015 at 2:48 PM ^
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January 11th, 2015 at 12:09 PM ^
It's too bad most of the recruits they're going after have a Nefarious Eduardo type of interest in Michigan.
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January 11th, 2015 at 2:31 PM ^
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January 11th, 2015 at 5:06 PM ^
tweeted this:
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skwasha
January 11th, 2015 at 7:04 PM ^
While the large majority of players sign on signing day... I think it's important that we keep in mind that signing day is not a deadline. Recruits are free to put their decision off until after the 4th.
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gustave ferbert
January 11th, 2015 at 8:28 PM ^
pleading for Michigan interest according to Sam Webb.
That would seem like a good get.
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Maize and Blue…
January 11th, 2015 at 10:17 PM ^
Chuma Edoga. Isn't Mattison going to recruit him until he signs somewhere?
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umhero
January 12th, 2015 at 12:13 AM ^
" Isaac Nauta (@inauta24) said he talked to Greg Mattison: “He said I know you're committed, but we're going to recruit you until you sign.”."
Nauta is a 2016 player. The list is only 2015 players.
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93Grad
January 13th, 2015 at 10:28 AM ^
despite him growing up a Michigan fan. One of several bizaare choices by the previous staff ala Montae Nicholson and Tommy Shutt
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January 11th, 2015 at 11:01 PM ^
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January 12th, 2015 at 12:23 AM ^
"I'm still 100-percent committed to Wisconsin, but I'm keeping all options open until Signing Day," said Moorman, ranked a four-star recruit by Scout.com and a three-star prospect by Rivals.com. "If Michigan comes calling I'll definitely listen. (Michigan incoming recruit) Alex Malzone keeps calling and texting me, saying I need to come to Michigan.
"There's been nothing official and I haven't heard from anyone on (Michigan's) staff, but if they called I'd seriously listen to what they had to say. I know Jim Harbaugh's a great coach. It would be an honor to get an offer from Michigan.
Detroit News link
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CincyBlue
January 12th, 2015 at 10:53 AM ^
is not visiting per Tom VH. He is sticking with Texas.
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BlueinOK
January 12th, 2015 at 11:19 AM ^
There's going to be some left field names that I think surface. We're going to get a commit and have no idea he was interested.
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Gr1mlock
January 12th, 2015 at 6:09 PM ^
Out of curiosity, how are you assigning warm/cool/etc. evaluations? Based on your own interpretation of tweets/articles/roundups/SOURCES, or are you pulling the evaluation from another source?
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umhero
January 13th, 2015 at 2:22 AM ^
A combination of the 247Sports public listing (they label players that way) and comments on this site.
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BlueCube
January 12th, 2015 at 10:32 PM ^
He is a 3 star Nebraska commit and:
247Sports Link
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alum96
January 13th, 2015 at 6:11 AM ^
Can't mods make this a sticky at top of diaries until Feb 4th?
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Glennsta
January 13th, 2015 at 10:36 AM ^
If you got something to contribute about UM football, stick around.
But keep the Buckeye crowing/rooting to yourself. On this page, that's trolling. i wouldn't go to a Buckeye blog and start telling them about how UM is back and is going to stomp them, etc..
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LBSS
January 13th, 2015 at 1:10 PM ^
I submitted Equanimeous St. Brown to the Name of the Year contest last year and he made it to the Elite Eight if memory serves!
What I'm saying is, he should be our number one priority for this class.
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BlueCube
January 15th, 2015 at 8:00 AM ^
Harbaugh must control the weather. Latest reports seem to indicate highs about 40 Saturday and Sunday with some clouds on Sunday.
Couldn't ask for much better in January.
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BlueCube
January 15th, 2015 at 9:57 AM ^
4 star OT Trey Adams.
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93Grad
January 15th, 2015 at 2:08 PM ^
Currently a Rutgers commit and not highly rated. He is from Flordia though so I assume that Durkin knows him well. We certainly are in on higher rated guys though so we shall see.
http://247sports.com/Player/Jarius-Adams-54480
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