247 rankings update
George Karlaftis up to #12 overall
Julian Barnett up to #70 overall
Lance Dixon up to #72 overall
Karsen Barnhart up to #235 overall
Will Harrod down over 200 spots to #358 overall
Marcus Hicks down over 250 spots to #502 overall
Justin Rogers (c/o 2020) up to #13 overall
The state of Michigan now has 6 Top 247 prospects - Devonte Dobbs #24 overall, Logan Brown #16 overall, and Mazi Smith #226 are the others.
247 Team Recruiting Rankings...
2016 #8
2017 #5
2018 #21
2019 currently #8
Room for improvement? Sure. Failure? No.
Do you want to recruit the best from every state, like UofM has or do you want in-state schools to "lock them down" which means no Gary, Solomon, Bush, Ruiz, etc.
The fact that the state of Mi has had an unusual amount of top talent this past few years is making it seem worse because top 100 players more often go to top10 programs, especially places where the academic path of least resistence exists and UofM isn't that place.
Fact is, State of Mi recruiting will probably regress toward the mean in the next few years while Ga and Fla will always have more talent in them than top15 programs to "lock down".
I want a fellow Greek. Not many great Greek football players. The Karras family and Niko Koutouvides are the only current NFLers that come to mind.
Why isn't the staff prioritizing Lance Dixon? .. He is a perfect fit and replacement for Hudson at Viper. Might I add he is in our own damn backyard..
From everything I've read they are. He just likes PSU and Wisconsin more at the moment. Going to need to go all put for him over the next few months. He's deciding in August.
Well hopefully he changes his mind if/when we beat them both in the Big House this Fall!
:)
He's #12 overall. His profile hasn't been updated to reflect the rankings change yet.
The overall ranking list says "Last updated on 05/23/18 at 10:40 AM CST" and doesn't list him at #12?
https://247sports.com/Season/2019-Football/CompositeRecruitRankings?Ins…
Edit: Answered below.
Apoligies if I'm missing something. I see Karalaftis as the #12 SDE and #153 overall...
Thanks! ...Strange that the other one is different.
Edit: Got it, finally. 247 ranking vs 247 composite, right? I generally only think of the composite.
up to 518 on 247 - not sure if the composite has updated yet - shows him at 810
His ranking was moved up after he committed. Not new.
So Maizen, are you happier M picked up Barnhart and want them to drop pursuit of Herrod now? Must be hard to live by rankings that fluctuate so much.
This should be addressed to about half of Mgoblog. At least the rowdy bunch.
Stephon Herron seems to be dropping like a rock recruiting rankings wise.
We need a good year on the field so bad, this class doesn't have a ton of top talent left that has big interest in Michigan. If we don't win 10 games and beat a rival or two probably going to finish with a class closer to 20th than in the top 10 just like last year
Not compalining, pointing out a ranking movement in a ranking movement thread. Going from a top 20 five star kid to inside the top 100 overall isn't a positive thing however you want to spin it. 247 doesn't have him in their top 100 either, wouldn't be shocked to see him drop out as other recruiting services update. He could still be a great player, but recruiting rankings have shown time and again to be mostly accurate so him dropping isn't a good sign.
Recruiting rankings have shown time and time again to be mostly accurate if you take an entire class ranking and use the top couple to predict who the top couple teams are. Recruiting rankings are highly inaccurate on a player by player basis, much like NFL draft position.
Let's take a quick breather from killing each other over whether we're doing a good job in-state or not and give the staff some props for how quickly they moved Barnhart from a State lean to a Blue commit. Based on his camps and the giant rankings bump, I think we have a stud coming in
Quite a year for talent in the state of Michigan
on dobbs. I have watched him play in person and on film, and I can honestly say he is not that impressive. All the crying ranking fiends on here are just looking at the fifth star he holds. Stars really fool people. 2016 I watched MSU WR Cody White play in high school and he tore up the opposing teams, it then translated to MSU as a freshman. Talent is talent, and the in pads eye test is much more telling than a no pads camp setting with all reps being 1on1's. I trust a veteran coaches scouting report versus a journalists camp based/highlight based ranking. These recruting sites may get a few of these players right but they may only get to one quarter or less of football per these players to justify and collect their opinions of them.
Wanted Karliftis ever since Blue Ballz posted this article a year ago. Mom is a 3-sport athlete in HS and Dad was a track and football star at Miami (YTM). Kid is fairly new to football having lived in Greece until he was 13.
Shouldn't the thread title be:
OT: Recruit Fanboys 247 rankings update to prove our agenda by cherry picking things for the expressed reason to show that Harbaugh is losing Mi, can't recruit and has stinky farts!