247 Sports: Jim Harbaug's recruiting success
"Michigan has signed 35 four-star or five-star prospects in those two years under Harbaugh, tied for second-most in the nation with Ohio State and behind only Alabama (38), after signing 51 the previous five years (No. 12 in the country), as shown in the charts above. The class the Wolverines just signed this year featured both quantity (30 commits) and quality (21 four-star or five-star prospects), with 70% of the signees being at least four-star prospects – the best mark put up by Michigan since reliable recruiting data became available in 2002. . . . "
"What has also changed is where that blue-chip out-of-state talent is coming from . . . .Michigan has signed five such prospects from New Jersey over the last two years, including five-star defensive tackle Rashan Gary and the most in the country, and more even than Rutgers (three). That includes three apiece from California and Florida, and more from Indiana and Colorado (two apiece) than from Ohio (one)."
There are graphs and maps and such in the article, if you care to click.
around here that we'd get more high end talent in smaller classes since we'd limit our targets to higher end talent and wouldn't have to take so many 3-stars to fill out the class and I think people are seeing that not happening now - which has been surprising. But it's also a small sample and only one year, so no reason to be concerned.
Mr Yost
Well put
You really think Harbaugh is just going through the motions this year and does not expect to win it all. I have Michigan undefeated heading into the osu game. Michigan has more talent than any team we play up to the game. I really see no excuses to lose any games this year up until the playoffs. The reason we have more talent is our recruiting has been better than these other teams. Really do not understand the argument about Harbaughs recruiting unless you base it totally on star gazing and if so we should dump players like Evans, Hudson, Mcdoom to name a few who were not highly rated by the so called experts at recruiting sites.
is skewed by how many recruits a school signs. It's better to look at the average star per player and compare that to the other schools. Clemson is a good example of this. They rarely have a top 10 class because they usually are only signing 20-23 recruits but their average star per player is on par with just about any school in the country.
Michigan's overall class right now might be ranked 18th on 247 but by average star per player they are 8th.
The recruiting dude is slowly but surely building a monster.
It's obvious he hates recruiting, his wife won't leave the Bay Area, and he's going to Oakland. Could the media have been any more wrong about one man?
Media and wrong in the same sentence??? Get outta town!!
Sad!
Yuge.
The second "H" is silent, like in "peanut butter".
/ hangs head for lifting a joke from father /
You hear about the woman who backed into the propeller?
Dis-assed her
Logged in to upvote. Until now I never knew about the silent "H" in peanut butter. This is why I read mgoblog.
Put it in H!
It's just a function of class size, look at average ranking over the 3 year period.
Still, I'm sure it's top 5, but OSU and Bama are at another level.
Here's something to ponder. Maybe it is actually significantly harder to get certain types of players to Michigan than it is to get them to OSU or Bama. While Harbaugh is getting the attention of more big time recruits, he also is obviously putting a premium on kids who are serious about getting the whole college experience. He wants good players, don't get me wrong, but he also wants high character and guys who at least make the show of valuing the education, culture, etc. of Michigan. I'd be willing to bet that a lot of kids are intimidated by that stuff and choose a program that puts less value on things that have nothing to do with getting to the League. I'm guessing that when we lose a top kid to one of these other programs, it is actually the stuff that we love about Michigan that is the difference for that particular kid.
Yes, ths class is still 70% 4-5 stars just like last year. And it will get better.
You can only recruit the number of players you have slots for.
This ain't the SEC. There are rules, man.
Beat OSU!!
with the negative vibes, Vlad.
What is this from? I love Marc Maron.
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Damn, we have glass half empty guys on the board. The last 2 classes have been absolute monster classes and we are coming off back to back major bowl appearances and 10 win seasons. Harbaugh hasn't even had a chance to get his kids on campus yet. Does anyone remember how bad things were for about an 8 year period? I get the point that we need to win some big games but things don't just happen overnight.
Exactly. Half of his first full recruiting class has not even seen significant playing time yet. When we get the results, those of us who can appreciate the process will be more sufficiently actualized. Now piss off!
But what about our jersey sales in Ohio? That's the metric that is most important here.
in AD right before that, Michigan has really done a great job leveraging the assets U-M can offer recruits. And it's showing with the classes we're bringing in. Obviously, it can get better if the winning continues on the field and we win a championship of some kind.
Should root for sparty. Things don't change overnight. Though with Harbaugh they practically are changing overnight. Yes, osu and bama are ahead but they were well established while we endured RichRod and Hoke.
People who are still trying to see the glass half empty are either trollers or just whiners in their daily life. Good grief. Harbaugh, Mattison, Brown et al are building a machine. If you can't see that and enjoy it, be gone!
GO BLUE!!
People are quick to forget the Steven Threet / Nick Sheridan years, and now that we have a bit of success are trying to throw Harbaugh under the bus for not winning the "Big" one.
I am genuinlely excited about where our team will be this year and next year because we are constantly improving. We may not beat OSU this year but how awesome was last year's game?!?! We are going up against a juggernaut in OSU and in the process becoming a juggernaut AGAIN under Harbaugh.
Friends, the folks down south in Columbus are going to shit their pants when we beat them this year BECAUSE they know that bullshit of theirs is going down.
MOAR Jim Harbaugh articles YES PLEASE
Every kid in America wants to play for the man
He has had great success, and I really like that a few things are happening, 1) we are locking down the top in-state talent, and 2) we are improving our national footprint and giving teams like Georgia fits. However, tying the number of 4 and 5-star recruits with OSU is misleading. OSU's average ranking of those 4 and 5-stars is much higher than UMs.
Granted, as long as UM is somewhat close to OSU in recruiting and we get the right breaks we have a decent shot of beating them and getting a shot at the playoff. On the other hand, it's been so long since we've gotten over the hump of beating OSU very often that it's hard to imagine. They just seem to have our number and Meyer is also a helluva recruiter himself so it's hard to get anything more than optimistic. I do wonder who is the better recruiter. Is Meyer truely a better recruiter or is OSU just a more desirable destination due to more recent success and other hush hush reasons.