5* WA OT Josh Conerly includes Michigan in top six

Submitted by Laser Wolf on January 3rd, 2022 at 5:34 PM

Per his Instagram. Alongside Washington, Oklahoma, Oregon, USC, and Miami. I think a lot have given up on this recruitment but worth mentioning that it’s technically still alive (even if not practically).  

CollegeFootball13

January 3rd, 2022 at 5:42 PM ^

Why do you say a lot have given up on his recruitment? The latest recruiting round up on this site was still optimistic and 50% of Crystal Balls on 24/7 are for Michigan. Curious if I might have missed something.

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Laser Wolf

January 3rd, 2022 at 5:59 PM ^

The thought is it’s a three-way race between Washington (Courtney Morgan landing there helps their case), USC (Lincoln Riley shifted things significantly), and Michigan (the longtime presumed leader). Tea leaves seem to say it’s more likely it’s the west coast schools over Michigan but I’d be thrilled to be wrong. 

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UM85

January 4th, 2022 at 1:52 PM ^

The day is still fairly young but I'm not aware of any entities / universities offering real estate yet as part of NIL dough.  So TX A&M is still in the game.

PS: You will want to add IL to your list of state property tax exceptions. Sadly, I know this only too well.

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iMBlue2

January 3rd, 2022 at 5:55 PM ^

I hadn’t heard that we were that far out of things.  Thought we were in the mix still if not leading but he wanted to check out a few west coast schools with the new hires…man Courtney Morgan leaving is causing waves.

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Harlans Haze

January 4th, 2022 at 8:36 AM ^

This comment really piqued my interest, because I tried to remember the last West Coast recruit who actually did expend all their eligibility at UM..especially in the wake of Green-Warren hitting the portal. Obviously, Charbonet transferred, Asiasi left a few years ago. Crawford left a while back. I actually had to look up who was left. Not counting Hawaii (Wilson) since it's not technically west coast, here are the results by class: 2021 (Dixon-still here), 2020 (Green-Warren-portal, Persi-still here), 2019 (G. Jackson-transferred, Charbonnet-transferred), 2018 (none), 2017 (none), 2016 (Asiasi-transferred, D. Long-completed, Crawford-transferred) 2015 (none)...and into Hoke, 2014 (none), 2013 (none), 2012 (Magnuson-completed), 2011 (Wile-transferred). Over the last decade, only two recruits from the West Coast (essentially California) have exhausted eligibility or left for the NFL at UM: D. Long and E. Magnuson. C. Dixon and J. Persi still have a shot. To put that in perspective, there's been an equal amount of "success" from Utah (B. Mone and S. Houma) who have completed their time at UM. Not only is it hard to recruit the West Coast, it's even harder to successfully recruit the West Coast. BTW, there have been zero recruits even brought in from the state of Washington during that time frame. So, we have that going for/against us in regards to Connerly. 

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Barry22

January 4th, 2022 at 1:57 PM ^

Hopefully he gets a call from Stephen Schilling. We need to re-fire that Washington 5* OL pipeline! 

I remember when we used to regularly pull from CA and Texas, and wondering why we couldn't seem to tap that Florida geyser. 

I think the answer is that having coaches with deep roots in a region is critical for success even at a nation school like UM, and you can only have so many guys on staff. Its that blanket you can stretch and stretch and not quite seem to cover everything. Seemed like Morgan was going to be an incredible west coast asset. Turns out he was a little too good, and we had nowhere to promote him to. 

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Durham Blue

January 3rd, 2022 at 11:11 PM ^

If we can make the CFP again next season then I think we can be considered as part of the elite company.  What other teams besides Alabama, Clemson, Georgia, OSU and Oklahoma have made the final 4 more than once?  Making the CFP twice in the 9 year existence of this system would put Michigan in pretty rarified air.

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907_UM Nanook

January 3rd, 2022 at 8:53 PM ^

Ari always puts us in the lead for guys that we're no better than 50-50 on, so he can rag us for "losing" this player in a subsequent column. I actually like reading Ari more these days now that Michigan is playing well. But he's an OSU homer at heart, and still does at least one OSU podcast with Landis.

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lunchboxthegoat

January 4th, 2022 at 12:03 PM ^

Its not really close. 

 

top 100 OL in the 247 era who worked out: bredeson, schilling, ruiz, mitchell, gentry, onwenu. 

top 100 OL who did not: Slocum, boren, kalis, kugler, oneill, bosch, gallimore, dawson, zirbel

TBD: El-Hadi, 

 

RB worked out: NO ONE!

RB fail: Baraka, Green, Grady, Brown, Underwood, Charbonnet, 

TBD: Donovan Edwards

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Modernmanshustl

January 4th, 2022 at 11:20 AM ^

With the potential we have at qb over the next three years having top o line talent to compete for jobs would be so key. We’ve always had good run blocking but if we can have top pass pro we could be a very dangerous offense. 

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iMBlue2

January 4th, 2022 at 12:32 PM ^

We are hosting a 22 cycle OT committed to VaTech, could be nothing but is usually an indicator the coaches how the coaches see the recruitment going when they start pursuing another player at the same position. 

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