Football Recruiting seems to be following a familiar pattern

Submitted by 93Grad on

It looks like the football recruiting pattern established under Hoke is continuing:  A bunch of commits prior to the season, followed by almost no commits during the season, and then a bunch of stars deciding late and sleepers flipping after the season is over. 

 

The hope is that the team plays well enough on the field to reel in some of the late deciding stars as opposed to just picking up the late blommers and sleepers in January and February which is mostly what happend under Hoke. 

 

My guess is that this class looks a lot like the Hoke classes in terms of star ratings.  The key quesiton then will be whether Harbaugh and staff will be better talent evaluators.  (I'm taking it for granted that they will be better talent developers).

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DonAZ

September 18th, 2015 at 4:12 PM ^

Meh ... we have an able captain with a steady hand on the wheel.

When it becomes evident to recruits Harbaugh has turned the ship in the right direction ... they will come.  That evidence builds up, game by game. 

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Coldwater

September 18th, 2015 at 4:28 PM ^

Harbaugh needs to kill it on the 2017 in-state guys. There's some real blue-chippers there. He needs to worry less about Cali kids who almost never sign here.

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jonvalk

September 18th, 2015 at 4:30 PM ^

So, what you're saying is that we'll probably end up with a pretty good class ranking-wise?  Hoke's one thing he did really well was recruit.  The one area he sucked at was developing that talent.

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Franz Schubert

September 18th, 2015 at 5:00 PM ^

It's a good pattern. Remember how the MSU class was being hyped earlier and Harbaugh was being questioned as a recruiter, well the Michigan class is ranked higher now and has a higher average recruit rank than MSU.

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MGoUberBlue

September 18th, 2015 at 5:11 PM ^

We have not witnessed how the present coaching staff manages the team over an entire season.  Unless the team falls apart and wins 6 or less games, then I don't see many of the current commitments busting out for a different team.

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jsquigg

September 18th, 2015 at 5:31 PM ^

I haven't checked the composite rankings lately, but doesn't Michigan have a top 10 class?  Patience sucks but we're going to see signs of the turn around this year.  The future is bright.

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dirtypasta

September 18th, 2015 at 7:06 PM ^

It kind of slows down during the season for every team, most recruits either want to make a decision before their senior season and get it over, or take their time get all their officials in and then chose after their season is over

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Eye of the Tiger

September 18th, 2015 at 9:25 PM ^

I don't think the issue was talent evaluation, but skill development. Most of the dudes who busted or have disappointed under Hoke had offers from multiple P5 schools, including elite ones like OSU, Alabama, LSU, USC, etc.



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BlueMk1690

September 19th, 2015 at 10:44 AM ^

unless you hire known recruiting superstar position coaches that have their established footprint (and all the NCAA risk that comes with that), it takes time and a good track record to build these things.

A great coach has to be able to build a top 10 team without recruiting only the elite. You can win a lot with 3 and 2 stars if you know more about talent and football than the guys handing out the stars.

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