Karsen Barnhart's Stock on the Rise
Article from Sam Webb about Karsen Barnhart's performances at two camps, the Nike Opening Regional in Ohio and the Under Armour Camp in Chicago in the past week. I think this article will make the star gazers happy
https://247sports.com/college/michigan/Article/Paw-Paw-Michigan-offensi…
"Michigan Commit Karsen Barnhart may not be a Three Star Much Longer"
Barnhart is solid 3* out of Paw Paw, Michigan, which obviously isn't the biggest of stages. He was named a top performer along with the likes of Zach Harrison and George Karlaftis. Performing at a high level on a national stage will make your rankings go up
Hello Maizen, didn't know you had another account!
You know, you could always stop at "I read nothing" and you would be as well educated as about 90% of the people who scan blogs of all topics around the world really. There was no need to to zero in on a particular topic. You could simply stop after the word "nothing" and all of us would have understood.
Or perhaps a scholarship offer from the University of spoiled children?
opinion. What do you want the coaches to say? "Honestly this guy is as good as we could get, even if he's a bit of a bum". Regardless of how good he is or isn't of course the coaches are stoked about him.
He said to expect a ratings bump based on his camp performances, not based on his commitment.
Didn't the same thing happen to Emil Ekiyor, a bump up after a camp, and that was when Nick Saban started calling him every day?
I remember the hype with Quarvaris Crouch after his official visit. Oh those were the days. Haven't heard anything about him for a while
On the Quidditch team
Grady was evaluated fairly well i think. Maybe a little overranked in high school. But IMO he was a top 100 kid in high school.
Derrick Green, on the other hand. I did not like his play in high school at all. I was lambasted on this board when he committed to us and i gave my opinion. It was obvioius to me based on his high school vids and army all american game that he would never start at Michigan.
The one that i think would have been an absolute stud was Kelly Baraka. I still wonder what he would have been like behind our excellent offensive lines in the early 2000's.
Maybe he's thinking of Te'Cory Couch? I dunno.
Quarvaris Crouch did visit Ann Arbor, just wasn't an official visit. He coached youth flag football with Chris Evans and some others
Have you heard of Sam Maldonado? He was the last 5 Star running back Ohio St had. It was in the year 2000:
https://247sports.com/Player/Sam-Maldonado-50071/high-school-84937
Carlos Hyde and Ezekiel Elliott were not even 5 Stars.
What ever happened to Sam Maldonado? Have you ever even heard of him.
5 Stars don't always work out.
5 Stars aren't in particularly needed.
The reason I brought up Maldonado is because he is the ONLY 5 Star RB Ohio St has had in about 20 years.
I know this is a Michigan blog. But you seemed to be saying, in that first comment, Michigan in particular has had a bad shake with 5 Star athletes.
And Chris Wells?
Karsen Barnhart is good. I'm not worried about him, regardless of his ranking.
Watching fucking film. You know actual football as opposed to a "work-out" in T-shirts and shorts.
You can tell the quality of football around the guy pretty easily. It isn't that hard.
I get the desire to get actual measurements and times on recruits. But working pass pro without pads and limited, if any contact, tells nobody much of anything.
Completely agree - you can list dozens of reasons why recruiting rankings are flawed yet once a bunch of questionably qualified people put a solid number on a 16 year old kid, it's somehow a quantitative measurement. The only reason there is any correlation to winning is that the sample size per year is large (20-30 kids per class) and the absolute top teams (Bama, OSU, Clemson, Georgia, etc) are used to "prove" recruiting rankings matter, even though the data gets much cloudier once you zoom out to say the top 25.
Allan Treiu (SP? sorry) was on TMI last week and said something very interesting and telling when discussing Barnhart - That the lower ranked kids need to "earn their way to a ratings boost because it's hard to drop a kid" (I'm paraphrasing but that is the gist). So let's think about what that actually means - kids are heavily ranked on their junior season and the rankings services don't like to move kids down. If that isn't blindingly obvious proof that the concrete number they put next to a kids name is at least 50% bullshit, I don't know what is.
between stars and 1st round draft picks
a higher percentage of 5-stars end up being 1st round picks than 4-stars - 3-stars even have a lower percent drafted in round 1