Michigan crystal ball for CA WR Christian Dixon
He received a crystal ball from Greg Biggins who is the 247 West Coast Recruiting expert. Before this he had a run of crystal balls for Cal so currently they lead 60%, with ND and Michigan tied at 20%.
He’s a 4 star and currently at #168 nationally. Listed at 6’2, 187lb and a listed 4.63 40 time on 247
This is supposed to be the smart sports blog. I can’t imagine what the other ones would be like.
Roll on, you Bears.
Got to get this kid. His ranking is higher than any of the Ohio's wide receiver rankings. With this commitment this should put us ahead of Ohio in the recruiting rankings.
This guy is consistently worse than Maizen.
Because he’s an OSU fan
@UMGrad1991
Agree with the naysayers... unfortunately. Our recruiting isn't going to cut it and its not an indictment on Harbaugh, because the playing field isn't level, but forgive me if I'm not excited to follow our recruiting when we get players that are like JV level vs what the big boys are getting. Same ol, same ol.... wait, I thought thats what I say about the Lions. Depressed.
Michigan tried to get those types of players and we had massive attrition (just look at how many 2017 guys are still on the roster). I'm not going to speculate why so many guys left. But IF the coaches have altered their recruiting strategy, and if it works, i think we will be fine. After all, guys like Devin Bush, Josh Metellus, Aidan Hutchinson, and I could name a good dozen more are good enough to compete at that level and they were definitely not blue chip recruits.
Hutchinson was absolutely a blue chip recruit. Bush a borderline 4 star
Define blue chip. Hutch's composite rating was 112. Dixon is currently 168.
Bush a borderline 4 star... who ended up being drafted 10th overall. He should have been a 5 star, instead he wasn't even in the top 300.
My whole point is that we seem to have a lot of players who play above their recruiting ranking.
Blue chip is anything 4 or 5 star I believe. Either way Hutchinson fits the bill, 112 on the composite and top 100 on 247, All American. Bush played above his rankings no question, he was undervalued for any number of reasons.
Okay either way, there are tons of players who fit that description. Paye, Uche, Ronnie Bell, to name a few more.
Hutch was also the #1 ranked player in state and the top ranked recruit in our class.
Blue chip, I'd say is subjective. I don't think of lower tier 4 stars as blue chippers for the most part. They're not all alike though as recruits. Aside from the rating, the offers, the level of intensity of the recruitment and the movement in the ratings are all things I like to look at.
In retrospect, Bush was clearly underrated. Many of us thought he was at the time because Michigan was after him so hard. By contrast, we've had some 4 stars fall into our lap late in the process, maybe processed out by schools they had previously committed or were leaning to.
If Michigan could consistently land kids in the top 247 composite, nobody sane would complain about the odd developmental 3 star. The problem is that we’re almost inverse of that ranking.
In any case, development and usage is more important than stars, as DPJ perfectly illustrates.
I hear you. I think the recruiting sites “evaluation” process is suspect. Those “scouts” arn't coaches and I think it’s more about hype. My point is maybe rather than Michigan being great at talent development they are rather really adept at talent evaluation. I think some of this is born out of Coach not really caring much what others think and seems to trust in his own opinions.
Hutch was pretty blue chip even after he dropped a bit do to not playing much his senior year.
You are giving a bad name to my favorite mushroom on earth. Go away
Another CB from Demetric Warren.
Also of note, a crystal ball from Warren for a RB to Oklahoma, 5* Camar Wheaton. OU has been thought to be coming on for Donovan Edwards.
Someone want to check with Maizen to see if this is a want?
He’s busy beating himself with a knotted rope!
While dangling upside down from his nuts.
That's cute you think he has nuts.
He is Silas.
mandatory in any thread mentioning cal and stanford:
What I find interesting is Greg Biggins predicted he’d commit to Cal on May 7th. I wonder what changed within 10 days
If we get a kid out of Mater Dei that USC wants that would be a first.
The only guy we've ever gotten out of Mater Dei was the late Scott Panique, a walk on FB from 1998-2001.
Michigan landed DGW from Mater Dei last year after he was silently committed to USC all fall
Sam Webb has also CB’d him to the good guys
Santa Ana is a little less than six hours south of Giles Jackson's hometown of Oakley.
Wow, cool. It’s also only about a 32 hour drive from my hometown
So you live in Juneau. Don't ask me how I know. I don't even know. Sometimes I amaze myself.
hope he makes it though the season healthy. Watching his highlights, his QB is trying to get him killed. He gets laid out by the safety a few times, good news is he held onto the ball.
4.63? Puh-leaz. I need my WRs to be 4.41 gazelles or no wantee.
/s
I'm sure he'll be a good one wherever he goes. Cal, for all of its mediocrity, has had quite a few really talented skill players come out of its program over the years. Keenan Allen, DeSean Jackson, Marshawn Lynch, just to name off the top of my head.