Michigan Football making inroads with NUMBER ONE RB in 2021
Hopefully, the panic about Edwards trending towards OSU, and the constant bellyaching about Harbaugh's perceived lack of recruiting work ethic, is now assuaged. Harbaugh is the same guy who nonstop satellite camped, climbed trees, had sleepovers, took his young daughter on visits, procured a top 5 back from California, found Ronnie Bell and Hassan Haskins, and keeps Michigan's recruiting hovering around the top ten. I'd say he's working hard enough.
"Most people don’t know that Michigan's running backs coach (Harbaugh) is a big reason that my season went so good,” Henderson told 247Sports’ Steve Wiltfong. “I went down there for the BBQ and we did some of their drills and it helped me out a lot."
February 24th, 2020 at 8:55 PM ^
2 CBs will get everyone fired up.
February 24th, 2020 at 8:58 PM ^
...and then claim “booster money” when he picks another school. Maybe rightly so.
February 24th, 2020 at 9:11 PM ^
We better be giving him the booster money. Or at least looking the other way while an event does.
February 24th, 2020 at 9:18 PM ^
How much does it cost? I'm sure we could raise the money with a kickstarter.
February 25th, 2020 at 9:14 AM ^
...but some people would want to be "acknowledged" for their share.
6.7.0February 25th, 2020 at 12:21 PM ^
Holy shit, another user with the "6.7.0" shit on their comments. I thought I was the only one!
Why are we cursed with this?
6.7.0February 24th, 2020 at 9:48 PM ^
Edwards is going to go to OSU and Henderson will go to Clemson. Michigan will snag a generic "under the radar" croot and it will be the next great pre-season hype for 2022 until we play some real opponents.
I'll believe it when I see the guy sign in December. Otherwise it just sounds all too familiar.
February 24th, 2020 at 9:57 PM ^
Damn, Cube!! Who pissed in your Cornflakes!?
February 24th, 2020 at 10:33 PM ^
He’s one of the many miserable posters around here that piss in their own cornflakes and then blame it on Harbaugh’s work ethic.
February 24th, 2020 at 10:58 PM ^
^^^this
February 25th, 2020 at 6:05 AM ^
...or Harbaugh's results
February 25th, 2020 at 7:36 AM ^
Ever since TW left we have not had a great State of Michigan recruiter. I realize we are in on the 2 big boys from Clarkston next year, and Mcgrergor, Paige, and Seldon this year. However, the high school coaches including RB and George Porritt have noticed there is more effort coming from other schools. (specifically OSU and MSU)
When MSU was UP they had Blackwell recruiting Detroit and the State.
While OSU has been up Coombs, Mariotti, UM, and Day have killed it in Detroit (Jordan, Mikey, Hankins, Webb etc.) Rogers and Payne coming next. Time will tell but our Ohio haul (Velazquez and Rumler) seem average at best.
Penn St came right into one of our top high schools in Michigan and grabbed back to back all big ten NFL wide receivers (Speedy Eaglet and Allen Robinson)
OSU hired Hartline and the guy has pulled a top 5 WR class all 3 years, the kids love him, and he continues to turn down NFL jobs because of how much he loves his school.
I get we don't have online classes, and bagmen, however we do have some great Alum; RB and TW at 2 of the biggest high schools in Michigan that I'm sure would take a 1m coaching gig at their alma mater. To compete we need to be more like the masses and less in our own lane IMO.
Cheers
February 25th, 2020 at 8:20 AM ^
That’s why Mike Hart should have been brought in. Young and hungry.
February 25th, 2020 at 9:14 AM ^
Young and hungry =/= recruiting the State of Michigan
Jay Harbaugh is young and hungry, but he's recruiting the West Coast.
Mike Hart is from New York. For all we know, he could get hired and assigned to the East Coast.
February 25th, 2020 at 9:43 AM ^
Hart publicly ran his mouth about our Leader....
February 25th, 2020 at 11:53 AM ^
Yeah, and so did everyone here on this board. And let's not forget that Harbaugh deserved it. He threw us under the bus... also should mentioned he was pissed that Lloyd and Bo didn't hire him as QB coach for Loeffler, so he felt unloved... unfortunate. He admitted it later.
And Harts anger, was the right emotion. The words weren't the best , and wish he didn't say that exact thing, but I don't blame him one bit.
February 25th, 2020 at 10:51 AM ^
Scoreboard
February 25th, 2020 at 12:17 AM ^
He follows Michigan football so he can cry about Michigan football. It's just his thing.
February 24th, 2020 at 11:57 PM ^
“Going to go” is redundant.
February 25th, 2020 at 2:49 AM ^
Going means that Elvis is leaving the building. Going to go means that he just finished his fried peanut butter & banana sammich.
February 25th, 2020 at 7:44 AM ^
“fixing to get ready to go” is how we say it in the South.
February 25th, 2020 at 10:04 AM ^
"Going to go means that he just finished his fried peanut butter & banana sammich."
"Gone" is Elvis dead on the throne because he ate too damn many fried peanut butter & banana sammiches.
February 25th, 2020 at 10:11 AM ^
Sounds about right. Thanks Cube!
February 25th, 2020 at 6:26 PM ^
TheCube is really just ASquare
February 24th, 2020 at 8:56 PM ^
Did you just copy and paste from the Edwards thread?
February 24th, 2020 at 8:58 PM ^
All these back-and-forth board posts smack of Najee. Yuck. Never again
February 24th, 2020 at 9:03 PM ^
And we'll finish NUMBER TWO but it'll be close
February 24th, 2020 at 9:26 PM ^
What a coincidence. I'm finishing a number two as I read this.
February 24th, 2020 at 10:31 PM ^
Ditto!
February 25th, 2020 at 11:58 AM ^
Mgoblog: Stimulating for the brain and for the bowels
February 24th, 2020 at 10:34 PM ^
Sounds like the end of every football season
February 24th, 2020 at 10:41 PM ^
Do people forget Michigan got 2 of their top targets at RB the past 2 years with Charbonnet and Corum?
February 24th, 2020 at 9:14 PM ^
Awesome. So we'll come in 2nd place for two top running backs.
February 24th, 2020 at 9:25 PM ^
Wow. What a great and original take. Very clever.
February 24th, 2020 at 10:33 PM ^
I know
February 24th, 2020 at 9:21 PM ^
Lots of M fans who haven't learned cope with rooting for a 9-3 football team are going to post snark in this thread, because they are still hurting, and they believe putting the team down will hurt them, and that by hurting someone else they will feel better. Neither are true, meaning the team doesn't care what these posters think, and that hurting others has never made someone feel better about their own loss.
Great article, thanks for posting.
February 24th, 2020 at 9:43 PM ^
Michigan should be able to do better than 9-3. At least once in a while. I'm not staying that because I wish to hurt anyone.
February 25th, 2020 at 6:45 AM ^
Excellent. They were 10-2 in 2 of the 3 years prior to last. I assume that meets the definition of once in a while.
February 25th, 2020 at 8:39 AM ^
Sorry I want a big ten championship more than every 15 years. I thought this was a blue blood program. Guess not.
February 25th, 2020 at 9:26 AM ^
You're welcome to keep acting like mediocre is the best Michigan can do. I doubt you're looking to hurt anyone either. It's weird that you're attributing malice to anyone that has a different opinion than you though.
February 25th, 2020 at 10:32 AM ^
Going 10-2 or 9-3 isn't terrible, as long as you are beating your rival once in a while and competing for a B1G championship. We have beaten Ohio State two times since 2001 (19 games). The 19 games prior to 2001, so 1982-2000, we only lost five times. What changed? Did OSU just start paying their players in 2001? Is it coaching? Just a bad stretch? Why can we just flat out not beat them?
No other side of the rivalry has fared better than OSU has the past 19 games unless you count from 1897-1918, when Michigan went 13-0-2, or from 1987-1927 when Michigan was 19-3-2. I don't like to count that era. None of it makes sense and it does not seem to matter who the coach is, we just cannot win.
February 25th, 2020 at 2:12 PM ^
The OSU thing is a disaster, there's no sugarcoating it. But you can't go back and call out he last 20 years. The guy coaching the team now is 0-5. Yes it makes it worse that the two guys before him were 1-6, and the national championship coach before them lost 6 of his last 7.
0-5 is the thing to discuss, and it's a real thing. But you must recognize that 1) Harbaugh is pulling the program out of its worst stretch in history, right? (I could be overstating that, I'm not Wolverine Devotee), 2) Ohio State is better than it's ever been, save maybe some Woody years, and 3) but for some really bad luck Harbaugh would have at least 1 and likely 2 wins against them (yes I believe he out-coached OSU in 2017 by a mile and wins that game with Peters or Speight or any average D1 QB).
So. You'd be crazy to think he should have won in his first year in 2015 against the Ezekiel Elliot team that should have been in the playoff. 2016 was double OT on the road in Columbus with terrible officiating against a playoff team. 2017 was O'Korn. 2018 and 2019 were unacceptable. That's were we're at. People carrying around so much anger directed at the team are confounding to me. I think these Harbaugh teams could have handled Tressel's. But the continuation of Tressel through one of the best coaches of all time in Urban Meyer, while his starting point is picking up the pieces of Michigan's once-in-a-century disaster? No, I don't hate the guy for that. He's doing a great job deserves to have a better record for it. I think he'll get there.
February 25th, 2020 at 3:54 PM ^
Look more excuses. My knock on people here defending JH is because EVERYONE HERE EXPECTED MORE. Including you! Btw , he hasn't been playing osu in bowl games he keeps getting his teeth kicked in at.
February 25th, 2020 at 4:55 PM ^
It's a description of the current state the team is in. You calling it an excuse isn't an argument. I don't need to provide excuses because I'm not on the team. Neither are you, despite how feverishly you ALL CAPS.
You're free to be as angry and bitter as you like.
When the team wins, and I believe they will, you'll be right there cheering as loud as anyone. The team won't care that you were UNACCEPTABLE'ing, and neither will I. You should just remember this is the team you like. Shitting on them won't help the state of affairs you feel is so dire in creates such anguish in your mind. And when it does turn around, remember to be happy, because it's your team. You'll have to forego the I told you so, because you'll have been wrong. Hopefully the team succeeding means more to you than that, because I'm not sure it is.
When they win I'll have been here all along - my reason leads to my judgement that they'll get there. You'll have jumped off and jumped back on, mostly because you're just hurting. But that's OK.
Because on my version of this team, we're not going to talk about each other, we're going to encourage each other.
February 25th, 2020 at 11:21 AM ^
"Prior to the last game"
Well that should make everyone feel better!
I hate the walmart portion of this fucking fan base because so self respecting UM alum would ever utter anything like the nonsense you just did.
February 25th, 2020 at 11:59 AM ^
I didn't say prior to the last game, and that would be difficult to read any other way. Ironic post, this one, given your difficulty in comprehension.
February 24th, 2020 at 10:58 PM ^
What is love?
Bloggers, don't hurt me, don't hurt me...
No more.
February 24th, 2020 at 9:26 PM ^
Sounds eerily familiar to the Najee Harris disaster.
How about we further establish West Bloomfield as our pipeline as they're the new Cass Tech and get Donovan Edwards.
February 24th, 2020 at 9:43 PM ^
West Bloomfield and Belleville recruit better than the Catholic League nowadays
February 24th, 2020 at 10:26 PM ^
Five star RB considering Michigan? This movie ends one of two ways:
1) Michigan left standing at the altar.
2) If he does commit here, he’ll either get buried on the depth chart and transfer after two years, or stick it out, possibly switch positions in an attempt to get on the field, and leave the program with a degree, but also be one more guy that just never panned out.
Not knocking the kid. This says more about Michigan than it does Henderson. Michigan is absolutely cursed when it comes to five star RBs. I don’t think a single one has panned out.