Smith brothers flipped to Kentucky

Or did they decommit from their commitment to their coach about not decommitting, after the speculation of decommitting from Michigan and committing to Kentucky was rumored, after previously decommitting from Notre Dame to commit to Michigan earlier in their commitment cycle? 

Have you ever smoked it?

Somewhere between the sky is falling and we will be just fine (concerning recruiting) I remember the seasons we have had and what the recruiting results were. If players arent coming now (2nd best program for two seasons + two games) when are they coming? 

Spoiler to the spoiler:  They won't be admitted.

I miss those doublemint commercials.

Might be time to reevaluate our NIL approach. Culture is great but you can't have a bunch of your 4 star commits flipping every year.

[Glances at the current defensive line and also all the dudes in the NFL]

Yeah it'll probably be fine tbh

Really?  Our defense recruiting this cycle is not on par with a program competing for a national title.  The old adage was winning fixes everything, well it a hasn’t and the class is going to be ranked between 15-20 same as it ever was.  New adage is NIL changes everything, goal posts keep moving.  The recruiting here is what it’s going to be hopefully wins are sustainable but we will be competing with less talent.  

A) it's late Friday night.

B) it's been expected for awhile now.

Still, this can't be a good thing for the future of the team.   I'm not going to get too worked up if we can continue to win games, but with all these recruiting misses, you have to think it's going to get a lot harder to win games in the future.

There is a certain feeling right now that if these kids don’t want to play at Michigan we will find someone else as good or better especially with playable talent available in the portal.

The coaches ability to evaluate and develop talent is established and the program is on good footing. There are not too many kids that are not replaceable.

There may be some truth with that and the NCAA stuff. That said, I think recruiting has changed to "roster management" where you still want top recruits but the portal offers way more in terms of tape and experience.  Recruiting stars may take a hit at the expense of available 1-2 year veterans that have successfully transitioned to college ball. 

I don’t think it’s an absolute disaster it’s better than most in the country but there has been zero positive impact to it for beating ohio and winning back to back championships, seems recruits still see ohio  as a superior program and that simultaneously baffles and annoys me.  I think this year is the best shot we are ever going to get next season is going to be a big rebuild. 
 

also F Vince marrows cocky never won a damn thing ass.  Clink under recruiting too wonder if he’s passed he didn’t get one of those HC slots while Jim’s been out,  starting to believe that relationship isn’t lasting.  

Back to back playoffs didnt do it for them?

Pure speculation on my part, but it seems like a decent possibility that they committed to the "best" school they could (they were initially flirting with Notre Dame, then chose UM) in order to drive up their signing bonuses from schools who were willing to pay them for their commitments.

My working theory is this: 

The twins are good-ish recruits who are not good enough to get commitable offers (with pay) from elite schools but can go to decent schools (like UK) and get paid. Meanwhile, UM knows that they can't get the truly elite players because UM won't pay anyone for their commitment but feels that they have a shot at players in the 200-300 range who might be willing to forgo upfront payment for the opportunity to play for a really good program and, possibly, get NIL deals later. Michigan was probably hoping the twins would fall into that sweet spot that UM is looking for but they turned out to just want to get paid.

I think one of the twins really liked M. The other didn’t. If that’s the case stop throwing resources at something that wasn’t going to work out like the staff did with Brian Robinson.  Now the smoke is they are cycling back to Elias Rudolph who already took that Miami bag, got to think that’s as much about trying to keep Ewald for 25.