We're Getting the No. 1 Player From Six Different States

Submitted by BursleyHall82 on

Interesting fact: We're getting the top-ranked player from six different states. Granted, some of these states aren't exactly high school football hotbeds, but it's still a sign of Harbaugh's national pull that we're getting the best player from so many states. We're getting the No. 1 guy from:

Michigan (Donovan Peoples-Jones)

Iowa (Oliver Martin)

New Jersey (Drew Singleton)

Connecticut (Tarik Black)

New Mexico (O'Maury Samuels)

Rhode Island (Kwity Paye)

And just for good measure, we're also getting the top-ranked player from a Canadian province:

Quebec (Benjamin St-Juste)

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blue in dc

January 31st, 2017 at 11:09 PM ^

The use of the term Dakota Pipeline is clearly a pun about something in the news because it has become political. But using the words dakota pipeline with no suggestion in favor of or against is not political. It is a joke about a small state being a recruiting pipeline in a post about our recruiting in a number of states including small ones. Is it political to say that Michigan's class trumps Michigan States? How bout, with this recruiting haul, Harbaugh sure is making Michigan great again? Just because a word or phrase can be used in a political context, that doesn't mean using the word or phrase is always political. If someone thinks that using phrases like that with no additional political commentary is somehow itself political, they really need to lighten up (thus my assumption that Alum96 must in fact be joking).

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jabberwock

January 31st, 2017 at 11:22 PM ^

The joke is that just mentioning the words Dakota pipeline (when talking about recruiting pipelines of states) would trigger an overreaction from some idiot oversensetive to anything remotely political sounding.

Alum96 was just sarcastically sacrificing himself as a faux idiot.

There's another joke in there somwhere about recruiting in the talent-rich State of Denial, but I'm not going to make it.

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MichiganStan

January 31st, 2017 at 10:39 PM ^

Currently 4th in the Nation

We wont move up as Georgia is 3rd and they have nearly a 300 class score we are at 284. We'd have to add Tufele, Nico, Gay, and Solomon to pass them which aint happening

FSu is right behind at like 278ish. If LSU and FSU finish strong and Michigan sputters then they could fall to 6th

So basically 4th, 5th or 6th. Most likely we'll stay at the 4 spot

 

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alum96

January 31st, 2017 at 10:48 PM ^

Currently 4th helped by massive volume; ave rank of player is #6-to #9 behind Clemson and... WTF STanford.  FSU, USC and LSU are fractionally in the same rounding error as us on average player rank so we'll all end in the same range there.  Wouldn't expect much deviation if you expect a Solomon Collins ending with what the big boys will also add.  No one is displacing OSU and Bama at the top and GA is well ahead on average player rank too.

So looking at average player rank it's

  • OSU - 95ish
  • Bama - 93ish
  • GA - 93ish
  • Stanford -92ish
  • Clemson -92ish

Then a whole cluster of teams around a 91 rank including UM with the FSU, USC, LSU cabal.

Right behind that group are the Oklahomas, Notre Dames, Penn States, Floridas, Auburns in 89-90 range.

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GoBLUE_SemperFi

January 31st, 2017 at 10:55 PM ^

Last year, Michigan's average commit rating was 89.86, this year's average is 91.21, which will increase slightly with Solomon and Collins, 98.69 and 93.53, respectively.

The improvement in quality over quantity, year over year, is pretty impressive, in just Harbaugh's 2nd full recruiting class.

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Indonacious

January 31st, 2017 at 11:50 PM ^

Clemson and Stanford have substantially smaller classes with 14 recruits, so comparisons of average recruit ranking aren't really that useful. For comparison, our 14th rated recruit is JKP whose ranking is .9023 and our 7th rated recruit is Filiaga who is 0.9452. It's much eaiser to have a high rated average when it is so small.

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TheReal_GR3

January 31st, 2017 at 10:33 PM ^

I find this interesting. Don't make too much of it but do like the fact the staff isn't worried about going into a state they don't know. While some of these places aren't football states those are still talented players and should help if a really talented guy ever pops up. 

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MichiganStan

January 31st, 2017 at 10:36 PM ^

Im hyped to see Drew Singleton play. He just looks like a stud. Sucks he got injured he could've surely moved up in the rankings.

Captain material

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SharkyRVA

January 31st, 2017 at 10:50 PM ^

It pisses me off to no end that PSU was a dead man walking and about to collapse after UM crushed them.  If they finished this year as they should have, their recruiting class would be terrible BUT NO, they have to arm punt their way to the Rose Bowl.

Silver lining...  they are now stuck with Franklin for at least two more years.

Fuck PSU!

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Bones032

January 31st, 2017 at 10:58 PM ^

I was looking at this a couple days ago before Martin commited, thinking he would be the 6th state. Also interesting about how many top 3 players we got from different states, so I had made a list of that.

 

Michigan: #1 DPJ, #2 Ambry Thomas, #3 Josh Ross

Connecticut: #1 Tarik Black, #3 Andrew Stueber

New Jersey: #1 Drew Singleton

Iowa: #1 Oliver Martin

New Mexico: #1 O’maury  Samuels

Rhode Island: #1 Kwity Paye

Quebec: #1 Benjamin St Juste

Colorado: #2 Dylan MCCaffery

Virginia: #3 Luiji Vilain

 

Aubrey Solomon is #3 in Georgia, would be really nice to add him to this list tomorrow…..

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