Where do you think potential recruits fall on the spectrum of overall sports "knowledge" from MLive to MGoBlog?

Always assume more MLive. I love MGoBlog, but it is clearly the minority of sports awareness. MGoBlog isn't perfect either, but most people like the easy consumption of FB headlines and click bait sites. I don't blame people because it's much easier that way, but there's a lot of dumb stuff out there.

The good news is that if the thread below is true, the NFL will start to recognize your cancer as well.

Somewhere between 1-10

Considering that high level recruits have weekly if not daily conversations with every one of these coaches, they are pretty well informed. That and conversations with advisors, coaches, and other recruits filters out the blog garbage we mortals take as facts.

I reckon only I knew where I was goin'

They aren't spectators in this category, I don't think they fit neatly into categories. 

In this particular case, what they are hearing directly from schools far outweighs the noise from the media. They already know that the media can get stuff wrong, since most of them have probably heard recruiting speculation about them that bears no resemblance to reality. 

What they hear that matters is stuff from the teams. Now if coaches are being deceitful, that can have an effect, but they also know what guys like Jim Harbaugh are like in person, too, an experience that surely swamps whatever rumors one might pick up on twitter. They've looked him in the eye, shaken his hand, spent time in his office. 

In that sense, they are far wiser than either Mlive or Mgoblog readers, because they are primary sources.

According to premium boards, there were in fact some high profile recruits who got nervous about the rumors. Many people here get so upset about them as if they are so ridiculous, but as we all know, perception is reality. Of course it's ridiculous, but they could also have a real impact on our recruiting class. They certainly have already affected the recruitment of a handful of guys.

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The content on MgoBlog is smarter than the faithful MgoBloggers, as made evident by the first comment which is complaining about too many words.

Having spent my time in the frozen forests of the Detnews and Freep comment sections, I can say the people here are much more informed and reasonable.  I can only hope that the kids playing the game, talking to the teams, don't even waste thier times with those places.  I've looked at MLive comments, too, and they are the same as the Detroit papers.  The foolishness is off the charts.

I sincerely hope that no players frequent those places - either high school, college, or NFL players!  For that matter, I also sincerely hope they don't look at the various snowflake threads on MGoBlog...

(Unless we're talking about Calvin Ridley) so they're all idiots Source: I'm an idiot currently and was once 18 and an idiot. In seriousness, they're much more connected to the program we love than the average user here, so I'd imagine most of them are above the baseless rumor mongering our enemies have engaged in this week.

Tl;dr

Because the title is a novel in itself

I wrote a long, thoughtful post in response to this thread that insulted just about everyone on earth.

I especially insulted people that watch television shows that I think are stupid. I used clever wordplay, artful metaphors and striking witticisms to make my points.

Then I realized what a fucking idiot I am so I stopped.

Mrs. Seaver is available again...

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websites based on my last job I'm sure they are fully up to date on things if they're seriously interested in the school. One of us on here might be a recruit or a parent to one.

I don't even remember how I found mgoblog, I was 16 when I started reading this stuff. Been a rough 10 years to be a Michigan fan but here we are.

Are we talking overall sports knowledge like the title says? Or how likely are they to believe a rumor about Harbaugh/what they would post on a message board? 

Actual overall sports knowledge I'd say most are above the average MGoBlogger, especially in whatever sport they're being recruiting in... which is probably obvious. 

As far as message board postings, well they're probably too busy with their actual sport to spend much time on online sports forums. Maybe some stuff on twitter, but who knows. 

It's gotten to the point, as far as the MGoBoard goes, that I can usually judge the quality/reliability of a thread just by the title or the first few sentences of the actual post. This is sad because I'm sure I've missed some decent stuff here or there but with so much bullshit of false information, unreliable social media accounts and just general hysteria getting thrown up on a whim, I'm spending less time reading blog/board posts and leaving upon finding what I need. I used to read close to 90-100% of board posts for fear of missing a key piece of insider info or quality discussion and banter. It hasn't been that way in a while with rising levels of snark and sarcastic posts nobody really benefits from. That has nothing to do with recruits but thought it was worth a mention. Not sure what your OP is really asking for anyways?

Fake news - that is why we have our current president elect. Americans and recruits don't know the difference. I assume Harbaugh was on the phone with Michigan's recruiting targets.

I get most of my news from the National Enquirer. Suckers choose less. 

After going on MLive, ESPN, and even /r/nfl and seeing some of the highlights of those discussions, I now have brain cancer.

That made me laugh.

many hardly watch college games, or root for any teams.  They have very little interest outside of their world. Practice and school all week, game friday, visits saturday, rest/film study sunday.  Outside of their social media, I doubt they interact much.  Of the 7 or 8 current D1 players I know, none watched ANY cfb games on tv, much less read the local papers.

Somewhere in between.

"it is hard to rationalize how uninformed/misinformed/incapable-of-being-informed so many people are while holding such steadfast opinions."

 

Really OP?  Recent events seem to confirm that we're living in a post-fact era.