the belleville wars
Things Discussed:
- Draft Takeaways: Nice that Saban kept being like "I love this dude!" Brian: Michigan and Iowa are the best two teams at developing talent; Michigan also recruits in an area where you win a national title if you outperform like that.
- Seth: Harbaugh recruited at the same level as previous Michigan coaches but where they were getting 20% to 33% of their players to the NFL, Harbaugh is putting *60 Percent* of his players in the League:
- JJ McCarthy: Threw as many passes in the first three Qs as the other guys. Would I trade Goff for JJ, Neil? Can't break up a team on a Super Bowl run, but JJ is more valuable than Goff by far; he's gonna be under team control for a long time.
- Junior Colson: Sam shares that Minter told him to go pro after the championship because he and Harbaugh were going to the league and they're gonna come get him.
- Amorion Walker: If he'd stayed at receiver he'd be the breakout player of the year, but he burned his redshirts both years and then was at cornerback and Ole Miss—that is a hard position to play, and it's probably gonna need to be next year before he's a breakout player.
- CJ Charleston: He's here to be a veteran presence. Sinagosa brought him over from YSU. Tough sell getting receivers.
- DT? Looks like PT wasn't there for their top prospect CJ West so they're moving on to the GVSU guy (Suggs).
- Jaden Mangham? Seth: YES TAKE ALL THE FALCONS! Brian: I don't want anybody who thought it was a good idea to play for Mel Tucker. He's also against taking anyone from Belleville.
- Break: Basketball recruits.
- Post-break: NCAA has an opportunity with House negotiations to sit across the table from *somebody* and create a sustainable future. Brian: Pendulum swung too far, single transfer rule was correct. Seth: Best thing would be to create an incentive formula that gets small schools out of a huge tax bill and makes players want to stay put.
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We've got a couple Hellos to catch up on that dropped during the past week. The first of which is 4* LB Jeremiah Beasley from Belleville, MI. The in-state prospect picked Michigan last Wednesday over Michigan State, among other schools with interest. Let's give him a Hello:
GURU RATINGS
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RATINGS BY SITE |
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247: 6'1/210 |
On3: 6'0.5/210 |
Rivals: 6'2/212 |
ESPN: 6'1/220 |
| 4*, 90, #239 Ovr #26 LB, #6 MI |
4*, 90, #264 Ovr #20 LB, #5 MI |
4*, 5.8, NR Ovr #24 OLB, #8 MI |
3*, 79, #53 MW #15 ILB, #10 MI |
| 4.05 | 4.09 | 3.96 | 3.83 |
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COMPOSITE RANKINGS |
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247 Composite |
On3 Consensus |
MGoBlog |
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| 4*, 0.9025, #312 Ovr #26 LB, #6 MI |
4*, 90.37, #273 Ovr #28 LB, #6 MI |
4*, #386/797 Ovr #31/78 ILBs since 1990 |
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| 4.03 | 4.04 | 4.01 | |
Everyone but ESPN has Beasley as a 4*, but it's not like there's a terribly dramatic range in the overall rating based on our five-star scale. The 247 composite vs. On3 consensus vs. our calculated consensus is almost exactly even, right around 4.00. Beasley is viewed as one of the top ten players in Michigan, and ranks near the middle among all ILB prospects Michigan has recruited since 1990 according to our database. There's a bit of variation on Beasley's height, from 6'0.5" at On3 to 6'2" at Rivals, with his weight ranging from 210 to 220. Nothing crazy.
[AFTER THE JUMP: Runs well and hits hard]
Sleeper from Belleville.
That’s literally all I knew about the Michigan linebacker when he suddenly became a top target. He visited with the rest of the Victors Weekend contingent and pledged the night of Juneteenth. That occurred with little fanfare, outside of a pocket of people extremely excited for the end of the bad old days of Michigan feuding with former Tom Wilcher assistant Jermain Crowell. This is the guy who built Belleville into one of the biggest suburban Detroit powers right on the doorstep of Ann Arbor, and then built a fence between us.
Even if the fence hadn't come down with Michigan's 2021 staff shakeup, this is one kid who might have followed Andre Seldon over it; Alexander grew up loving Michigan, and the feeling got very mutual when he showed up to various camps this summer.
GURU RATINGS
| Rivals | ESPN | 247 | 247 Comp |
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| 2*, 5.4, NR Ovr, NR ILB, NR MI |
NR ATH | 3*, 86, NR Ovr, #72 ATH, #23 MI |
3*, 0.8355, #1214 Ovr, #105 ATH, #37 MI |
| 3.00 | n/a | 3.58 | 3.36 |
He’s 6-1/204 to Rivals and rounded up to 205 on 24/7. His Hudl page goes up to 6-2/210. Unless those recruiting rankings change he’s going to be near the bottom of Michigan linebacker recruits in my database. Other guys in that pile: David Harris (3.49), Devin Gil (3.48), Desmond Morgan (3.47), Joe Velazquez (3.46), and Obi Ezeh (3.38). The true 2-stars are Marell Evans and Emmanuel Casseus. Gil, Velazquez, and Evans were the other guys listed around 205 as recruits.
Let’s learn what Michigan’s looking at together then, shall we?
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This feels especially dumb now, but hey look at all those shiny DTs!
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