4* DE Target Beau Atkinson Set to Decide

Submitted by mwolverine1 on June 15th, 2021 at 10:42 PM

4* North Carolina native DE/EDGE target Beau Atkinson will be announcing his decision tomorrow at 4PM (presumably on his Twitter). Atkinson will be deciding among Michigan, North Carolina, and Miami. Atkinson officially visited Michigan this past weekend, where he was hosted by Braiden McGregor and Aidan Hutchinson (his comparables in the eyes of the Michigan staff).

https://twitter.com/Beauatkinson9/status/1404984142991966218?s=20

Atkinson previously visited UNC and Miami unofficially and had officials to Cal and UVA scheduled. There are no crystal balls predictions in for Atkinson’s decision as of yet. I don’t have any inside info but I suspect UNC and Michigan are ahead.

TuffBammBamm

June 16th, 2021 at 9:48 AM ^

But we're told Harbaugh is re-energized.  We're told the old Harbaugh is back.  We have this great young staff that is going to really connect with the recruits.  How could this be?

Michigan will be lucky to have a Top 15 class this year.  

I'm sure the fanboys will come out and say that Harbaugh and new Co.just need a year to build relationships, prove themselves, and that next year's class will be the great recruiting class. 

Rinse and repeat the same garbage every year.

mGrowOld

June 16th, 2021 at 10:20 AM ^

Here's the good news.  If he manages to turn things around on the field this year and rebound from the 2-4 debacle I'm sure all the things you sarcastically claimed will actually start to happen in our recruiting.

And if he doesnt turn it around and we suffer through another crappy year record-wise my guess is he'll resign so it will be the new guy's problem to solve.

In other words I dont see this as being a long-term problem either way.

OldSchoolWolverine

June 16th, 2021 at 3:01 PM ^

Everything went awry, albeit slowly, when Brown was hired...slowly Hoke's defensive recruits graduated, and replaced by the smallish players for a defense that won't work in the Big Ten. Kemp is the perfect example...he should have bulked DOWN and played LB, instead of bulked up to try to play DT.   So Harbaugh finally acknowledged the big error...and that was big.  It was program shifting.  He was right there his second year where we wanted to be, and the OSU ref stole it from us.  So you can say he is re-energized.

Chipper1221

June 16th, 2021 at 6:51 AM ^

This was my point in another thread. We keep missing on these type of recruits. our class is going to look like an msu class and fall outside the top 25. And we don’t have the coaches to win with those type of recruits. Might be time for a coaching change after all. 

King Tot

June 16th, 2021 at 8:16 AM ^

I'll just quote myself from the last time you made this dramatic/concern troll post:

"I went through the last three recruiting cycles and averaged classes 26-30. They average 4.5 four star prospects and an average rating of 86.5. The only class that included a single 5 star in that range was a Wisconsin class but they only had 2 four stars that cycle. We already have a Five star  and 3 Four stars."

So it is almost impossible to finish outside the top 25 unless we lose current recruits and pick up no additional 4 star talents which is extremely unlikely. The worst recruiting class in Jim's tenure was still ranked 22.

Magnus

June 16th, 2021 at 9:12 AM ^

LOL. Atkinson is the #360 overall recruit in the class, which is barely a 4-star. 

These are the recruits visiting this weekend:

#2
#12 (commit)
#84 (commit)
#97
#127
#129
#290
#320 (commit)
#338
#360 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Atkinson
$519 (commit)
#533
#543
#546
#696
#756
#850
#1076

Atkinson is halfway down the list if we compare him to who's visiting this weekend, and Michigan "keeps missing"...but they have three commits visiting who are higher than him. Michigan has also offered about 333 people in the class, and they can only sign about 25. They're going to "miss" on roughly 12 out of every 13 kids they offer.

CRISPed in the DIAG

June 16th, 2021 at 8:18 AM ^

Mack Brown has a recruiting machine running again. And his facilities/stadium are 100% improved since his last stint at UNC. If he can establish a better football culture (basketball and country-club sports are huge there) they're capable of regular top-12 finishes.

OldSchoolWolverine

June 16th, 2021 at 2:55 PM ^

At least, we can be enthused, that the program recognizes the crucial error in going small... dumping Brown, and now going big again.  I've noticed an uptick in size across the DL.