UM Football Recruiting - by WM Wolverine

[UMStan White]

tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow its only a SEEEEEEEEEAAAAASSSSSONNNNN AWAY!

[hack]

Four years of good coaching is going to pay off for MSU but right now there no evidence that four years of UM's mediocre position coaching is going to bring dividends. You have to be able to coach them up for the roster-stability argument to work. Hoke's staff isnt doing that. Only a precious few recruits are meeting or exceeding expectations.

[Mackenzie]

I get very concerned with the number of true freshmen that Hoke and co rely on. I'm looking forward to the day when the norm is that players sit and learn for two or three years before starting for two good years.

With the only outliers being truly exceptional players (Woodson, Jackson, etc)

I agree. But, it could be that, presently, Hoke's good recruiting classes may be influenced by the lack of depth and some kids hooking up with M because they see the opportunity to play early as opposed to sitting out a year or two.

[Da Geezer]

Bear Bryant always said : "

I can take my'en and beat your'en and then take your'en and beat my'en"

I believe that there are several coaching staffs which, given UM's talent, could product a much better team than the Hoke staff. I believe that the Bear's dictum could be true for the staffs at OSU, PSU, Alabama, TA+M, USC and UCLA.

[lineygoblue]

You have to be able to coach them up for the roster-stability argument to work. Hoke's staff isnt doing that. Only a precious few recruits are meeting or exceeding expectations.

Bingo. Success breeds success, and Hoke's staff has yet to complete Step 1 of that process. Its not a good sign, that some of the frontrunners for the starting OL jobs in 2014, are the true freshmen, and redshirt freshmen. I mean, where are guys like Braden, Kalis and Glasgow?

Looks like the cycle/excuse of "we're still young" begins again.

[Jeff Buchanan]

Bear was a simple man operating in simple (CFB) world.

I'm not excusing DB, Hoke or his staff for the misery we've been through over the last decade but CFB is immensely more complicated than it was in the 50s - 70s and the players are immensely more difficult to coach by virtue of increased strength and skill levels of players playing across from them on the field and that 17-22 year olds are very different today young men than they were in Bear's, Bo's and Woody's time.

[Da Geezer]

New Rivals rankings are out. of interest:

KLS gets his 5th star

Clark up 90 positions to # 56 overall

Roseboro up 37 to # 42

George Campbell down 36 to # 78

[The Oracle]

I knew we cooled on Campbell for a reason.

[SeattleLionsFan]

Lol!

[WM Wolverine]

He's thought of a safety now, can't catch routine balls. He's not a big loss. Crawford & Harris were much bigger losses and Crawford is possible to replace.

[hack]

I wonder if theyve tried to recover Crawford this week, or will later.

[WM Wolverine]

They'll wait a bit to see if their are any sanctions and/or penalties.

[WM Wolverine]

Csonte York booted from team, this is still part of the 'expected' attrition I've calculated for expected scholarships available.

[Da Geezer]

Garrett Taylor, 2015 commit, tears his ACL and is out for the season.

http://bleacherreport.com/tb/ddPmW?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=michigan-wolverines-football

[The Oracle]

Darian Roseboro is announcing today. Farrell at Rivals thinks it's NCSt and Sam Webb still thinks it's Michigan. Anyone see any other worthwhile info?