UM Football Recruiting - by WM Wolverine

[hack]

Who caters the BBQ? Celebrity pitmasters could b cool.

[*JD*]

DE James Hudson is blue.

[WM Wolverine]

Class of '17 Recruiting Board

Offense
QB: Dylan McCaffrey
RB: Kurt Taylor, AJ Dillon & O'Maury Samuels
WR: Donovan Peoples-Jones, Nico Collins, & Oliver Martin
TE: Carter Dunaway & Josh Falo
OT: Kai-Leon Herbert, JaRaymond Hall, Andrew Stueber, Joel Honigford, & Isaiah Wilson
OG: Cesar Ruiz, & Tedarrell Slaton
ATH: Chase Lasater

Defense
DT: Aubrey Solomon, James Hudson, Phillip Paea, & Jay Tufele
DE: Corey Malone-Hatcher, & Luiji Vilain
LB: Joshua Ross, Ben Mason, Jordan Anthony & Drew Singleton
CB: Benjamin St-Juste, Ambry Thomas, & Darnay Holmes
S: J'Marick Woods, Jaylen Kelly-Powell, & Markquese Bell

[WM Wolverine]

I'd certainly add Henry Bainvalu and maybe Aaron Banks. Both OT's.

[Rocky Bleier]

Second Ohio kid in the class. Chip away until we become a viable on-the-field alternative to osu for higher rated in-state recruits.

[WM Wolverine]

http://247sports.com/Season/2017-Football/CompositeTeamRankings?Conference=Big-Ten

1st tier (Ohio State), 2nd tier (Michigan), 3rd tier (Maryland, Iowa, Penn State, Rutgers, Sparty, NW, Nebraska, Wisconsin), then 4th/poop (Indiana, Minnesota, Purdue & Illinois).

6 of 7 in the East in '3rd' tier (or higher) and Indiana is probably in a '4th' tier by themselves and the '4th' tier/poop could probably be labeled a '5th'...

Illini really needs to do something, try to be the Oregon of the B1G. They actually have in-state talent unlike their neighbors in Wisconsin, Iowa, Indiana or even Nebraska. Why can't that program at least hit a double with a coaching hire?

Also would love to see one program in the West rise to the top of the West; preferably Nebraska so the B1G title game isn't a huge mismatch and that division isn't thought of as a joke.

[WM Wolverine]

Chase Lasater ATH fwiw has some grade issues, might not make it into the class, same academic rumors as Hawkins as last year which came to be true.

[hack]

Read with interest the talk of Hudson as a potential OT.

[Da Geezer]

The only way to solve the East/West divide in the B10 is to realign the teams. Move MSU to the West and Purdue to the East. Better yet, move UM to the West, and let the normal schedule play out with the MSU/UM and the OSU/UM games.

[WM Wolverine]

Nobody in the West wants to play Michigan less if Sparty were to be an annual game with M. Nobody but possibly Sparty (but only if M is annual) and Indiana might be willing to move West.

No easy or good solutions, all the good programs want to play each other annually and are rivals; Michigan, Ohio State, Penn State, Sparty. Maryland & Rutgers have to be included with Penn State. Even if Sparty wants to move West in exchange for Purdue (I don't think they do, yet), everybody in the West would take issue with playing Michigan less.

[WM Wolverine]

Michigan, Ohio State, Penn State and the B1G want M/OSU/PSU games in NYC/Jersey (Rutgers) & Maryland/DC. The 'east' is tied to each other tighter than most think. And Sparty is tied to M.

[Mike]

It would be disastourous from a competitive standpoint for UM to move to the West and play MSU and OSU every year. We would play the best teams in both divisions every season.

[lineygoblue]

Michigan playing in the Big Ten West makes as much sense as the Red Wings playing in the Western Conference of the NHL.

[Prime2]

I'd certainly add Henry Bainvalu and maybe Aaron Banks. Both OT's.

So Five-star RB Najee Harris hasn't told Assclown Nick Saban to get bent yet?

[froot loops]

At least with the Red Wings, the Western Coference was the better conference. The Eastern Conference sucks, there is like three teams that I'd ever be interested in watching.