UM Football Recruiting - by WM Wolverine

[jaadam4]

Not I.. What do you want Harbaugh to do? This team lacks talent at QB, RB and WR on offense. The defense has been good all year but we were really thin by the last game of the season with a lack of depth and the injuries mounting.

If Harbaugh has anywhere near the talent OSU had stacked I'd take M any day of the week. Harbaugh and crew masked this teams deficiencies all year. There's only so much they can do.

[hack]

Agreed. It really was quite amazing to see the passing game develop over the course of the year. The team that went out there against Utah was just completely different.

Every coach is going to, sometimes, come to the table with a shit gameplan. OSU did a week earlier than we did. Harbaugh's not a finished product himself. He's not immune to learning a thing or two, which I suspect he did this year. We're fine.

[Rocky Bleier]

Agree 100%; Harbaugh was knocked down several pegs in my eyes because of that absolute abortion. Inexcusable.

That was a function of defensive line injuries, DJ Durkin, and a lack of talent to match OSU's pissed off roster of future NFL players.

[jaadam4]

yup

[Hannibal]

The OSU game was the worst possible outcome. We got run off the field without so much as a whimper. Other teams hung with OSU this year.

Durkin checked out a week early because he was busy house hunting in Maryland and Harbaugh didn't recognize it.

[Prime2]

OSU played far below their potential the first 10 games of the season. The wakeup call came a week early against MSU at home.

Durkin seems to have been looking past the game and south to Maryland, not sure why JH doesn't have a 2-year commitment with his employees?

Beating MSU for all intent and purpose was good enough for me this season.

[lineygoblue]

According to Scout, ohio (Schiano) is trying to get in on Rashan Gary's recruitment. They've spoken to Gary's mother, who has spoken to Schiano in the past.

Gary has one more official visit set, that being at USC.

So much for the dead period.

[iam416]

There's 0% chance that Gary goes to OSU. If I could make it less than that, I would.

[froot loops]

Yeah but you are salivating at the thought of Gary squashing some QB in the victory formation.

[hack]

If I was Schiano I would try it too, if only to push him away from Michigan.

[edindetroit]

There's 0% chance that Gary goes to OSU. If I could make it less than that, I would.

Just put a number with a negative sign in front of it like "-10%"

[The Oracle]

Never know. RECRUITIN!!!!!

[Pasadena Blue]

The OSU game was the worst possible outcome. We got run off the field without so much as a whimper. Other teams hung with OSU this year.

Durkin checked out a week early because he was busy house hunting in Maryland and Harbaugh didn't recognize it.

Gotta agree. Luv Harbaugh, but in watching this game, it was not just a talent mismatch. D gameplan was poor, especially with having a poor-man's version of the Ohio offense (i.e. Indiana) to prep with.
Yes, Durkin probably was checked out with the Terps position on the horizon, but still no excuse for Harbaugh not taking charge of this.

Having said that, what I believe is different from M teams of recent past is that Harbaugh will be seething and planning non-stop to prevent this from happening again. I doubt he has talked himself into believing this was just an aberration or just some unfortunate consequence of injuries. He knows he screwed up. He's not going to admit it publicly because that is not the image you want to project to recruits, etc.

Let's see what happens next year. I don't know if Harbaugh can do it, but I do expect him to die trying.

[Cody_Russell]

I thought there was a possibility Michigan was saving the zone blitz defense for the OSU game. Run man to man all season, then completely unleash a new defensive scheme at times vs OSU.
That would have been cool. At least IU was blitz happy vs OSU... I think that was affective.

About Kareem Walker: a lot of his recent tweets relate to ASU. I'll feel bad if Michigan loses out on Walker to a douchebag like Todd Graham.

[Wellington_beefhouser]

I got a good feeling things will work out on all fronts for M this week. Interesting thought: Maybe Bush was a silent commit and promised an early enrollment spot, hence Reese leaving.

Walker will be a Wolverine. I'll eat crow otherwise.