Don't get me wrong, Michigan has had a great 2012 & 2013 class but a trend in these high profile commitments when it comes down to a final 2 the Wolverines are finishing second. Case it point:
- Anothny Zettel (2011 class)
- Josh Garnett
- Armani Reeves
- Alex Kozan
- EJ Levenberry
- Sam Grant
We all know recruiting is a numbers game and Michigan seems to do better when they get kids on campus and sell them on the spot. The guys that "think" and have a final two don't seem to be going Michigan's way lately. I have concern for two prospects right now in Treadwell and Isaac.
This is strange trend and I don't know if there is a real reason for it.
- In a preview of tomorrows post we will be looking at the Wolverines NFL draft prospects this year in Mike Martin and Junior Hemingway and where they are forecasted to go. I still have a heavy heart for Kevin Koger and his recent injury. I think Kevin would have been a late round draft pick before the injury.
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There is another way to look at it. Perhaps most schools wouldn't be able to get a second look to become number two. In other words, they really have a desire to go to the other school, but finding it hard to say no to Michigan and the pitch they give forces them to consider the maize and blue to the very end, even if they know in their heart their favorite all along. In essence, they may be scales they were never capable of being tipped in anyone else's favor, but Michigan makes it difficult to give a hard "no" to the very end of the decision process. If that's already the trend with one year of sufficient success on the field (not quite top-10), in a year or two will actually be like the LSU and Alabamas, the Stanfords and USCs...aka, the strong, warm south or west schools, and we'll win those battles. You know why Michigan is a easy sell right now? There's strong word you get a family vibe and strong disciplined coaching; the recruits know they'll get a traditional way of things despite being in what is sometimes misconstrued as a cold Ann Arbor (in weather and northerner academic demeanor). That could be attractive to kids from the south. Kids from the west might like that or they might like the liberal bent of U-M academia, especially if they don't really understand how different it is here in Baton Rouge compared to northern country, especially Ann Arbor ("don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you got till it's gone?") Going to SEC country for a kid like that would be an insufferable mistake. And in one hundred years LSU won't be so attractive with the gulf and wetlands coming up to its borders (Orleans now being mostly underwater), and global warming will have made playing football in the Big House in November much more tolerable to everyone. If I was choosing a school, I'd certainly want to think about choosing one I know will survive climate change over the next two hundred years; that's something recruits will really have to start considering...or not. What was my point? Oh yea, I think because of the media attention and hype we've gotten into these two-school races just a bit too early, so it looks bad superficially. But I think it really just shows we're flying well above the expected curve. And I'm out. Much peace.
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