Many of Michigan's top targets are announcing their commitment on Friday. This will be a key tipping point on how the class could finish. Coming off a Big Ten Championship year, a questionable NIL policy, and flipping over lots of the staff. Michigan finds itself having a bad recruiting year, one that could be historically bad if the trend continues. Yes, worse then the RR years.
The decisions coming:
- Dante Moore, instate 5 star QB will be going to Oregon. Michigan's QB recruiting is in bad shape.
- Collins Acheampong, is a 3/4 star DE and will make a decision between Michigan, LSU, and Miami. Michigan is the expected choice but you never know with Miami and LSU and NIL $$.
- Jalen Brown, 5 star WR is picking between a ton of schools including Texas AM, LSU, Miami, and FSU. Hard to call this one as Jalen really looks up to Desmond Howard.
- Enow Etta, 4 star DE who has been a Michigan lean for sometime. MSU is making a late run and Alabama and Stanford are also in the mix. Its clear, academics is important to him and lets hope for a maize and blue decision.
- Amir Herring, is a 4 star OL from West Bloomfield and his announcement is expected today. He has a 100% CB's to Michigan.
The best Michigan can do is 3 out 4 on Friday, my confidence level is only high for Enow and less so for Collins. Dante is gone and Jalen would be a hail mary (if he doesn't pick the Celtics full time 😎).
The PAC 10/12 is in trouble as the Big 12 is coming for 6 of its teams and Oregon and Washington want to go to the Big Ten. Both the Huskies and Ducks are in the AAU and Standford and CAL would also be a fit in the Big Ten academically.
If I was the Big Ten commisioner, I would grab the PAC 12 teams and not wait for ND. I would then make sure those teams don't schedule ND until they make a conference decision. If the Big Ten has a super conference there won't be a need for too many (or any) non-conference games anyway.
The PAC 10 is trying to put together a TV deal to keep its teams in place.
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I think you are spot on about getting the desirable (academic/athletic) Pac12 teams and leaving ND in a corner.
Think about this, when both the B1G and the SEC reach a certain number of teams (20-24) they will very likely sign an agreement that both conferences will have their own playoff formats and the winner of each conference will play in their own college National Championship Super Bowl. They won't need the NCAA any longer especially since they've proven themselves to be useless anyway.
Moreover, if ND doesn't join a conference they will be locked out of this format, they will lose money and it will be THEN that they will try to come in but the game will be different.
The other conferences (PAC/Big/ACC) which will still be considered NCAA will likely have their traditional playoffs but it won't have the same cache of B1G/SEC National Championship bowl. IMHO!!!
My dad used to say, "beg Notre Dame to join the Big Ten and when they finally say yes tell em go to hell". Hahahaha...
Can't wait for Moore to visit the Big House with his quackers... we will see how that works out for him when he's on the opposite sidelines.
szanreno- Your Dad is a smart man. Bo Schembechler said the same thing.
Blue in Ohio- I agree 100%. He wanted the Nike money upfront.
Brady2017,,, probably where he got it from, Bo... Hahaha..
I am starting to hear more information about the possibilities of the B1G and SEC agreeing to develop their own play offs for the National title. When you think about it, that's the next logical development. A third "super conference" with the remaining teams really doesn't move the needle. If I can think of it, and the talking heads from the blogs can think of it then you know that the two conferences are already thinking and talking about it. ND or no, I honestly believe that both conferences are going to do this. IMHO!!!
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