Perfect. Great example by Mr. Spath. O.k. I read your article

[Reality Man]

on the Big Ten's best players. So as I mentioned before...how can you have great recruiting classes (Hoke) and not have great players?

Rankings of classes mean essentially nothing unless coached up or players develop according to Mr. Spath. I agree. Rankings or 'stars' mean nothing. How else can you interpret the article? See below.

I would love for 'Rivals' to explain this to it's readers. It sure seems like any of these recruiting sites need to have a disclaimer that recruiting is based on past HIGH SCHOOL/camp performance and is not guarantee of future performance as they do with mutual funds.


Reality Man


https://michigan.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1783643

 

[michnittlion]

I read this statistic somewhere recently ....... Michigan has nobody returning who was on an all-B1G team last year. Not even honorable mention all-B1G. U-M is the only B1G team in that situation.

I expect a lot of U-M folk (e.g., Peppers) to quickly develop into all-B1G performers, but the above is a pretty crazy statistic.

 

[ArrowheadBlue]

great staff thanks for the update pretty sad would you consider the recruining classes

 

[Westcoast24]

I read this statistic somewhere recently ....... Michigan has nobody returning who was on an all-B1G team last year. Not even honorable mention all-B1G. U-M is the only B1G team in that situation.

I expect a lot of U-M folk (e.g., Peppers) to quickly develop into all-B1G performers, but the above is a pretty crazy statistic.

What ridiculous player development from the old staff. There were to many decent recruiting classes for it to end up like that. Thank god we moved on.

 

[tarun262]

It'll take time...the entire team under-performed last season - every single player got worse versus better so yeah hard to be on any honorable mention. I also think the team quit on Hoke last year. I expect that we will have a about 4 folks that will be on the All BIG squad in some form or fashion but likely all on the D - maybe Taco. It will take these guys time to start learning a culture of winning. I think Year 1 for JH is a wash - change is tough, Urban had shit load of talent where as I think we are void of developed talent especially on offense and you have to score to win unfortunately. I also love that JH has asked kids that don't want to put in the work to leave so I expect that players individually will be tons better - now whether that is enough to edge us to 10+ wins, likely not but it will be a step in the right direction.

 

[cwp]

It'll take time...the entire team under-performed last season - every single player got worse versus better so yeah hard to be on any honorable mention. I also think the team quit on Hoke last year. I expect that we will have a about 4 folks that will be on the All BIG squad in some form or fashion but likely all on the D - maybe Taco. It will take these guys time to start learning a culture of winning. I think Year 1 for JH is a wash - change is tough, Urban had shit load of talent where as I think we are void of developed talent especially on offense and you have to score to win unfortunately. I also love that JH has asked kids that don't want to put in the work to leave so I expect that players individually will be tons better - now whether that is enough to edge us to 10+ wins, likely not but it will be a step in the right direction.

It won't take that much time. Coaching is everything. It will be visible this year.