Great Article by Spath

[anon_sg4bgyiuileo1]

https://michigan.n.rivals.com/news/recruiting-welcome-to-the-new-norm-for-michigan-football

The bottom line is Michigan has changed how it recruits with Harbaugh at the helm.

All the endless gnashing of teeth and the tut tutting here means shit. The new reality is we are at the level of other high end schools now when it comes to recruiting.

I'm good with it. Scratch that. I'm f'ing pumped about it.

Go get 'em Jim.

 

[michnittlion]

https://michigan.n.rivals.com/news/recruiting-welcome-to-the-new-norm-for-michigan-football

The bottom line is Michigan has changed how it recruits with Harbaugh at the helm.

All the endless gnashing of teeth and the tut tutting here means shit. The new reality is we are at the level of other high end schools now when it comes to recruiting.

I'm good with it. Scratch that. I'm f'ing pumped about it.

Go get 'em Jim.

Spath is simply agreeing with what I said in the other thread. "What is SOP and acceptable in recruiting evolves over time."

Sounds like you agree with me.

 

[anon_sg4bgyiuileo1]

Spath is simply agreeing with what I said in the other thread. "What is SOP and acceptable in recruiting evolves over time."

Sounds like you agree with me.

My standpoint is while I wish we could recruit like before, I realize it won't put us in position to win like "the new way" will.
So I've reconciled my feelings on the subject.

 

[BlueKachi]

Despite those who have taken a personal affront to my comments, I effectively said the same thing. UM has joined the smarmy mix.

But don't forget it's smarmy -- and also realize Harbaugh could have handled it much, much better.

 

[detroitjohn]

https://michigan.n.rivals.com/news/recruiting-welcome-to-the-new-norm-for-michigan-football

The bottom line is Michigan has changed how it recruits with Harbaugh at the helm.

All the endless gnashing of teeth and the tut tutting here means shit. The new reality is we are at the level of other high end schools now when it comes to recruiting.

I'm good with it. Scratch that. I'm f'ing pumped about it.

Go get 'em Jim.

Thanks for this post man, yeah, he's Schembechler-swarmy alright, competitive, understands the recruiting times in which we live, trying to get the best players possible for his team, headed toward bringing home trophies to UM...that's as low as a guy can go. And, by the way, we have not heard from Harbaugh on this, but let's not hold up the ready-fire-aim crowd among us.

Doug Skene says: "Sometimes people lose their jobs and life is tough at times. Yes, this an 18-year old kid and he was told one thing and allegedly had this rug pulled out from under him, but the bottom line is Michigan and Coach Harbaugh are doing what they think is best to improve this football team to win at the highest level.

“This has been going on for a long time. I have a personal friend in the community in which I live that had verbally committed to Michigan and was going to be a teammate of mine and at the last second he was told by Coach [Bo] Schembechler [in 1988], ‘We no longer had room for you’ because Michigan got a better player.

“So this has been going on forever. Of course back then we didn’t have twitter, and not every kid had a megaphone in his pocket to tell the world what’s going on.

“But this is a view into the difficult side of the highest levels of football, and when a school like Michigan has a chance to upgrade to another player, the guy at the bottom of the list will be out. And unfortunately that’s a decision that was made here.”

Here’s what I do know – Harbaugh’s strategy seems to center on the idea that no offer, written or oral, is binding. Now every coach can say that to some extent, as most programs offer upwards of 100 recruits per recruiting class and there is no way to take them all.

Harbaugh takes it one step further (and he’s not alone here. This is the way it is and has been for decades with certain programs scattered throughout the Power 5) in that even if a kid verbally commits, Harbaugh apparently feels Michigan’s commitment on the other end is non-binding until a letter of intent is distributed on National Signing Day – I say apparently because we have yet to hear from Harbaugh on this."

 

[scfanblue]

This is a good article, however, who really gives a shit about people having a negative feeling about how Michigan recruits. The recruitment process involves so much and the most important, grades. Coaches make offers on the spot to hold the kids interest even without check the grades. Holding recruitment camps in other states is way more questionable than what has been done on the recruitment front. Notre Dame held recruitment camps decade more than what we did this past summer. As a North Carolina grad, I don't give a rip about people hammering us for our basketball grade scandal. It is a top school in the U.S., a dominant basketball program and I have a degree from there.

 

[michigangoblue999]

Despite those who have taken a personal affront to my comments, I effectively said the same thing. UM has joined the smarmy mix.

But don't forget it's smarmy -- and also realize Harbaugh could have handled it much, much better.

You don't understand that people like you have given Michigan a bad name for a very long time. You love to moralize to others about how superior Michigan is and how they are the only school that does things the right way. But nobody cares about that. Everybody loves their alma mater, not just you.

Your attitude is what has given Michigan the arrogant reputation that we have. Arrogant is not a great look. And because of people like you, some people in the media are throwing it back in your face, and you don't like it. That's why you're mad.

 

[JRforUM]

AGP.

Go Blue!

 

[BlueCoral]

Kids change their commitments all the time and the schools can't? That is hypocritical. Harbaugh is doing everything possible within the rules to build a championship team at UM. We had the "nice guy" Brady Hoke approach and it didn't work. If we want to beat OSU, who is a machine right now, we have to recruit hard. If we have to pull scholarships then so be it.
Jim Harbaugh will go down as a gray coach for UM and I hope he can bring home a few Championships.

 

[BlueKachi]

You don't understand that people like you have given Michigan a bad name for a very long time. You love to moralize to others about how superior Michigan is and how they are the only school that does things the right way. But nobody cares about that. Everybody loves their alma mater, not just you.

Your attitude is what has given Michigan the arrogant reputation that we have. Arrogant is not a great look. And because of people like you, some people in the media are throwing it back in your face, and you don't like it. That's why you're mad.

Project much?

No, I am looking at it from the perspective of some kids who were promised spots on the team, did what they were supposed to do, and then had the rug pulled out from under them when the stuff put them on ignore for long periods of time and then ultimately pulled their offers.

My guess is Harbaugh isn't so aggressive in his next round of swarms.

And, admit it, a lot of UM fans have cast stones at other schools when they signed 30+ member classes and/or ran kids off. How far away are we from medicals a la Saban?

 

[detroitjohn]

You don't understand that people like you have given Michigan a bad name for a very long time. You love to moralize to others about how superior Michigan is and how they are the only school that does things the right way. But nobody cares about that. Everybody loves their alma mater, not just you.

Your attitude is what has given Michigan the arrogant reputation that we have. Arrogant is not a great look. And because of people like you, some people in the media are throwing it back in your face, and you don't like it. That's why you're mad.

He'll quickly switch the topic, parse your grammar like a frustrated Catholic nun, ask you if you actually went to UM (and insist you could not because, well he knows), hassle you worse than an inner-thigh rash, and then claim to have gnostic-like insight into Harbaugh's soul and moral compass. I wasted an afternoon trying to educate and correct him, but like a wayward prodigal, it didn't take and he continues to display his ignorance as a badge of honor.

 

[detroitjohn]

Oh, and he loathes Harbaugh, says he has for years. No sense in trying to persuade prejudice...

 

[BlueKachi]

LOL -- you're once again speaking from a position of absolute ignorance, fan boy.

 

[PharmD Blue]

LOL-- you're once again trying to speak as if you are on some moral pedestal above all others. Give me a break