Sorry but they got the big ones that they were really going after. More like 6-1. Not as close as you suggest
Not saying they don't count. But MICH puts out a lot of offers and some are more secondary MICH offers that if they accept that Hairballs is likely to try to recruit over. Mich has averaged over 5 decommits a year for a reason. For the most part, the bigger recruits, MICH seemed to put on a harder push won most of the head to head battles. We often win when the players see the potential for more playing time with us than they see at MICH
I am happy we have elevated the quality of NU targets to have this argument. I have said it many times, slowly but surely our talent improves. Terah, Priebe and Joseph will be good players for NU.
It's like a game show. Harbaugh is the host. Contestants have no idea when the wheel will stop on their number.
I'm kind of surprised that you don't want Nu to have better recruiting results.
I think that's the important point though. From top to bottom this is shaping up to be arguably Fitz's strongest class, and we've been able to say that successively for a few years.
That I'm not willing to recruit like a timeshare salesman when dealing with people's actual lives?
actually, i thought your story was fair and not too purple colored.
MICH has a class of 19 so far with12 of them being 4 star (including the 5 we had as top targets that they beat us head to head). They put out 4 times as many offers as we do and cannot put the same effort into all of them. They are going to be beaten out by someone on a large% of their offers. Unless they are their top targets with no one close to their importance, I don't think Hairballs and company are going to get too concerned as they have 5 other guys at a similar level that they are going after while our restrictions generally means that we do not.
#4 especially. That recruiting is comparable to OSU's bur their record is nowhere near. Wonder why?
Probably because they have to play OSU.
That might be the case if they were within 4 wins of OSU during Harbaugh's tenure. But, as you know, they're not...
I’d extrapolate that to coaching wins you games, recruiting wins you more games, both wins you championships, paying players wins you multiple championships.
No one is surprised that Mich is recruiting at a high level.
Sorry but those 4 losses make a huge difference. If they had not played, OSU has 4 losses to Michigan 5. If Mich wins 2 of those games records within one game with OSU having 6 conference losses and Mich 7 and if they had won 3 or 4, they would have the better conference record. Those 4 wins by OSU make a huge difference. In addition Hairballs took over a struggling Mich team and the hangover resulted in a 4 BIG loss season that OSU did not experience. Make that even a 2 loss season and it gets much tighter.
Seems like Michigan is always overranked or just underproduces, since Harbaugh. I don't have the hate against him like some do here. I think overall that he is good for football and has proven to be a good coach. Because of his history of winning, I was hoping that he wouldn't end up at Michigan. But even though he hasn't loss to us, IMO he has done a crappy job there. One in which I'm guessing Michigan fans are uncomfortable with.
