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Just recapping what Michigan is doing right now. Harbaugh is going to get some guys out of the south and they'll be competing with Ohio St. quickly. If I was a young prospect it would be hard to not look at Michigan. But once again this exemplifies where a lot of talent is located. He's been in Alabama and Florida in the last week.
Word its a real cavalier approach

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/...the-biggest-2015-offseason-news-so-far/page/2

good read, 2015 news this offseason recap
It’s June, so recruiting rules the day, night and everything in between.

With three known commitments from this past weekend alone, Michigan has been cleaning up on the trail in impressive fashion. Starting at the “Swarm Tour” stop in Indianapolis, the Wolverines gained pledges from Hoosier State stars Kiante Enis of Winchester andChris Evans of Ben Davis in Indianapolis.

Despite being classified as running backs, Enis, a 3-star prospect, and Evans, a 4-star, may end up manning new spots once they land in college. Evans, who was recruited by passing coordinator Jedd Fisch, could fit as a slot receiver, while Enis, a 6’1”, 200-pounder, could end up as a defensive back for secondary coaches Greg Jackson and Mike Zordich.

Striking while the iron is hot never goes out of style, and Harbaugh has the start of something good in Prattville, Ala—the second stop of the “Swarm Tour” and the home of Dytarious Johnson, an unrated linebacker who just promised himself to Harbaugh in 2016.

According to 247Sports, the 6’1”, 200-pounder has just one offer, and that’s the one he received from Michigan.


Meet. Evaluate. Offer. Gain commitment.


The courtship wasn’t all that lengthy, but it produced desired results for Harbaugh, who certainly has something brewing in Prattville. Don’t be surprised to see the first-year Wolverines coach often revisit that well.


Not to be forgotten, Michael Onwenu, a 4-star offensive guard/defensive tackle out of Detroit Cass Tech also gave Harbaugh a "yes." Right now, the in-state trails belong to Michigan State Mark Dantonio, but snagging Onwenu, who was also a Spartans target, was a subtle but stern way of showing that Michigan hasn’t and won’t put Cass Tech on the backburner.

As of Sunday evening, Michigan had 10 commits for its 2016 class, per 247Sports. With that said, it’s probably wise to pay attention to the 2017 cycle, too (95 offers already).
 
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Just recapping what Michigan is doing right now. Harbaugh is going to get some guys out of the south and they'll be competing with Ohio St. quickly. If I was a young prospect it would be hard to not look at Michigan. But once again this exemplifies where a lot of talent is located. He's been in Alabama and Florida in the last week.

Breh michigan has been getting players ranked in the thousands lately and now u got them competing with the elite :mjlol:
 
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Non-bias withstanding, I see this being a very wire-to-wire year for a lot of the top 10. Not undefeated but less than 2 losses.

Ohio State's only competition is a plateau'd Michigan State

TCU has to deal with Baylor and they have some trap games too but they should be a solid favorite over everyone they play

If Watson is healthy, all they gotta worry about is Miami imo. FSU a big trap game but they should get vengeance.

Auburn seems to me to be the favorite for the SEC and they have a (relatively) favorable schedule. I could see Alabama being fukked by Georgia, Georgia again getting fukked by South Carolina, and Tennessee beating Georgia. Bit worried bout TAMU though

PAC-12 has some intangibles, mainly does Vernon Adams pan out or does Sark learn how to actually be an elite coach. Whoever figures those two things out first is the PAC favorite

I think only osu is a best lock to go to the playoffs.The sec is always gonna eat it's own and it's a gauntlet so Auburn is no guarantee.

Tcu is not established enough program to say they should go undefeated

I love Watson but Clemson is losing a TON on defense

I think this years wide open for who gets to the playoffs aside from osu..we could see a 2 loss team in
 

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Breh michigan has been getting players ranked in the thousands lately and now u got them competing with the elite :mjlol:

2013

#1 Alabama 25 4 13 8 3.84 3166
#2 Ohio State 24 2 16 6 3.83 2903
#3 Notre Dame 24 4 14 6 3.92 2893
#4 Florida 29 2 14 12 3.59 2792
#5 Michigan 27 1 16 9 3.63 2661





#40 Michigan State 18 0 3 14 3.11 1478


2012

#1 Alabama 26 3 14 9 3.77 2621
#2 Texas 28 2 15 10 3.64 2481
#3 Florida 23 3 11 8 3.7 2421
#4 Ohio State 25 2 14 9 3.72 2382
#5 Stanford 22 3 10 9 3.73 2297
#6 Florida State 19 3 10 5 3.79 2263
#7 Michigan 25 2 10 13 3.56 2132





#41 Michigan State 18 0 3 14 3.11 876






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I think only osu is a best lock to go to the playoffs.The sec is always gonna eat it's own and it's a gauntlet so Auburn is no guarantee.

Tcu is not established enough program to say they should go undefeated

I love Watson but Clemson is losing a TON on defense

I think this years wide open for who gets to the playoffs aside from osu..we could see a 2 loss team in
That Clemson offense is pretty freaking good man. And there aren't really more than 2 or 3 elite offenses from the ACC

TCU has overall the best team in the big 12, to say they will finish with less than 2 losses should be certain

Auburn in my opinion will have at worse a 2010 season, where you might have some closer than necessary games because the secondary, but there's no defense outside of LSU and Alabama (both based on pure POTENTIAL) that are even a suggestion on slowing the offense

We're DEFINITELY not seeing a 2 loss team, unless 2 of the ACC, B10, or B12 champs win with 2 losses which is very hard to suggest. Like this same shyt was being said late last season and we had like 6 or 7 1 loss teams or better in the top 10
 

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even more on the michigan camps:
PRATTVILLE, Ala. -- When Jim Budzynski told his wife that he was going to drive from their home in central Florida to Prattville, Alabama, on Friday, she called him an idiot. It was "in a loving, kind, supportive way," he quickly pointed out. But passion pushes men to do irrational things. The caffeine of more than a few coffee and energy drinks helped with the roughly seven-hour trip, too.

Budzynski wanted to see his coach, even if there was no game to be played and the sweltering heat of a June day in the South to deal with. Jim Harbaugh, the new man to lead the Michigan Wolverines, was simply too close to let this chance pass by. That Harbaugh was boldly invading territory normally reserved for Alabama and Auburn of the SEC made it all the more enticing. Gus Malzahn and Nick Saban could gripe about the "satellite camp" being an unfair recruiting advantage all they wanted. The lifelong Michigan fan described the camp as straightforward as he possibly could: a slap in the face to the SEC.

"Slapping everybody," he said. "Saban, Meyer, we don’t care. Slap 'em all."


"I understand completely why the SEC and those guys would be upset," Prattville High coach Chad Anderson said. "But I’ve got to look at it from the standpoint of the betterment of my school. I don’t push kids one way or another. I’m an Alabama graduate. :leon: If they want to recruit our kids, great. If they choose not to, there are other schools out there too. ... I guarantee you if they’re released, they’re going to go into [Michigan’s] recruiting areas and put on a camp, too.

"It’s like Coach Harbaugh said, 'We welcome all.' It’s not a big deal for us at all. He’s not afraid to compete with any of the coaches and go toe-to-toe."


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Jim Harbaugh, shown here in Florida, made quite an impression at a camp in Alabama. Courtesy of Greg Howell
But are SEC coaches afraid? Better yet, should they be? It’s not like the league is struggling to recruit. According to ESPN, 12 of the conference’s 14 schools finished with a top-25 signing class this year.

But defending champion Ohio State has made inroads in the South, and now Michigan is trying to do the same. The Wolverines signed Prattville defensive back Keith Washington in February, and Prattville running back Kingston Davis has verbally committed to sign next year. Less than 24 hours after Friday’s camp, another Prattville player, outside linebacker Dytarious Johnson, committed to the Wolverines.


Two hundred players pre-registered for the camp and 200 more showed up the day of -- more than double the attendance of U-M's last appearance in Indianapolis.


"It’s competitive. It’s competition," Washington said. "If you’re going to overlook some of the guys that are right here in your home state and in this area and go way out to California, why are you upset somebody wants to come down and give them an opportunity?"

If it weren't for Harbaugh, we might not be having this conversation. As Anderson put it, "When you have a guy like Coach Harbaugh here, it raises eyebrows. [Penn State coach James Franklin] comes in last year and you don’t ever hear anything about it -- no ripple, no wave." But Harbaugh is all waves. By bringing his entire staff to Prattville and the rest of their summer recruiting tour, he's hoping to make a splash. A cannonball would be better.

The man has an aura. When he takes off his shirt to play a game with the campers, it might look silly. He nearly broke the Internet with his pasty torso and patented khakis. But it connects with recruits.

"It was funny," Davis said. "I double-looked for a second and I said, 'That’s Coach Harbaugh with his shirt off interacting with kids, playing.' It’s pretty cool.

"He’s a cool coach. He’s serious about football, but he interacts with players, too, and that’s a big thing."

As one observer on the sideline noted when Harbaugh ripped his shirt off and began running around in his khakis: "Let’s see Nick Saban do that." The comparison is inescapable.

No coach has brought more excitement to a program since Saban arrived at Alabama in 2007. More than 90,000 fans packed Bryant-Denny Stadium for a spring game that year. He was the man to resurrect a sleeping giant, they said. And they were right. He became the rightful heir to Paul "Bear" Bryant.

He hasn’t coached a game in the Big House, but one Michigan fan called Harbaugh their "savior." Another said he was "Bo Schembechler Round 2." Borrowing a Harbaughism, another fan said, "He represents energy with enthusiasm unknown to mankind."

"It’s the dawn of a new era that’s been a decade coming," Budzynski said. "We’ve been slapped around for a long time and I’m looking forward to slapping back."

Michael May, a U-M fan who settled in Athens, Alabama, wasn’t sure whether all the controversy surrounding the camp was merited. As several parents of athletes at the camp noted, this was about the kids getting exposure, not the coaches. One parent said he will spend $5,000 this summer going to camps like Michigan’s. :damn: If a scholarship offer comes out it, then it will be well worth his investment.

But May liked that others were mad about Harbaugh’s presence in the South. If they were mad, that meant they were talking.

"We want it to be a story," he explained. "We want it to be out there as much as possible, because we want these kids and recruits to know about Michigan’s history, what kind of program we have, and we want them to know it’s available to them. Kids down here are more than welcome to suit up with the winged helmet. We want them up there."

Dale Gray wouldn’t mind if his son, an offensive lineman, wore the maize and blue one day. Sitting in the shade with a crimson Alabama cap atop his head, he was surprisingly level-headed. He had a gray Alabama windbreaker, a crimson Alabama undershirt and crimson shoelaces. He’s loved the Crimson Tide his entire life and would be overjoyed if his son played for Saban.

But he doesn’t see any controversy with Harbaugh or any other coach competing for recruits on the SEC’s turf. The bottom line, he said, was they could stop their "whining."

"He’s doing his job," he said. "The SEC coaches, they get paid a lot of money and they have to win or they don’t have a job. I can understand their situation, but believe you me, there is plenty of talent to go around.

"The SEC is so competitive, and these coaches have worked so hard to get this part of the country covered up. But bless their hearts, it hurt their feelings because somebody from up North came down here."

There will continue to be pushback from the SEC. At the league’s spring meetings last month, it was announced the conference would push for the NCAA to ban all satellite camps. :upsetfave: But if that doesn’t happen, they said they will dive right in, setting up camps far and wide.


If recruiting weren't a crazy enough affair before now, it’s going to get even more wild. Thanks to Harbaugh, everyone is taking notice.

Total bytch move trying to get ncaa to change the rules...enjoy your moment hillbillies, michigan comin :demonic:
 

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We Holding a camp at Florida Atlantic on the 16th, so it will give the SEC more to whine about
they're legit scared because even as jameis winston said, the facilities at old money schools like Michigan, ND, osu, penn state, just absolutely murder anything in the south besides alabama and maybe TN. there is no comparison.
 
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