Lol; I can't tell if you're roasting me, but if so, it's a pretty good one.
Michigan does not recruit as well as OSU and the dividing line between top 5 recruiting classes, and say number 15, is way bigger than folks realize. We don't get to stack top 100 players on top of each other like you guys do. And I'm not making excuses, I wish we would just copy everything OSU does in recruiting and get on their level, but we're not at that level; even BEFORE Harbaugh started churning out classes ranked in the mid-late teens.
That having been said however, it's all relative right? Most of those guys I listed were mid four stars, and top 200 players. In our last two classes, we've actually taken a step down in terms of recruiting "level." So a typical Michigan class might include one 5 star, a few top 200 players, and then a bunch of high three star "prospects." Now we're not getting any five stars, our (handful of) big catches are low four stars, and a ton of our 3 stars are "climbers" - which is a polite way of saying they'd be low quality prospects, but since Michigan offered them, the recruiting media analysts don't want to look foolish, so they get raised up to the 3.5, 3.6 kind of level.
So for example, OSU is worried about its last class because it's a 10th overall ranked class; it's a cut below what you guys are used to getting in the Meyer-Day era. Well number 10, is a pretty average class for Michigan; except this year? We're number 17 and frankly that ranking is very kind; it could have been lower but some of our rawest prospects are getting the P5 offer bump. We've fallen FUTHER than you did in your "down year" except we didn't start as high as you did, AND we've done it two years in a row now.
You can only do so much "development" - eventually classes that scream "a good year for Purdue" start producing Purdue-like results on the field.
