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All joking aside I think recruiting has a lot to do with this.
Methinks the "QB whisperer" thing is dead to recruits and Harbaugh is scrambling in his gimicky, superficial, stupid ass way to look like he's got a competent offensive system that the top shelf recruits (outside of fullbacks) are going to want to play in. Like almost anything that involves interacting socially with other human beings, he will fail at it.
- Day has an offensive guru reputation, the testimony of Haskins passing stats and 62 points in The Game going for him.
- Jimmy has a new, unproven OC trying to modernize the offense after 4 years of it being demonstrably outdated.
- He just had to take the leftovers from a first year coach in Day for his 2021 QB.
Methinks the "QB whisperer" thing is dead to recruits and Harbaugh is scrambling in his gimicky, superficial, stupid ass way to look like he's got a competent offensive system that the top shelf recruits (outside of fullbacks) are going to want to play in. Like almost anything that involves interacting socially with other human beings, he will fail at it.
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LovelandBuckeye
You never lose to those pricks. Ever. Ever. - UFM
@Jaxbuck has a point. Day hasn't even recruited a fullback. Might be time to move on from this experiment.
Fuck Harbaugh!
Fuck Harbaugh!
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A comparison of Ohio State and Michigan offensive skill position recruits for the Class of 2020:
| Ohio State Recruit | Position | 247 Rating | Michigan Recruit | Position | 247 Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Julian Fleming | WR | .9978 | A.J. Henning | WR | .9604 |
| Bijan Robinson | RB | .9899 | Blake Corum | RB | .9229 |
| Mookie Cooper | WR | .9643 | J.D. Johnson | QB | .8929 |
| Gee Scott Jr. | WR | .9641 | Roman Wilson | WR | .8927 |
| Jack Miller | QB | .9630 | Nick Patterson | TE | .8738 |
| Jaxon Smith-Njigba | WR | .9564 | Matthew Hibner | TE | .8485 |
| Joe Royer | TE | .8802 | Gaige Garcia | RB | .8104 |
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LovelandBuckeye
You never lose to those pricks. Ever. Ever. - UFM
Yeah, but once Jimmy gets a hold of them and develops them they would be at least an average rating of .8858.
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ORD_Buckeye
Wrong glass, Sir.
Went over to Stadium and Main for a glance, and I just have to wonder how far up his ass they'd be if he were actually winning anything.
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Grouping by position, we can see a little better the disparity across each position. The only position where they come even remotely close is at WR, which is the only skill position at which they have a commit rated higher than a Buckeye commit, and even that is because their top WR is still below three of our four WRs. Well, the may be close at TE, too...sorta:
| Ohio State Recruit | Position | 247 Rating | Michigan Recruit | Position | 247 Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jack Miller | QB | .9630 | J.D. Johnson | QB | .8929 |
| Julian Fleming | WR | .9978 | A.J. Henning | WR | .9604 |
| Mookie Cooper | WR | .9643 | Roman Wilson | WR | .8927 |
| Gee Scott Jr. | WR | .9641 | -- | -- | -- |
| Jaxon Smith-Njigba | WR | .9564 | -- | -- | -- |
| Bijan Robinson | RB | .9899 | Blake Corum | RB | .9229 |
| -- | -- | -- | Gaige Garcia | RB | .8104 |
| Joe Royer | TE | .8802 | Nick Patterson | TE | .8738 |
| -- | -- | -- | Matthew Hibner | TE | .8485 |
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UpNorth_Buckeye
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There was an oversight that makes it even more lopsided. Jaylan Knighton, APB. 0.9482
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I fall off the grid for a long weekend, and the Rainman thread has 5 new pages of gold. Good work folks!
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I can remember when Michigan didn't have Peters. It was in 2015 they started to talk about what it would be like to have Peters. Imagine being the winning-est program in football history and going over 100 years without Peters.
Imagine the excitement that they might actually get Peters. The absolute Joy in April of 2015 when they realized they were in fact getting Peters. Then the anticipation of what it would be like to play with Peters. Followed by the impatience - when will Peters come?
Somehow they thought that having Peters would make a difference on the field. It didn't turn out that way. It is one thing to have Peters. But to have Peters perform is something else again. I can recall in particular two years ago when we beat them. What was their excuse? Injured Peters.
As I watched John O'Korn fritter away that game the camera panned to the sidelines where you could tell that all the coaches were thinking about - was Peters.
Then Michigan discovered this kid named Shea Patterson. Well, they said, if we have Patterson we don't care if we have Peters or not.
But the result on the field was the same. We never did get the chance to beat Michigan's Peters - and I am OK with that. I am happy that we have kicked their butt so often over the past 16 years (particularly when we beat their Butt from 2013 to 2016).
And what is the message from this story? Just ask any Michigan cheerleader...
"Michigan men perform the same whether they have Peters or not."
Now Illinois will get a chance to play with Michigan's Peters. Let's see if they can demonstrate that it isn't important that you have Peters, but that you know how to use the Peters you have.
Tune in next week when we discuss Michigan DL Ron Johnson and LB Peter Bush and how the Wolverines might utilize these two in combination.
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