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Originally Posted by amartin1326
it looks like we are running out of high quality players in Michigan and now starting to reach for lower quality guys. Anyone pick up on this? Is there anyway we can recruit so this doesn't happen in the future?
I say we start recruiting nationally.
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Tough to do. Its not like we can go into California, Texas or Florida and take their top recruits. We would be taking their severe left overs.
I think the ideal build to a recruiting class is this. Start out with a foundation of Michigan players (Which we are doing now). This will help build our relationships across the state and then when there are pretty open kids, we should be able to beat U of M out for these guys. Then hopefully we can start stringing 3 to 4 winning seasons together and then start to compete in Ohio harder. Right now we are getting beat out by Illinois and Michigan for Ohio recruits. If we put together 4 solid seasons together we can start to get the first leftovers in Ohio. Once this happens we hopefully can have a few seasons with the upper tier Big Ten and then at that time beat OSU for an Ohio recruit. Very tough but that would be the time where we would be able to do it.
At that time, then we can start to branch out maybe to Texas and Florida. Although we are still trying to attack these parts and we may get a guy like Hyder. I think getting a guy like Frankie Telfort is unrealistic at this point.
As far as getting lower quality Michigan players, I don't think we are reaching for lower quality Michigan players at this stage. I think a guy like Gainer would be an excellent addition to this team. I am not in love with having a monster Michigan class. Currently we have 6 commits from the state. I would like to see 9-10 guys from Michigan wind up in this class (Assuming Farrington can get his grades in order).
The other 6-7 we should try and get from Ohio, Illinois and maybe try and reach out to the east coast.