The Wolverines are coming off their best season in decades. Michigan finished the season 12-2 and won the Big Ten Championship over Iowa. Michigan made the college football playoff for the first time in school history just to get blown out by the eventual champs Georgia. Since their lost to Georgia Michigan has lost both their coordinates. Head coach Jim Harbaugh also flirted with taking an NFL job. Despite Michigan’s great season it hasn’t translated to the recruiting trail. The Wolverines haven’t had quite the success they expected to have putting together their 2023 recruiting class. The Wolverines are failing to put together a good recruiting class.
Michigan Recruiting Class
Currently the Wolverines 2023 recruiting class is ranked 36th nationally and 9th in the Big Ten. The Wolverines class is led by 4-star DL Enow Etta, who is ranked 125th nationally. The class has five 4-stars and six 3-stars. Now lets talk about where it’s gone wrong… The Wolverines have had 3 decommits in the 2023 all 4-stars. Jim Harbaugh and company have lost out on a lot of big targets even some in their own backyard. The #1 player in Michigan Qb Dante Moore committed to Oregon over Michigan. Legendary Michigan coach Lloyd Carr has a Grandson named CJ Carr. Carr is a Qb from Michigan and he is the 18th ranked player in the 2024 class. CJ Carr chose rival Notre Dame over his grandfathers old school.
Michigan only has one player ranked in the 200s or less. Michigan hasn’t just missed on a National level but also in Michigan. They have only landed 2 of 7 blue chip players in Michigan. This recruiting class looks more like a Rutgers class then a team who just made the playoff. The Wolverines have also had 10 players enter the transfer portal since their lost to Georgia.
Why are things going wrong?
Why hasn’t Michigan been able to capitalize off their playoff season? There are a few ideas we can throw out there like, losing a lot of their staff, the head coach trying to leave for the NFL or maybe NIL reasons. Losing both of your coordinators absolutely has an affect on recruiting, recruiting is about relationships and losing your coordinators also means losing relationships. Michigan is reportedly not offering the big NIL deals that other programs have been reported to offer.
Jim Harbaugh hasn’t showed his loyalty to Michigan a lot lately. After the season Harbaugh had a meeting with the Minnesota Vikings and reportedly he was as good as gone. The word is Harbaugh went to Minnesota thinking he was getting an offer that never came. Also while Michigan struggles to put together a good class, Harbaugh has been video taped singing Eminem on vacation. Harbaugh doesn’t seem interested in the recruiting game. 5-star Wr Johntay Cook is quoted saying “Michigan was just the same recruiting pitch as everybody else.” The Wide Receiver expressed that Michigan doesn’t work on building relationships with their recruits. Michigan better get their class in shape before it falls behind the big dogs even more
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