Michigan Monday/Tuesday: What is Michigan Selling?

Being a Michigan Football fan we believe all recruits should want to play in the Maize and Blue.  Michigan is the winnest program in college football history, Ann Arbor is rated the best college town by many publications, and has real academics where a degree from U of M means something.  

Yes, throw is the other stuff like great coaches,NFL draft picks, great staff, great facilities and its the total package.  Still, Michigan has always done well in recruiting, like averaging the #10 class every year.   Why not top 5?  Or more 5 stars?  Most folks believed its was because Michigan was a little late to the NIL game or even prior to that, some would say the Bama rules, where they have been doing NIL for 20+ years.

When a new staff comes in, usually that first class suffers.  They might throw up a 20th ranked class for example.  They have not had a chance to create relationships at this new school and build a recruiting foundation.  In fact, this new staff did start off slowly as they had other priorities like saving the roster and the portal.   Now they are focusing on recruiting the 2027 class and are seeing great success.   Lately with so many guys committing its hard to even keep up.

Last Wednesday: Instate Athlete Lundon Hampton commits

Last Friday: 4-star Safety Tavares Harrington commits on Rivals You Tube 

Last Saturday: 4-star TE Colt Lumpris flips from Alabama 

I would say that is a positive recruiting outcome for a holiday weekend! 

Michigan currently has the:

•  #9 class on 24/7
• #11 on Rivals 
• #10 ESPN

I guess we have that 9-11 range covered!  Michigan's class a few weeks ago was ranked around 40th. 

• Michigan commit Lou Esposito from Saline, MI earned Offensive Line MVP honors at the Under Armour Next Camp in Chicago this weekend.  He also had a little something for the services as he posted on social media he was excelling with his 3-star ranking. 

Michigan Friday: Welcomes an Instate Athlete

Lundon Hampton has a great name and sounds like a great destination to take a Summer Vacation to.  Hey Becky, where are you headed this Holiday Weekend?  Oh, love we of course are going to Lundon Hampton to enjoy the beach and shopping. 

Fortunately for Michigan fans, Hampton is a swiss army knife type of player.  He is 6'2 and 203 pounds and has been recruited everywhere from LB, Safety, Nickel, and Running Back.  He also returns kicks for his high school in Grand Rapids.  

Hampton is a 3 star (mostly because services don't know where to rank him) but teams really like him and he has a host of offers from the likes of PSU, Pitt, MSU, Iowa, BC, CAL, Louisville, UK and many more.   His recruitment was led by Michigan RB coach Tony Alford so there is a very good chance he ends up a RB in Ann Arbor.  

• Michigan Baseball stays alive in the Big Ten Tournament after a 3-0 win over OSU.  It's now single elimination from here on out. 

Enjoy the holiday weekend!  

Michigan Thursday: Just Hitting The Highlights

• Michigan Freshman Center Marcus Moller reports he is cancer free and ready to start basketball activity again.  The book on MM is that he is a 7'3 center from Denmark that has a good shooting touch and not afraid of the 3 ball.  Yes, please! 

• Look who's back in College Football.  Lane and LSU hired back Coach O.  LSU loves a rehire as they just hired their former basketball coach Will Wade back.  Who just signed an G-League player. 

• 100 Days until College Football kicks off! 

• 5 Star CB Joshua Dobson met with Michigan last night.

Wolverine Wednesday: Wishes Morez Good Luck

When your team wins a national championship you lose key players and coaches.  The football team lost its head coach and its QB.  The basketball team loses a key assistant and their top 3 players to the draft.  Morez made it official yesterday that he is staying in the NBA Draft.   This was always the presumed decision path after his strong play in Chicago at the combine.  The only thing that was making this a difficult decision was Morez love for the Michigan program and Dusty.    He made the right decision, his stock may never be higher then it is right now.  

His mock draft status seems to be anywhere from #12 to #22.  

Time for Dusty to fill that last roster spot with a knock down shooter (or a back up point). 

• Michigan is doing a smart move by buying a lot of Concordia College campus.   What a great way for UM to expand in Ann Arbor.  

• Iowa State AD's is sick of The Big Ten and SEC and thinks they should break away.   Take it easy Francis. 

• Tony Petitti is going to die on the 24 team playoff format. I'm really torn here, I'm not a Tony fan but I think playoff expansion is inevitable as the Bowl Games are completely irrelevant.

• Michigan has offered NFL ESPN analyst Booger's son, Marcus Spears Jr.