2021 ludicruous recruting thread

[Mdot21]

5* QB JJ McCarthy signs his LOI. 

After Xavier Worthy and Donovan Edwards sign, Harbaugh can kindly resign and Michigan can hire someone else. 

It’s going to be McNamara vs McCarthy for the job in 2021. Milton is rumored to be transferring. Maybe someone will let him play TE or DE somewhere else? He sure as shit can’t play QB to save his life. 

Harbaugh sucks at evaluating and developing QBs. Only thing that makes me nervous about McCarthy- is Jim Harbaugh will be coaching him. I love everything else. He’s a pocket passer that can run a little bit if need be, his arm talent is among the best in the class in 2021, and while he’s got a strong arm it’s not what makes him- he’s very accurate and he doesn’t throw very man interceptions- zero as a senior at IMG in Florida and only 4 as a jr in Illinois and only 8 as a sophomore. 

No such thing as slam dunks in recruiting, but McCarthy is the real deal imo. Just scares me to freaking death who is coaching him. Bad coaching can ruin great talent really fast.

[847badgerfan]

Mahlman is from Minnesota.

[ELA]

Sounds like MSU is set to flip 4* LB Ma'a Gaoteote from USC, and his older brother, who was a 5* commit two years ago is going to transfer and join him

Signed.

We didn't lose anyone on Signing Day, so that's good.  3 guys who weren't supposed to sign all didn't, the rest did.  Of the 3, only Estime looks like a flip risk (Notre Dame) right now.

#33 overall class, #9 in the Big Ten.  About normal.

Side note, what's going on with Brohm's class?

[Cincydawg]

UGA picked up another 5 star LB.  

Meh.

[betarhoalphadelta]

Side note, what's going on with Brohm's class?

Super small class, so the class rating is going to be terrible. When ranking classes, sometimes quantity > quality. 

The quality isn't wonderful... Last season our average recruiting rating on 247 was over 86, and this year it's 84.71.

But compared to, say, 2016 with Hazell, we had an average recruiting rating of 81.13.

So we're still way better than 2016, but our recruiting class is poorly ranked against the rest of the conference partly because it's so tiny. 

[Mdot21]

Michigan lands Donovan Edwards. Wow.

[Mdot21]

Michigan hangs onto Xavier Worthy. 

They are actually recruiting some really nice skill talent. 

Now just need a new staff to coach them up.

[MrNubbz]

This courtesy of 11 Warriors

2021 COMMIT LIST

RANK STATE POSITION FIRST LAST HEIGHT WEIGHT HIGHLIGHTS
5* OH DL Jack Sawyer 6-5 240 http://www.hudl.com/v/2CQyeZ
5* PA QB Kyle McCord 6-3 205 http://www.hudl.com/v/2AzQGV
4* OH WR Jayden Ballard 6-3 168 http://www.hudl.com/v/2BCUJs
4* OH OL Ben Christman 6-6 299 http://www.hudl.com/v/2CVNAt
4* OH LB Reid Carrico 6-3 225 http://www.hudl.com/v/2Ej6Aq
4* PA WR Marvin Harrison Jr. 6-4 200 http://www.hudl.com/v/2EiDmL
3* CO TE Sam Hart 6-5 225 http://www.hudl.com/v/2CPdcy
3* OH ATH Jaylen Johnson 6-1 212 http://www.hudl.com/v/2Ed6vQ
5* TX OL Donovan Jackson 6-4 308 http://www.hudl.com/v/2EZU8i
4* OH DL Michael Hall Jr. 6-3 290 http://www.hudl.com/v/2CTz5s
4* MO DB JK Johnson 6-0 170 http://www.hudl.com/v/2BrnMG
4* NC RB Evan Pryor 5-10 190 http://www.hudl.com/v/2CTF1U
4* TN DB Andre Turrentine 6-0 180 http://www.hudl.com/v/2BfnXt
5* VA RB TreyVeon Henderson 6-1 210 http://www.hudl.com/v/2C1fzW
4* KY ATH Jantzen Dunn 6-2 178 http://www.hudl.com/v/2BxDCK
4* AZ ATH Denzel Burke 6-1 185 http://www.hudl.com/v/2CXwYJ
3* AUS P Jesse Mirco 6-3 210 N/A
4* GA DB Jordan Hancock 6-1 170 http://www.hudl.com/v/2CGCPp
4* VA DL Tyleik Williams 6-3 330 http://www.hudl.com/v/2CLNcb
3* IN OL Zen Michalski 6-6.5 285 http://www.hudl.com/v/2EF6tQ
5* WA WR Emeka Egbuka 6-1 210 http://www.hudl.com/v/2CfJua

[betarhoalphadelta]

Purdue gets Yanni Karlaftis, staying home in WL with his brother. Karlaftis is a S/OLB hybrid sort of player. Was considered a Purdue lean, but [at least publicly] played it close to the vest. 

Highest rated recruit in the class and only 4*. 

[ELA]

3* OL Logan Murray flipped from Syracuse to take a PWO from MSU.  I have to imagine a scholarship is coming.

[Honestbuckeye]

3* OL Logan Murray flipped from Syracuse to take a PWO from MSU.  I have to imagine a scholarship is coming.

What about that stud Qb transferring in from Temple?  Sounds promising.   

[Honestbuckeye]

Michigan lands Donovan Edwards. Wow.

He is ranked identical to where Charbonet was no?

Does it concern you that Michigan found a way to get out of their last three games, which were likely three losses and possibly two of them being blowouts. And now they bring in a decent recruiting class, which is nothing new by the way, and are clearly going to keep Harbaugh?
it’s like a distraction- “ Hey look at that shiny new object over there!”

seems like a pretty smart move and it appears to be working. I went over on the M board and saw most of the people are all excited about the new recruits, just like they were last year and the year before and the year before and beer before ha ha. 

[Mdot21]

Charbonet was ranked a little bit higher actually. Charbonet is a curious case- he had statistically the 2nd best season a true frosh RB has ever had at Michigan and he set the rookie rushing TD record with 11 TD's- and then as a sophomore his first carry goes for 70 yards and a TD and then after that he barely sees the field again all year. He's got 19 carries. For the year. It's baffling. Charbonet is an NFL talent all day long. If he stays at Michigan he'll wind up like DPJ and a 6th round pick- when his talent says he should be much higher than that. Notice how good DPJ looks as a rookie in the NFL playing with a legit QB with legit coaching? He looks pretty dang good.

I think you are misunderstanding me. I fundamentally agree with you 100%, I am merely amazed they were able to recruit this well and hang onto everybody and add Edwards despite the absolute pathetic season, the contract situation in limbo, and Harbaugh proving year after year his staff does NOT develop QB's, RB's, or WR's. Any skill position player would be crazy to sign with Michigan. Michigan only lost 2 commits, which is shocking to me- I thought they'd lose a lot more- and will close 2021 with a top 10 class nationally.

There are some really nice pieces on this roster if they wanted to cut bait with Harbaugh and move on. I am hoping that's the case, but in reality he's coming back. Sucks.

[ELA]

What about that stud Qb transferring in from Temple?  Sounds promising. 

I don't know about stud.  I liked how Thorne looked Saturday.  My guess is Lombardi and Day both transfer out.