Michigan needs Dax Hill and Chris Hinton to play like 5 STARZ in 2021.
It blows my mind how Michigan keeps getting highly ranked kids year after year after year through Hoke-Harbaugh years, yet they completely fail to develop them and get the most out of them.
Dax Hill was the most athletic 5* safety recruit to hit the scene in at least a decade. Safeties that run legit 4.3's and have 44" verticals do not grow on trees. Alabama wanted him incredibly badly for a reason.
Chris Hinton- everybody wanted his ass. Alabama, Georgia, Clemson, Auburn, Florida, etc., etc.. He had a college body as a high schooler. He's got an NFL body as a college player. Has yet to translate into 5 STARZ on the field.
Even Jabrill and Gary- who were both 1st round picks- so hard to say they didn't live up to potential- didn't live up to their potential imo. Gary was so freakish he should've been a #1 overall pick. Jabrill was a really good college player but over-hyped- and looking back he was a way better HS player with the ball in his hands than he was on defense. He should've played RB at Michigan. Still would've been a 1st round pick and probably a better player at RB imo.
5 STARZ Derrick Green, Ondre Pipkins, and Aubrey Solomon all washed out under Harbuagh's reign- he never got anything out of any of them. He honestly didn't ever try to challenge any of them and he didn't try to keep any of them.
Donovan Peoples-Jones, Shea Patterson- prime example. DPJ was never developed. 5*, #1 WR, top 10 player overall. Never developed. At all. Didn't have a WR's coach for his first 2 years at Michigan- they had grad assistants coaching the WR's. Kid never learned how to run routes. Insane athletic ability, barely got drafted. He's running routes now on Sunday's. Where was that? Patterson was 5*, #1 QB, #4 player in the nation, actually saw him get worse year over year at Michigan instead of get better. Went undrafted. Look at Charbonnet now. Borderline 5*- not quite but came close- promising true frosh season, gotten worse in his second year and fallen off the face of the earth. He'd be a fool to stick around.
Harbaugh is a poor developer of talent. And most of his staff choices have been awful aside from his first staff with Tyrone Wheatley, Jedd Fisch, and Greg Mattison. But even then he had complete turds like Drevno and Pep Hamilton with him, so.
It blows my mind how he keeps attracting talent. Where you go matters. Who coaches you and develops you matters. These kids are going there because of the helmet, tradition, the town, and everything else the school offers imo. If I was a top player I would stay the hell away from Jim Harbaugh. He is toxic.
