2024 Michigan Season Thread

[MrNubbz]

quit sandbagging. game is in Columbus and Ohio State is out for retribution after taking beatings 3 years in a row. Oh yeah and not to mention Michigan's QB's/offense truly suck.

Ohio State is going to Diddy Michigan. It ain't gonna be pretty.

I'm honestly not doing the "No Way".M's line is still good,so Howard will have to get the ball out quick,wether traps/slants.Day hasn't been "lights out" recruiting lines like  the so called skill positions

[Mdot21]

247Sports' Bud Elliot says Bryce Underwood is the closest thing to Cam Newton that he's seen since he's been scouting/covering all these kids.


https://twitter.com/BudElliott3/status/1859739955591041521/video/1

[Mdot21]

https://twitter.com/Hayesfawcett3/status/1860369534181335452

[ELA]

247Sports' Bud Elliot says Bryce Underwood is the closest thing to Cam Newton that he's seen since he's been scouting/covering all these kids.


https://twitter.com/BudElliott3/status/1859739955591041521/video/1

And Michigan has become the Auburn of the north, so it checks out

[Temp430]

And Michigan has become the Auburn of the north, so it checks out

Lol.  So says Sparty.

[Mdot21]

And Michigan has become the Auburn of the north, so it checks out

Yeah, not really. What Michigan is doing is completely within the rules. And they are finally catching up to Ohio State, Oregon, Texas, and the heavy hitters in the NIL space. What Auburn and the entire SEC was doing for decades to land recruits by having Bubba the Booster drop off McDonald's bags full of cash to HS kids and their handlers wasn't.

Michigan finally decided to get their act together in the NIL era. Which is the worst case scenario for the SEC minus Texas and A&M (rest of the SEC schools are effectively poors) and Oregon.

Michigan flipping Underwood from LSU at midnight was retribution and justice for what LSU did to Michigan like 15 years ago with Jai Eugene. Except it's way better because Jai Eugene was a 4* CB top 100ish overall player and Underwood is a 5* #1 QB/#1 player overall in the nation. You love to see it.

[Mdot21]

since the online recruiting sites era (2002-present) Michigan has landed five 5* QB's. They rank overall as...

1) Bryce Underwood (#1 player overall and #1 QB in 2025 class)
2) Shea Patterson (#4 player overall and #1 QB in 2016 class) *didn't technically sign with Michigan, transferred in*
3) Ryan Mallet (#5 player overall and #2 QB in 2007 class) 
4) Chad Henne (#18 player overall and #3 QB in 2004 class) 
5) J.J. McCarthy (#25 player overall and #5 QB in 2021 class) 

Recruiting sites definitely nailed both McCarthy & Henne rankings, both were great college QB's for Michigan and 1st and 2nd rd picks respectively. Mallett (RIP) was only at Michigan the true frosh year and then transferred out because Lloyd Carr and retired and RichRod came in and was changing the offensive philosophy completely. He was a HELL of a player in college for his new team Arkansas and probably would've been drafted much higher if not for all the off-field stuff. Shea Patterson was pretty average and went undrafted by the NFL. I'd say that one was a miss by the sites. 3 out of 4- 75% hit rate ain't bad.

[MrNubbz]

Yeah, not really. What Michigan is doing is completely within the rules.

Starting this year?Good to see they're turning over a new leaf. But not that asshole who your boy was pictured with by Hayes Fawcett on X.Whoever that that slappie is

[ELA]

Yeah, that's what I was talking about.  Not paying guays.  Just breaking the rules, and then turning around and owning it and flaunting it

[Mdot21]

2026 4* QB commit Brady Hart from Florida flips his commitment to Texas A&M and reclassified to 2025 class and will sign with A&M early next week. Hart was the #96 player overall and #6 QB in the 2026 class in the 247Composite rankings.

Michigan has plenty of time to find a new 2026 QB commit, but it still stings. Hart isn’t an Underwood level recruit but still very good.

Think it’s a horrible idea for the kid to reclassify. Why skip your senior season? Use that year to develop physically and develop your skills/game in HS and oh yeah enjoy being a HS senior and kid. Only get to do that once. 

Feel like 90%+ of these QB’s reclassifying winds up poorly for them in the long run.

[FearlessF]

but, but, but, he can get paid at A&M

[Mdot21]

but, but, but, he can get paid at A&M

by all means, get paid. he’d still have gotten paid if he was a 2026 kid vs 2025. Skipping your SR year of HS typically isn’t a great idea if you’re a football player but especially if you’re a QB. 

[FearlessF]

waiting a year to get paid is tough

you don't want to defer you're paycheck next year

[SuperMario]

waiting a year to get paid is tough

you don't want to defer you're paycheck next year

Shohei Ohtani disagrees.