2024 Recruiting Thread

[Mdot21]

Michigan "insider" Sam Webb puts in a pair of crystal BALLZ with a high confidence level for a pair of OL's. 

OT 4* Blake Frazier (6'5, 260) from Texas and C 3* Jake Guarnera (6'3.5, 290) from Florida. Guarnera is a "lowly" 3* but was the #1 center on Sherrone Moore's board according to Webb. Michigan will be taking 6-7 OLs in '24.

[FearlessF]

2022 Big Ten football recruiting budgets
Michigan: $2,240,064
Rutgers: $1,609,032
Penn State: $1,486,521
Maryland: $1,380,974
Ohio State: $1,292,799
Illinois: $1,157,460
Minnesota: $1,127,389
Nebraska: $1,020,050
Michigan State: $955,303
Purdue: $878,651
Wisconsin: $857,490
Indiana: $826,713
Iowa: $577,589
Average annual recruiting budget, 2017-22
Michigan: $1,353,431
Penn State: $1,240,848
Nebraska: $937,279
Minnesota: $904,139
Rutgers: $879,494
Ohio State: $845,113
Illinois: $749,850
Michigan State: $721,879
Maryland: $683,200
Indiana: $606,147
Purdue: $602,360
Iowa: $459,128
Wisconsin: $392,724
Big Ten and national recruiting rankings, Class of 2023
Ohio State (5th nationally)
Penn State (13th)
Michigan (17th)
Michigan State (23rd)
Nebraska (24th)
Maryland (36th)
Iowa (40th)
Illinois (43rd)
Minnesota (44th)
Northwestern (46th)
Rutgers (57th)
Wisconsin (58th)
Purdue (67th)
Indiana (72nd)


Iowa: The ultimate bang for your buck
There’s a line from The Music Man that feels pertinent to Iowa’s recruiting budget. From the song “Iowa Stubborn”:

What the heck, you’re welcome

Join us at the picnic

You can have your fill of all the food you bring yourself

Some 65 years after that was written, the nature of Iowa hasn’t changed much. Nice place. Just don’t expect anybody to splurge to impress you.

The Hawkeyes spent 12th of the 13 available schools in 2022, and are dead last in the category over the 5-year average. No word on whether recruits had to pack their own sack lunches.

Yet Kirk Ferentz still turned that into the Big Ten’s No. 7 signing class in 2023. And Iowa has never finished worse than 8-5 in the past 5 years. You can always count on the Hawkeyes doing more with less.

Though you can’t help but wonder what might happen if Iowa ever tried doing more with more.

[Mdot21]

4* OT Blake Frazier (6'5, 260) of Texas commits to Michigan. Michigan has the #3 class in the nation at the moment, UGA is #1 and Ohio State is #2.

[FearlessF]

260#?

gonna need some pancakes

[Mdot21]

260#?

gonna need some pancakes

I'd much rather take a tackle in HS with that frame and throw weight on him than a kid that's already 6'5, 340 imo.

Taylor Lewan was about 6'7, 275 when he got to Michigan. Wound up working his way up to 310+ over a couple years of S&C and he was by far the best LT that Michigan has had in at least the last 15 years- and it's not particularly close.

[FearlessF]

agreed

[MrNubbz]

2022 Big Ten football recruiting budgets
Michigan: $2,240,064

That's gotta be part of the NIL money they're giving those passing thru the portal

[Cincydawg]

NIL money is completely different from recruiting expenses, isn't it?

[Cincydawg]

I saw some notes about Bear Alexander, the soph NT that entered the portal from UGA.  Imagine you are a pretty high profile NT anywhere, you can enter the portal and "test the waters", if money matters that much, there is no downside is there?

He can still return to UGA (probably won't).  An NT isn't going to offer the power of NIL that a QB could, but some car dealership somewhere might offer him a load just to get him on board.  

(On ungruntled fan said he was failing his courses and wanted to go to an easier school like Wisconsin or USC ...).

This is in need of better regulation I think.

[847badgerfan]

NIL money is completely different from recruiting expenses, isn't it?

Yes.

[847badgerfan]

A prominent UW donor owns this company.

Private Jet Charter Company (wheelsup.com)

UW does not pay for recruiting flights. So the budget is a little out of whack for them.

[Cincydawg]

I imagine all the budgets are "fudged" one way or the other.  I see Kirby Smart likes to arrive by helo at games to see players play to make a splash.

And of course your recruiting footprint is going to be a factor as well.

“I think those numbers are skewed a bit because we don’t have our own airplane or our jet,” McGarity said, according to the Athens Banner-Herald. “Some schools calculate it differently. If we had a jet, we’d certainly cover other expenses in a different category. Right now when we lease an aircraft we just pay the going rate. We just pay straight out for any charter services it would use as opposed to having an aircraft which some schools do. … Cost may be hidden in another category as far as how it’s accounted for. Having gone through that at Florida, which had two aircraft at the time, I know how the expenses are accounted for with aircraft. It’s a little bit different. It’s never really apples and apples, but it kind of is what it is to be able to recruit nationally.”

[FearlessF]

NIL money is completely different from recruiting expenses, isn't it?

if you are complying with the rules
most Buckeye fans know Michigan cheats

[MrNubbz]

NIL money is completely different from recruiting expenses, isn't it?

Prolly I dunno I'm making shyt up it's Michigan after all