Mailbag question: How good a recruiting class was this?

Hi guys,

Michigan seems to have had a pretty good recruiting year. It seems that recruiting and signing days are more and more becoming huge media events. I'm not sure I was much aware of the process in earlier years.
How did Michigan's recruiting classes typically rank in the Carr era?
What are your thoughts on this year's class?

Thanks,

-- FA

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Thanks for the question.

We are very impressed with Coach Rod and the Michigan staff's ability to close out this class.

Getting the four commitments Michigan did in last two days was excellent. Overall, we think this class is good, not great.

We like the offensive line haul, the two quarterbacks, and added skill position players. This class is on par with what Coach Carr produced. He had some classes ranked higher, and some ranked lower.

The position that we felt the staff missed out on was defensive tackles: they missed two at the very end, but both did not seem that interested in Michigan. Consequently, it would have been nice to get a true linebacker and get another defensive back.

We will go more into depth once we get a better handle on what Coach Robinson wants to run and see practice this spring.

Recruiting has almost become a second season cottage industry. We remember the Bo days when teams guarded their verbals until signing day. We used to huddle by the radio to listen for details on exactly who Michigan had signed.

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