HooplaNation's Week 7 Rankings - Discussion Thread

Volbound1700 · Oct 9, 2022

NewPhoneWhoDis said:
I'm about as die hard a Michigan fan as you will find. I'm just not a homer and instead simply a big college football fan. The gap in talent between UM and OSU is bigger now than it has ever been in my lifetime. Last year, the stars aligned -- UM had a very good OL and OSU had a very soft DL line. That doesn't mean UM has closed the distance in talent, it means for a year our strengths were their weakness and we finally got a win. The gap in talent is still huge.

Here is a sample:
2019-2022 recruiting classes
Ohio State signed 35 kids ranked in the top 100 nationally and 15 of them were 5 star recruits in those 4 classes
Michigan signed 11 kids ranked in the top 100 nationally and 3 of them were 5 star recruits in those 4 classes.

That is how big the difference is between a top 5 recruiting school and a top 10 recruiting school.

Is it even worse than 2000-2010s? I thought you guys had improved with Jim Harbaugh. I thought it was worse in Rich Rodriguez and Brady Hoke eras.

fishinabarrel · Oct 9, 2022

Volbound1700 said:
Is it even worse than 2000-2010s? I thought you guys had improved with Jim Harbaugh. I thought it was worse in Rich Rodriguez and Brady Hoke eras.

Ohio State didn't start recruiting at it's current level until Meyer. They still had really good classes, but they were much more regional

Volbound1700 · Oct 9, 2022

fishinabarrel said:
Ohio State didn't start recruiting at it's current level until Meyer. They still had really good classes, but they were much more regional

Thanks. I always thought Ohio State was recruiting Nationally since I started watching them (1990s). They were still pretty good in the 2000s.

NewPhoneWhoDis · Oct 10, 2022

Volbound1700 said:
Is it even worse than 2000-2010s? I thought you guys had improved with Jim Harbaugh. I thought it was worse in Rich Rodriguez and Brady Hoke eras.

Rich Rod -- it is possible, simply because he recruited guys who fit his system, regardless of star rankings. Brady Hoke was great at recruiting, he brought in 2 top 5 classes in 4 years at UM. He was just a terrible coach.