It’s summer, the time when bloggers rack their brains for something — anything — to write about and college football fans count down the seconds until foot meets pigskin. So, welcome to my latest gimmick: The Michigan Football YouTube Bracket. I’m looking high and low for the best Michigan football moments ever captured on YouTube — divided into two categories: Game Performances/Game Winners and Spectacular Plays — and for you, the readers, to vote on the moment that stands out above the rest.
Welcome back — I hope you all had a great Fourth of July weekend. Today, we kick off “beer/burger hangover week” with amazing touchdown catches by two great Michigan receivers.
(3) Desmond Howard’s fourth down catch seals it vs. Notre Dame, 1991
In the second game of the 1991 season, #3 Michigan took on #7 Notre Dame in a battle of marquee teams, and — at least for the Wolverine faithful — the game would not disappoint. Up 17-14 in the fourth quarter, Michigan was faced with a fourth down from just inside the Notre Dame 25-yard line, needing just a foot to get a fresh set of downs. Instead of sending a back plunging into the line, Gary Moeller and his staff decided to go for the jugular — you can hear the shock in Brent Musberger’s voice as Elvis Grbac takes a quick three-step drop and lobs a pass to the corner of the end zone. With the ball seemingly hanging in the air forever, Desmond Howard torches two Irish defenders, lays out, and makes a spectacular touchdown catch, giving Michigan a two-score lead that would stand as the final score and launch his 1991 Heisman campaign in earnest.
(6) Marquise Walker’s go-ahead one-hander vs. Iowa, 2001
The 2001 Michigan squad headed to Iowa with a 5-1 record and the #8 ranking in the country to face a pesky Hawkeye squad, and in the third quarter, it appeared an upset was brewing after a Nate Kaeding field goal gave the home team a 20-7 lead. Chris Perry would cut the lead to six on a three-yard touchdown run with just under six minutes to play in the third, however, and with the clock winding down in the quarter the Wolverines were once again driving deep into Iowa territory. Facing a third-and-goal from the six, John Navarre rocketed a pass towards the right corner of the end zone with the sort of touch Michigan fans had come to expect from Navarre. Miraculously, Marquise Walker leaped over double coverage and hauled down Navarre’s throw with his right hand, which was extended above and behind his head, to give Michigan the go-ahead score. The Wolverines would go on to win 32-26, and Walker’s catch would adorn ESPN highlight reels for years to come.
For the rest of the Michigan Football YouTube Bracket, click here or see below for individual posts.
I was able to attend the Victors Rally at the Michigan Theater on Sunday to do some filming for The Wolverine, and I thought I’d share some of the video I got with you. The first two videos are from former head coach Gary Moeller’s speech. It’s really nice to see Coach Moeller staying connected to the program, and he had some great stories about Rick Leach (the event’s emcee) and Bo Schembechler, a nice dig at Lou Holtz (about the end of the ’94 Notre Dame game, which had been shown in one of the highlight videos just prior to his speech), and his thoughts on what became the themes of the day, the Michigan Man and turning around the program:
Former assistant coach Jerry Hanlon was a surprise speaker, and may have had the quote of the day: “I do want you to know one thing: for an old Irish man to still be included in what is the greatest program in the United States is very heartwarming. I am a Michigan Man.”
The whole speech is a great testament to the program, and to Hanlon’s part in it. Say what you will about this current coaching staff, but you can’t ignore the great effort they’ve made to reach out to former players and coaches. The show of support from the former players (Larry Foote and Brandon Graham were two of the speakers, and several former players were also in attendance) and coaches was a great thing to see, but that support doesn’t come if Rich Rodriguez and his staff don’t make an effort to connect with the old guard, and they’ve done an incredible job of doing so. None of the players and coaches involved with Sunday’s rally were forced to be there, but they were more than willing to step up on stage and stand behind the program and the current staff. I think that says a lot.
For the rest of my video from Sunday, head over to The Wolverine, where they’ve posted speeches by Rich Rodriguez and Foote, and Graham’s speech should be appearing there in the near future. If you weren’t able to make it to the Michigan Theater on Sunday, the video is well worth watching.
I had the pleasure this afternoon of sitting down with former Michigan fullback Dave Fisher, who played under Bump Elliott from 1963-1966. Fisher was part of the 1964 Rose Bowl champions, led the team in rushing yards in his senior season, and was named First-Team All-Big Ten and Academic All-American in 1966. I sat down with Dave today and got his opinion on the Free Press scandal, Rich Rodriguez, and more. Here are some excerpts of our conversation (which deviated off subject sometimes, but he had a ton of good stories, so it’s a very free-flowing conversation).
His reaction to the scandal: “I was concerned that it’s another attack on Michigan, which has always been a great place, I think tries to play by the rules. Rodriguez claims to be doing it by the rules, and he’s the one that knows. If he says, “Ace, I want you here at eight in the morning and I want you home at eight tonight and I want you to watch film all day,” then I think that’s a violation of the rules. If you go in there and say, “Coach, I’m going to be in here looking at film and then go lift weights,” and do all these legal things and then have whatever is in the 20-hour [limit] do that for the 20 hours and you haven’t broken any rules. If it’s peer pressure, your buddies are doing it and you want to do it to make it, that’s not Rodriguez. The real facts, we don’t know. What I don’t understand is why somebody doesn’t get a court order to at least see the transcript of Rosenberg’s [interviews]. Rosenberg, ironically, is a U-M graduate, and he’s stabbing his own school to put his own name in lights, which might end up putting his name dim forever. Especially is he’s wrong.”
On if he thinks there’s an agenda behind the report: “Oh I do. There’s a lot of people who hate Rodriguez. There’s a lot of people who love him. I frankly like him a lot as a person. I don’t have any problems with him.”
“Somebody behind this either wants to hurt Rich, or wants to hurt Michigan … When you ride so high, there’s always some people that want to put you down, and there’s some people that want to put you higher. Unfortunately, that’s life.”
On Rodriguez: “He takes it seriously. I mean, if you were making $2 million a year and going to get fired if these kids don’t do what you want them to do, you’d get upset too. He’s going to reap the reward and he’s going to take the heat. There was a kid that was a first-round draft choice of the New England Patriots, I think. He drops the ball and Lloyd’s the clown. [ed: No idea who he's talking about here, but the point stands regardless.] What mentality does our society have to blame the coach for everything and 18-22 year old kid does out there on the field? I’m more concerned than anything. If it’s true, it’s a problem, but I can’t believe he would risk doing that. He seems like a nice, ethical person. Do many people get as close to the line as they can without crossing it? Yeah. Do people look for loopholes? Yeah. Is he one of those people? I don’t know him that well.
“I can tell you one interesting story, though. I couldn’t play as a freshman. We could only play three years when I played. My sophomore year, I had a lab I had to take, and it could only be taken from 1-5 on Monday and Friday or Tuesday and Thursday. Back then, Monday was a slow day. You would go in and look at films of the upcoming opponent and then go out there and, they called it “break a sweat,” just run around until you perspired see if you had any sore muscles that you didn’t know you had. Then Friday, you just warmed up before the game. So I went in to Bump and I said, “Bump, I’ve got a conflict, what do I do?” And he said, “Fish, you came here for what reason?” I said, “Well of course, to play football for you and to get an education. I thought this was the best place for me to do that.” He said, “You just answered your question. You came here to get an education. You take that class, and I’ll get you through the football part of the deal.” That’s what he put his emphasis on, and that’s what Rodriguez claims to do, to keep these kids in school. Some of them don’t care about getting an ‘A’. I wanted to be an Academic All-American and was lucky enough to do it. But everybody doesn’t have the same goals I had. I had some friends who just wanted to get a degree and be a pro football player, and a lot of them made it. But, at this point in time, we need to believe Rodriguez. Now, if five real people come out and say he’s not telling the truth, then that changes the game for him, big time, and the university.”
On prior coaching staffs: “Lloyd had a bit of ethics, like when you leave here, you’re going to be a better person. Lloyd and Moeller and Schembechler all had a philosophy: you ask them how good this team is, and they’d respond, “Ask me in ten years. What have they done?” Did they make society a better place? Did they become drug addicts? What did they do? I don’t know that Rich would give the same answer, I’ve never asked him. I think he’s a good guy.”
On his hopes for Rodriguez and Tate Forcier: “I, personally, hope he does better than anybody can dream. Have you met Forcier? How much bigger than you is he? I saw that kid, they were playing two-hand touch, can’t tackle the quarterback, some big defensive lineman, 6-7, went like that to him [Dave pushes his arm out] and he hit the ground and hurt his wrist. When that guy hits him head up … whenever you set yourself up as being the number one running back, the number one passer, there’s a guy on defense that’s going to take you out when he gets the chance. Not violently, not against the rules, but he’s going to put Ace Anbender on his Anbender. That’s why they play. That’s part of the spirit of a defensive player. They don’t get a lot of accolades until they smear somebody, crush a quarterback. I worry about Forcier. If you look at Terrelle Pryor, he didn’t burn up the Big Ten last year. In fact, there were a lot of people … I’m from Ohio, so I got a lot of calls Monday morning about the Free Press and you’re in trouble and you’re going to forfeit this year from my buddies who went to Ohio State. There were a lot of people who thought the other kid, [Todd] Boeckman, there were a lot of people who thought that he should have been the starter. But I believe Tressel made the commitment, “You come here and you play.” He’s a man of his word I guess. I don’t know what that means about Boeckman, you come in here and you’re a captain and you don’t play because I got this kid to come in who in four years may flunk out, may drop out to go to the pros, or may be the next answer to sliced bread. Who knows what that kid’s going to do? I’ve heard stories about him, too, where you wonder if he’ll get them in trouble.”
On whether you have to bend the rules to be a winning program these days: “First, you have to come to the moral issue, which is: as long as you stay on this side of the line, is everything okay? You don’t like the rules, change them. There’s a lot of rules in society people don’t agree with. Some of them approach them far differently than other people do. To me, if you abide by the rules, and the rules are not appropriate, change them.
“You know, Michigan has been so successful that sometimes they are a leader in changing rules. When Bo came here, by the 70′s they’d developed a network where all the old players across the country … they write letters to kids in high school talking about how great Michigan is. Anyway, bottom line is they changed that rule, so alumni and ex-players can’t contact any high school stud they want to. And Michigan and Ohio State were really good at getting 125 scholarship athletes, so they’ve got 40 more kids than they’ve got today, and those kids weren’t at other schools. So, to level the playing field, they said you all can only get 85, and that’s why freshmen get to play.
“Again, change the rules, make them the same for everybody. It’s obvious Northwestern, which is one of the rungs of the Big Ten, or at least they were, had 7-on-7 football and a kid died [Rashidi Wheeler, in 2001]. If we’re abiding by the rule, there are people who will spend their life finding that gray area, and get as close to that gray area as they can. They want to go 78 when it’s 70 because they can get away with it. They don’t want to go 79 and get a ticket, or 80 and get a ticket. You’re asking a heavy-duty moral question that I can’t answer.”
On whether the scandal will distract the players: “Frankly, I think it will be a bigger distraction to Rodriguez, because, just like you, you’re gonna write an article or whatever you’re gonna do, you’re gonna work on it our you’re going to say, “Hey, it’s a beautiful day, I’m gonna go take my girlfriend out,” or go do what you like to do with your male friends, and it’s a distraction from what should be your primary focus. Some of the players will go, “Man, this is gonna hurt us more and I’m not gonna make it in the pros.” I believe that the three of those guys that left when Rodriguez came in left because they knew Mallett was gonna leave, and they didn’t think Sheridan and Steven Threet could get them the ball, so how are they going to be a first-round receiver choice? Now, do I know that? No. I heard that through the grapevine and through some logic of my own. Let’s face it: a lot of the kids here aren’t going to make $2 million being rocket scientists, where they can jump for the rockets and make it. Society sets these pay standards: entertainers make a lot of money, janitors don’t pay too well. I don’t think I answered your question. [Here I ask him again if the players will be distracted by the scandal.] I think you’re either able to focus on it or you’re not. Frankly, I think it’s more of a personality issue. You might walk out of here and your cellphone rings and some young lady you’re interested in says, “Ace, let’s go have a malt.” Well, you’re gonna say, “Sure,” or you’re gonna say, “No, I’ve got to get this thing done I’m working on.” Is either one right or wrong? No, but that’s all of our personalities.
“People say, “What’s it like to be in there with 100,000 people looking at you?” I can honestly tell you it’s no different than sitting here talking with you. All that noise around you, that goes away, if you’re focused. If I know they’re going to give me the ball and I’m going to run there with it, or I’ve got to block here, that’s all I’m thinking about. Everybody’s got their own job to do. I’m sure there are some guys that are not focused; they’re looking up in the stands to see if their girlfriend is there. That’s the guy that drops the ball, doesn’t catch it when it’s in his hands, that’s because they’re not focused on what their job is.”
The tremendous boredom of the summer months has reached its apex, and I am left to come up with content when there is little to nothing going on in the Michigan sports scene. Luckily, U-M has an amazing database of historical content. The Bentley Historical Library is an incredible resource on Wolverine history, and also a bona-fide time-waster. I love looking through the old team photos … it’s basically like checking out your parents’ high school yearbooks, except with more famous people and without the stigma of looking through your parents’ high school yearbooks. Anyways, I’ve decided to click to a random year and find the most awesome/silly/ridiculous-looking player for that year, and then dig up what I can find on said player’s career at Michigan.
Today, we move away from the players for a minute, and check out the earliest possible photograph of Michigan’s big-name coaches. First up, the Bo Schembechler line, featuring Bo himself, Gary Moeller, and Lloyd Carr:
The picture of Lloyd is from 1980, his first year as an assistant at Michigan, while both Bo and Mo are from 1969, the first season of the Bo Regime at Michigan.
Now time for some old school. Check out Mr. Winged Helmet himself, Fritz Crisler:
We really need to bring back the days when coaches wore suits. Maybe Charlie Weis would complain, but he’s going to be fired in a year or two anyway. Need some more proof that suits are the way to go? Check out the greatest coach in school history, Fielding Yost, in the team photo from his first year at the helm of the Wolverines, 1901:
Now that, my friends, is a leader of men. No wonder that 1901 team outscored their opponents 550-0 en route to Michigan’s first national title; the other teams were clearly too distracted by the shiny pin on Yost’s suit. The numbers back it up: When Michigan coaches wear suits — 10 national titles. Without — Just one. I know, I just blew your mind. If we can get RichRod into an adidas-approved double-breasted pinstripe, I’m sure Michigan will have no problem plowing their way through the competition and silencing all the doubters. Somebody get on this immediately.
For the next indeterminate amount of time, I will be counting down my top 15 offensive and defensive players from the last 15 years. Today, I unveil my picks at #2 for each side of the ball:
As the countdown nears its conclusion, we reach the point where you can probably deduce the top athletes on each side of the ball. However, this is about the runner-ups, who were both great players in their own right (obviously). Without further ado, let me introduce the rest of my crew.
Offense: Tshimanga Biakabutuka, RB, 1993-1995
Despite spending 2/3 of his career as a backup to Tyrone Wheatley, I can’t do anything but put “Touchdown Tim” ahead of the man who kept him from the starting role for his freshman and sophomore campaigns. Why? Well, for one, if there was a single Michigan jersey I’d like to own, it’d be a #21 home blue with “Biakabutuka” on the back. Second, and much more importantly (unless you really care about my jersey preferences), he had the greatest season of any running back in school history as a junior, as well as arguably the best single-game performance of any player in the last 15 years.
Even as a freshman, Biakabutuka showed flashes of what was to come despite being the low man in a crowded backfield behind Wheatley, Ricky Powers, Ed Davis and Walter Smith. In the ninth game of the season, against Purdue, he exploded for 140 yards and two touchdowns after amassing all of five career yards in two previous appearances. As a sophomore, despite playing behind a bonafide Heisman candidate, Biakabutuka forced Gary Moeller to give him carries. Tim would finish the 1994 season with 793 yards and seven touchdowns on 126 carries, and had four 100-yard games despite going over 20 carries in a game only once on the year.
All that set the table for his junior season. After getting only seven carries in the opener against Virginia when Michigan had to claw its way back from a 17-0 deficit, Biakabutuka went nuts. His final 1995 numbers: 303 carries, 1818 yards, 6.0 yards per carry, 12 touchdowns, eight 100-yard games, four 190-yard games (yes, 190-yard), two-200 yard games. Oh, and a 313-yard game:
The fact that Biakabutuka’s performance came against Ohio State, a perfect 11-0 and ranked #2 coming into the Big House, boasting the nation’s top player in running back Eddie George (the eventual Heisman winner), vaults the game into the forefront of every Wolverine fan’s consciousness when they think of the best games by a Michigan player. I don’t want to discredit the rest of his tremendous career by saying that one game pushed him past all the other great Wolverine backs of the past 15 years, but it’s also tough to say it didn’t. Regardless, I will argue that Touchdown Tim is the best running back of the past 15 years at Michigan, and for that, he gets the #2 spot on this list.
Defense: Ty Law, CB, 1992-1994
Before that Woodson guy rolled through, Ty Law was the best corner to ever play at Michigan, and it’s a bit unfortunate for his legacy that his career was immediately followed by the eventual Heisman-winner. Talk about stealing a guy’s thunder (not that I’m complaining one bit, Charles). Like Woodson, Law was also a three-year starter at corner, a multiple-time All-Big Ten selection, an All-American, and an early-entry into the NFL Draft.
Law was a tremendous physical corner, using his 6-0, 201 pound frame to bully wideouts off their routes and gain position to knock down or intercept the ball. The numbers are good (19 career pass breakups, eight career interceptions), but you really had to watch #22 to appreciate his full impact. Like Woodson and Marlin Jackson after him, opposing quarterbacks chose to throw anywhere but at Law, so he earned every one of those stats. He also was great in run support, finishing with 164 career tackles despite not giving up completions to his man.
Ty Law was the complete package at corner, a big guy who could run with the fast wideouts and play physical with the big ones, adept at pass coverage and run support. Fittingly, he slots in at #2 on this list, one spot behind the corner who supplanted him (what, you really expected me to hold up the suspense on that one?).
Agree? Disagree? Want to share your favorite Biakabutuka and Law moments? Be sure to drop a comment, and remember that I’ll be taking submissions for your top 15 offensive and defensive players (and top five special teamers) until I’m done with the list. Post your lists in the comments, or shoot me an email at ace@thewolverineblog.com, and I’ll compile the lists for the final post alongside the lists of members of The Wolverine staff. Make sure to check back every weekday: next I post the #1 players for offense and defense.
Offense:
15. Marquise Walker
14. Chris Perry
13. Chad Henne
12. Jerame Tuman
11. Brian Griese
10. Anthony Thomas
9. Tom Brady
8. Mario Manningham
7. Steve Hutchinson
6. Jake Long
5. Mike Hart
4. David Terrell
3. Tyrone Wheatley
2. Tshimanga Biakabutuka
Defense:
15. William Carr
14. Leon Hall
13. Ian Gold
12. James Hall
11. Rob Renes
10. Alan Branch
9. Marcus Ray
8. Dhani Jones
7. Jarrett Irons
6. Marlin Jackson
5. Glen Steele
4. David Harris
3. LaMarr Woodley
2. Ty Law
Special Teams:
5. Zoltan Mesko
4. Marquise Walker
3. Garrett Rivas
2. Steve Breaston
1. Remy Hamilton
The Wolverine staff writer Matt Pargoff was kind enough to answer a few questions about football recruiting for the blog. Topics run from the glut of three-star commits in the 2010 class to how the current class will shape up and much more. Read on to get some knowledge from a guy whose full-time job it is to follow this kind of stuff.
AA: Many Michigan fans are concerned with the number of three-star recruits being taken this year by Rich Rodriguez and his staff. Do you share this concern?
MP: In general, it is not too concerning. For starters, the class is not complete, so there is still room to add more talent to the existing commit list. But beyond that, recruiting rankings are far from an infallible means of measuring talent. Some kids in every class pan out above expectations and some below. If just a third of the class ends up producing at a high level, it can generally be looked back on as a successful recruiting campaign.
I’m of the opinion that recruiting rankings don’t mean everything, but they don’t mean nothing either. There is some level of validity to them, even if tons of kids are missed, overrated and underrated. Teams that get higher rated recruits do tend to produce better on the field. But regardless of that, one recruiting class is never going to make or break a program or even an individual team. The 2000 Michigan recruiting class was seen as a disaster at the time, but it produced a Rimington Award winner, a Doak Walker award winner, two trips to the Rose Bowl and a pair of 10-win seasons.
If Michigan were to load up on three-star prospects every year, it might become a concern. But the 2010 class for Michigan looks to be very similar to all of the Penn State classes that made up an 11-2 team last year. Now, because Penn State has done that every year, I have my doubts about their ability to sustain such a high level from year to year. I think they will take a dip in their play this season because they have not consistently recruited on the highest level. But if Michigan recruits on a comparable level to Penn State for one year, then bounces back to where they were in the previous two classes, it should not affect the sustainability of success on the field.
Finally, many Michigan fans complained over the years that the Wolverines recruited top, top players, but had a minimalist approach to scheme. Now Michigan is making the move to become more of a “system team,” and some of the same folks complain when players recruited to fit that system aren’t ranked highly enough.
Small slot receivers, running quarterbacks and defensive tweeners don’t get the same respect in the rankings. If they’re needed for the system though, they’re needed for the system. Nebraska was a dominant force in the 1990s and rarely if ever got top 10 recruiting classes. And that doesn’t mean that recruiting rankings mean nothing, but they are just something that should always be taken with a grain of salt. How many top 25 classes has Utah had in the five years?
AA: Do you think Rodriguez should be “offering” players and then telling them to wait when they try to commit?
MP: All scholarship offers are conditional on variety of factors. The kid has to keep his grades up, stay out of trouble, and yes, decide on a timetable that works for the coaching staff that offers. It can lead to unfortunate circumstances from time to time, but it is, and always has been a part of recruiting at Michigan and all schools.
Former Notre Dame running back Ryan Grant wanted to commit to Michigan early and former North Carolina linebacker Doug Justice wanted to do the same, but by the time they were deciding, there just wasn’t a place for them anymore. Typically in the past, Michigan would just stop recruiting kids they had offered along the way as spots became full, but there was a regular slow playing of certain prospects late in the game as scholarship numbers became tight. It’s just part of recruiting.
If hypothetically a school needs a quarterback in its class, it would be unwise to put all eggs in one basket and offer just one. Instead, five, six or seven might be offered to ensure that the school gets one. But what happens if two or three want in and there just isn’t room? Welcome to the harsh world of football recruiting – first come, first served.
AA: How do you see this class shaping up? Can Rodriguez possibly pull this into a top-10 caliber class?
MP: Given the number of players already committed and where they are currently ranked, it is unlikely that Michigan will finish in the top 10 in the recruiting rankings. The Wolverines have around 20 scholarships to hand out, which may continue to go up. Some kids in the class could be bumped up in the rankings and a strong finish is always possible.
But it would take a lot of things going right for a top-10 finish at this point. It should not be expected.
AA: How much do you think this recruiting class is being affected by the team’s unusually poor performance last season?
MP: Actually, I don’t think it is being affected that much by the season at all. Michigan is still getting a lot of top rated prospects interested. They are still coming in for visits and talking about Michigan for official visits in the fall. It’s just that most of the recruits that have offers that have been ready to commit so far were not the ones with the most stars next to their names.
If the recruiting rankings are really, really important to you, then an argument could be made against the strategy that has been employed in offering such a large number of kids. But people also have to remember that the coaching staff wouldn’t offer someone that they didn’t want, and they have a better understanding than anyone of what their greatest needs are and which players best fit their system.
AA: Do you think Michigan fans should expect this type of high-volume (in terms of offers), wide-range (in terms of star talent) recruiting from Rodriguez in the future?
MP: That is a difficult question to answer, because recruiting strategies can change over time. When Lloyd Carr was head coach, it changed drastically over time. Early on, he followed Gary Moeller’s more aggressive approach to recruiting and took some risks on certain personalities. As he found great success on the field, see the 1997 season, that became less necessary, but Michigan still placed a significant amount of energy on regions outside the Midwest.
Following the disastrous 2000 recruiting class, there was a significant shift in favor of recruiting the home region with greater energy. When Bill Sheridan replaced Bobby Morrison as recruiting coordinator following the 2002 season, there was an emphasis placed on not taking as many early commitments as in the past. Over time, and further changes at the recruiting coordinator job, methods were developed for primarily offering recruits with a higher level of mutual interest. But looking at the big picture there, it was never one single recruiting strategy, but rather a constantly evolving one.
It is anyone’s guess how that will play out with Rodriguez in charge. More prospects were offered last year than fans were familiar with, and even more have been offered this time around. But you need more than two data points to plot a trend. Folks at West Virginia noted that his offensive recruiting started out a lot stronger than his defensive recruiting, but evened out over time. It would not be a surprise to see a similar evolution in recruiting at Michigan.
For better or worse, each class tends to develop in its own unique way. I think that inconsistency may be a universal constant in recruiting. In other words, fans should always expect the unexpected.
For more Pargoff, and more on Michigan recruiting, and much more on Wolverine sports in general, check out TheWolverine.com.
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