Recruit Survey

Very interesting survey given to Michigan recruits by ESPN:

Couple items of interest:

Kids overwhelmingly like the differant jerseys.
Several kids though they would head to Ohio before Hoke worked his magic.
Borges might suck at recruiting.

http://espn.go.com/colleges/michigan/football/recruiting/story/_/id/8913298/michigan-wolverines-commits-surveyed

I questioned this when someone posted it last week willie.

Look at question #1. According to their survey only 1 guy was planning on coming to Michigan before the process started? Really? only 1? That's basically impossible. Shane was a guy that knew where he was going right from the get-go. So they are saying no one else thought they'd end up at Michigan?

That's very questionable to me.

Don't know (fully) about that, Joe. Your point is taken, but I'll bet there were only a very few, if not just that 1 (SM), who honestly knew they were headed to Michigan. After all, by far the state producing the most of them
was Ohio, and we all know what sugarplums dance in their heads (at least at some point in their youth). As for the others, kids from out of state (MI) probably ruminated on several possible destinations. And for the native-Michigan kids, some of them likely (1) thought about MSU, or (2) thought about leaving home for their college career.

So, not sure I'd say it's incredible, or even that highly dubious.

Why would ESPN have to fake it? Also I am guessing there were more recruits that did NOT respond vs. ones that did. That may make up the difference that you speak of.

THEstjoemfan wrote:

I questioned this when someone posted it last week willie.

Look at question #1. According to their survey only 1 guy was planning on coming to Michigan before the process started? Really? only 1? That's basically impossible. Shane was a guy that knew where he was going right from the get-go. So they are saying no one else thought they'd end up at Michigan?

That's very questionable to me.

Only 25 answered that question. Maybe the other 2 ignored the question because they always knew they were coming to UM and thought it was asking for a school other than UM.