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Stewart Mandel: Brady Hoke, Michigan recruiting at an elite level
Tuesday, January 29, 2013 10:36 PM
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http://m.si.com/1349964/b...ing-at-an-elite-level/
Signing Day, like Groundhog Day, takes place each year in early February, and it’s arguably just as repetitive. After a new group of teenagers gets done picking between baseball caps, the recruiting sites inform us which of the usual crop of warm-weather contenders — Alabama, LSU, Florida, Florida State or USC — claimed the nation’s top classes for another cycle.
This year, however, there is a wintry mix of northern interlopers.
As of Monday, Michigan, Notre Dame and Ohio State occupied three of the top six spots in both the Rivals.com and Scout.com rankings. And the latter two aren’t entirely surprising. Notre Dame is a fixture among the national recruiting elite even when it’s not coming off a BCS championship game appearance, while Urban Meyer is doing exactly the same thing at Ohio State that he did at Florida.
But Michigan — currently No. 1 by a considerable margin in Scout’s rankings and No. 6 on Rivals’ list — may well be the most noteworthy story of the 2013 recruiting season, primarily because Brady Hoke has proven a capable adversary to acclaimed recruiter Meyer. Last year, the uber-aggressive ex-SEC coach took Big Ten recruiting by storm, making enemies in the process. This year, in his first full recruiting cycle, many assumed Meyer would crush his conference competition.
Go Blue!!
Ohio St.'s actions are not unlike their lower intestine: stinky and loaded with danger.
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Re:Stewart Mandel: Brady Hoke, Michigan recruiting at an elite level
Tuesday, January 29, 2013 10:57 PM
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If you listen to ESPN, Meyer is the second coming. I like our chances. Go Blue.
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Re:Stewart Mandel: Brady Hoke, Michigan recruiting at an elite level
Tuesday, January 29, 2013 11:16 PM
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The love Cryer gets is revolting. Can't wait to to give them a reality check next year. Damn shame Borgess had a brain fart in the second half this season. Hold a team to 6 points and put up a dam goose egg ourselves. Still chaps my ass
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Re:Stewart Mandel: Brady Hoke, Michigan recruiting at an elite level
Wednesday, January 30, 2013 9:40 AM
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Love how Mike Farrell tries to temper the optimism over Michigan's recruiting class by pointing out that we have zero recruits from the south?!?! I guess that would explain why we are only 6 in Rivals rankings?!?! I guess your ranking improves with the more southern recruits you pull??? 
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Re:Stewart Mandel: Brady Hoke, Michigan recruiting at an elite level
Wednesday, January 30, 2013 1:00 PM
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WolvyMike
The love Cryer gets is revolting. Can't wait to to give them a reality check next year. Damn shame Borgess had a brain fart in the second half this season. Hold a team to 6 points and put up a dam goose egg ourselves. Still chaps my ass
Don't open up old wounds...I'll start to get all fired up...haha Go Blue!!
Ohio St.'s actions are not unlike their lower intestine: stinky and loaded with danger.
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ScottsdaleBlue
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Re:Stewart Mandel: Brady Hoke, Michigan recruiting at an elite level
Wednesday, January 30, 2013 1:11 PM
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MattyGoBlue!
Love how Mike Farrell tries to temper the optimism over Michigan's recruiting class by pointing out that we have zero recruits from the south?!?! I guess that would explain why we are only 6 in Rivals rankings?!?! I guess your ranking improves with the more southern recruits you pull???
It's funny how the mothership fails to mention how sh*tty the $EC is in basketball. For how little they are ahead of the Big 10 in football, they are LIGHT YEARS away from where the B10 is in basketball. Go Blue!!
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Re:Stewart Mandel: Brady Hoke, Michigan recruiting at an elite level
Wednesday, January 30, 2013 7:54 PM
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ScottsdaleBlue
WolvyMike
The love Cryer gets is revolting. Can't wait to to give them a reality check next year. Damn shame Borgess had a brain fart in the second half this season. Hold a team to 6 points and put up a dam goose egg ourselves. Still chaps my ass
Don't open up old wounds...I'll start to get all fired up...haha
Go Blue!!
Poke...Poke...So, Scottsdale, how did you feel about our 2nd half play calling against tsiO last season, I forgot. Poke...Poke.... 
Michigan vs tsiO rivalry: 58 wins, 36 losses, 6 ties, & 9 CHEATS Hoke: 1-1 Urban 1-1 vs. UM
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