Great interview with Curtis Blackwell on recruiting and the Spartan Way

Q: Speaking of Michigan, there's obviously a lot of attention there with the coaching change. Does that get the MSU's staff competitive juices flowing a bit more?

A: "At the end of the day, we went to the Cotton Bowl, went to the Rose Bowl, we've won Big Ten championships. So I think we're in our own category right now. Some people may be looking for something different, but for us it's, 'Hey, if you want to be part of a championship program, it's right here.' We're not trying to compare ourselves to other programs based on other hires or anything. We talk about our player development and what we do. When other hires occur, that's great in terms of the excitement. But we're just focused on our own success that we're having here."

LooseGoose wrote:And a note in there about how they're babysitting Scott from poachers.

Turtleneck wrote:

The guy they hired in AA has poached has poached a couple in the past 36 hours. It will be interesting if he gets more.

Other Teams Pursuing That wrote:

From who?

Apparently Jim Harbaugh was doing more on Saturday than messing around with the Michigan band. The Wolverines picked up their first two verbal commitments under Harbaugh on Saturday, nabbing both a defensive end and flipping a quarterback from Texas.

Which is good news for Michigan, because if there was one thing that seems to have gotten lost in all the happy feelings surrounding the Harbaugh hire, it's that Michigan's 2015 recruiting class barely even exists. Even with the additions of three-star defensive end Reuben Jones and four-star quarterback Zach Gentry, Michigan's 2015 class still only has eight commits with not much time to add to it before National Signing Day on Feb. 4.
http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/eye-on-college-football/24992159/jim-harbaugh-lands-his-first-two-recruits-at-michigan

Herbie Green wrote:I don't follow recruiting much but that was a great interview.
I wonder about the success rate of flipped recruits. MSU doesn't have a very big sample set - I know of Pittman and Drake Harris - neither of whom seemed to have panned out. I think adverse selection is the term.
So if Harbough builds a class of flipped recruits does he end up with a bunch of flakes? Probably not as I guess poaching has become the new norm and the SEC does fine with it. But I like the way we do things