Podcast 02-07-19 (2019 recruiting special and other Michigan topics)
The Michigan Insider
247Sports, Michigan Football, Michigan Wolverines, Michigan, Michigan athletics, College Football
4.6 • 855 Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2019
⏱️ 96 minutes
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Summary
This week’s podcast, about half an hour longer than usual, includes over an hour of recruiting discussion, as Lorenz and Shaw break down virtually every angle of the Michigan football team’s 2019 recruiting class. The two discuss their impressions of the class overall, key recruiting wins in the class, trends in evaluating the cycle, which recruits will have instant impact, what can be read about the early enrollees, which players are sleeper prospects, who will have the biggest overall impact and which coaches stepped up most in the class. Following that discussion, the duo break down the early goings of the 2020 recruiting cycle from a macro perspective, looking at the impact of Michigan’s new assistant-coaching hires, which areas of the country the Wolverines are going to target the hardest and some early names to keep tabs on. The podcast closes with a brief discussion of Michigan hockey, Wisconsin basketball and the Wolverines basketball team’s matchup against the Badgers Saturday.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody. Welcome to the Wolverine 24-7 podcast, your audio source for all things, Michigan football, basketball, and recruiting. |
| 0:16.8 | Good amount of stuff going on. This episode is going to be mostly regarding 2019 recruiting. |
| 0:23.2 | Signing Day was Wednesday. |
| 0:25.2 | We record on Thursdays. |
| 0:26.4 | If you're listening another day, then just understand this was record on Thursday. |
| 0:29.6 | But we're going to talk a lot about this 2019 class. |
| 0:32.3 | We kind of mentioned in January, we wanted to kind of pool it all as one, you know, the various impacts of these |
| 0:38.3 | recruits. Pretty good class. Could end up as the number one Big Ten class. I think, I think |
| 0:44.6 | Penn State's waiting on one guy, a safety, if they get him, they'll jump. But regardless, |
| 0:49.7 | either first or just shy of first in the Big Ten, a top 10 class, you know, a class that, |
| 0:56.4 | and we'll talk more about this in the next hour, but, you know, very complete class, |
| 1:02.1 | you know, lots of different needs filled at different positions. |
| 1:05.2 | So we'll talk about that. |
| 1:06.3 | We'll have probably 15, 10, 15 minutes of basketball and maybe some other questions regarding football, |
| 1:14.0 | basketball, hockey, yada, yada at the end of the show. But first, we'll talk some recruiting. |
| 1:19.6 | I'm Zach Shaw. You can read my stuff to Michiganinsider.com. You can also read Steve Lorenz's |
| 1:24.0 | stuff. He's real big in the recruiting scene. He's on this podcast as he is every |
| 1:29.1 | week. And so Steve, pretty tame signing day. You know, Quentin Johnson signed. You know, that was, |
| 1:39.4 | that was really the only, only drama. But, you know, it's far, but we can finally start to look at this class. |
| 1:47.3 | You know, we've joked if there was more late drama, people would feel a lot differently |
| 1:51.4 | about this class. |
| 1:52.6 | It's kind of a top 10 class that I wouldn't say people are forgetting about, but it maybe |
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