Michigan football isn’t where it wants to be. That isn’t breaking news.
The team is coming off a 9-4 season, and hope that things will quickly turn around lies in the hands of recruiting classes that haven’t gone the direction coaches would hope. The Wolverines landed the No. 14 recruiting class this year, according to 247Sports. Michigan had the No. 8 class in 2019, No. 22 in 2018, No. 5 in 2017, No. 8 in 2016 and No. 37 in 2015.
What has led to such up and down trends in recruiting? Well, according to Rainer Sabin of the Detroit Free Press, much of it is because the team has lost some of its luster recruiting in southern states.