ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Some head coaches get more involved than others when it comes to recruiting. For new Michigan football head coach Sherrone Moore, he plans not only to recruit the next generation of players with extreme vigor, but he’s also aware he needs to recruit the current players on the team to keep them from entering the transfer portal.
“Yeah, it’s changed, it’s changed tremendously, but we’re gonna be extremely aggressive with it,” Moore said. “Going to attack it just like I attacked — when I was primary recruiter, attack like we’re attacking the scheme. Gonna do it the same way, the same attitude — relentlessly. So we make sure that we have we keep our great players here and we bring in great players to this program.”
Former head coach Jim Harbaugh wasn’t necessarily particularly aggressive from a personnel standpoint, relying more on his staff in that area. While Harbaugh made house and high school visits, after the well-publicized antics of his early tenure (such as sleepovers and tree-climbing), he wasn’t often mentioned as a coach who sealed the deal in many recruitments.
Under Moore that should change. The primary recruiter for five-stars such as former safety Dax Hill and quarterback J.J. McCarthy, Moore was an ace recruiter for the Wolverines. Now as head coach, he doesn’t plan to slow any time soon when it comes to attacking the trail.
“Yeah, I think it’s huge. You can watch the programs around the country that have sustainability and continued success — their head coaches are attacking recruiting at a high level,” Moore said. “Coach (Harbaugh) did that, but I want to take it to another level. I want to attack it every single day. (Be out) recruiting, talking to kids, making sure that we have the resources that we need here on campus from a NIL standpoint,…
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Author : Wolverines Wire
Publish date : 2024-01-27 19:34:52
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