Coaches hit recruiting trail during bye week
While MSU football players were resting, healing and studying last week, MSU coaches were hot on the recruiting trail.
Coaches used the off week to travel to areas outside the Midwest in pursuit of last-minute recruits who could be added to the Spartans’ already impressive class of 2009. High school seniors can’t sign letters of intent until early February, but MSU has obtained 16 verbal commitments and have a few more available scholarships that could be offered.
“I think we probably made some headway,” Dantonio said of last week’s efforts away from Michigan. “We’ll find out in February.”
Dantonio said the recruiting trips were to gauge where the program stood with current recruits who haven’t yet committed to programs, which are few and far between three and a half months before national signing day. Dantonio and other coaches are not allowed to speak about specific players or recruiting trips for players who have not yet signed letters of intent.
“Recruiting has become so accelerated,” Dantonio said. “We were talking today that the list of committed guys throughout the country is very extensive.”
MSU has the No. 17 recruiting class in the country with eight four-star recruits, according to Rivals.com.
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Jason B
(11/19/08 7:10am)Report
Dantonio has done an awesome job with recruiting. 8 4-star recruits in one class?
That’s ridiculous! And maybe with UofM’s recent downslide, and the fact that they won’t be looking for the same type players we are because we run totally different offensive systems, we might get a lot of the guys that would have gone to UofM. Dantonio has really gotten this program going on the field, in recruiting, and just about everything else. Keep it up, Coach!
GO STATE!
Eric
(11/20/08 12:30pm)Report
Word is that Sam McGuffie might transfer from UM. I wouldn’t mind picking him up and adding him to our impressive running back class for next year.