for anyone curious as to how we did last year (cf. this year) and how the kids we got excited about last year have done after ONE year here it is:

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Mick McCabe's fab 50
February 2, 2006
NAME POS HT WT HIGH SCHOOL COLLEGE
1. Brandon Graham LB 6-2 250 Detroit Crockett Michigan
2. Dominique Douglas WR 6-0 174 Detroit Murray-Wright Iowa
3. Obi Ezeh LB 6-2 219 Grand Rapids Catholic Central Michigan
4. Quintin Woods DE 6-6 218 Flint Southwestern Academy Michigan
5. Quintin Patilla LB 6-2 193 Flint Carman-Ainsworth Michigan
6. Charlie Gantt TE 6-4 233 Birmingham Brother Rice Michigan State
7. Jeff Lindsay LB 6-4 220 Macomb L'Anse Creuse North Purdue
8. Patrick Rigan DE 6-6 235 Traverse City St. Francis Michigan State
9. Adrian Cannon WR 6-3 195 Auburn Hills Avondale Maryland
10. Eric Gordon LB 6-0 220 Traverse City West Michigan State
11. Michael Canfield QB 6-1 215 Lansing Everett Central Michigan
12. Richard Franklin RB 6-0 200 Ann Arbor Pioneer Eastern Michigan
13. Anthony Bowman WR 5-10 175 Orchard Lake St. Mary's Iowa
14. John Goebel RB 6-1 208 Birmingham Brother Rice Cincinnati
15. John Stipek DE 6-4 239 Macomb Dakota Michigan State
16. Jeff Maddux OT 6-4 295 Monroe Central Michigan
17. D.J. Young DL 6-5 260 Lansing Sexton Bowling Green
18. Aaron Gant DB 6-0 200 Orchard Lake St. Mary's Ohio State
19. Danny Richard LB 6-2 220 West Bloomfield Grand Valley State
20. E.J. McLaughlin DB 6-0 190 East Grand Rapids Central Michigan
21. Chris Pyant DT 6-2 252 Farmington Hills Harrison Western Michigan
22. Neli A'asa OT 6-2 290 Big Rapids Utah
23. Matt Pickens LB 6-0 225 Birmingham Brother Rice Western Michigan
24. Mark Mitchell DB 5-11 180 Tecumseh Eastern Michigan
25. Sidney Stewart WR 6-0 165 Farmington Hills Harrison Northwestern
26. Jon Misch LB 6-3 195 Orchard Lake St. Mary's Michigan State
27. Clint Allen RB 6-0 190 Muskegon Orchard View Eastern Michigan
28. Aaron Webster LB 6-2 195 Birmingham Groves Cincinnati
29. Brandon Pratt DB 6-3 184 Westland Glenn Eastern Michigan
30. Jim O'Neill TE 6-4 225 Grand Haven Western Michigan
31. Anthony Daniels TE 6-4 248 Detroit Mackenzie Eastern Michigan
32. Cam Bramer RB 6-0 200 Olivet Central Michigan
33. Robert Eddins LB 6-2 193 Detroit Crockett Ball State
34. Anthony Quinn TE/DE 6-5 225 East Kentwood Central Michigan
35. Stephon Johnson OL 6-5 265 Holt Eastern Michigan
36. Damone Pledger WR 6-5 210 Detroit Finney Undecided
37. Josh LeDuc TE 6-4 215 Plymouth Eastern Michigan
38. Donald Connelly LB 6-0 220 Farmington Hills Harrison Central Michigan
39. Derek Brighton DB 5-11 173 Allen Park Bowling Green
40. Ian Conyers LB 6-0 190 U-D Jesuit Georgetown
41. Derrick Summers LB 6-2 235 Southfield Toledo
42. Keith Dixson WR/DB 6-2 180 Flint Carman-Ainsworth Central Michigan
43. Ben Hunderman TE 6-5 240 Zeeland West Western Michigan
44. L.J. Robertson RB 6-0 198 Sterling Heights Stevenson Eastern Michigan
45. Dimitri Banks DB 5-11 175 Detroit Murray-Wright Northwood
46. Chris Radney DT 6-4 250 Detroit Henry Ford Eastern Michigan
47. Derrick Hunter WR 6-1 185 Southfield Eastern Michigan
48. Levi Breeze OT 6-7 270 Chelsea Central Michigan
49. Tarell Lewis DB 5-10 185 Redford Thurston Bowling Green
50. Phil Swanson OL 6-4 313 Grand Haven Western Michigan
Copyright

That was one cold bucket of water on this frigid day!

Well some of these are redshirts so we don't know yet what they can do. Allen if he becomes eligible would be a big plus. Daniels never showed up-don't know the reasons. Last I knew Pledger where the heck he is I don't know. Franklin quit and the only news I heard was that he transferred to West Virginia State. Hunter I believed played on special teams last year and was listed at DB. Johnson did play some on the DL.

I guess I've become a lot more cautious THIS recruiting season having remembered what the outcome of last year's effort was.

Wonder if this was going through my mind when I posted some time ago to the effect, "let's see how things look the 3rd week in August"?

Who's is enrolled, who is eligible and who looks like a player in practice.

Well to my other post you can Weeden-never showed up don't know why. Krevis a prep school de quit. Tom Schemding a three star JUCO OL quit right before the season ended.

Last year was the year EMU was to build depth. Turned out to be not such a good year.

Hopefully we've weeded out the "doubtfuls" in this class.