Michigan Football: Fans complaining about recruiting stars is classless

With every commit comes the negative reactions from the peanut gallery who seemingly are never gratified when a three-star recruit gives their pledge to Michigan football.

Social media can be a cesspool for hate with certain things in this world we occupy. Practically anyone who wants to voice their opinion on something a person posts regarding Michigan football is available at their fingertips nowadays.

It gives some folks an unwarranted sense of entitlement to make a living finding the bad in a good situation. This proves the point that you just can’t please some people no matter what the outcome is.

After a flurry of commitments this past week people flocked to their social media sites to voice their respective frustration with anything they could find wrong to the new additions of the class.

Jayden Denegal was the most notable of the group to give his pledge to the maize and blue. He wasn’t the first choice that the Michigan faithful were hoping to obtain in the 2022 class though, and some were not shy to let their feelings known.

Fans criticized their displeasure with the ratings of Aaron Alexander, Kevonte Henry, Alessandro Lorenzetti, and C.J. Stokes as well. They disregarded them almost immediately because they are not considered to be sought-after prospects by the blue-bloods of the sport. From the moment they gave their verbal to their last down on the field is a total crapshoot that no one can forecast.

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As an athlete choosing the college you attend for the next four years is one of the biggest moments of their livelihood. Trying to ruin it by logging on to a social media site and trashing the kid because he isn’t any better than a three-star recruit is outright lunacy. It’s a vicious reality that goes far beyond the echelon of today’s society.

Only a handful of these prospects work out in the first place, but most of them join the program to be reserves or end up transferring to smaller universities to gain playing time. Believe it or not, every school, including ones like Alabama, Clemson, and even Ohio State have to fill out their rosters with three-star recruits or less too.

In the meantime, Michigan football will get its fair share of four and five-star guys in time, but with a new staff in tow, it would quite hypocritical to quit on these other kids because of such a lame excuse.

Most will amount to nothing more than a college career, but there’s always a one-in-a-million recruit who ends up being the next Tom Brady and vice versa. That’s why the process is so difficult to gauge on teenagers who are thrown into the fire that is adulthood.