What the hell is going on with the class of 2017?

Let’s go back two years to 2016, to right around this time actually. Michigan recruiting was in the midst of one of their greatest recruiting stretches in recent history.

Dubbed “Commitmas”, the program landed verbals from seven blue chippers in a just over a two-week span from December 7th to December 23rd. The group included Donovan Peoples-Jones, Cesar Ruiz, Drew Singleton, Ambry Thomas, Jordan Anthony, Tarik Black, and Deron Irving-Bey.

This run provided much of the top end of a class that would finish 5th in the country, with 21 of its 29 members rated as 5 or 4-star prospects.

Fast forward to the present, and eight members of that touted class are now gone. This is in the wake of the…