On Tuesday during the weekly Big Ten teleconference, Michigan coach Rich Rodriguez announced that former five-star defensive tackle Will Campbell may be on his way to the other side of the ball.

I know, it sounds insignificant. Maybe Campbell will indeed help the Wolverines more on offense than he can on defense. He is, after all, a behemoth of a man who was probably too big with too little technique to succeed on the defensive line.

Plus, Michigan has a pretty good defensive line, even if everything behind it is below average.

But Campbell’s move is the straw that broke my camel’s back. A move to offensive line? If you watched the replay of the blocked field goal on Saturday, a great deal of the blame was on Campbell’s shoulders for faulty blocking, having stood straight up and allowing Iowa to get more penetration.

So I came to the conclusion: Either there is something wrong with the recruiting experts or the Wolverines are doing a pretty poor job at developing talent.

From 2002-08, aside from players like Brandon Graham, LaMarr Woodley and Chad Henne who are staples in the NFL, Michigan has had a few other recruits flame out similar to how Campbell has so far.

Obviously, there’s a few transfers who don’t really count in this category. Justin Boren and Ryan Mallett especially, since they’re doing so well at their respective transfer destinations.

But a lot of other transfers might have left because things weren’t quite working out in Ann Arbor. Guys like Taylor Hill, Dann O’Neill, Marcus Witherspoon and Cobrani Mixon are all names most Michigan fans probably don’t even remember anymore. They were all pretty highly touted four stars, too.

Then, there are guys like Campbell and Justin Turner and Kevin Grady, who were big-time five-stars and never reached their supposed potential. Prescott Burgess, meanwhile, one of the Wolverines other big-time five-stars, had a pretty good career in Ann Arbor. But by no means was it great.

So what’s going on? Guys like Mike Williams and Boubacar Cissoko were supposed to be staples in the secondary, a group that definitely needs them right now. But Cissoko is in prison after being a below average cornerback to start, and Williams lost his spot several times over to players in the secondary now.

Any of these recruits blossoming on defense might have been a welcome help to what the Wolverines have seen on the field thus far.

What about Jason Kates? Or James McKinney? Or Justin Schifano? Or Zion Babb?

All four stars, all either slid into obscurity or are no longer in Ann Arbor. Yes, a great deal of that had to do with the Carr-Rodriguez coaching change. A new era at such a tradition-laden college football program is bound to bring some defections.

But the Wolverines haven’t been putting nearly as much talent into the NFL as they used to. Michigan used to be the prince of development, but now it seems to be the pauper.

ESPN’s Colin Cowherd called attention to this on his radio show a while ago. And though I was initially hostile toward the accusations, maybe there’s some founded takeaway points from the Wolverines’ bizarre lack of success stories.

The weirdest part of Michigan’s development, however, has been its number of positive accomplishments with lower-starred players. Guys like David Harris or Mike Hart, two of the best in the last decade were three-stars. Patrick Omameh, who should start on the offensive line and be a rock in the position group for the next few years, was a two-star.

Maybe recruiting just doesn’t make sense. But news of Campbell moving seems to be a white flag from the coaching staff, and it’s time for the Wolverines to at least start noticing that something is not quite right.