UM Football Recruiting - by WM Wolverine

[iam416]

It's mostly just the Detroit and a little Ohio media. No else really cares. Mike Weber and Cass Tech are irrelevant anywhere else. TCU's DC left the day after NLOID. UCLA's DC left the day after NLOID. Are there any calls to release all TCU and UCLA defensive recruits? I guess Jim Mora and Gary Patterson are also big ol' meanies. Heh.

Media backlash...lol...

[Kstat]

I think ESPN noticing it makes it a little bigger than you think.

[iam416]

LOL. No. M fans (Wilcher very much included) will do all they can to prance about in faux indignation (after Weber said JH lied to him and after M pulled a schollie from a kid while he was on a flight). As Hack said, it is who they are.

M fans don't much care about TCU or UCLA because, well, that doesn't have anything to do with them and it's no big deal. Heh.

All of this more or less based on one tweet (no would care a lick if Weber didn't tweet anything). Good lord. I didn't realize losing Weber hurt like that for some M fans -- well, Wilcher, mostly.

[iam416]

This story, incidentally, has made the major outlets: http://www.cbssports.com/collegefoot...ed-by-michigan

Shrewd move by M to hire a potential transfer's mom as a "player development staffer." LOL.

[hack]

It's mostly just the Detroit and a little Ohio media. No else really cares. Mike Weber and Cass Tech are irrelevant anywhere else. TCU's DC left the day after NLOID. UCLA's DC left the day after NLOID. Are there any calls to release all TCU and UCLA defensive recruits? I guess Jim Mora and Gary Patterson are also big ol' meanies. Heh.

Media backlash...lol...

1. Roquan Smith is happy. Mike Weber probably wishes he did what Smith did.

2. Meyer will take the heat, sure. No doubt. Weber's not going to be at Michigan, and that's perhaps a good thing. Even in the hyperpartisan sandbox of the mgoblog threads there are OSU posters wondering about him.

3. Maybe only Detroit cares but that's where it matters. Wilcher is vindicated now. It'll be used as ammo. Those are good things.

4. Talent is trying to find equivalencies, and is a smashing success here with the false ones. I'm just going by what's in the public domain. But I did ask and do very much care if Michigan has done this in the past. I'm pretty sure I know the answer, and, bottom line, Michigan should not do this. Michigan has the opportunity to really play up the ``would you want your son there'' angle, it needs to make sure that the answer is always yes for a good reason. Sometimes it does a better job and sometimes not so good, but if there's a perception that there's a clear difference then that's good for the kids and for the program, and that's how it should be.

5. Talent: you are inferior. You will never know the joy of winning clean. You will never be in the position that I am in now, watching you twist and scramble. Tsk, tsk. I recommend you smarten up accept reality as it is rather than rejecting statements of the obvious. Honesty is the best policy.

[Kstat]

I'm trying to figure out who gets hurt by Michigan hiring the guy's mother, or how he's anything but depth on the roster considering he didn't exactly light it up at Stanford.

I honestly did not care where Weber ended up, and I said that two days ago. These are teenagers deciding on where to go to college and I respect that. I feel terrible for the kid if he no longer wants to play there and he's essentially locked in.

I understand it's a business (which highlights the hypocrisy of college football) and I understand why Urban would rather let the kid rot and be unhappy than allow him to play for his chief rival. That does not mean I don't feel for a kid that got deceived decisions made by grown men that understood the business of football far better than he did.

[entropy]

I'm actually surprised Urban made the mistake of the next day announcement.. all they had to do was delay the bears announcement for a week. Then say there was a final push meeting that changed the RB coaches mind.

As for Urban doing this.. is anyone really suprised?

[iam416]

I feel terrible for the kid if he no longer wants to play there and he's essentially locked in

Yeah, and at the end of the day there's nothing that says that's the case.

What M has done with the kid they yanked the schollie from or did with bribing the transfer to come to M -- all legal. I don't really care. I don't much are about Drayton and Weber.

However, M fans rarely miss an opportunity to practice sanctimony, and this is no exception. Hypocritical outrage is the one thing M is still a leader and best at. Not sure it makes up for the gridiron or hardwood, though.

[Kstat]

What M has done with the kid they yanked the schollie from or did with bribing the transfer to come to M -- all legal.

You keep bringing that up, but it's a false equivalency. That kid is heartbroken for a day and the next day can sign elsewhere. Weber is heartbroken with no recourse.

[iam416]

I'm actually surprised Urban made the mistake of the next day announcement

Why? A half dozen coaches left BCS programs in the past 36 hours including DCs. It's rather standard practice -- if you're going to leave the program, you do it quickly after the season ends or you wait until NLOID. Duh.

[Hannibal]

We also hired some guy that gives us inroads with the country's #1 recruit (don't remember details).

It sounds like we are finally pulling out all the stops.

[iam416]

Weber is heartbroken with no recourse

So now he's heartbroken? In 12 hours he'll be despondent. By tomorrow he'll be suicidal. Keep reading what you will into it.

He he's hurt. So did Warren Ball, a current OSU RB. When position coaches leave, kids are sad. No shit.

[Hannibal]

I am jealous of OSU for their lack of self-flaggelation. If it were Michigan, a guy like Rosenberg would break the story at the worst possible moment (on purpose) and then we would look like wimpy assholes apologizing for it.

[iam416]

We also hired some guy that gives us inroads with the country's #1 recruit (don't remember details).

It sounds like we are finally pulling out all the stops.

Yeah, ol' Jimmy is driving hard for Rashan Gary.

[entropy]

Texas having he same issue:

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