national signing day

Things discussed:

  • The softness of Ohio State fans: fainting couches for Desmond making fun of their OL.
  • Happy Urban Meyer fired morning.
  • Big Ten recruiting and realignment. I pitch my Showcase idea again, because it is the perfect solution.
  • HBCU takes the #1 overall recruit and the SEC feels entitled. You can’t pay players to choose your school over better career options, only we can do that.
  • This recruiting class: Brian loves that they used their championship to finish, I love that Michigan recruited to their strengths and soft spots in the system.
  • Who’s going to play next year? Johnson. Mason Graham, probably Sabb or Zeke Berry. Going to see more Macdonald amoeba.
  • OL recruiting? They’ve got an extra year of eligibility for everybody.

[Hit the JUMP for the player, and video and stuff]

if stauskas is available let's get him a mustache [Bryan Fuller]

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So Signing Day is in December now. It was… yesterday? Tuesday? Something like that. Nothing happened except the ejection of Amauri Pesek-Hickson from the class; Pesek-Hickson landed at Kansas. Pesek-Hickson seems pretty pissed off. His coach is less so:

Coaches typically bring the hammer down on schools they feel have mistreated their players during the recruiting process. Pesek-Hickson has now publicly stated his belief that he was mistreated by Michigan. Yet when Sims was asked if there will be any issues with Harbaugh recruiting Blue Valley North in the future, he shot down the notion without equivocation.

“Oh no, no, no, no,” Sims replied.

“As far as my feelings with Coach Harbaugh, he has always been upfront and honest with me. He has always done an awesome job every time he has come into my school. He is a great coach from my vantage point.”

“So, I think moving forward, I don’t see any issues that would ever keep Coach Harbaugh out of any one of my schools.”

Webb asserts that Michigan made it clear that a grayshirt was a possibility, and… I mean, when they don't sign you in December* what do you think that implies? Do you receive this news and think "this is fine"?

Michigan probably shouldn't have offered the kid but rather encouraged him to keep his options open past the early period. But also the father's story doesn't pass the sniff test.

*[Quinten Johnson did sign, FWIW, but it was kept quiet so his high school could do a signing day thing.]

2019 basketball recruiting isn't done. Michigan's setting up a visit with Lester Quinones, a 6'5" shooting guard:

Among the schools on him the hardest?

“Maryland, LSU, Michigan, Memphis, Georgia, Ohio State, Pitt, and Miami, been texting a lot.”

Visit plans?

“Michigan is the next visit. It’s getting planned, there is no exact date."

Quinones has a commitment timeline of "late spring," which should give Michigan enough time to determine whether they're suffering attrition, whether it's NBA or otherwise, and thus have a spot for him.

[After THE JUMP: Kansas crocodile tears, Nik Stauskas as an NBA badminton, wyd Tim Drevno]

Things discussed:

  • Dax made it a good narrative, imagine if Hinton and Charbonnet committed
  • Cornelius Johnson is an important get—need a Darboh in this class.
  • Quintel Kent: found last summer and had a great senior year.
  • Three slot guys? Giles Jackson=Rondale Moore? Yo-yo'ing TEs and slots
  • Quenton Johnson is signing with his teammates. Getting back that speed they lost when Delano Hill and Dymonte Thomas left, and these guys are faster
  • Zach Charbonnet gets tackled well. Brian(!) issues a Fred Jacksonism
  • Warinner on the recruiting trail. Recalling the 2013 OL class—let's not have this one fall apart like that. Sam's favorite: Karsen Barnhart, who's going to be better than Devonte Dobbs (not Logan Brown). Building your own lineman from a quasi-TE is better than trying to subtract from an already 340-pound kid.
  • Talking DL: Aubrey's potential. Sam sees Aidan Hutchinson, Kwity and Uche as a very good DE rotation, Vilain is further ahead with this injury than he was with the last so he's back in the conversation.
  • NT? Jeter is the new Mone, Mazi is the new Aubrey, Dwumfour's got a shot but he's got to learn to be a run defender. Kemp has to gain weight to be a full-time 3-tech. Don Brown's defense needs a DT who can create pressure
  • Freshman factors: Dax Hill, Mazi and Hinton.
  • Two-deepers getting redshirts, would like to see some freshmen.
  • Hoops: Early unsustainable two-point defense. Flowers was throwing up some garbage.

You can catch the entire episode on Michigan Insider's podcast stream on Podbean.

Segment two is here. Segment three is here.

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