Greg Johnson On MSU recruiting
http://mobile.mlive.com/advannarbor/pm_105108/contentdetail.htm?content…
December 20th, 2011 at 9:33 AM ^
I have no interest in MSU recruiting. That is all.
December 20th, 2011 at 9:37 AM ^
It's a really good thing that you took the time to click on a board post titled "Greg Johnson on MSU recruiting" and then beyond that you took the time to tell everyone your thoughts on the board post you clicked on. Thoughts that you had no interest in the very topic you clicked on and commented on! Very Meta of you.
December 20th, 2011 at 10:44 AM ^
"I'm perfecty calm, Dude... I'm calmer than you are."
December 20th, 2011 at 12:13 PM ^
I was just about to post exactly what JeepinBen did. I always wonder why people on message boards/blogs take the time to actually open a thread to post something like, "I have no interest in that." Obviously you do if you clicked it.
December 20th, 2011 at 12:21 PM ^
and it pisses me off. Especially with all the NBA threads. I get that some people don't like the NBA. So why do you click on an NBA thread, and tell everyone who is there (ya know, to discuss the NBA) that you hate the NBA! Good for you!
/End Rant
December 20th, 2011 at 1:03 PM ^
December 20th, 2011 at 11:41 AM ^
You're like one of those annoying trolls on the Freep who just comments on articles so he's the first one to comment. Amen to moderating.
December 20th, 2011 at 12:14 PM ^
Can't stand those people. Like it matters if you're the first to post. It's not like you get anything if you are. I read this site called comingsoon.net and in the comments area there is almost always some jackass who posts, "FIRST!" in the comments area, as if he or she accomplished something great. That's all they type, "FIRST!"
December 20th, 2011 at 9:34 AM ^
I did not get any of what you said from the article. Seems like normal fluff piece.
December 20th, 2011 at 12:16 PM ^
It doesn't say anything about MSU recruiting not being good right now.
December 20th, 2011 at 9:37 AM ^
Perkins, Lawler, or Madaris would be pretty good pickups for them. Not really seeing the alleged despair.
December 20th, 2011 at 9:38 AM ^
While meant to be a fluff piece, if you're "in the know," the article is hilarious. If you're just a passing Sparty fan who doesn't follow this stuff, you'd be like, "uhh, ok," and leave the article alone.
The article is a joke b/c, if its accurate, Sparty is "going national" by offering guys who are (1) committed elsewhere, and/or (2) being chased by the biggest fish. The names listed in the article are nobodies. (Until they twist Shane's facemask in three years.) So the State of State recruiting (see what I did there?) is: "Well, our recruiting pretty much sucks."
And the bit about Urbanski changing the landscape? There was NO MENTION of UM cleaning up like 8 of the top 12 recruits in the state, or whatever it is. That is far more devastating to Sparty than Urbanski.
So I do think the article is a wonderful insight into some Sparty mentality, at least of that one journalist -- "All is well, all is well." When it's not.
December 20th, 2011 at 10:53 AM ^
If you're "in the know" or not the article is a pretty basic recuriting article. There is no mention at all about sparty "Going national" (and I kinda wish that line would die already. MSU fans aren't making that claim anymore I haven't seen one make it in awhile) It's simply an article about what's going on and who they are chasing... nothing more
And the reason why there wasn't any mention about UM is because Meyer literally just got a commited recurit from MSU. There is a direct reason for a reporter to ask that exact question. Talking about Michigan recuriting when nothing on that front has really changed would be pointless and pretty random.
I was hoping for a MSU Recuriting article that I could actually poke fun at. All I got was a basic MSU Recuriting article... I am disappoint.
December 20th, 2011 at 9:41 AM ^
MGoBlog, not MSGoBlog. Also, "Blog" is in replacement of "Blue", not "Green" or "GreenAndWhite".
December 20th, 2011 at 9:52 AM ^
The "sportswriters" from GR Press are completely useless when it comes to anything involving sports. Greg Johnson, Brian VanOchten, David Mayo. I see these schmucks around town and they are exactly that, a bunch of idiotic schmucks.
December 20th, 2011 at 10:03 AM ^
VanOchten is easily the worst of the bunch. I worked at the Whitecaps and he'd come in to his "press parking spot" in a Corvette like he owned the place. Dude, you cover low-A minor league baseball. Mayo is a pot head. Johnson is OK overall -- does a decent job compared to Mayo and VanOchten.
December 20th, 2011 at 10:54 AM ^
David Mayo was the only readable scribe of the bunch. Probably BECAUSE of the chronic.
December 20th, 2011 at 11:40 AM ^
I would be a lot more suspiscious of a writer who tries to convince people that he never tried smoking pot than one who got caught with a few plants around the house. That gives Mayo the unofficial title of "GR Mlive writer with the most integrity."
I don't read mlive or a2 dot com anymore, but I am assuming that BVO still has a combover that looks like a thrift-store yarmulke. When someone is that disingenuous about his hair, and thinks the public is so stupid that they don't realize he is bald underneath, it is really difficult to believe anything he writes.
As for Johnson, he is one.
December 20th, 2011 at 11:44 AM ^
December 20th, 2011 at 9:59 AM ^
How many factual and grammar errors can you find in this snippet from the article?
Michigan State coaches reportedly were disappointed, but ready in case it happened. They have reportedly stayed in contact with defensive ends Kisima Jagne of Chandler, Ariz., and JaMichael Winston of Mobile, Ala.
Chandler is verbally committed to Colorado, but apparently still open to pitches, and Winston is a Arkansas commit still taking official trips
December 20th, 2011 at 10:01 AM ^
The city of Chandler, AZ is committed to Colorado?
December 20th, 2011 at 10:10 AM ^
Still open to pitches.
December 20th, 2011 at 10:18 AM ^
If that's not oversigning, I don't know what is.
December 20th, 2011 at 11:01 AM ^
"reportedly, reportedly, apparently"
The author seems very sure of his statements and really gives the reader confidence in his insights.
Also, the last sentence.... "but" before the "and" in the sentence - that there is some fancy writing he done learned...
December 20th, 2011 at 11:03 AM ^
How many factual and grammatical errors
December 20th, 2011 at 11:52 AM ^
December 20th, 2011 at 12:20 PM ^
"and Winston is a Arkansas commit"
Very well written!!
err... I mean it was wrote good!
December 20th, 2011 at 10:03 AM ^
This chart I prepared shows how badly in-state recruiting is going for MSU:
December 20th, 2011 at 10:30 AM ^
Somehow I never got to your chart...
December 20th, 2011 at 10:37 AM ^
I believe both need to be resized. I can't see either well enough
December 20th, 2011 at 11:09 AM ^
Right-click, View Image
December 20th, 2011 at 11:25 AM ^
Yes, but only one them will resize, and only the less interesting of the two... IMHO.
December 20th, 2011 at 1:23 PM ^
In the first pic.
December 20th, 2011 at 12:35 PM ^
another picture of that Lucy chick? Ridiculous.
December 20th, 2011 at 10:04 AM ^
If they are recruiting Toledo, Ohio, does that mean they are finally recruiting nationally?
December 20th, 2011 at 12:16 PM ^
Nearly every player is Ohio, Michigan, PA, Indiana
December 20th, 2011 at 1:19 PM ^
All of their 4-5 stars have been from the midwest.
December 20th, 2011 at 10:48 AM ^
As a resident of the Toledo area, I will say this: this place is bursting with so much culture and diversity, you could almost claim that if you recruit the area, you are recruting internationally.
ttownboundndown
December 20th, 2011 at 10:40 AM ^
I love 1 sentence "paragraphs" and 6 "paragraph" articles...
December 20th, 2011 at 11:40 AM ^
This honestly does not worry me. The way I see it, MSU and us have completely different recruiting bases, in a way. We generally seem to get a classier kind of player, and I can't really imagine someone who goes here going there, and vice versa. That's why I think OSU will hurt MSU's recruiting more than we will, because they go for the same kind of kid. In general, anyone who chooses one of those schools over Michigan probably wouldn't have fit in all that well here, anyway.
December 20th, 2011 at 12:01 PM ^
MSU's got a lot of negatives going for them, but one thing they've done extremely well the last few years is identify RB talent. The coaching staff should give a second look at any unoffered RB prospects that MSU is targeting.
December 20th, 2011 at 12:24 PM ^
That is true but you also have to remember they *develop* said talent pretty well, nothing against our coaches but its all about the kids and how they respond to the coaches as we could put the same kid in our system but he may never grow and develop throughout his years.
December 20th, 2011 at 1:52 PM ^
Baker, Bell, and Hill were immediately good. Caper's been equally mediocre every season. I don't see the 'development' you're talking about.
December 20th, 2011 at 12:20 PM ^
We are a school that kids from all over the country would want to go to. I love that we have that national presence in recruiting
December 20th, 2011 at 12:36 PM ^
So Dantonio is recruiting guys who are committed to other schools??! OUTRAGE
December 20th, 2011 at 1:01 PM ^
I'd bet 90% of MGoBlog users know more about MSU recruiting than Greg Johnson of the GR Press.
December 20th, 2011 at 1:09 PM ^
Bagging on Sparty when we haven't beat them in 4 years is weak.
Contrived bagging on Sparty, like this, is even worse.