Jonny Reschke to MSU
per the twitterverse.
never had an M offer. don't know why. maybe they thought he was an MSU lock.
[edit] now with link: http://michiganstate.scout.com/a.z?s=175&p=2&c=1159557&ssf=1&RequestedU… ($ info in header)
February 17th, 2012 at 3:55 PM ^
Good for them.
February 17th, 2012 at 3:56 PM ^
Not a surprise really, good pickup for them though.
February 17th, 2012 at 3:58 PM ^
Who is Johnny Reschke?
February 17th, 2012 at 3:58 PM ^
There's Dantonio's 2013 in-state 4-star.
Now he can concentrate on getting his revenge in Ohio and taking all the Buckeyes' targets.
February 17th, 2012 at 5:43 PM ^
He'll probably get Riley Norman too.
February 17th, 2012 at 6:24 PM ^
Yep, most likely. However, M isn't as deep as it was last year, and most of the other Big Ten level guys are leaning toward M (or committed to ND). It will be slim pickings for MSU in-state after those two.
February 17th, 2012 at 3:59 PM ^
That kid is a solid player.
February 17th, 2012 at 4:28 PM ^
Honest question (and I'm genuinely not trying to be an ass): Are you an MSU fan? Your recent posts suggest that you are, and I don't remember you saying anything about it. For some reason, though, I can't see your older posts.
February 17th, 2012 at 4:38 PM ^
You're absolutely right, a defnite MSU bias comes through...like a sleeper cell...
February 17th, 2012 at 11:25 PM ^
I get back from the hockey game to read this hilarity. Is it ok for me to partake in this major conspiracy investigation without wearing a tin foil hat? I can almost see the paranoia dripping from my screen.
I understand that the straw man fallacy is the standard for the 99% of people that post here. I must apologize for my terrible habit of judging things based on mere merit and not going along with the rest of the sheeple. Please, by all means, continue.
February 17th, 2012 at 4:39 PM ^
But the guy tries to mask his comments as if he's an M fan. Pretty strange.
Having to overcompensate for your school's lack of respect by dissociating yourself from it: That's the Michigan State difference.
February 17th, 2012 at 5:23 PM ^
It's pretty obvious. He even uses some RCMB lingo in his past posts.
February 17th, 2012 at 9:06 PM ^
You can bypass the blog glitch and get to her older posts by right clicking and opening in a new window.
February 17th, 2012 at 3:59 PM ^
4 star with offers from Toledo and MSU? Everyone must have known he was MSU bound.
February 17th, 2012 at 4:00 PM ^
It was going to be between MSU and Notre Dame, even if Michigan offered.
February 17th, 2012 at 4:01 PM ^
did he ever get an ND offer?
February 17th, 2012 at 4:03 PM ^
Not that I know of.
February 17th, 2012 at 4:13 PM ^
In your opinion, do you think a lack of an offer was more because of last year's class + Antonio Poole? Or something else? Reschke looks solid against the run in his highlights.
February 17th, 2012 at 4:21 PM ^
I think Reschke could have earned a Michigan offer down the road if Michigan was still looking for linebackers and missed out on some of their current targets. But so far Michigan only seems to be going after elite athletes, and Reschke doesn't really fit that mold. He's a little undersized to be a defensive end, but he runs a little like a DE. I just don't think he's the type of kid you offer at this stage in the cycle when you've just brought in a four-man, elite linebacker class.
February 17th, 2012 at 4:30 PM ^
Kid is too short to play linebacker at ND, he is only 6'2''. ND told Joe Bolden he was too short for what they were looking for and Bolden is 6'3''
February 17th, 2012 at 4:02 PM ^
I'm not sure that's the case. Reschke is best friends with Shane Morris, and Tremendous tweeted that he seemed "legit disappointed" at the lack of a Michigan offer. I still think he's poachable, but who knows.
February 17th, 2012 at 7:12 PM ^
Maybe more of a, "I got the offer from Michigan than a I wanted to go to Michigan thing."
February 17th, 2012 at 4:02 PM ^
Is it just me, or are there too many posts about other teams recruits lately? Why do we care about some guy UM didn't even offer?
February 17th, 2012 at 4:04 PM ^
The Tyrone Swoopes post seemed out of place, but a post about Reschke (a talented in-state kid) seems quite relevant.
February 17th, 2012 at 4:32 PM ^
We had threads on Noah Spence, Dorial Green-Beckham, Keith Marshall and Gunner Kiel once they had no interest in Michigan.
February 17th, 2012 at 4:45 PM ^
I'm not sure what your point is. All were offered by Michigan (unlike Swoopes and Reschke), Green-Beckham was the #1 recruit in the country, Marshall said he liked Michigan early on, and Kiel was briefly thought to be a Michigan lean.
February 19th, 2012 at 8:55 PM ^
Once they committed...NONE of them were coming to Michigan and had ZERO interest.
Yet there were still threads on each of them.
February 17th, 2012 at 4:47 PM ^
But those were guys who we either had a shot at at one point, were deciding between us and our rivals, and/or were top flight guys whose recruitment was interesting to follow.
An early QB commit to Texas really doesn't fall into any of those. If that same player committed next February and had M and some big rival on his top list, we would all be interested.
February 17th, 2012 at 4:56 PM ^
Commitment posts of any type are fine by me. What I don't like are the multiple threads on any one player. Especially threads to tells us what the kid said on twitter or a thread to say that a kid "likes M", who the fuck doesn't like to be recruited by Michigan.
February 17th, 2012 at 4:05 PM ^
going to one of Michigan's biggest rivals.
People need to stop being so anal about this stuff. It's frickin February 17th.
February 17th, 2012 at 4:57 PM ^
It's not like we're using up all the internet. Idon't understand people who complain about threads like this. The thread states "Jonny Reschke to MSU". If you don't want to read about it, DO NOT CLICK.
February 17th, 2012 at 5:35 PM ^
all tubes (not trucks) have been used up, apparently.
February 17th, 2012 at 4:04 PM ^
February 17th, 2012 at 4:20 PM ^
I'm confused. What do all these posts about players other than Kozan have to do with Kozan?
February 17th, 2012 at 4:33 PM ^
Over/Under we get 5 total commits (currently at 3) before Kozan decides...
February 17th, 2012 at 4:22 PM ^
Not to sound sour grapes about this, but I'm sure the reason he didn't have an offer from us is because the coaches didn't think he was good enough for one. He may have gotten one later in the process, but we'll only take two LBs, three max, in this class, and the coaches have offered a handful of guys they thought were better.
I'm glad we didn't offer him. LB is not a position of need in this class, so we have the luxury of being very picky. Reschke didn't make Rivals 250, snuck inside the top 247 list, and has two offers - MSU and Toledo. He might be a solid player, but he's not the elite types we should be going for at that position. It's a good pick up for State though.
February 17th, 2012 at 4:31 PM ^
Well said. Reschke has always struck me as a guy who I hoped to see uncommitted several months from now so that we could see how we do with some of the high-end guys before making a decision about offering Reschke. He is a nice get for MSU, though.
February 17th, 2012 at 4:26 PM ^
For whatever reason, Brother Rice recruits tend to go to MSU more often than Michigan. There was a period in the late 1980s/early 1990s when Rice sent some guys to UM (most notably, Paul Jokish (sp?) and Steve Morrison - but even Jokish arrived as a basketball player, IIRC). But I bet the MSU:UM ratio for Rice recruits has been 3:1 over the last 35 years. As a Rice and UM grad, it kind of hurts to point this out. I don't think Coach Fracasa's MSU connection is the driving force behind this, by the way.
February 17th, 2012 at 4:30 PM ^
what ever we have Joe Bolden, Kaleb Ringer, James Ross, and Royce Jenkins Stone who are all better than him. Maybe we didn't offer because we needed other positions of need. We'll still likely get Wyatt Shallman, Joudan Lewis, and Treadwell.
February 17th, 2012 at 5:19 PM ^
Slow down a little, lol. "All better than him" ? That's a little forward thinking considering Reschke is a junior in HS and none of them (including Reschke) have played a down of college ball.
February 17th, 2012 at 5:35 PM ^
Well, he has a long way to go until anyone is going to think he can hold a candle to RJS, Ross or Bolden. Ringer had a lot of pre-senior year hype before he missed most of the season with an injury, so who knows about him. Either way, that comment wasn't too far off.
February 17th, 2012 at 4:36 PM ^
How much do you want to bet that Kozan decides on August 31st?
February 17th, 2012 at 5:13 PM ^
I bet he signs on or before April 1st, 2012
February 17th, 2012 at 4:50 PM ^
A little OT but I think it is interesting. In regards to MSU being a national recruiter, last season M brought in kids from 8 different States and MSU brought in kids from 7 different States, with the only two States in common being Michigan and Ohio.
The other 5 other States for MSU:
Pennsylvania
Oregon
Florida
Georgia
Indiana
The other 6 States for M:
Missouri
Iowa
Utah
Tennessee
Kentucky
California
February 17th, 2012 at 5:05 PM ^
But there's a difference between recruiting kids from other parts of the country, and recruiting good kids from other parts of the country. Any school can recruit nationally, all you have to do is offer a kid with no other offers.
Outside of Demetrius Cox, all of MSU's commits from outside MI and OH were 3 stars, many of whom were low three stars (the Oregon kid was actually a 2 star). Look at the kids from the South they signed - they weren't exactly going up against Florida, FSU, Bama, LSU or Auburn for any of them. So Sparty beat our Florida Atlantic and Louisiana Tech for some kids? Big deal.
Michigan signed a 5 star from Missouri, a 4 star OT each from CA and TN, a 4 star WR from Iowa and one of the nation's top fullbacks from Utah. We recruited more top players from outside of our core area than MSU did total.
February 17th, 2012 at 5:14 PM ^
At least now they can beat the Florida Atlantics and Louisiana Techs of the world on the field too.
February 17th, 2012 at 5:22 PM ^
And the UMs and Iowas... lets not throw stones too quickly. UM needs to get back on top first.
February 17th, 2012 at 4:53 PM ^
He's a MSU legacy, right?
February 17th, 2012 at 5:20 PM ^
Correct, father played at MSU so I'm sure that was an influence on his decision.
February 17th, 2012 at 4:54 PM ^
Good pickup for lil bro. Definitely not good enough to go to UM, so it was probably an easy decision for him.