JuJu Smith includes Michigan in top 5 ($ 247Sports.com)
Premium link, but title says it all...additional premium info in the link (including the other 4 finalists)
http://michigan.247sports.com/Article/John-Smith-Talks-Five-Potential-Official-Visits-137504
Says he could "make a decision at the Under Armour All-American game, but added that it could go to National Signing Day."
Bruce Campbell reference.
You beat me to it.
But I was also going to include a pic of Rolf from Ed, Edd, n' Eddy, who likes Da JuJu's (jujubes):
Those things will rot your teeth, man.
Only good things could come from having a player named Juju on the team.
A little more information can be found here at SBNation regarding where some of the official visits are as well as other offers, although this was an article from the weekend (LINK).
"Smith has already set up three official visits -- to Alabama, Michigan, and Notre Dame -- and also has offers from Alabama, Arizona, Arizona State, Cal, Colorado, Ohio State, Ole Miss, Oregon, Tennessee, UCLA, USC, Utah and Wisconsin."
Honestly, it seems like from what I have heard/read that its more of a top 3 than 5 which Michigan is in both.
those guys are the two where it would be a disappointment if they didn't come because it would be more of a shock. The rest might have some shot of coming here, but a lot of things would have to go right, and we shouldn't be surprised if they don't.
Seems like we have at least an even chance with the other two schools in Juju's top five. I'll take top three with several months to go.
What about Westphal?
Not even close, though I actually can't tell you what I did to get that.
According to TVH, he thinks JuJu will be a difficult pull from Cali, but thinks we have a good shot with Hand & McDowell. When he says we have a good shot that means we get them more often than not. But, at the same time Smith does say he's really interested in playing offense and the coaches have talked about him playing both sides, so that's a good sign too. Personally my only must have is Hand. If we land Da'Shawn I'm pretty danged happy with this class regardless of how it finishes up.
TVH was pretty good here and all but stating Smith will be hard to pull from Cali when he doesn't even have them in his top 5 seems like a pretty bad swing and a miss for old Tom. Are we sure he said hard to pull from Cali?
Some sources have USC & UCLA in his top group.
Is he visiting for UTL 2.0?
No. The Game.
then he might actually be serious about Michigan.
I'm pretty sure his name is John Smith, JuJu is just a nickname.
His real name is Captain Fantastic.
...is the Brown Dirt Cowboy? #eltonjohnd
The big news is 2 of the 3 perceived frontrunners (USC and UCLA) have been eliminated. The third frontrunner according to 247s crystal ball is Notre Dame, so maybe now they're in the driver's seat with Michigan and Bama trailing.
Any idea why 2 of the frontrunners were elimnated?
Not sure if they have been eliminated. Rivals had an article couple days again saying he has a top 8 (9 if you consider Wisconsin).
I have a feeling that this article was for his 5 official vists, not his top 5.
This is the important part from the rivals article:
"Right now they're all the same," Smith said. "I have a top eight and I'm going to narrow it down. There's not really a No. 9 but (Wisconsin) is still there." The local schools - USC, UCLA and even Washington - are by no means trailing the other teams in his recruitment. It's just a matter of Smith preferring to take his official trips to destinations not easily reached. Heading to the Midwest multiple times and possibly the South if an Ole Miss trip is in the cards seems more reasonable to Smith than taking an official trip down the road to USC or UCLA. "I would love to stay local," Smith said. "Those schools, I could just walk to. I can come to USC, UCLA any day. Washington is down the street, so flying there isn't a problem. It's that Alabama and those schools are really far."