Dante Moore visiting Texas A&M in June
Not great news. He is going to visit Texas A&M unofficially which means that they can still take an official visit during the season.
I think we all know what is going to happen when he gets to College Station. He is about to get a "strong-a$$ offer".
I am not saying that Dante will simply pick the highest bidder - he may well be the type of kids that looks at the bigger picture / 40 year plan. HOWEVER, imagine being a 16-17 year old kid getting and getting a 7 figure offer, that would be very tough for ANYONE to turn down.
@ Mods - please delete the "Diary Post". That was posted in error.
“he may well be the type of kids that looks at the bigger picture”
Can we stop saying things like this? Just because someone takes the money doesn’t mean they aren’t looking at the “bigger picture”. In fact, taking the $1m and investing it into, say, an index fund would probably be the most optimal “big picture” move.
That wasn't my point. If the ONLY thing that you look at is the $$$, it may or may not be the right decision but that is not the bigger picture.
The bigger picture is to look at which team offers you the best chance at development / NFL success, NIL opportunities once you are on campus, education, long-term benefits and connections post-career.
I am not saying that wouldn't be Texas A&M, just saying that taking the highest offer isn't necessarily looking at the big picture.
I mean I don't like these other schools getting players over us either but you preaching to a kid you dont know on a message board he almost definitely doesn't read about looking at the big picture which is just code for pick the school you want him to go too is funny.
You forgot beautiful women in the list.
I live in Texas and hate A&M like every normal person should, but they are a perfectly fine school for both football and academics. It's not like Michigan is offering the best chance at development / NFL success with our recent QBs vs A&M's either, that may change in the future, but currently our only real recent success story is 44 years old.
Point taken (and upvoted). But I admit to giving a chuckle thinking of recent TAMU quarterbacks and young Dante being told "come here and you could be the next Johnny Manziel."
Index funds suck
Yeah, it's ridiculous to think he'd necessarily be sacrificing the "big picture" by taking a big offer now. Texas A&M has very good, professional coaching. Fisher and staff coached Jamies Winston and many other good QBs. The coaching at all these football factory schools is very good. Fit matters for sure but let's not pretend Michigan is the best fit per se.
“he may well be the type of kids that looks at the bigger picture”
Or
“he may well be the type of kid that takes a bunch of money before he does anything whatsoever at the collegiate level, a.k.a. Quinn Ewers"
Seemed like one of the last big recruiting posts we had showed Moore at being a roughly ~50/50 shot to come here, but slowly trending toward ND.
Now if he's taking a look at A&M, I have to believe those odds are continuing to trend away from Michigan. I could be wrong, I'd love to be wrong, but A&M has very clearly shown they are ready to fire the money cannon as far as it can go to get the kids on campus that they need to win a national championship.
This is a quote from Moore after his recent Michigan visit. He is not coming to Michigan. He basically friend-zoned us in the quote. We're the nice girl next door that has always been with him and had his back, but the hot girls are calling his name
Yeah…. Hope we can at least land Carr.
Thought I heard that recruitment is in worse shape than Moore’s.
Eh, seems like weak tea to be reading those leaves one way or the other. Those quotes could just as easily be interpreted as someone who doesn't want it taken for granted that of course he's going to enroll at the local U. If he gave anything more than a lukewarm nod to UM, people would be all over it and the bandwagon would roll. With the dozens of recruiting pundits all hungering to make their predictions, I think he's just trying to assert some control over his own recruitment; keep the crowd guessing until he's ready to announce on his own terms/timeline.
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Enough with this dance. Move on from Moore and focus on Carr. I know his is a national recruitment as well but we have so many links to Carr and little other than current proximity to Moore.
That is incredibly short sighted. There is a ton of time left and Moore deserves to explore his options. I swear Ghostofjermaine said the other day that Moore is unofficially at Michigan frequently and that the staff feels good about that recruiting battle. Carr is another year out and we have more than enough resources to recruit to elite QBs.
Moore is clearly in it for the money, and Notre Dame has also clearly jumped 10000% on the NIL train and paying players. Look at the class they are working on including a number of prospects we "were" in on.
Money talks, bullshit walks...and all UM is doing right now is bullshit.
The NIL announcement where they can FINALLY use the UM logos (so damned late) is hilarious.
Always the Bridesmaid, never the Bride especially when UM won't even propose.
I mean they are in different classes so I don't think they take time away from one another exactly. But I think it's definitely time to start recruiting other Quarterbacks in the 23 class.
Rather there than ND.
Gonna be ND. They are paying players left and right.
One of their top commits is supposed to visit in June so maybe their offers aren't as crazy as you think.
Can I get a list of universities it is and isn't okay to shit on? Asking for a friend.
Not Okay -
- Slippery Rock
- Deep Springs Collage
- Oglethorpe University
- Wesleyan College - even though they beat us
- University of the Incarnate Word - You're just playing with fire
- Tufts
He has probably gotten strong offers from every school he is visiting and if we get him you can almost guarantee he got a strong offer from us too.
I think that based on current events it is fair to assume that TAM's strong ass offers are bigger and better than any other school's strong ass offers.
Well, we just meed to overtake ass!
Whoa! We can't just be overtaking ass at the drop of a hat! Pull yourself together!
You should rethink your comment and....
Oil money > doctor money.
UM doesn't make Strong ass offers. Until recently, they couldn't even use the MF UM logo in anything.
We are light years behind any sort of strong ass offer.
Can you guys please chill the fuck out on Dante Moore. He's coming to Michigan. Id travel the country too if I had the opportunity. He's not going to A&M or Oregon. This is a Michigan/ND battle that Michigan will win in the end. R-E-L-A-X for the love of god. Let the kid do as he pleases without acting like the sky is falling every single time he announces hes going to visit a school other than UM.
i like the cut of your jib
raw positivity
Don’t you think for a second that Meeesh won’t Meeesh
Texas A&M is not "just another school". I would have thought that recent events would have made that self-evident.
You seem to be assuming that the NIL environment is static overall.
Not sure about you, but I'd guess that schools around the country "took note" of A&M's recruiting class and are working hard to create whatever $ magic was used to construct it.
Maybe. But you have to have both the willingness and ability to match TAM with their huge and wealthy booster base.
Only a few schools have both. And most of them already have or are targeting other elite 2023 QBs.
Well, I'm convinced!
I've said it many times and will say it again. The strongest indicators in Dante's recruitment are in Michigan's favor-they simply are. It does not mean he is coming here but the chances are good.
“The strongest indicators in Dante's recruitment are in Michigan's favor”
What indicators?
Dante is a very intelligent and mature young man. He lives nearby and routinely just pops in for a visit. If you have ever recruited, this is not normal for a recruit who is seriously looking elsewhere...and is most certainly a positive-even a huge positive.
It is possible to 1) believe Moore will sign elsewhere and 2) be completely fucking relaxed about it because several decades ago I stopped tying my happiness to the whims of teenagers who I’m not related to.
Nope.
ND is shelling out money.
TX A&M will throw you money to keep you away from other programs if not to secure your services for themselves.
Michigan is busy preening in the mirror believing 1997 is still possible without playing the game.
Man you are working hard on your troll game...
If you have a valuable commodity to market, you best be getting out there and letting buyers know. Dante appears to get that and whatever his decision matrix ends up being he's going to make a lot of money as a part of any deal.
Saban will be PISSED!!!
all the oil connections at A&M he could easily get $1 mil a year to play there, go play in the NFL (maybe) and after all his playing days are done, get a job in the industry making more than I will ever see.
Same things I was thinking. That oil money runs deep.
I can't believe he would turn down a few hundred dollars and free buffalo wild wings at Michigan for a 6 digit pay day.
We're still recruiting? I was under the impression that we had given up on recruiting.