I wouldn't be surprised if Harbaugh already had a phone conversation with Aubrey after hearing about the snafu. While it does suck, this doesn't really come as a surprise. Recruiting is so fluid. Thankfully we'll have football in less than 2 weeks to drown out the recruiting noise.

Not a big deal. This stuff happens all the time. There are a couple hundred other kids out there to take his spot. If I really wanted to play for Michigan they could call me Dr. Fantasy Doodlenutz and I'd be cool. The people calling for a firing are hilarious. Get a damn grip.

Still on the same tier as osu recruiting? I'll see myself out.

Wish him luck, but this was always going to be a commitment that had a chance to change.  I assume he goes to GA; UM will survive and both continue to recruit him and look for other options.  

I do wonder how much that recruiting note, if it's real, really factored in.  I am fairly certain kids this high-profile get a bunch of bulk stuff.  I doubt that is a huge deal to someone who wants to remain committed.

In a business (and yes, unfortunately this applies to college football), it's the details which set you apart from your competition. Send a client a thank you card for a gift not sent? Yeah... You have to get these things right. When Michigan is hiring team "moms" I think somebody dropped the ball big time here. To be perceived as the best you cannot come off like a form letter factory.

His Mom wants him to stay close to home and play for Georgia, and that's where I think he will end up. All Harbaugh has to do is win and those last minute high end recruits may come a knocking early next year.

I'm fine with kids decommitting. I'm not fine with it happening because of inattention to detail.

Goodbye Otis Reese?

Given that the note had his name wrong, and the facts wrong, perhaps he just received someone else's thank you card.  Did we misspell Aubrey as "Andre" and Solomon as "Seldon," for instance? 

1 - Solomon did not decommit because of this card.  He decommitted because he has changed his mind between Georgia and Michigan and is just using the card incident as a means to act upon this changed decision.

2 - Solomon is not even going to consider U of M again.  Like when you break up with a girl, but compliment her while doing so to let her down easy.

'Crootin.

There is a much greater chance of a decommit as the local schools exert pressure on the recruit and their families. Texas in particular has been brutal for us in that regard. It's just so hard to pull top kids like this from the South. The last thing you need is a total fuck up like with the card. Yikes.

Now it's spreading to college football recruits.

My initial thought was, if true, honest mistake. Maybe I'm different but that may annoy me but it wouldn't change my mind on anything. Solomon wasn't blue and this is a good excuse to change his mind. Simple as that.

Mark Dantonio is probably flying to his house right now....

"Did Michigan disrespect you? I've built
my entire program around that. Let me tell you the first time they disrespected me....."

If this guy is heartbroken because of the mistaken thank you note, he might find the rest of life to be a little challenging. I had an ex-fiancée who got mad at me once because, according to her, I wasn't paying enough attention to her when...she was asleep. According to her, I was supposed to come by every so often while she was sleeping (she was a nurse who worked the graveyard shift, so slept during the day) and give her a hug, or something like that. Because she was the best piece of ass I ever had, and I've had 'em all over the world, I actually went along with that BS for a while. Aubrey Solomon reminds me of my ex-fiancée, except much larger and much less attractive.

Ok, enough fucking offseason. This kind of shit will all just be noise in a couple weeks. Let's start winning some goddamn football games.

might be made up, like Tom gholston did re lewan

I'm confused.  Does no one pick up a phone anymore to work through things?  Did that even happen here, or is the default these days to go scorched earth?

Oldest trick in the book.  Send a fouled up letter to a recruit on another school's stationary.

I read before he committed that his mother is 100% Georgia. They sent her a birthday card or something earlier this year and she cried because it was such a sweet gesture. He gone.

1. This seems like one of the most sincere decommittment posts I ever read.  I don't know why, but it seems like when you tout some of the benefits to the school, it reads differently.  

2. Also, the kid has talked so glowingly about our school that I could never say a bad thing about the kid.  I hope his mom can make the trip up here just so she can lay eyes on what he saw.

That's bad.