Beaver Gone. To Conference USA.
Right, so that is Shavodrick Beaver's myspace and he's been flat-out lying to the mods at Rivals and Scout:
Tulsa received a quarterback commitment Friday afternoon when Shavodrick Beaver announced he'd sign at the University of Tulsa.
Beaver, a 6-foot-3, 185-pounder, is from Wichita Falls (Texas) Rider High School,and has been ranked the eighth-best quarterback in the country by rivals.com.
Beaver had given a commitment to the University of Michigan, but switched to TU after a home visit by TU coach Todd Graham.
This seems like completely farfetched crap, but Rivals has an article with quotes($) up, too. WTF? This one really bothers me because for months Beaver's been called up and has said things like "I'm ten thousand percent committed!" Man up and admit you're wavering.
Michigan now needs to scramble for a second quarterback in the class. They've been recruiting FL QB Denard Robinson and may look to get involved with WVU/Tennessee decommit Tajh Boyd; expect Eugene Smith to get a phone call, too.
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When Brian said the other day that although decommits are up around college football, we have a higher incidence of them than other major programs--that was before Beaver. I think its prudent to ask ourselves why this is? Looking at OSU, even ND and others, we are not seeing nearly this rate of kids changing. When a kid is quoted as saying that one reason (besides Mom and home) that he was impressed by Tulsa was because the coaches talked about growing as a person, "something the Michigan coaches didn't address" it really makes me wonder if there is something missing in the culture of the program at this time.
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I would more of the same next year as well. I think this has become part of the game in recruiting. Ultimately, Beaver has no clue, and does not care about things like Alumni Associations,weight of Degree and or quality of degree and so on. He's just a football player and hes like 17-18. Michigan needs to focus on developing Threet and Forcier now. This may in the long run be a good thing for all parties involved. Goodbye Beaver.
December 20th, 2008 at 9:58 AM ^
What ever happened to the thought...My word is my bond?
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On the "my word is my bond" line of thinking. First, let me preface by agreeing that Beaver clearly pulled the wool over our and our coaches eyes here, and clearly was playing a game of politics. Fine.
But, I'd like to remind everyone of Jordan Barnes - the lightly regarded 3-star LB that decommitted last weekend. By all accounts, the kid received the silent treatment from the coaching staff for months on end - as clear a sign as any that Michigan's football program wanted to back out of their scholarship offer - something Barnes complied with. These kids get jerked around by the schools a great, great deal - it's now starting to appear as if players are going to jerk the schools around. It happens, and neither is better than the other.
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