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So this happened:

Per Baltimore (Md.) Gilman assistant coach Henry Russell, four-star offensive tackle Devery Hamilton has flipped his commitment from Michigan to Stanford.

Hamilton made it official Friday evening during his in-home with Cardinal head coach David Shaw.

"I think just the academics that Stanford has to offer and his parents having a family friend out there who can help make the distance more doable," Russell added.

This is absolutely not someone getting "processed," as Michigan needs offensive tackles and now doesn't have any in this class. Expect Ben Bredeson to kick out to OT. Michigan doesn't have any 2016 OL on the hook other than maybe GA OL EJ Price, a supreme longshot. They do have plenty of other guys looking to fill spots; it's possible they just try to lock down some 2017 five stars to fill the gap.

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cbs650

January 30th, 2016 at 10:34 AM ^

The lens in which you are looking at this through is faulty because you are speaking as if the kids are making decisions without any input from other adults. Having a backup plan is stressed to any kid looking to go to college. Guidance Counselors and parents stress to kid to have your "dream school, the schools you know you can get into and schools you are 50/50 about getting into" for a reason. If a kid doesn't have a back up plan it's the adults in his life that are at fault not a coach who didn't give him enough notice to seek one.

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Tha Stunna

January 31st, 2016 at 3:15 AM ^

You used a really bad example.  I think you'd be pretty pissed off if Michigan or whatever school that had accepted you abruptly told you they no longer had room for you to attend.  Sure, you can take the CC -> upperclassman transfer route to plenty of schools.   However, it's fairly ridiculous to think that a college retracting admission would be something that's supposed to be part of your backup plan.

 

Edit: I think I replied to a now edited post.

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gopoohgo

January 30th, 2016 at 10:26 AM ^

Meh.  I flipped positions on this.

Hamilton decommits at a position of need literally hours before recruiting enters an NCAA "quiet period"  (ok for electronic communication, official visits, but no off-campus interaction) and a day before a "dead period" (no contact).

Backup plans, shmackup plans.  Almost impossible to get a quality 'backup' to commit this late in the game.  Anyone else think if Hamilton decomitted earlier, Davis would be a verbal commit and not at Maryland?

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Rabbit21

January 30th, 2016 at 10:38 AM ^

I have absolutely no quibbles with your argument and agree for the most part.

Except with Davis, we started hearing a while back that the staff wanted to take both him and Delance due to OLine depth issues. He had Michigan as his leader for months and never pulled the trigger, which is almost always a bad sign. Doubt Davis would have jumped on board regardless of what Hamilton did or did not do.



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707oxford

January 30th, 2016 at 10:04 AM ^

OL is projecting to go through a stretch of scary lack of depth once Magnusen, Kalis, and Braden depart. A couple injuries and we're going to be scrambling to put together a passable two-deep.

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Jasper

January 30th, 2016 at 11:25 AM ^

Just tossing this out there ... Wisconsin had *four* redshirt freshmen see significant time on the O-line this year. I think they all played against USC in the bowl game (which Wisconsin won). Here are their recruiting profiles:

https://wisconsin.rivals.com/cviewplayer.asp?Player=467259

https://wisconsin.rivals.com/cviewplayer.asp?Player=466080

https://wisconsin.rivals.com/cviewplayer.asp?Player=467271

https://wisconsin.rivals.com/cviewplayer.asp?Player=467273

A couple of 5.5s and a couple of 5.3s ...

Newsome is looking good at this point. Ulizio was a staff pick. Not sure about Runyan yet, but it's early (same for Juwan B-B).

Bredeson, Spanellis, and Onwenu (if he doesn't pull a Sparty surprise) will be redshirt freshmen the year after the three '12 guys depart. Trust in Drevno and Harbaugh.

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Dunder

January 30th, 2016 at 10:07 AM ^

that old poster on a few of the boards, Scout/Rivals maybe, who claimed to stock up and hide in a bomb shelter for the recruiting home stretch each year.

Do you eat crow and call the Swensons?

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schreibee

January 30th, 2016 at 10:26 AM ^

If Swenson had been more honest with himself and less public with his feelings of betrayal, I'd think there might be a chance he took the criticism to heart and might now work harder than ever if given another opportunity. But that's not how he dealt with his disappointment at all, and I don't think a second chance would change his level of dedication, only make him feel more entitled. In fact, I bet he'll laugh when he sees Hamilton decommited, not reach out with contrition. So...no, I don't think I'd drop him a line.

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Rabbit21

January 30th, 2016 at 10:12 AM ^

Doubtful, the reasons the staff pulled the offer still exist and just pulling in warm bodies is debatedly worse than letting a hole develop to fill with either youth or a grad transfer.

Hard to be too mad about this one. If a kid thinks academics are important you just can't beat that Stanford degree. Best of luck to him and may he terrorize the PAC-12 North for years to come.



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Toasted Yosties

January 30th, 2016 at 10:38 AM ^

He wouldn't accept and the coaches wouldn't offer. The Press would eat up the comeuppance angle when Swenson turns us down. If they can't land someone this season, they will be on the lookout for grad transfers and recruit the position heavily next year. This sucks but I trust the coaches to find a work-around. We didn't have a reliable QB this time last year and turns out we found one who'd go on to have the best QB rating in the conference. This stinks but the coaches will fix it.

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bronxblue

January 30th, 2016 at 12:29 PM ^

That boat sailed because it doesn't seem the staff was happy with how Swenson progressed. That might be the wrong decision, but there are other borderline prospects that UM probably feels better about anyway. My guess is Swenson will go to another program and be fine. He won't be a star, but it'll be fine, and UM will find a competent replacement as well.

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FormerlyBigBlue71

January 30th, 2016 at 10:19 AM ^

Kid used Michigan as a placeholder backup plan while he awaited his Stanford acceptance. Where all of the hate articles now? On a side note, how does Stanford recruit even reasonably well when most of their commits don't even know if they are getting in until January?

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Rabbit21

January 30th, 2016 at 10:23 AM ^

Because it's Stanford. Frankly I think in the days before they could offer both badass football and high level academics this is probably a big reason they were held back. Now with a successful program and a staff that knows how to sell the challenge it's gotten much easier to get who they want and hell, for Stanford "decommits" their settling places go from anywhere from Michigan to UCLA to northwestern. Frankly if my kid had a Michigan and a Stanford offer I'd be sure to tell him to think really hard about his choice even though I am raising him to bleed blue.



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