Hello: Shawn Conway

That was some quick googlestalking.

I'm excited about this commitment, being a big fan of tall physical Michigan receivers who can catch the ball.

The coaches saw him in person, he's a local guy, this isn't based on on film like some of our offers. If they saw something worthy of the offer I'm satisfied.

conway mentioned only 2 WRs getting offers(himself being one of them). thoughts?

Honestly I'm surprised by this commitment, I thought RR didn't recruit Michigan.

Has TE written all over him.. 6'4" as a H.S. Jr. He'll be a redshirt. He's welcome!

Based on the video evidence (just like everyone else it seems) I am a bit confused as to why he has been offered so early with what seems to be Blue Chippers.

On the other hand, If he truly has not been playing FB that long, he could turn out to be that 1 in 100, diamond in the rough. So far I have been impressed with kids that RR and his staff have picked up as "sleepers".

Video evidence, not great... Trust in our Coaches, very much so.

Plus it will most certainly help that he will have Tate's sniper arm sending him balls.

Sean Connery?

My mistake, carry on.

on this recruit at all, the pendulum really seems to be swinging the other way in terms of the annoying propagandizing. The blind RR support is now clobbering the blind RR denigration.

Believe it or not some of these "sleepers" won't pan out. Hell, some of our stud recruits won't pan out. "Trust the coaches" will turn out to be true some of the time, and sometimes the coaches will be wrong. If we can accept that it may quell some of the overly-passioned and less-reasoned responses on both sides.

All I know is, the kid is 6'4'' and has a 38'' vertical. He said he runs a 4.56, but thats really no big deal, because college you can get by being physical and jumping high. I think he could be the next #1.

Link:

http://www.leaguelineup.com/player_football.asp?URL=oaa&playerid=5137789

OK, so Shawn comes to Michigan. He's not expecting an offer. But he gets one! He's excited he calls his friends, his team-mate (Carlton Brundidge). He gets a call from a guy from a Michigan blog, too, to get a few words from him. Pretty exciting shit for a high school football player, right? Michigan, offer, press calls...holy shit, right?

So he goes on the internet to check out the blog to see how his interview went, and to see it posted. He's clicking around the site, and sees ANOTHER thread devoted to him. This one 180+ comments!

Oh wait...many of them are shitting on him. Welcome to Michigan, Shawn!

The presence of a song from 808s and Heartbreak bolsters my hypothesis that lower guru ratings correspond to more emo hypetracks.

Music and my scientific acumen aside, Conway looks like he could be a really good athlete on the outside once he gets in a serious strength program.

With the ability to catch the ball in traffic he could still grow into an efficient tight end, despite his lack of speed. He could become another Jim Mandich or perhaps Jerame Tuman. There's nothing like having a dependable third-down "possession" receiver. He'll probably grow to 6-5 or 6-6 and could even become a dynamite strong safety. In any case, he's closer to a blue chip than a sleeper. He's already a playmaker.

Where is Magnus to tell me how I'm supposed to feel?

The key for the next recruiting class I really feel like is the OL. We have other needs to be sure, but after two small hauls of linemen, we need to focus on stalking some of the top guys in the country. We also needed a big WR, although not at the same level as we need OL. This kid looks to have the tools, is local and frees up the staff to focus even more on OL once he's locked up.

What would really make me happy here would be hear the words "Early Enrollment". Instate kid, likely he could use some time playing with a good QB to get used to actually having the ball delivered to him, get this kid in early and it's all good.

(Also I totally buy the bad QB thing. On my football team our leading tackler one year was the fullback. Yes the fullback. Both our QBs were human turnover machines and the Fullback had the lovely task of tracking down whichever LB or DB picked off the QB and clobbering him. Our WRs got no love, because the ball rarely made it within 20 feet of them.)

Edit:
Also one has to consider our WR depth chart. As per the 2010 Recruit Tracker, we took one 4* WR, two 3.5* and two 3* WRs. We have 6 more Class of 2014 WRs, plus Stokes in Class of 2013 sitting in reserve. I'm not sure if 5* WR nationally known WRs are exactly going to be in a massive hurry to come here and sit behind 12 other WRs (assuming no one goes to DB). It's a good time to invest in some sleeper WR talent. The big names from 2011 will likely go to schools that have openings for them and will put them on the field, whereas we're more in the "take kids, redshirt them and develop them" stage of WR recruitment.

First thing he said in the interview: "I'm a hard worker."

This board, it seems, doth overreact a bit much.

Last year, it was "Where's the Defensive Recruiting?"
Two months ago, it was "O Let's Do It!"
Now it's back to "WTF Coach?"

This winter of our discontent cannot give way to an autumn of miracles soon enough.

I have no problem with this recruit in another year, but as the 3rd recruit in a class of 14? His best quality is he is a hard worker is like asking if the girl is pretty, and they tell you how nice she is. Coach only recruits hard workers or they won't make it at Michigan, so I expect that, don't get excited about that.
The article goes on to say that he may be a top 10 receiver in the state of Michigan. With 14 spots open if you aren't a top 10 in the country, we are offering you too early.

Again I'm sure he is a great person (I love that he commited on the spot and grew up loving the maize and blue), but if you offer a price for a car and the guy takes it immediately you probably offered too high. This guy clearly looks like a guy that will get interest from the in state schools could have committed to Central Michigan, and then if we had a slot in January we could have stole away. This recruit either shows the lack of confidence that Rich Rodriguez has in the ability to get top talent this year, or that he found the next Larry Fitgerald. I'm hoping it is the latter. If so, please kid transfer to a school that throws the ball so you can actually play receiver.