2017 NJ OT Micah Clark commits to Rutgers
NJ is not ours?
Not a big loss as long as Isiah Wilson comes aboard.
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For now..
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He definitely is not a Leader and Best!
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Oh that's right, if you ain't blue, it doesn't matter.
We're in on better tackle prospects. Probably nothing more than that.
Has anyone considered that some of these young men might change their mind this fall, when they are paying closer attention to Rutgers actually playing college football, and realize the experience looks something like a developmentally challenged monkey trying to butt-hump a moldy stuffed animal?
Agreed. They're getting the typical recruiting bump that comes from a brand new coach selling hope. We'll see what happens if Rutgers has a typical Rutgers season next year. I'm not worried about them suddenly putting up a wall around NJ.
The new coach is Chris Ash. He was Meyer's DC at OSU, so he's probably not a half bad coach (ahem, cough cough). But it's still Rutgers, and his staff of no-names and Div 2 up&comers underlies that point. Durkin hired a much better staff at Maryland...
playing close to home is always a big factor. add in a new coach and optimism and the recruiting may pick up there the next couple years. it will then become all about the results.
April 19th, 2016 at 10:44 PM ^
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to make Michigan their public enemy #1. Of course that comes easily for someone coming to the job from OSU. It makes sense for him too.
Clark was widely thought to favor OSU and PSU along with Rutgers. A few days before committing he released a surprising top five with us in 2nd and neither of them on it. Then Melton made his comments. It looks like Rutgers is staging things to look like they are winning head to head recruiting battles with us.
This comparison offends developmentally challenged monkeys who butt-hump moldy stuffed animals.
OK, fine: I hereby apologize, 'tarded butt monkeys...
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Heelys are the next big thing. Get on the train or get left behind.
If history has told us anything it's that Rutgers has a lot of recruiting ground to make up to get on our level... in their own state.
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I'm sure he's busy telling recruits that he knows the secrets to beating Michigan. Yesterdays results are not tomorrow's.
For all you people bitching about how bad Rutgers is and that they need to improve so that they are worthy of being in the Big ten . . . are you happy now?
Be careful what you ask for.
They're recruiting better. At our expense.
Still have yet to see the improvement
I'll agree that they're recruiting better when they actually sign their class. Recruits like results and I don't know how well that's going to turn out for them this fall.
When they start beating Michigan in head to head 'crootin battles for top recruits (especially those not from New Jersey) then it will be at our expense. Until then, good for them.
That's what Rutgers is trying to make people think. Just because those guys had Michigan offers doesn't mean we were getting them otherwise (Clark) or pushing for them (Melton).
Alot of the plants that are sold were developed at Rutgers, so they must be a very good school for horticulture atleast. You are probably eating food developed there tonight.
The issue is really not staying home to play for Rutgers, it's does he want to play for the best coaches in America - Drevno / Harbaugh? It's all about his future and he has the right to make the best decision for himself. That being said I don't know how hard we are going after him.
Edit - saw his picture. Not sure why he is putting Michigan in there unless he is insecure.
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I stand corrected.
These situations kind of remind me of local basketball prospects. For instance - did Shane Battier or Josh Jackson stay at home to play for a good program? Or did they go out of state to play for an elite program? At the end of the day Michigan will get theirs. Rutgers has nowhere to go but up. Can't be any worse.
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Battier went to Duke. Jackson to Kansas.
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That's his high school uniform (or at least their old uniform; it looks like they might have changed it, but it's hard to tell)...
He is a top 100 prsopect. Michigan was his second favorite school. Same with Eno Benjamin who commited to Iowa. A four star guard that Michigan really wanted commited to Georgia. Hopefully Isaiah Wilson commits, really want that.
Between the Bo Melton edit and the fact that Michigan appeared out of nowhere as Clark's #2 school, I wonder if the Rutgers coaches might have encouraged him to make this look like a Rutgers victory over Harbaugh. Chris Ash from OSU is there now, and Urban supposedly used to do that with Florida-FSU recruiting battles (encourage kids planning to commit to Florida to say it ultimately came down to Florida and FSU and they went with Florida).
If you think about it. Chris Ash needs New Jersey if he is going to succeed as coach of Buttgers. And if he can gather a lot more momentum recruiting New Jersey and supposedly beating Michigan for prospects, it would make his job a lot easier.
That strategy will only work until the teams meet and if UM thumps Rutgers then there is nothing more to say..end of conversation and momentum...AND if Rutgers ends up with a mediocre record it will be hard to keep these recruits.
April 19th, 2016 at 10:22 PM ^
he HAS those recruits to try and keep. No one is doubting that Rutgers needs to have success on the field to keep the recruits. But at least this strategy can get the recruits and build on success. He's never going to be able to compete with the Harbaughs and Meyers for the Rashan Gary's and Jabrill Peppers' that come out of New Jersey, but he can definitely sell his vision for the Micah Clarks and Bo Meltons and see what happens from there.