2022 Athlete Dillon Tatum to Michigan State
September 30th, 2021 at 5:35 AM ^
What a surprise
September 30th, 2021 at 5:59 AM ^
It's not a surprise at this point, but if I were a kid, I would have a really hard time not following my head coach (Ron Bellamy) to Michigan.
September 30th, 2021 at 6:14 AM ^
You are assuming they had a good enough relationship to have that happen.
September 30th, 2021 at 6:30 AM ^
I'm not assuming. I've heard that they do have a good relationship.
September 30th, 2021 at 10:18 AM ^
Yeah, but you can imagine what it'd be like if they didn't.
September 30th, 2021 at 1:43 PM ^
Everybody back on the bus!
September 30th, 2021 at 10:41 AM ^
Same with Edwards.
I think he drug it out too long and they had a recruit in the fold for the same role as Tatum in Kody Jones so they moved on.
September 30th, 2021 at 11:18 AM ^
Do you have a scout on him Magnus? Just curious your thoughts on him. Know thy enemy kinda thing.
September 30th, 2021 at 12:29 PM ^
Yeah, I'd love to hear thoughts on him. Clink didn't seem to high on him, but I'm curious if people agree with his opinion or not.
September 30th, 2021 at 6:15 AM ^
I guess he favors Mel over Ron.
September 30th, 2021 at 6:32 AM ^
Well... Mel was a hotter spice girl to be fair.
September 30th, 2021 at 9:13 AM ^
Which one?
September 30th, 2021 at 11:40 AM ^
I feel like Ron Spice never got a fair shake.
September 30th, 2021 at 6:53 AM ^
He grew up a Spartan fan. C'est la vie.
September 30th, 2021 at 10:29 AM ^
Oui, ou, c'est la guerre.
September 30th, 2021 at 11:11 AM ^
I hear they have hookers cut to look like movie stars at Fleur de Lis…Whatever you desire!
October 2nd, 2021 at 1:31 AM ^
That's weird.
September 30th, 2021 at 8:01 AM ^
The rumors were he didn't get along with Clinkscale but I assume there was more going on here. But yeah, weird he didn't follow Bellamy.
September 30th, 2021 at 8:20 AM ^
I liked his RB tape. Not a lot of options left there on the 22 board.
September 30th, 2021 at 8:20 AM ^
don't be surprised if more WB kids end up elsewhere and not at Michigan... there is concern over at WB right now amongst the teaching staff that without Ron there anymore a lot of these kids are going to struggle with grades... Ron taught 3 classes at WB which all of the football players took and the the classes were more or less there so that the players could catch up on their school work and keep their grades up. the new coach at WB is a retired teacher and is only there to coach...
in no way am i saying this is what happened with Tatum but its not going to be a lock to get every kid out of WB just because Ron is coaching here now...
September 30th, 2021 at 8:51 AM ^
WB will fall off the map soon from a football standpoint. Bellamy was huge recruiter.
September 30th, 2021 at 8:58 AM ^
i do know that there were a lot of WB football players that put in transfer requests to go to other districts right after RB took the job at Michigan, so WB promoted the current coach to head coach to keep those kids around... but i think you're right because WB is not dominating this year at all and got rolled in their first game...
September 30th, 2021 at 11:18 AM ^
My youngest son plays for Lake Orion Freshman team, while his team is very good so far (undefeated this year and 36-1 since 7th grade - they split his age group into 2 teams for 7th and 8th grade and they went 31-1 those two years)
They rolled WB last week. It was 36-6 (scoring on every offensive drive - sounds familiar?) only 2 minutes into the 2nd half before was started massively substituting.
Yes, WB will see a decline in their football program. The funniest part is in the post game hand shake, their QB (who actually was pretty good passer) was trash talking "Wait til we get to Varsity..."
September 30th, 2021 at 10:30 AM ^
There’s some racial undertones to this claim.
September 30th, 2021 at 12:53 PM ^
So we lose the battle, to win the war so to speak. He must have had an A+ visit in the landfill. Right up the road is Okemos, they have a Meijer and a mall. How can Ann Arbor compete with that?
/s
September 30th, 2021 at 8:21 AM ^
Basically he was salty that Clink didn't recruit him to Kentucky, loved that Sparty treated him like the jewel of their class, and grew up rooting for Sparty. I do not think he is a huge loss (outside of our S recruiting being bad) but I hate seeing MSU grab guys like him and Mangham.
September 30th, 2021 at 8:31 AM ^
Yep, and even though Tatum is talented, Kody Jones is talented too and plays the same position. Just adds up to a situation where Michigan was fine losing out on him, even if they did want him.
September 30th, 2021 at 8:41 AM ^
That's not the point.
The point is they went to MSU. Which gives some folks Rich Rod flashbacks when Dantonio built a team off the same types of players.
We were still recruiting well. It was Florida, not Kody Jones out of Tennessee. But the enemy was getting a guy as good or nearly as good with a chip. And then when a player we wanted came along (whether he ultimately panned out or not)...that player would go to MSU because half of Detroit was there.
It's a line you have to balance. No reason to be concerned, but you need some of these guys or you need them to go to Kentucky or Bama or somewhere other than MSU.
If Mangham was at WVU and Tatum at Tennessee...no one would give a shit.
September 30th, 2021 at 8:17 AM ^
Why? I don’t get, “at this point…” Everybody on here was predicting a bad year & how the staff was not good, but now after beating three horrible teams at home you are suggesting it would be hard to not go to Michigan? Every year it’s like this. Take it a week at a time & stop the Milton for Heisman after one week stuff again.
September 30th, 2021 at 8:32 AM ^
Thanks for the insight, Mr. Notre Dame, but I think you meant to go to ndnation.com.
September 30th, 2021 at 8:45 AM ^
LOL this is also the clown who doesn't "get" why people refer it to as the "Pacers" in the Malice at the Palace when it was only 4 players ON the Pacers. Trolls gotta troll man.
September 30th, 2021 at 1:08 PM ^
Some of these kids wake up wanting to milk cows for a living. Some of them want to be doctors, lawyers, and engineers. I don't think UM offers cow milking, so there ya go.
September 30th, 2021 at 7:16 PM ^
This is such an old, tired take.
September 30th, 2021 at 6:57 AM ^
Curious why there was always a lot of buzz about Dillon and hardly any about Michael Williams. More or less the same ranking on 247. How's his recruiting going?
September 30th, 2021 at 7:28 AM ^
I'd guess that LB is full with the addition of Spurlock.
September 30th, 2021 at 7:49 AM ^
Williams tore his ACL as a sophomore(I believe?), and his recruitment changed after that.
September 30th, 2021 at 8:32 AM ^
It is interesting that the recruiting sites didn't drop him even when pretty much every team did
September 30th, 2021 at 7:22 AM ^
Good luck to the young man, hope we beat him every year.
September 30th, 2021 at 7:50 AM ^
Why would an intelligent young man follow another man anywhere when his heart is somewhere else? Not only does this show character, it also emphasizes the fact that one can ultimately care for someone and still be true to themselves, at the same time. Congrats young man in everything you do, except when you line up across from the Maize and Blue.
September 30th, 2021 at 7:52 AM ^
MSU fans are going full little brother over this on Twitter while I don’t think any Michigan fans have lost sleep over him. Especially funny that MSU fans are under the impression we hired Bellamy specifically to get Tatum? Very clear this was a Jamari Buddin situation where he could’ve committed to us, but we moved onto other targets because the timelines didn’t match up and was an MSU fan growing up. Heart vs Brain. Hopefully we can pull in Domani Jackson and Damani Dent
September 30th, 2021 at 8:23 AM ^
You couldn’t be more wrong. “Very clear…” um, no.
Michigan wanted Tatum bad. They didn’t move on to others by choice.
I can tell everyone from covering the Great Lakes area, that kids are way more impressed with Mel Tucker & MSU than they are with Michigan right now. They see what Tucker is doing with a mediocre roster and are very impressed.
As for the region, check out the various visitor lists for rack program (Michigan. MSU, ND, OSU, PSU) and a couple teams are loaded with 5 Star & top 100 4 Stars visiting.
September 30th, 2021 at 8:35 AM ^
Did you miss the visitor list for the Washington game?
September 30th, 2021 at 10:16 AM ^
He did. He was too busy watching his beloved Irish barely squeak by Toledo at home and telling anyone who would listen about how he used to “Cover the Great Lakes”.
September 30th, 2021 at 4:59 PM ^
To hell with Notre Dame, and all Irish fans get the hell off this site! Michigan gave him a chance to commit, but when Mo Linguist left he slowed things down and seemed like he needed to be coddled and told everything would be alright. Michigan moved on to others like Damani Dent and Amorion Walker. They didn't lose him to Sparty. Sparty won by lack of competition.
" kids are way more impressed with Mel Tucker & MSU than they are with Michigan right now. They see what Tucker is doing with a mediocre roster and are very impressed." Mel Tucker has a better than mediocre roster with the 14-15 kids he signed from the Transfer Portal, some of which were 4 & 5 star recruits. When you have JUCO academic standards, you can improve your roster easier through the Transfer Portal than when you have Ivey League academic standards.
September 30th, 2021 at 8:41 AM ^
You must not include the number one player in the State in your idiotic conclusions. Lastly, I’m almost positive he’s a 5 star, also. I’m sure you have proof of your narrative because you could prove anything that you say.
September 30th, 2021 at 8:46 AM ^
What kind of sources are you referencing? The guys at 247 were told Michigan essentially stopped recruiting him. Bellamy wanted him in the fold but Clink was uninterested. They would have taken him because of his relationship with Bellamy but Clink did not recruit him to Kentucky nor Michigan. If you watched his tape and thought he was a good fit then you can criticize clink for not prioritizing him as a recruit. This was not, however a situation where MSU was a more attractive place than UM. This was about Clinks lack of interest. He made a commitment video for UM before Clink was hired. So enough of this fan fiction unless you have some facts to back it up.
As an aside, Tatum has been trending towards MSU well before Tucker and MSU showed any signs of improvement this season (pretty much since Clink got hired), so your narrative that he saw how well MSU and Tucker are doing with a mediocre roster and jumped at the opportunity lacks foundation as well. Wake me up when MSU beats out Michigan for a recruit that they are heavily prioritizing because this example ain't it.
September 30th, 2021 at 8:46 AM ^
Where would we go to see your recruiting coverage?
September 30th, 2021 at 8:47 AM ^
Donovan Edwards says hello, and you must not have seen that Conerly, Jackson and Nolen (unlikely to come) we’re at the Washington game
September 30th, 2021 at 9:01 AM ^
Any truth to the rumours that Tatum was ranked anywhere from 45 to 14 in the state?