5-Star DT Andrew Brown Planning Visit
From gathering various bits of information around the Twitterz, it sounds like DT Andrew Brown is visiting in the next couple months.
Rivals hints at it with his photo on TheWolverine.com on Rivals:
http://michigan.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1507334 ($)
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/recruiting/player-Andrew-Brown-116735
#6 Nationally, #1 DT on Rivals.
Hoke and company doing work in the Mid-Atlantic states. Yes, please.
Thanks for the inside look...I'm loving Michigan's strong new connection to the state of Virginia. I hope that we can continue to plant the seed on young rising sophomores and juniors.
I think you're selling UVA short. Truthfully I will be shocked if he doesn't go there. UVA's attractive for the reasons you mentioned but they've also done a great job selling Brown on what they offer in his chosen field of study, and he's dead serious about that aspect of his recruitment.
P.S. His mom died six years ago, so I have to really question how plugged in you are, or if perhaps you're mixing up Brown with someone else.
You dance a curious dance.
I don't deny it. Twice the teams is more than twice the fun, though.
If either UVA or VT could really get a grasp on their in-state recruiting, they'd be a powerhouse. I know VT has done well, but it's mostly with 3 star talent. Virginia really churns out a bunch of 4*s and a few 5*s and neither school is really able to capitalize on that. They get raided pretty frequently.
Ex:
2013: Four 5 star guys. Three went out of state (M, Bama, PSU)
2012: Did well
2011: Three of top four out of state
2010: All four of the top four went out of state
They've produced plenty of football talent over the last four decades—how in the hell have they managed to never become a true football power, even in the Big Ten?
This is good news. The more Michigan is in these 5*'s radar, the better chances we have of landing one here and there. I would almost say that UM is close to becoming a national powerhouse in the recruiting game, if it isn't already.
Was Carr considered a good recruiter? I've only started following recruiting closely in the last couple of years. We all know what R.R. accomplished. If just seems like Michigan was a sleeping giant, with all the resources in the world and Hoke knows how to take advantage of those resources and push the brand and get recruits to believe in it.
7th nationally now that Rivals updated the 100. Do not want.
/s
obviously 5* are 5* for the reason that they are considered really freaking good, so everyone wants them, but if we increase the number visiting, we increase the likelihood some commit. I would personally like to have a class like USC's last year (pre-implosion, and without money changing hands).
arms?
I guess the comment could army crawl rather than walk.
"I like the fact that Coach Brown is so confident in landing this guy, but lets just wait till next week to get all giddy about Peppers. Long way till NSD still."
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"Has nothing to do with confidence...it's fact, haha. I can't really say exactly why yet, but it's a done deal."
Isn't the tweet guy right that it's still a long way away till NSD? I mean, it's true of any recruit, and better to have one committed than not, but nothing is a fact or done deal till then.
I agree. The bad thing is that a recruit like Peppers, if he does commit, is that he will still have people/colleges in his ear all the way until NSD, unless he shuts everything down himself.
but it will also give him a lot of time to help Michigan recuit players that are his caliber. good players want to play with other good players or something like that.
