October 21st, 2010 at 2:01 PM ^
I have to believe he's fucking with us.
October 21st, 2010 at 2:16 PM ^
The equivalent of Dee Hart's twats to the Orlando Sentinel about how he's high on Alabama?
Arnett:Michigan :: Hart:Alabama?
October 21st, 2010 at 2:17 PM ^
October 21st, 2010 at 2:25 PM ^
I'm not even mad. That's amazing.
October 21st, 2010 at 4:20 PM ^
No one has heard the term "twatting"? I cannot claim ownership of the adjective. Check it out:
October 21st, 2010 at 11:49 PM ^
verb. Or noun.
October 21st, 2010 at 3:05 PM ^
Instantly deleted.
October 21st, 2010 at 4:00 PM ^
I talked with him for about 30 minutes at Lamarr Woodley's football camp this summer. Started by wishing him well as he had eliminated us at this point and he told me he was still talking with the coaches. We got into a conversation about how I thought Michigan would do and I told him we would go 8-4, 7-5 at worst. He thought I was crazy and continued to ask me questions about my opinion on the program and how soon we would be back.
Maybe the start and the amount we are throwing the ball has peaked his interest again. Going into this season State was protrayed as the passing team and their pasing numbers have dropped off drastically with a returning junior starter. Let this one play out and see what happens though I would rather have Watkins (speed kills).
October 21st, 2010 at 4:07 PM ^
The tape I've seen of Arnett running routes is gorgeous. So fluid. I'd have a hard time believing speed would be a knock on Arnett.
October 21st, 2010 at 5:08 PM ^
I concur.
October 21st, 2010 at 2:02 PM ^
with a bye this week and a road game the next but hey I'll accept anyone as a fan. Especially 4* in state WRs....
October 21st, 2010 at 2:02 PM ^
Yeah, he's just trying to get our hopes up to make his recruitment more exciting. Now that he's down to 2nd level schools he doesn't get as much media attention as he did when he was considering the best of the best.
October 21st, 2010 at 2:02 PM ^
RR+ Fred J on the recruiting = good players
October 21st, 2010 at 2:03 PM ^
I want to beleive this..but I will not try to get my hopes up too high. This would be a huge grab for us though! Oh..and we would keep him from State....MWAHAHA
October 21st, 2010 at 2:04 PM ^
Yeah personally I wouldn't read too much into it, but who knows.
October 21st, 2010 at 2:04 PM ^
UM coaches were on the recruiting trail this week (I bet RR made a trip personally), and we lose interest in AJ who goes to Wisconsin.
Everyone thought Crawford was our only big time target. But this makes more sense to me.
October 21st, 2010 at 2:37 PM ^
I think if you are talking about WR's, then it's Watkins not Crawford.
October 21st, 2010 at 2:58 PM ^
Watkins. thanks.
October 21st, 2010 at 2:09 PM ^
Wouldn't it be great to see one of these things go our way for once? Snakeoiling Arnett would be awesome on so many levels.
October 21st, 2010 at 2:11 PM ^
I'll believe he's serious when I see him on a visit. I'd be more than happy if he decided to join the Wolverines, but this seems extremely odd. I bet one of his cooky friends went on his laptop to play a prank on him with twitter. Damn kids.
October 21st, 2010 at 2:14 PM ^
Arnett, Hart, DRobinson would be a killer Trio
October 21st, 2010 at 2:14 PM ^
He's probably on Mgoblog right now seeing what we're all saying
October 21st, 2010 at 2:16 PM ^
He was quoted saying that his Cal visit was an A+ and that they were #1 on his list now.
"I can definitely see myself living out there," Arnett said. "It was real cool and relaxed. I can definitely see myself playing there. Definitely. They're definitely high up there. Definitely."
October 21st, 2010 at 3:28 PM ^
Well, iIf we can't get him, I don't want to play against him. I could live with that. (But according to TomVH's update, we may have a legit shot.)
October 21st, 2010 at 7:31 PM ^
pretty definite.
October 21st, 2010 at 8:57 PM ^
Definitely
October 21st, 2010 at 2:45 PM ^
With Denard recruiting, anything is possible
Go Blue!
October 21st, 2010 at 2:20 PM ^
I really love Michigan and have been a fan since I was a little boy. I will not visit Ann Arbor once and commit to the Crimson Tide after taking only one visit.
I am focusing on going somwhere that I can play right away. Since I am a LB recruit I am going to go to OSU.
I want to focus on academics. WVU is the place for me!
/Kids will be kids...
October 21st, 2010 at 2:36 PM ^
As soon as I hear that from the lips of a recruit, I know he's not coming to Michigan. Sort of like Myron Rolle choosing FSU. (Sure, he did well there academically, but FSU?)
October 21st, 2010 at 2:43 PM ^
Yeah, FSU, the only school that was legitimately offering him the chance to do both pre-med and football at the same time. Basically everyone else on his list told him, in some way or another, that it would be too difficult to do both.
Perhaps if our coaches would have seriously given him a chance to do both, he would have won a Rhodes scholarship here instead of at FSU.
October 21st, 2010 at 3:02 PM ^
FSU truly did sell him on academics, they have an excellent honors program and it's no coincidence that they have had multiple Rhodes scholars in recent years.
October 21st, 2010 at 3:08 PM ^
I wanna get Bouje in here to rehash this discussion again. That was an epic negbang party.
October 21st, 2010 at 4:09 PM ^
That is funny, but too far...
October 21st, 2010 at 2:20 PM ^
From what I saw on Rivals recently he sounded like a Cal lock
October 21st, 2010 at 2:21 PM ^
We would love to have you here DeAnthony! The #1 jersey is still up for grabs if you're willing to work for it.
October 21st, 2010 at 2:23 PM ^
This would be a left field type of thing. Next Lawrence Thomas will do the same thing.
October 21st, 2010 at 2:28 PM ^
This may have nothing to do with football, he may just be an outspoken fan of certain primary colors.
October 21st, 2010 at 2:37 PM ^
"Old School" for the first time.... He will be sad when he gets to the part where Blue dies...
October 21st, 2010 at 2:29 PM ^
Could the "Go Blue" be somehow directed to the Cal Bears and not us?
October 21st, 2010 at 2:44 PM ^
There is no way anyone who grows up in Michigan wouldn't know what he is saying by tweeting Go Blue, impossible. Like others have pointed out there's plenty of reason to suspect this being sarcastic or him creating drama but not a mistake.
October 21st, 2010 at 2:48 PM ^
Fair enough, just seemed not long after his Cal visit that I figured that might be the case, I could be very wrong here though.
October 21st, 2010 at 3:06 PM ^
If he was tweeting Cal, he'd likely had gone for "Go Bears"
October 21st, 2010 at 2:39 PM ^
We don't need another WR, we need LBs and DLs and DBs. Offense sells tickets, but defense will save RR's job.
A kicker who can manage to get an occasional kickoff into the end zone would be nice too.
October 21st, 2010 at 2:55 PM ^
...but, Arnett is damn good. Every team in the country could use him. I'd love for him to go Blue, but more important that he doesn't go green...
October 21st, 2010 at 3:31 PM ^
The staff sees our guys every day. They know what our needs are. If they deem a kid worthy of recruitment, we have to give them the benefit of the doubt. We don't have enough information at our disposal to argue otherwise. The only thing I think we can really criticize them for is if they target a bunch of academically-borderline guys. We've gotten burned too much on them lately.
October 21st, 2010 at 10:20 PM ^
Stonum, Hemmingway, and Odoms are all juniors. He'll be a sophomore when we lose our 3 biggest threats on the outside. I'm glad the coaching staff isn't as short sighted as you.
October 21st, 2010 at 2:42 PM ^
Not judging at all, but do you all really know and follow each recruit like that? You make me feel like less of a Michigan fan.
October 21st, 2010 at 2:42 PM ^
IS a big Michigan fan. Also, he could certainly be the mystery recruit. It would not surprise me at all.