just going for the 2 for $20 deal
That'd be a recruiting violation.
April 18th, 2011 at 10:45 PM ^
and if you are going to go that route, it's best not to be cheap... A highly touted QB costs about $200,000 just ask Cecil Newton
Same reason we offer 15 LB's when we know we are only going to take 3 or 4. Don't get your panties in a bunch.
I think that this news doesn't make it any more likely that we know what's happening, other than TomVH's cryptic post, all signs point to Auburn. I really hate the Tigers now...
April 18th, 2011 at 10:22 PM ^
Are "all signs" what Tom said and this thread?
April 18th, 2011 at 10:47 PM ^
He said not to read into all of the Auburn hype.
April 19th, 2011 at 10:37 AM ^
He said he was hearing things in our favor but this trip to Auburn this past weekend may have changed things and to just wait until tomorrow to see what happens.
April 19th, 2011 at 12:45 AM ^
Let's not blame our baseball team for this....
/s
Pike commits to us...you still keep recruiting. You don't know what happens until signing day.
Yeah really. I'm sure verbal commits from high school juniors have some value, but it isn't a lot. I'm sure if the NCAA starts to look into Auburn again they'll have a rash of decommits. If we have a bad season I'm sure we'd have decommits as well. Lots of kids will flip three or four times between now and signing day.
Do you have a link?
If you are reffering to the article on scout, it's about Austin's offer from akron
That's what I suspected which is why I'm curious as to where the OP heard this.
Can't read the Scout article but thought it would be about the Akron offer. Appleby's been told he needs to camp before he gets an offer. No reason for that to change in mid-April.
It's probably more likely coincidence than correlation.
Depending on your point of view; Good news on the Appleby front
An offer to another QB can also work in our favor by sending a signal to Target A.
Only if the target is biding his time, he's already announcing, there would be no reason to coax a commit out now.
But, using impeccable Get Smart logic, what if Target B knows that Target A knows that it's just a signal? And Target A knows that Target B knows that he knows that Target A knows that it is just a signal. And Hoke knows that Target A knows that Target B knows that Target A knows that it is just a signal.
Then clearly by syllogistic logic, it is Target C that we are after.
It's devious, it's mischievous and it would be spectacular.
Then again, I like your idea better.
April 18th, 2011 at 11:03 PM ^
Or poorly executed game theory, in which we end up with a Nash equillibrum where we get neither guy.
April 18th, 2011 at 11:38 PM ^
we talking about game theory, the most tedious course ever....lol I like Appleby btw :O
Checkmate.
I always liked Chaos Theory better anyway.
sends a signal to Pike you are sadly mistaken. That would be like saying the Lions offering an extension to the second stringer sends a signal to Stafford.
I don't know where you saw that, but Austin Appleby doesn't have a Michigan offer yet.
From previous update.....
I wasn't offered on this trip, but we sat down with the coaches and they told me what they want out of me to get that offer. They said they want to see me at their camp and based off of that we'll talk about an offer. They told me that they've seen my film and that they really like me but they want me to camp before they offer.
I don't see Hoke changing his strategy whether Pike comes or not.
Is "I wasn't offered on this trip" code for an offer? I'm confuzzled.
If I am Pike I would have to at least consider the possibility of NCAA sanctions on Auburn before I graduate. It would definitely be great to land Pike but the QB situation here at Michigan is looking bright for the future. Last time I checked Devin was a pretty big time recruit himself. All that being said, I really do like our chances that Pike does go blue.
There's still time for Auburn to implode in the months leading up until Signig Day. A commitment isn't a dealbreaker.
April 18th, 2011 at 10:00 PM ^
They gave the money to Pike's dad, so it's all good.
April 18th, 2011 at 11:01 PM ^
my background might swing me at times to the SEC so I can be the next Clammy Clam Juice except that would suck and then I might have to suffer ncaa noodle lashings and that would be garbage.
Then in times of clarity and during celestial replenishment, MEECHIGAN's output of NFL QBs and the cosmic order and ancestral need for me to play a major role in the return of the Big Ten* to CFB dominance could well in me like the need to spawn in the tributaries of the great lakes and sky blue waters of the up and propel my lunker loins into the fish weir that is M football.
Let it be. The ypsitucky connection is real and needs to be reactivated now. I also liked the QB from Columbus IN but that is not whappin.
Good luck and Go North Zeke.
*and alas ND
I'm all for stream of consciousness and stuff, but WOW sometimes it still does need to make some sense.
It would probably be real hard these days to sway kids from one of the big SEC schools, seeing as how they win all the national championships these days.
Yeah, Michigan might have sent Tom Brady and some journeymen to the NFL, but Pike was probably about 10 years old and more worried about cooties than anything else at the time.
Rumor mongering is for dorks with little penises
I've heard that rumor before... Wait... Shit.
Is your name Kris or is your username referring to a previous recruit?
at work who follows Scout more than I do, that Kiel just had his interest level for us raise a bit....I
Anonymous friend tips don't count as credible sources. I'll believe it when I read it quoted from Gunner himself.
Or unless this "friend" is Tom.
April 18th, 2011 at 10:51 PM ^
...Beaver
No, never Beaver
there's anything wrong with that
Incitement to violence is one of the few limitations to free speech in this country. Delete thread please.
April 18th, 2011 at 10:28 PM ^
April 18th, 2011 at 10:44 PM ^
Well if Pike does go to Auburn, then he played Sam Webb like a fool, who in turn played us.
April 18th, 2011 at 10:47 PM ^
Sam said at least four times today he expects Pike to go to Auburn, what are you talking about?
April 18th, 2011 at 11:38 PM ^
Well I just listened to the Recruiting Roundup, parts 6a and 6b, twice now, and heard nothing about Pike. So... what are YOU talking about? (as Harbaugh said..."whats YOUR problem?" lol)
April 18th, 2011 at 10:51 PM ^
but otherwise I listen to Sam every day. He's never said that Pike is coming to Michigan.