Bryan Mone may early enroll
Per Sam Webb, Bryan Mone is working toward graduating early in order to enroll in January. Always excited to see linemen enroll early:
Per Salt Lake City, Ut. Highland coach Brody Benson, #michigan commit Bryan Mone is working toward graduating early so he can enroll January
If it happens, that would bring the 2014 early enroll list to five:
Michael Ferns
Wilton Speight
Mason Cole
Drake Harris
Bryan Mone
This is good news.
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Is there a limit of early enrollees that you can get each year ?
Anyway that's a good news, love to see freshmen in Spring games !
There is not a limit on how many can enroll early. However, if players enroll early, the team has the option of counting them toward the prior year's recruiting class (thus enabling you to sign more than 25 players in one cycle). I think there is a limit on how many you can do that for, though I don't think that rule is relevant to Michigan's situation right now because they don't have enough space under the 85 scholarship cap to sign anywhere near 26 players in 2014.
Do graduating seniors still count toward the limit even though they are not playing spring ball?
You mean, do players who will be seniors in 2013 and graduate in spring 2014 count toward the 85-scholarship limit for fall 2014? The answer is no. The departures of those players (plus any unplanned attrition) is what makes room for the 2014 recruits to enroll.
Yes, I am talking about seniors graduating in Spring 2014, but early enrollees would go on scholarship in Spring 2014, not the Fall. Technically, Michigan would have over 85 kids on scholarship during the Spring 2014 semester unless the graduating seniors didn't count toward the limit in their last semester.
I see. I believe it is permissible to exceed the 85-scholarship limit during the off-season, so long as the team can show how it will get down to 85 by the fall. In fact, I believe M had more than 85 on scholarship this spring, due to a number of early enrollees.
That's what I assumed but wasn't sure.
EEs don't count toward the scholarship limit because they have to pay their own way until the fall.
Do graduating seniors who do not participate in spring football still count toward the 85 scholarship limit? Most of them will still be in school in their last semester and assuming still on scholarship, but they will no longer be working with the team.
I think Mone is going to surprise a lot of people with how good he becomes. We haven't heard a lot since he committed, and perhaps part of that is because he lives in Utah, but I have friends who live in Salt Lake City who have seen him play who absolutely RAVE about what a beast this kid is.
Anyway, that would be great if Mone enrolls early. In fact, that list the OP included is one NICE early enrollee list!
hard to be a sleeper when you are the number 72 aggregrate player, but yeah people don;t talk about him nearly enough here.
Yeah, but you get my point. Maybe the word sleeper isn't the right word, but I think that with all of the success this coaching staff is having with recruiting, some people are maybe not as appreciative of some of the commits we have already landed, and are quickly moving on to the next recruit. I'm guilty of it too.
Bottom line- Mone is a beast. I can't wait to see our Defense over the next few years!
Mone is getting overlooked because he committed before any rankings were out with zero fanfare and we've heard almost nothing since. Not a bad thing, just considering that he's the #72 composite guy, he's had a spectacularly quiet commitment so far
Better to sleep on Mone than Mone sleep on you
In Soviet Russia...
But if he's good enough for Hoke, he's good enough for me.
Any permutation and combination of 5 recruits from the 2014 class will be one hell of an early enrollees list.
There's 462 combinations actually (since order doesn't matter) #BOOM MATH'D
"I was desperate to get out of high school by my senior year"
This right here. I checked out mentally after the first couple of months of my senior year. Second semester was an absolute joke. Explaining the drop in grades to a counselor at Purdue when I transferred from GMI was entertaining, to say the least.
If I had the option to graduate early from high school, I definitely would have done it. Especially because I didn't really get a "last" summer with my friends. I had to be in Flint by July 4th to move into the dorm, so I only got about three weeks with all of my friends.
You make good points and for some people you may be right.
I wish I would have enrolled early as it likely would have helped me get a lot more comfortable with the culture of my team and it would have made my summer workouts ten times more productive as I would have had much better understanding what the summer was preparing us for.
I agree with a few people above. I'm also no expect, but from the highlights I watched and the analysis from the recruiting sites on Mone, he may be my favorite prospect this year (ok jabrill being jabrill aside). I feel as though he is very underrated. Somebody mentioned him as a comparable to Haloti Ngata. I'm not sure if his ceiling is that high, but he does seem vastly underrated from what I've seen. And I'm waiting for the next dominant Michigan NT.
Talk about forgetting recruits. It seems as if after one year of Pipkins not being what people expected him to be that he isn't talked about as much as he should. I feel he will have a strong year this year.
I'm not saying I was personally disappointed because obviously he was a true freshmen but most people around here were expecting Pipkins to come in and win the starting job his first season.
A highschool kid starting as a DT in college is rare.. Most are just bigger other kids in highschool, but college kids are a different story.. Remember Will Campbell was a Five Star.. You need to get into the program and put on good weight and learn good technique. In highschool you mainly use your size.
Yes, it is why the Lions backup QB has traditionally been the most exciting player on the team (excl Stafford era and when Barry was around). What we have not seen on the field but conceptualize/dream about is always way more exciting than what we already. Or its grass is always greener idealizing. A lot of the kids we fawn over during this period won't see the field until 2015+.
"...Pipkins not being what people expected him"
Why do you think that? Did people expect an 18 year old to show up and be a NFL 1st rounder? All these lineman need time to develop - even if they are in a man's body already. Look at the difference in Lewan in 2010 versus 2013. There are positions where a kid can make an immediate impact but usually those are not on the lines - those are grown men battling down there (21-22 year olds) and the 18-19 year olds, no matter what size they come in are going to get a dose of reality. Especially since most of them so dominated their HS competition and this is the first time they are playing people as strong or stronger than them.
The fact he got playing time as a frosh tells me the coaches though very highly of him (and of course we were relatively thin at the position).
Lewan showed up NFL ready, just look.