Dante Moore Announcement Tonight at 7 PM ET

His uncle has a new podcast.😅

....hopefully a comedy show.

I can not think of any NIL deals Nike has signed with anyone other than Reilyn Turner, the soccer player from UCLA. Nike itself has their brand on most high-profile players already. The ultimate small print in the Michigan NIL laws leaves it up in the air if the University can reject deals from competitors.

What Phil Knight and other high-profile Oregon Boosters did is create a NIL company for Oregon players, and one has to assume recruits as well. This was done without the University being involved.  Which also is the same game plan the SEC and Ohio State have been using for years.

Our boosters and fan base need to get organized because the sentiment I see is that the University needs to arrange this.  Well, that's not happening everywhere else, and we are getting left way behind.

I listened to the Sam Webb interview with Dante and he came off as poised, wise, and thoughtful. He seemed like a natural leader and type of kid you could build a team around.

Very different from the Bates vibe. 

How do you know Emoni has character issues and Dante doesn't? As far asI know neither do until it's proved otherwise.

I assume with all their momentum they are better at NIL than most

Think if you look at the class they seem to be assembling - it would indicate they've got their act together on NIL and the draw to South Bend is very similar to last cycles draw to College Station. 

You don't?

I suspect Notre Dame students care about most of South Bend as much as Michigan students care about what's at the intersection of Miller and Maple in Ann Arbor. That is, not much.

ND has a nice campus. If you go there for football you'll play in at least a few high-profile games. It's very good academically and the alum network is strong, too. If you don't walk far from campus you won't know you're in a Rust Belt shithole.

I'd still choose Michigan over ND, but I can understand why someone would want to go there. I didn't even touch on the RC angle.

I don't know how it's possible, but I actually dislike Kelly more now that he's at LSU. So this would just suck if it actually happened.

Maybe he listened to Hunter’s interview?

Soooo good!

Let's hope the kid chooses Michigan. If not, wish him well

I mean, I’m glad that I now know that he has offers from Morgan State, EKU and Florida A&M! Tough competition you guys are going against! Don’t worry about those LSU and Norte Dame teams whoever they are. (Poking fun at the absurdity of that IG post, not at your guys’ football program.)

"Which fanbase can show the most love?"

LOL, he's straight up shopping himself for the best NIL offers.

The downside of this is that Michigan will fall by the wayside for Moore and recruits like him. The upside going forward is that we won't have to listen to top recruits mouth the empty platitudes about "academics are very important to me"—it's openly about the money now.

The nature of the institutions they commit to—including the education—is completely irrelevant; with the transfer portal, they're out the door if/when they get a better offer from someplace else.

What was the announcement?

At least he didn't pick a school (outside of him picking Michigan which would be great) so it give Michigan more time (if it helps) to lure him.  I am a bit surprised that Moore has not given his verbal yet, big time qbs have had a tendency to announce so that their name can lure more talent to the class...just look at JJ and his recruiting guys to Michigan. 

You still like to lie sometimes though, don’t you. Like when your say your newborn niece is beautiful even though she looks like that thing in Alien?

I wouldn't mind sucking her gumdrops dry.