December 5th, 2012 at 8:53 PM ^
Lets hope he recommits to UM on 12/14 and never makes to Ohio!
December 5th, 2012 at 8:54 PM ^
Let's hope he kills that ACT.Thats a big thing for getting him into any school.
December 5th, 2012 at 9:09 PM ^
Showed up for mine with a hangover and a broken number 2 pencil now I work in a warehouse where were you 10 years ago.
December 5th, 2012 at 9:16 PM ^
Ten years ago he was spiking your drinks and sabotaging your pencil.
December 5th, 2012 at 9:17 PM ^
10 years ago I was 9.I might of broke your pencil though.
December 5th, 2012 at 9:41 PM ^
I proctored your test and made sure you got the one with no right answers. The world needs warehouse workers too.
December 5th, 2012 at 10:03 PM ^
Im pretty sure Charlie Weis ate all the pencils.
December 5th, 2012 at 8:55 PM ^
Please be more to this story than just the ACT. Maybe he is seeing all the studs coming to visit on December 14th, and realizing that the clock is ticking...
December 5th, 2012 at 10:09 PM ^
All those studs...
December 5th, 2012 at 8:55 PM ^
I don't really understand this situation, but I suppose it will all shake out. Why would he come back to Hoke and basically beg for his spot back only to schedule visits to other schools? I have a feeling Hoke wouldn't have given him a second chance if his pitch was that he liked Michigan but still wanted to check out other schools.
December 5th, 2012 at 9:02 PM ^
Apparently the MSU beat writer Matt Charbenau has sources that say its still between MSU and OSU. Which I can't believe because it makes zero sense.
December 5th, 2012 at 9:09 PM ^
MSU is behind UM, OSU and Bama
December 5th, 2012 at 9:09 PM ^
That information was probably not far off as recently as a week ago. Since then, Dawson has reconnected with the Michigan coaches and in his own words, had a "heart to heart" with Hoke. Sure, he's not a UM commit yet, but not a far reach to see he is telegraphing how he feels about Michigan.
December 5th, 2012 at 9:12 PM ^
That guy's an idiot. I think Dawson himself said MSU is trailing UM, OSU, and Alabama. (You know, real football programs.)
December 5th, 2012 at 10:07 PM ^
Why would you have a heart-to-heart, if you didn't REALLY want to come back? He's going to take his time, but I think he's leaning hard to Michigan right now.
December 6th, 2012 at 11:47 PM ^
Does he have a visit to Alabama in the works? Wouldn't make sense for him to say a school like MSU, which he has a visit scheduled to in January, would be behind a program that he didn't schedule a visit to.
*edit*
Not to mention that for the last couple of months it was made clear that staying close to him was very important to him, which would leave UM/MSU/OSU in the mix.
December 5th, 2012 at 9:19 PM ^
He was arguing that State has made some serious inroads at Cass Tech because Finley didn't flip and because State leads for Dawson (which... yeah).
December 5th, 2012 at 9:38 PM ^
They also have Deon Drake. His logic is just bad. CR has a ton of talent and not everyone of those players can go to UM. When MSU starts to beat UM for the top guys they want, then we can have that argument. Is Iowa and Illinois making serious inroads to CT because they got some guys that UM want perusing?
December 6th, 2012 at 9:39 AM ^
than Kenny Banya. "Why do they call it Ovaltine..."
December 5th, 2012 at 9:22 PM ^
Why would Hoke re-offer if Dawson is going to visit our rivals and supposedly keep them as favorites?
I suspect he has until Dec 14 at about 2pm to decide or the other recruits get the one-on-one chat with Hoke to close the void.
December 5th, 2012 at 9:31 PM ^
Aren't both the other OL visitors from the west coast. Seems like if Dawson was going to re-pull the trigger then it would be nice if he did it before those guys started their travels. A long way to come just to hear "sorry, no room."
December 5th, 2012 at 9:34 PM ^
And if they're coming out from the West Coast, chances are they're serious and one of them might take his spot.
December 5th, 2012 at 9:40 PM ^
Because Michigan paid for it... because Michigan is a good school... because Hoke is straight up...because there's a chance it might be worth it...because there's stuff we don't know...there's more to this than we know. This staff certainly is not above greyshirting either.
December 5th, 2012 at 9:57 PM ^
I agree it might be worth it because there is a chance for them. I also think that it would be crappy for them to step off the plane to find Dawson had recommitted.
December 5th, 2012 at 11:08 PM ^
It is an elaborate charade. Dawson will take the visits....as intelligence gathering missions on behalf of Hoke!
December 6th, 2012 at 9:40 AM ^
his personal situation and told him to take his time this go around and make sure it is the right decision and if that means visiting other schools then so be it. Seems like the sensible approach for everyone to take.
December 5th, 2012 at 9:00 PM ^
Why do I need to go to the ACT if we came here to play FOOTBALL, I ain't come to play SCHOOL, tests are POINTLESS
-- OSU unofficial policy
December 5th, 2012 at 9:39 PM ^
unofficial policy - get it right.
December 5th, 2012 at 9:01 PM ^
Suuuuuurrreee and Grizzly Adams had a beard.
December 5th, 2012 at 9:05 PM ^
Grizzly Adams did have a beard.
December 5th, 2012 at 9:03 PM ^
Hello, Again: David Dawson
December 5th, 2012 at 9:10 PM ^
Yes please
December 5th, 2012 at 9:14 PM ^
is mystifying to me, does he want to come back to U-M? Why reschedule anything ohio in that case? Whatever
December 5th, 2012 at 9:20 PM ^
Still think he will take all his schedule visits...just dont think he will make the same mistake twice and miss possible trips to other schools.
December 5th, 2012 at 9:40 PM ^
Free cars
December 5th, 2012 at 9:47 PM ^
lil jimmy norton.
December 5th, 2012 at 10:10 PM ^
Per twitter.
December 5th, 2012 at 10:29 PM ^
ACT test is redundant. This would be like saying ATM machine or PIN number. But whatever
Edit: I actually looked this up on the Google machine and it's called the RAS (Redundant acronym syndrome) Syndrome
December 6th, 2012 at 8:22 AM ^
Which HTTP protocol did you use? I find the secure version bypasses my company's internet filters.
December 5th, 2012 at 10:18 PM ^
My guess is that either Dawson has pretty much decided he wants to go to U-M and will recommit prior to 12/14 or if he doesn't, one of the other OL will commit on 12/14 and Dawson will be left out.
I'd be surprised if Dawson takes the other visits in January and a spot is still left at that point.
December 5th, 2012 at 10:27 PM ^
Why would somebody schedule an official visit during their ACT? He had to have had the ACT scheduled before hand right?
Is this just me?
December 5th, 2012 at 10:43 PM ^
If I wasn't married, I would be constantly double-booking myself. My wife is the only thing that keeps a sliver of order in my personal life.
Dawson is not married. Ergo, these things happen.
December 5th, 2012 at 10:47 PM ^
I just wonder if this is just a convenient excuse because he simply doesn't want to visit them anymore...Wishful thinking, i know.
December 5th, 2012 at 11:51 PM ^
Agreed, my wife does all of my scheduling. Whenever anyone asks me about my plans for any given time, my immediate response is, "I'll have to ask my wife."
December 6th, 2012 at 1:47 AM ^
I'm sure you guys are happily married; but that sounds awful to be. Maybe that't why I'm 31 and single.
December 6th, 2012 at 3:21 AM ^
It isn't a matter of the wives DEMANDING to control the calendar. I've always sucked at maintaining a social calendar, so my wife knows that if we don't want to regularly double-book ourselves, it's on her. She's also the rememberer of all important dates (family birthdays, etc.).
In exchange, I am the fixer of all broken things, the killer of all spiders and other insect life, and the lifter of all heavy objects.
December 6th, 2012 at 3:50 AM ^
Ditto.
December 6th, 2012 at 8:00 AM ^
She is referred to as The Social Coordinator.
We moved in March and I've built a shed, put a loft in the garage, put in a slave electrical panel in the garage, and started digging out the crawl space (that one may take years). The next project for me is putting in a closet in the rights in area over the garage and putting in a drain tray in there so the laundry can be upstairs.
She handles the calendar and buying gifts, I rebuild the house. Even when it doesn't need rebuilding.
December 6th, 2012 at 11:00 AM ^
Single guys just can't grasp it. I make money/she spends money, it's a prefect fit.
The Bride's title in my house is Social Director.