Derrick Green looking to decide by October

i hope its after his visit to UM for the msu game.

We've got a good chance people jumped to conclusions that he was an Auburn lock, but most thought Poggi was a Bama lock.

I watched Derrick Green's game today on espnu and I came away very impressed. This dude is a beast. Very well put together for a high school kid. I really hope he chooses the good guys. I hope Michigan starts strong and Auburn struggles early in the season. Maybe that will help sway his mind to choose us.

IIRC, Poggi was going to go to Michigan in April then he was most definitely going to Bama during the month of May.  I'm just saying that you know nothing about the kid from a couple of tweets, and he said almost the same things about Michigan at the BBQ as he did with Auburn last week.

What's the over/under for him announcing on the 20th

Can we bad the sentence "Dude is a beast"

Will it really take that long for Auburn's check to clear?

For those who love to neg anyone hinting at unsubstantiated impropriety by other schools...this is a JOKE...sort of.

It's almost September.

I'm actually fairly confident in our chances with Green. We're in his top two no doubt with Auburn.

If academics are truely high on his list, we have a huge advantage there.

If he wants to play right away, I think he has a better chance here as well.

Touissant will be a RS Senior so after he's gone the competition will be wide open between him, Rawls, Smith, and the rest of the backs. He could definitely play as a freshman even just as a change of pace back or a goalline bruiser, so he could play right away. And while I don't want him to, there's a slight chance Touissant enters the draft if he does well enough, so that would open up playing time right away.

In 2013, Auburn will have a RB named Tre Mason who will be a true junior and will almost definitely be the starter, he's currently the second string back and played as a freshman as well. And depending on the route Javon Robinson takes, he could potentially re-enroll in Auburn as a 2013 recruit, and he's a talented 4 star RB who would challenge Green for time.

If he wants to decide in October, he already has us penciled in as a visit for October 20th. If he were to decide in Ocotber, that means that unless he visits Auburn the next week vs Texas A&M, we would have the last visit, which would bode well for us.

And looking at Auburn's schedule, they have a brutal first 2 months. They play Clemson in Georgia, at Mississippi State, vs LSU, vs Arkansas, at Vanderbilt, and vs Texas A&M are all games they have before the end of October, and all are very loseable. If they struggle early on, that may change his opinion of them a lot.

They also have a new OC, former Michigan QB Scott Loeffler, so how the Auburn Offense performs under him matters as well.

Auburn is also the presumed favorite for top RB Greg Bryant. If he committs to them before Green, it's assumed they won't have room for Green, and once again, that makes us the favorite.

Now all of this could very well be me with my Maize & Blue glasses on, but I really think he have a legit shot with him, and after his reaction to his first visit here, I really think we have a good shot.

If I had a fiver for every recruit we've gone after who's said "academics are very important to me" who then committed to a school nowhere near to UM in academic standing, I could take Brady and Al and Greg to the Chop House, including cigars and brandy.

Kids always say it, and they rarely mean it.

everybody continues to focus on how well put together this kid is. i hope those who are impressed realize that, in addition to a large frame, he has matured much earlier than others in high school, and this advantage is going to dissipate in college. running backs at high-level colleges are pretty well put together. that's not what defines them. let's talk about vision and making people miss. the fact that he looks like a linebacker at age 17 does not cut it for me.

What little footage there was of in that clip was impressive...big, strong, and fast.  He just plowed over some dude.  I would love to have him in our backfield.  He said academics and playing early are his biggest concerns.  He would only have to sit behind Fitz for a year...I'd guess he'd have a better track of playing early with us than Auburn.

Green would be a nice addition, no doubt, but we'll be just fine either way.

Interesting that both backs played on national tv today. I caught bits and pieces of each game...from what I saw DG looked more impressive. How much of this was due to a talent disparity in opponents is up for debate, but I would love to see Bryant commit to Auburn and make Green's decision to commit to U of M all the more obvious.