Double Hello: Freddy Canteen & Brandon Watson
According to Adam Friedman from Rivals we apprently received commitments from both Freddy Canteen (2014 WR) and also his teammate Brandon Watson (2014 CB).
EDIT: Confirmed by Sam Webb.
#Michigan picked up commitments Freddy Canteen and Brandon Watson from Eastern Christian Academy
Well, well. Scott for sure to Clemson?
I like Nicholson a lot. Michigan made his announced top five, but I think we're probably in his top two or three, if not the leader outright. He's pretty quiet about his recruitment, though.
I thought Nicolson was not thrilled with the depth chart at UM because he felt we had recruited too many DB's in the past two cycles and that UM was on the outside looking in for him. Has something changed?
IIRC, that rumor began and was shot down by Nicholson.
Watson is pretty jacked for a corner, and Canteen is rated a 4 Star on Rivals after some camp performances...
Other than that, I don't think anyone really has seen much from them...
However, my favorite commits are the ones who earn offers at camp...The coaches obviously have no doubt on their talents..
http://michigan.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1496208
Check the link... Watson dominated this event that had players like Montae Nicholson, KJ Williams, Chris Godwin... All 4 Star players...
Remember, the coaches have probably seen more from these 2 players than most of our other commits...They have coached them already in camp haha
Scott is gone. Westphal could still be in the class as either a safety or a CB> But the clock is ticking on him. For a guy who'shad us as his leader for over 1 year he sure is taking his time...
Welcome to the family!
Probably not, because Adoree' Jackson is aiming for the Olympics in the long jump, and Michigan isn't a great place to get him there. Jackson's not really a viable candidate for Michigan, frankly.
Unfortunately for us - but perhaps fortunately for Jackson - he probably has a better chance of being an elite long jumper than Harris had of being an elite basketball player.
Reminds me of an exchange student some friends of mine hosted. She was being treated poorly at the high school she was attending because all the students thought she was Mexican. They eventually learned that she was from Spain and was really European. All of a sudden she became fairly popular and was treated much better.
High school students...SMH
but then I checked that thread and sure enough, there it was: "...fanbase that ousted RR cuz he was Mexican?"
So much FAIL in so few words. Impressive.
Regardless, sounds like a couple of nice additions to the '14 class. Until given a reason to think otherwise, I trust Hoke & Co. when it comes to recruiting.
If you really are "in the blue lot" I'm guessing it's to park cars.
The difference between "blowing up" and "being blown up" cannot be understated.
/s
At least he has some sleeper of the year candidates now!
Welcome to the class!
Ferns needs to get to the post office and get these kids their shirts!
This one must have been written by Yoda??
Does Rutgers have a big enough fan base for a meltdown? If so, I'd love to be reading that right now
They don't plus they have been really happy since a 4 star safety, Kiy Hester, committed to them yesterday.
They have grease trucks filled with fatcats. They have nothing about which to complain.
A fatcat?
I'm personally a fan of the Fat Drunk.
-these kids had limited offer lists and committed quickly after being offered. This tells me either we could have waited a lot longer if they actually weren't that good OR they were so good in person and so under scouted that we wanted to nab them before they blew up. The coaches are smart enough not to use up spots that can be filled a month before signing day on mediocre prospects now
-another possibility is we are going to experience more attrition than expected and thus have additional depth spots. I'm not going to take this as a huge negative as we can still go after all out plan A guys
-the only way this could be interpreted as bad news for a 'smart' coaching staff if it means they simply know we're whiffing badly on all our plan As, so badly we can't even make up ground between now and signing day, and don't think we can make inroads on other highly rated prospects that we aren't recruiting right now. Judging from the noises our plan A recruits are making, this doesn't sound super likely
a bad turn of events. I think people are just a little sensitive given what we have heard in the last week about the altered expectations for the class, and that we had been fairly used to hearing about only 4+ star guys we were recruiting. People have been really feeling like Scott/Westphal and a couple others were highly likely to come, and we've come back to earth a little bit, and so I think people hear "we picked up a couple guys who were recent offers who play similar positions as these other people" and think "Oh my God, no one is coming, the recruiting sky is falling." However, if you actually look at how this played out, it sounds like a couple guys who played in a set of circumstances where their exposure was fairly low nationally suddenly hit the camp circuit and turned out to be criminally underrated, and the staff said "Get these guys now", and so see them as good players whom they really want.