Eldridge has decommited from USC, he missed his entire senior season with a torn ACL but is now cleared for full workouts and is an early enrollee.
Link to Article:
http://footballrecruiting.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1445114
Link to Profile:
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/recruiting/player-Eldridge-Massing...
I'm not sure if UM is interested but before his injury, he was a HOT WR prospect and he did have interest in UM before he commited to USC.
I know Tremendous was going
Rumor
The rumor is, even from USC fans, that he was pushed out. They weren't really even apologetic about it.
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Makes me wonder if they we
Makes me wonder if they were pushing him out to open a spot for McQuay maybe?
This kid sure looked good on film, if his knee injury wasn't a career ending type then I'd hope our coaches would take a chance at getting him to visit.
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There's been a strange vibe
There's been a strange vibe with that USC/Massington combo for a while. Frankly, I'm surprised that it's taken this long for them to part ways. I really think the torn ACL thing made the USC staff iffy on him, and they basically pushed him out the door.
With their cheating-related
With their cheating-related depth issues, it's actually kind of understandable that they wouldn't want to risk having an injured player on the roster. If they were up front with him about that, I wouldn't have a problem with them encouraging him to go elsewhere (especially since he has a lot of time to land on his feet).
Eldridge Massington
Don't know much about the kid, but Eldridge Massington has to be one of the most bad-ass sounding football names ever.
Only if you say it
In an intimidating voice.
Yep, that's Simba made out of a pineapple.
Im having trouble
saying it in anything other than a british accent. Still sounds pretty badass....
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Is the most badass name ever
So hot. Milk was a bad choice.
Barkevious Mingo is
pretty sweet too.
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I dunno, I'm confilicted.
I dunno, I'm confilicted. When I hear Barkavious "kiki" Mingo, I'm not sure if I'm watching Key & Peele or not. Like with Tracy Sprinkle, or a boy named Sue, I wonder if their parents were trying to toughen them up or something.
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Sounds like
the name of a high school that you'd find in the Cleveland-Akron area.
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Kid was impressive as a
Kid was impressive as a junior and had some fast 100m times. If the knee recovery went well, he'd be a nice recruit.
Since Treadwell is so
In love with Ole Miss these days Michigan needs to take a run at this young man.
Brady Hoke - High quality recruits one or two at a time.
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Touchdown manningham
I'm
Touchdown manningham
I'm sorry
Touchdown massington
Via Musburger
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Arrington + Manningham =
Arrington + Manningham = Massington?
add Antonio Bass for the
add Antonio Bass for the trifecta
Yea, size and speed
His routes and catching technique were unpolished, so not sure of the immediate impact like Treadwell. Similar athletes.
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USC's class still #1
They're down to 16 in their class and still easily ahead of LSU, UM and FL with 21+ commits.
Can we also persuade Ty to join the good guys?
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I think he'd be a good
I think he'd be a good prospect to pick up. I'm pretty concerned about our WR corp and not having a guy that can really take the top off a defense.
All I can say is that I will feel a lot better about our team next year and going forward if we can land a stud RB and WR ("Tell me more captain obvious", I know). We haven't had a game changer at those positions since Manningham and Hart.
Brian should create an
Brian should create an auto-complete for this kind of post. Once someone gets far enough down the line with "I'm concerned about our WR corps... the coaching staff is struggling to recruit elite RB & WR... Manningham, Edwards, Hart..." MGoBlog should just fill in the rest. It could save a lot of people a little time.
Now I feel like the announcer
Now I feel like the announcer from The Waterboy
Kiffin dropped him
After he tore his ACL everyone knew this was coming. If I was Michigan I'd take a chance on the kid because you need WRs.
This
This kid tore his ACL six months ago, has been working his butt off rehabbing and wanted to get enrolled early so he could get higher quality treatment on it to help him get back on the field quicker and they wait until December to pull his scholarship (which is almost certainly what they did). Completely classless move, but what do you expect from Kiffin?
Meh, I don't know that it's
Meh, I don't know that it's completely classless. I made the same argument above, but given USC's scholarship issues, if they were up front with the kid and gave him a lot of time to find a good landing spot, I don't have a problem with them suggesting that he look elsewhere.
That said, it'd be great to see Michigan pursue him. The selling point is obvious: where else can you play football in front of so many people against opponents with such crappy coaches?
USC can only take 17 commitments this year, right?
After the Silas Redd transfer, USC is now limited to only 17 scholarships this year. They were already over the limit at the beginning of September and still recruiting players. A lower rated kid (relative to others in the class)with a torn ACL had no shot of being in that class. I thought at the time that both Texas kids (Prevot and Massington) would never end up in that class.
They've
They've been at that limit for months now. They've told kids like McQuay they still had room for months now as well. If they're cutting bait, why wait until December? No reason to wait until less than a month before the kid plans to enroll early.
Can't enroll early
According to the beat writer at the Daily News, Massington didn't meet the academic requirements to enroll early (not sure if that means he's not graduating early or if he just can't get into SC without another semester of high school). Apparently his offer has been conditional on coming in January for quite some time and it just isn't going to happen.
It is spelled HOKEAMANIA. Our coach is an ass-kicking American citizen, not one of the Beatles, for Christ's sake!
Hmmm....from what I saw, it's
Hmmm....from what I saw, it's not that he didn't meet the requirements...it's that they wouldn't allow him to enroll early. They said he would have to wait until June for a scholarship.
Rob Wheelwright
He is currently commited to Wisconsin. Watching his tape he looks like a Michigan WR. Plus he's from Columbus. We should get back in contact with him.
Wheelwright doesn't really
Wheelwright doesn't really offer anything that Michigan doesn't already have in York, Dukes, and Jones (or on the current roster). I'd prefer getting a dynamic receiver or someone with the potential to be dynamic. We're on the verge of filling up our roster with slow-ish possession/jump ball guys.
Fine by me
One guy's trash is another man's treasure. Come to Michigan and we will make you a winner and kick Kiffin's ass in the Rose Bowl.
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No way we beat Kiffin in the
No way we beat Kiffin in the Rose Bowl.
By the time SC is back in the Rose Bowl, Kiffin will be long gone.
So what are the actual
So what are the actual chances that Massington would commit to us? Also, I have not heard Joe Mathis' name in a long time. Does anyone know what happened with him and if we are still pursuing him?
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We were in his top two or
We were in his top two or three before he committed to USC, so it wouldn't be totally out of leftfield for him to pick Michigan.
There have been hints that Michigan stopped recruiting Joe Mathis a while back, along with a couple other teams. He supposedly has some academic issues. Plus I don't think we really need more defensive linemen right now.
I know Tremendous was going to try and get back in contact with him, I sure hope our coaches will as well.
Any evidence he's was being pushed out by Kiffin and Co.?
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