ESPN Rumors: Burbridge More Comfortable with UM Coaches

Submitted by ryebreadboy on
ESPN Rumors had a post on Burbridge today indicating basically, that Ojemudia and Funchess are trying to sell him on Michigan (no real surprise), and that he's down to Michigan vs. MSU (also, no surprise).
What I found interesting was that he said this to SpartanMag's Paul Day:
Right now I feel kind of more comfortable with the [UM] coaches than I do at State.

Maybe not breaking news, but I think it goes back to what every recruit's been saying about the coaching staff, and the feeling of family in AA. They note that he still considers himself a Spartan fan, but it's clear that the coaches have made a great impression that could (hopefully) translate into a committment. After all, you can be a Spartan fan every other week of the year.

LumberJack

May 13th, 2011 at 3:15 PM ^

Well, let's hope he can take care of things academically so that Michigan admissions is comfortable with him.  I'd love to see this kid in maize and blue.

dennisblundon

May 13th, 2011 at 3:17 PM ^

He really is a good receiver and the kind of outside vertical threat we need, howeva until I hear he is eligible, it will be hard to get too excited. 

Pasadena_Blue

May 13th, 2011 at 3:24 PM ^

Even though I am a fan of all Michigan sports, until we put MSU back in their rightful place, i will only be rooting for their complete destruction on the football field for some time to come.

MGoCooper

May 13th, 2011 at 3:36 PM ^

If he's making these comments, then he must be pretty sure he'll qualify academically. Because if he weren't, turning off a school with lower academic standards would not be wise.

rbgoblue

May 13th, 2011 at 4:26 PM ^

For the most part, no.  We took Jeremy Gallon and Thomas Rawls in back to back classes.  Those two barely satisfied the NCAA minimums.  And that's why we surround our athletes with a multi-million dollar academic support center.

Carcajous

May 13th, 2011 at 4:34 PM ^

His case was a bit different that run of the mill qualifying.  Recall, he went to a (how should I say it) unorthodox school to finish HS.  I remember at the time there was a good deal of suspicion about that and about his academic "turnaround" there.  

Here is Brian's take on it all:

http://mgoblog.com/content/dorsey-qualification-status-scare-quotes

ChiefLB

May 13th, 2011 at 3:42 PM ^

I'm looking forward to getting our first commit from somewhere other than Michigan or Ohio.  Ya, I know that Michigan & Ohio are loaded with talent this year, need to be the foundation of our program, etc, etc... I'm just getting anxious. 

Booyah Brady

May 13th, 2011 at 4:07 PM ^

I don't believe that we will get many recruits from outside Ohio and Michigan until we prove it on the field. Recruits from our pipeline states are excited to help bring UM back, but kids nationally are still a little skeptical. Once Hoke and Co. put out a good product, we will have plenty of national recruits waiting to sign-up 2x2.

detrocks

May 13th, 2011 at 4:36 PM ^

I think's that it premature to say that we're not going to get anyone or even a number of players from outside of Michigan and Ohio in this class just yet.   

If you look at the guys that we're still after (Tom VH's breakdown of the Rivals Top 250 is a great resource), there are definitely guys that are MI/OH like Wormley and Burbridge, but there are guys from other Midwest states (e.g. Sheldon Day, Jaleel Johnson, Jordan Diamond), as well as guys from outside the Midwest (Noah Spence, Greg Garmond, Kyle Murphy, Zach Banner, Armani Reeves, Ondre Pipkins [although he grew up in MI] Jordan Simmons, Paul Thurston, Wayne Morgan, JJ Denman, etc).

So, I agree that Michigan and Ohio have and will make up the bulk of this class, but we're still in it for a number of guys all over the country.   It'll get better when we win, but Hoke and Co. are still keeping a national profile.

BiSB

May 13th, 2011 at 4:11 PM ^

Sometimes I sit in my hot tub and look around at the beautiful women surrounding me, and I can't help but notice all of supermodels with me are blonde.  I know, blondes are the core of any group of supermodels, and that's great.  But the lack of brunettes and redheads is really starting to worry me.  I'm getting just anxious.

artds

May 13th, 2011 at 3:54 PM ^

It appears that Sparty's argument that "everything you used to love about Michigan now resides in East Lansing" was prematue.

MichiganMan2424

May 13th, 2011 at 3:55 PM ^

If Burbridge would come to Michigan. The one thing we are lacking in this class is skill players, so he'd be a nice get.

On another note, apparently Michigan State offered a 2012 class mate of mine a scholarship. He's the younger brother of former Penn ST DT and first round draft pick Jared Odrick, so he'll porbably go there, but next time I see him, I might drop a couple hints here and there for him to not go to MSU.

marti221

May 13th, 2011 at 3:56 PM ^

I dont care WHERE they come from... As long as they keep coming here! A 4* from Mich/Ohio is a good as a 4* anywhere else in my book. Plus its alot harder getting commits anywhere but the midwest this early in the stage. All these commits are coming from Mich/Ohio because they can drive with their fam on UNOFFICIAL visits. Once some of these out of state kids start taking their OFFICIAL visits I'm sure we'll see a change.

ryebreadboy

May 13th, 2011 at 4:02 PM ^

This.  High school isn't out yet, so these kids don't have time for officials.  We've already got some great players indicating they want to take officials over the summer to UM (Pipkins, Banner, Washington - I think, etc.), so we should see some out-of-state results come from that.