Florida running back Marlon Mack commits to Louisville

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Florida running back Marlon Mack gave his verbal commitment to Louisville today. There was  alot of talk about Michigan extending an offer to Marlon Mack recently, with many believing we could have a good chance for his services once he decommited from UCLA. It appears we were just too late to the table on this one. Here's to hoping we land Jeff Jones out of Minnesota.

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Boom Goes the …

January 27th, 2014 at 6:58 PM ^

but history has shown his coach won't be around for long.  Either due to him jumping ship or jumping his bike

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aplatypus

January 27th, 2014 at 8:03 PM ^

Firstly, he majorly screwed up at Arkansas, but before that.. 

He took a mediocre team at Louisville, went 41-9 in 4 years, left for the NFL - and despite current reports he did it perfectly normally. He had a sit down meeting with the whole team and explained it to them. 

At Atlanta, the unofficial story backed up by multiple Falcons, was that Petrino wanted to bench a player or two for attitude but was told by ownership he wasn't allowed. He said he's not going to coach a team he can't control, ownership said fine and kicked him out - thus the letter stuck on a door. 

At Arkansas, on the field he was golden and got fired for off the field mistakes. He took them to their first BCS Bowl and after his first year taking over an awful team had them as a legit 9 win a year SEC team. 

Plus, his buyout at Louisville now is 10 million with other stipulations and after the Arkansas fiasco the ONLY reason a bigger program would ever come looking to him is if he's put together multiple 10+ win, BCS Bowl-caliber seasons. And if you're a UL person or player after that, who cares if he takes another NFL or bigger college job?

No matter what people say, he left Louisville the first time 1000x better than Charlie Strong did, who flat lied to his entire team, most of their recruits and his boss. And the only recruits he didn't lie to - he's now begun trying to flip to Texas. So yeah.

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aplatypus

January 27th, 2014 at 11:16 PM ^

no way to turn that job down. 

But facts about it are: He put his name in for the job before they contacted him, and before he told his AD. That was before their bowl game. 

He told all of his players pre-bowl game not to worry because he had no intention of going anywhere. 

He sat down with recruits, after petitioning for the Texas job, and told them he wanted to be at UL for life. 

Once it was public he was up for the job, he again told the players he wasn't interested. 

That just reaks of douche.

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superstringer

January 27th, 2014 at 11:06 PM ^

Like... where do we begin... I mean, you're seriously a "glass is kinda a bit tiny full" guy aren't you?

Bobby, bobby bobby... he interviewed for a job (Auburn) WHILE THEY STILL HAD A HEAD COACH (Tuberville).  I mean... who in the coaching profession DOES that?

And, oh, he was pushed out at Atlanta.  Hmm.  He put letters in everyone's locker, "hey don't mind me I only used to coach here."  He might have wanted out, but, he showed NO class when he left.  If he really wanted to rub it in the owner's face, he needed to act classy and at least speak to the team.

And then... wow where to begin..

You say at Arkansas he "got filred for off the field mistakes."

MISTAKES????

Let's inventory the mistakes, shall we?

-- Affair with hot blonde.   Um, ok, kinda give him a minor pass on that -- "everyone does it," right, TP.

-- Hired the hot blinde.  Ummm... wow, what bad judgment.

-- Hired the hot blonde over 150 other applicants.  Guy's a cheat and a real, real idiot.

-- Lies to his boss about the accident.

These are "mistakes"??? No, dude, these are SERIOUS MORAL FLAWS.  Not "mistakes."

So, you can act like you know better than everyone else and think Bobby is a stand-up great coach who made "mistakes."  I say, your view of the standard for the highest-paid employee at a non-profit university is seriously awful.

 

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aplatypus

January 27th, 2014 at 11:19 PM ^

He is a potentially great coach. 

The common misconception I was replying to was that 1) he bails on schools quickly and 2) leaves them in a bad shape. 

Neither of those things are true, at all. People took his moral screw ups (that I did say was major) and used them to make revisionist history about him as an actual coach and that's all I was commenting on. 

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chatster

January 27th, 2014 at 11:06 PM ^

If neither Malik McDowell nor Jeffrey Jones shocks the world by signing with Michigan on National Signng Day, will this be the longest time that Michigan ever has gone without adding a single scholarship recruit to its current recruiting class?

I've read that on August 9, 2013 Jared Wangler became the last recruit in Michigan's 2014 Recruiting Class.  Although I imagine that there will be some "preferred walk-on" students added to the 2014 Class, I'm not including those students in the scholarship recruit class. But I recognize that some "preferred walk-on" students might turn out to be very important to the freshman class of Team 135.

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Mr Miggle

January 28th, 2014 at 7:50 AM ^

Their experience helps in 2014 when our depth is very thin. It can't possibly hurt us until 2017. An awful lot can happen between now and then; medical redshirts (Drake Johnson), getting passed on the depth chart, being too good to get passed and leaving for the NFL. There's a lot of time to address that potential need in 2017 in recruiting, especially since good RBs often contribute early.

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