Gotta love Scout Recruiting website

Scout needs better spell checkers....

they spelled "Mike D'Antoni" wrong...

agreed

They didn't belong there in the first place.

I don't know if it hurt them as much as it just confirmed what people were all noticing, which was that they simply didn't have that good of a team.  I mean, yes they beat Oregon, OSU, UM, and Iowa, but when you dig into those games you saw so many one-off or random elements that it was hard to point at one thing they did exceptionally well except, I guess, defensive line play.  And for lots of national recruits, they have to sense that there is something more in the future.  With MSU, you aren't going to have a bunch of draft picks on both lines and at QB every season, and so the ceiling is maybe upsetting OSU once in a while and beating the bad teams on your schedule.  And with UM clearly trending up, you are basically signing up to finish third in your division more times than not.  That's a hard sell.

Came to make a snarky comment about how chips on shoulders are not piles, they're little chunks taken out of the shoulder. Looked up etymology of the phrase to make sure I was right about that. I was wrong. There are two etymologies, one of which involves piles (well, bundles) of wood scraps. British shipyard workers used to get to carry wood scraps home as a perk of the job, to use for fuel at home. They carried the "chips" on their shoulders because that was the most efficient way to do it. Then one day the bosses realized it was costing too much, so they ordered the workers to carry the chips under their arms. Can't carry as much that way. So one day one of the workers was like F that and defiantly put his chips back on his shoulder, and all the other workers cheered. Ergo: chip on your shoulder = defiance of perceived oppressor. Source: Wikipedia.

Also, I now realize that my imagined etymology only makes sense if you're talking about a statue, which can be permanently mutilated without, well, bleeding to death. 

Learned something today. Thanks MGoBoard.

I think Weaver fits in well with what I saw Narduzzi do at Michigan State. I agree that he could be a good player for them. I thought he really improved as a senior this past year.

I still wish it had been handled better -- I liked Harbaugh's* suggestion yesterday at the press conference that students be allowed to sign LOIs at any time.  That would cut down on early offers and 15-month (apparently) meaningless "verbal commitments."

Having said that, the consensus seems to be that there was a player who was willing to grayshirt if necessary, who was told that in advance and waited it out.  So, there may have been a spot for Weaver after all, had he waited.  The fact of the matter is that if Harbaugh had not been open with him, and had said something like "Sure, we have a scholarship for you; just don't fax your LOI until 6 PM on NSD," he might have ended up going to Michigan and we'd never have known about the drama.

I was a critic of Harbaugh's tactics, so I'll give credit where it's due -- honesty did not benefit Michigan here.  It did, however, make sure that this young man was able to secure a scholarship to a good academic school in a Power 5 conference.  So, kudos to Jim Harbaugh for being open with a recruit, even when the message isn't what said recruit wanted to hear.  Now, just do a better job communicating (earlier) in the future. :-)

* This is not to suggest he's the first to mention it -- I've seen it from several other places also.  But that was the most recent source.

Here's the link

It was in the Hello: Elysee Mbem-Bosse post

Recruits thought D'asstoni had bad dandruff on his shoulders and were disgusted. That's why they had no interest. 

Sure, which results do you want to talk about? The most recent ones.....or all of them? 

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