Hoke Priming for the 2012 Class..and Further

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January 24th, 2011 at 8:08 PM
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Hoke Priming for the 2012 Class..and Further

For those of you worried that the 2012 class will start off slowly because Hoke's late to the game, fear no more. Hoke got around a little bit today, visiting several top prospects. First, he checked in at Cass Tech, where former UM assistants Tony Dews and Tony Gibson checked in to offer a pair of Technician juniors, LB Royce Jenkins-Stone and CB Terry Richardson. In the article, it's mentioned that Hoke was in to see Coach Wilcher, and might be close to offering. 

Michigan coach Brady Hoke was also by Cass Tech on Monday, as well as an assistant from Wisconsin. Richardson has seen a recent rise in his recruitment and feels he could be close to adding a few more offers.

“I think Michigan, Michigan State and USC are the three closest schools to offering next,” Richardson said. 

In an article about RJS's offer from Pitt, he mentions that Michigan is showing strong interest in him, as well.

Other schools showing Jenkins-Stone strong interest are Auburn, LSU, Michigan and Michigan State.

The Scout Boards are reporting that, while Hoke was in Cincy to show interest in 2011 FB Trayion Durham, he checked in on Taft High School and 2012 super-recruit (and likely OSU lock), DE Adolphus Washington. FWIW, I like Wormley better (wink).

To look even further into the future, Scout had an article up today about 2013 MI QB Shane Morris. He goes to De La Salle Collegiate in Warren, and has two very early offers from Toledo and Cincy. Grew up a Michigan fan, but right now, MSU's showing more interest (legally...illegally...what does it really matter? Enjoy some highlights, the kid's definitely got a D1 arm. 

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January 24th, 2011 at 8:08 PM | Damn Highlights not working again...Shane Morris (Score:1)
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January 24th, 2011 at 8:30 PM | top of my wish list.. (Score:1)
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top of my wish list.. possibly yes

 

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January 24th, 2011 at 10:24 PM | I looks like he is a perfect (Score:1)
mattg843
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I looks like he is a perfect fit for the west coast.... or gulf coast....or great lake offense

January 24th, 2011 at 11:22 PM | Or... (Score:1)
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Legends?  Or Leaders?...

5 4 3 2 1 Touchdown!

Touchdown Billy Taylor!

Touchdown Billy Taylor!

January 24th, 2011 at 8:31 PM | Representing (Score:1)
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Warren, MI. Hell yeah

January 24th, 2011 at 9:51 PM | Proud alumnus of De La Salle. (Score:1)
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Proud alumnus of De La Salle. Go Pilots beat Rice!

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January 24th, 2011 at 10:40 PM | Ditto (Score:1)
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Ditto.  Go Pilots.

January 24th, 2011 at 11:30 PM | DLS is a great school... (Score:1)
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..but go CC shamrocks! gotta represent, no disrespect.

as always, beat rice.

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January 24th, 2011 at 9:12 PM | Where does DLS play football? (Score:1)
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Where does DLS play football?  I've driven by the school and haven't seen their stadium.

January 24th, 2011 at 10:04 PM | They used to... (Score:1)
Scheißkerl
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play at the Warren Community Center, but from the video it looks like all their home games are at Fitzgerald High School

January 24th, 2011 at 10:22 PM | Kid's gritty and shows a lot (Score:1)
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Kid's gritty and shows a lot of moxie.  Looks like a real gym rat and an overachiever.

 

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January 24th, 2011 at 8:13 PM | Boy, that kid does not (Score:1)
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Boy, that kid does not hesitate.

January 24th, 2011 at 8:15 PM | Wilcher, not Wilshon. (Score:1)
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Isn't Cass Tech's coach Thomas Wilcher?

His son's name is Kishon.  Perhaps that's where Wilshon came from.

January 24th, 2011 at 8:32 PM | Haha (Score:1)
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You are so right. Thanks for the correction, totally mind fart there

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January 24th, 2011 at 8:16 PM | Recruiting videos are getting pretty extravagant.... (Score:1)
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January 24th, 2011 at 8:38 PM | I don't know (Score:1)
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how a recruiting site could watch that and not give the kid 5 stars, I mean the music alone is worth 3. 

January 24th, 2011 at 8:41 PM | Grades? (Score:1)
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5 seconds in. Presesnts. Really?

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January 24th, 2011 at 8:42 PM | if only they'd used spell check (Score:1)
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would have been flawless.

January 24th, 2011 at 8:45 PM | fancy.. not to mention hes a (Score:1)
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fancy.. not to mention hes a good player.. really nice ball skills

 

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January 24th, 2011 at 9:07 PM | haha (Score:1)
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ball skills. Couldn't resist. 

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January 24th, 2011 at 8:45 PM | Whoever edited that video did (Score:1)
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Whoever edited that video did a superb job on the editing, but a terrible job proofreading. "Presesnts" and "Athelete".

January 24th, 2011 at 8:46 PM | Recruiting video? (Score:1)
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At the beginning I feel like I'm watching the opening credits of The Matrix or something.

January 24th, 2011 at 9:49 PM | Imagine being a freshman in (Score:1)
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Imagine being a freshman in Detroit playing the Westside Cubs (freshmen in the Detroit area cannot play high school football). The Westside Cubs had James Ross, Terry Richardson, Royce Jenkins-Stone, Brian Blackburn, Dennis Northfleet, and Laron Taylor. That's scares me just naming off some of the players.

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January 24th, 2011 at 8:17 PM | hmmmmm... (Score:1)
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Hoke was in to see Coach Wilshon, and might be close to offering

Good call; we could use a DB coach. 

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January 24th, 2011 at 8:35 PM | offering (Score:1)
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the cass tech coach to coach at M? really???? i did not expect that one

January 24th, 2011 at 8:37 PM | In case you're not kidding, (Score:1)
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In case you're not kidding, he's joking

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January 24th, 2011 at 8:42 PM | just adding more (Score:1)
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sarcasm to the situation, thats all!

January 24th, 2011 at 8:32 PM | Both Michigan and Ohio are (Score:1)
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Both Michigan and Ohio are going to be loaded in 2012.. it's time for Brady and the boys to do work, which they've already begun. 

I wouldn't be surprised to see an offer (and maybe commitment) from RJS in the coming months. 

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January 24th, 2011 at 8:34 PM | That's all well and good, I'm (Score:1)
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That's all well and good, I'm glad Hoke is working it, but CB and LB are probably the position groups of the least need for 2012 and we won't have many scholarships to fill.  I'd be OK with waiting on the Cass Tech guys for the time being.  So they got Pitt offers?  If they're good enough to make our 15 or so slots in 2012, they shouldn't give two shits about Pittsburgh.

January 24th, 2011 at 8:36 PM | They're good enough. They're (Score:1)
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They're good enough. They're both elite. Waiting to offer would not be a good idea, IMO. Next year should be a big class, it's not going to kill us to sign an elite LB and CB

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January 24th, 2011 at 8:59 PM | I guess I'm curious how elite (Score:1)
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I guess I'm curious how elite they are.  I've heard talk about RJS for a while, but it sounded to me like James Ross was the elite one, and RJS was "good," that why James Ross got the early Michigan offer and RJS didn't.  If we only take 2 LBs in 2012 (likely) then I think I'd prefer Ross and the best out of state LB we can find, unless we think RJS is better.  He just doesn't seem like the kind of guy we need to offer right now.

Similar situaion with Richardson.  Outside of the fact that I've heard Hoke isn't wild about short CBs, with all of the corners we took in this class, I don't know if we take more than 1 CB in this class.  Is Richardson that one? 

EDIT:  And why do you say next year should be a big class?  If we take 20 in this class (likely) then we'll have 15 scholarships for 2012 before attrition.  I'm sure we'll have some, but I doubt we'll be able to take 20. 

January 24th, 2011 at 11:16 PM | RJS is a very good player. (Score:1)
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RJS is a very good player. Ross is a more polished product at this point, but Royce has great upside. Plus, they played together as kids, and their skill-sets compliment each other very well. It will be very good for Michigan if both are playing side by side in a few years.

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January 24th, 2011 at 8:48 PM | I with you DG - Offer this (Score:1)
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I with you DG - Offer this kid, looks like he's a ball hawk and fast. Also like how he wasn't afraid to stick his nose into ball carriers. Keep the CT pipeline going, this kid already is offered by some high profile southern teams and the LB is supposed to be good as well. I can tell you from watching the past 3 years, DB/LB are always positions of need. If they only had some DT's to offer......

January 24th, 2011 at 8:57 PM | I know people like to talk (Score:1)
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I know people like to talk about the Cass Tech pipeline, but what has it done for us lately?  Thomas Gordon is the extent of the Cass Tech pipeline in the last 5-8 years, and that's not a whole lot.  No doubt their recruits get a lot of hype, but unfortunately BooBoo, BWC, and Teric Jones have all fallen short of the hype.  Only Thomas Gordon has lived up to his hype, and that's because he didn't have any.  Again, I'm not trying to rip on these guys, but I wouldn't say Cass Tech players have done a whole lot for UM lately.

That said, I agree with you that DB/LB are important positions, which is why we want to be as picky as possible with those spots.  By my numbers, unless A LOT of guys transfer, and hopefully that doesn't happen, we'll have 3 scholarships to give between LB and CB, so I think we get stingy with offers to those spots.

January 24th, 2011 at 9:20 PM | First off (Score:1)
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I'm tired of this meme "What has Cass Tech done for us recently?"

Booboo had all the talent in the world, he just couldn't get his act together. Another couple of years of coaching and I'm confident he woulda lived up to it.

If BWC could just get his god-damned pad level down (which he has vowed to do under Hoke, take that FWIW), he would be all big ten. 

Teric Jones didn't have that much hype...and he's been an extremely versatile athlete for us.

Prison Abs is a monster who has far out-played his recruiting hype

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January 24th, 2011 at 9:25 PM | I wasn't meaning to slight (Score:1)
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I wasn't meaning to slight any one of them individually, it's just that people rave about our Cass Tech pipeline, and we haven't gotten a regular starter from that school in quite a few years.  I'm not saying we stop recruiting it, but it has been a pipeline more so in quantity than quality, you have to agree.

January 24th, 2011 at 9:26 PM | But back to my original (Score:1)
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But back to my original question, do you think RJS is good enough to be one of two LBs we take next year?  I truly doubt we have room to take more than 2 linebackers.

January 24th, 2011 at 10:03 PM | Yes, I really do. Unless a (Score:1)
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Yes, I really do. Unless a big time out of state recruit gets an early offer and jumps on it, I don't see any way RJS isn't a part of this upcoming class. He's very athletic and has a very high upside.

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January 24th, 2011 at 8:59 PM | When you say big class, do (Score:1)
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When you say big class, do you mean in terms of importance or class size? If its class size, do you know something we dont about a mass exodus of players or something?

January 24th, 2011 at 10:05 PM | I mean class size. Big class, (Score:1)
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I mean class size. Big class, meaning a full, 25 person class. I know nothing of a 'mass exodus' (although I'm expecting at least a couple of guys, with their own best interest and ours in mind, to leave after spring ball), but there are already set to be about 13 or so scholarship seniors leaving. Add on  likely attrition over the next two years (no one's perfect at player retention) and assuming we don't complete this class (i.e. up to about 21), there'll be a lot of room

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January 24th, 2011 at 11:38 PM | Huh? DG...maybe I'm not (Score:1)
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Huh?
DG...maybe I'm not getting how all this works, but it looks to me like we are going to have a very small class in 2012. If we fill this class out (which is appearing likely), we will only have 13 to 15 seniors graduating. You really expect 10 to 12 players to leave? 25 seems extremely unlikely.

January 24th, 2011 at 8:39 PM | Damn, Morris looks like he (Score:1)
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Damn, Morris looks like he has a nice little arm. Always scared of lefties though. They can throw off the offense a bit. Probably just nitpicking though.

January 24th, 2011 at 8:39 PM | Question (Score:1)
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Just starting to seriously follow recruiting...when do the recruit rankings usually come out from Rivals, Scout, etc?

January 24th, 2011 at 8:51 PM | I'm not as obssessed as some (Score:1)
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But he's 100% right. Once you get hooked, you start texting your friends, checking twitter, rivals, scout - and then one day, you're sad because the whims of a 17 year old trying to make one of the biggest decisions of his life don't match up with what could help Michigan football. And you realize that you'd have been better off getting addicted to world of warcraft or something.

January 24th, 2011 at 8:55 PM | ... (Score:1)
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World of Warcraft??? Wow, that's pretty a pretty deep abyss. Guess I shouldn't grab that Rivals subscription I was thinking about getting?

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January 24th, 2011 at 8:52 PM | Why would I get out? (Score:1)
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The whole Dee Hart decision was quite a compelling ride, wasn't it?? I love emotional roller coasters that's why I can't wait for more!!

January 24th, 2011 at 9:12 PM | if i could give more pts (Score:1)
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i would! hockey content...ha, classic!

January 24th, 2011 at 9:19 PM | haha (Score:1)
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Ok, by "just starting" I meant that I started when I created my account (around September) and this is the first time I've been following recruiting at this juncture. aka I've never been following when the premium sites release their initial recruit rankings. 

And about the 5000 points...you'd be surprised what pos-bang participation will do for you. 

January 24th, 2011 at 11:31 PM | To answer your question (Score:1)
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Scout already has their first list out. Rivals waits a while for some of the camp circuits go through...I think it was around late April their first rankings came out last year?

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January 25th, 2011 at 12:34 AM | Thanks for the info DG. (Score:1)
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Thanks for the info DG.

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