Josh Garnett announcement open thread [ED: to Stanford]

...I'm in a MERVYN'S commercial from the late 80s.

OPENOPENOPEN...

Watching Around the Horn getting ready to swith to ESPNU at 5:30. 

"to be early is to be on time". For the MGoYouth, George was the Director of the Marching Band in the 70's.

Will he choose Stanford? NERDS!

For those of us stuck at work, you guys will have to give us the play by play!

Get it?  Double meaning!  "Go Blue" and also "choose Michigan!"  GO Blue!

Washingtonpreps.com will have a live stream of Josh's announcement at 6 EST. 

I don't even want him to go blue.

This is not a counter jinx.

The above is not an anti-counter jinx.

I'm at half-mast already

I am out West.  A caller just called into a local show  (790 a.m.) and said that he is going to Stanford.

....I will go through the pre-flight checklist anyway. That way, I am prepared regardless.

I NEED A LIVE STREAM!

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I have a really odd feeling, he seems prepared to face a "social media" backlash. I have never seen him tweet much towards the Stanford group. I don't feel like they would be sour. I have this feeling him and Erik are great friends but maybe the whole "your my boo" thing was a show. Kind of like the arnett fake commitment thing last year. I will be happy if he commits but I'm prepared for him going to standord

As a twin and the father of twins with a twin brother-in-law (all of us are Wolverine lovers), I'm an expert on the subject.  Rachel Garnett already has accepted a debate scholarship to Concordia Lutheran down here in Irvine, CA.  I'd be shocked if twin brother Joshua choses UM over Standford.  Unless, that is, she is also fond of the meat-eating Wolvernine vs. the more veggie "Tree."  GO BLUE and best wishes to the Garnett twins!

Anyone know if you can get in there with a ticket and how much they are?  I just live a couple miles from Garnett's high school and I'm thinking about biking there now

Over? Did you say "over"? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!
 

We had Josh at Hello

I gotta be honest, I don't have a good feeling about this. I hope I'm wrong though.

http://www.vipbox.tv/watch/17390/1/espnu-live-stream-online.html

Interesting fact. He wants a top football program,coaching, tradition, and a top bioengineering dept. Michigan according to an article I found using google is ranked #8 and stanford is ranked #12 nstionally. So we beat them at everything he's using to decide where he's going. He's going Blue

Can we get the Mgoblog app updated to send a push notification of recruiting announcements that would be awesome.

Who is your daddy and what does he do?

are going to try desparately to be the first one to post a new topic of where Garnett he is going.  Someone probably has a message all typed out

I don't believe it's on ESPNU... Just saw a tweet from Josh saying something along the lines of "lol no man I don't have the stars to be on ESPN"

Where can announcement be heard?

I know we're out of the Ronald Darby sweepstakes but his high school wears winged helmets. . . just saying

nm

How many stars does ESPN give him?

Rumor is on @MGoRecruit that his parents are wearing UM shirts... fingers crossed harder than ever. I need a seat belt

F5,F5,F5,F5,F5.....

I just read Grantland Rice's poem, Garnett has to committ here now.

Garnett appears to be wearing a Stanford Polo Shirt in a crowded gymnasium! #rivalsnsd @doubletrouble [via Twitter]

So are we sure Garnett's making a live announcement at 6? It seems like ESPNU is segway-ing right into something about Satan...err...I mean Saban.

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/joshua-garnett-announcement

On the Washington Post Liveblog I voted Washington in the poll.

Guys . .  . its over.  Go to twitter.

Interesting - Stanford Medicine shirt...

Even without Garnett I don't why we can't pull a decent RB with our future OL

Where's the pressed at? I live like 10 mins from puyallup hs.

follow public twitter posts here:

http://www.bing.com/social/search/updates?q=joshua+garnett&go=&form=DTPSOI

You'd think ESPNU's Recruiting Nation would at least mention that their #44 player in the nation is deciding now. Nope...just Saban chatter.

Fuck

Best of luck at Stanford.

damn

he picks...

damn... stanford.. bummer

Sad Face.

Stanford gets him. Good luck to the kid.

Bummer.  Hope he's happy there.  Stanford is a great school.

DAAAAAAAAMMMMMMNNNNNNN!

0 for 1 right now. I'm realistically hoping we go 3/5 on these remaining recruits. At this point, that would ideally be getting Diamond, Reeves, and Kozan. I would obviously love to have Grant too.

Good luck to Garnett, he will do well at Stanford.

...and I wish him the best of luck.  But first, I need a good ole fashioned James Vanderbeek type of crying session.

Blah, oh well you win some you lose some. Best of luck at Stanford, please don't anyone give this kid shit on the social media's.

Good luck Mr. Garnett.

This was a great decision on his part. I wish he had gone the other way but it his decision and I hope he does well.

If he wanted the NFL he may have made the wrong choice or at the very least a far riskier one since Stanford may be at its peak. For medicine though top notch. I think he chose a heck of a school.

Onto other recruits.

Damn Caleb Stacy loss hurts even more because I just dont feel any confidence at all that Diamond is gonna commit plus he is a tackle prospect.

Good luck to him! He's a high quality guy from what I hear. Hope he does well unless we see him in the Rose Bowl (ha with no Andrew Luck I don't see that happening any time soon).

But good luck to him in Palo Alto

Oh well.  Best of luck to Josh, he's a smart kid who will succeed in whatever he does.

But, right now, I could use a hug.  Or a strong shot of something.

I feel like we have no recruiting momentum left

Well that sucks

if we can grab diamond i won't be upset anymore. now, onto worrying about reeves.

hVE FUN FLIPING BERGRES WITH UR STANFURD DEGREELOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

...Also, good luck to the kid.

I don't really wish him good luck shoulda went blue

Best of luck to him.  It is a little odd that we were recruiting like mad when there were initially a bunch of question marks about Hoke and the team, but after winning a BCS game we don't have much mojo.  It probably just looks that way due to the hot start for this class.  Hopefully we still get some nice surprises.

boohoo. i feel like a school girl whos boyfriend just cheated on her with stanford. good luck josh. damn it damn it damn it!

Shame. Best of luck to him.

Garnett going to Standford.  UGH!!!

Back to your regularly scheduled program.

Ah, damn.  Location wins again.

The sky is falling!!!!!!!

Relax everybody

Nooooooooo!

It's a good thing we started so strong, because we are doing nothing as of late.  ZERO MO.

Is that we have more slots open for next year. And with Shane helping with the recruiting, we should be fine.

Oh no!!! It's the end of the world!!! we might as well close up shop!!



/s

seemed like a great fit, but he made the best choice for him. This is part of the game, much better than not even being in on the top kids

Just tweeted he hates being lied to. I think he's talking about the person who told him Garnett is coming to Michigan, I don't think he's talking about Garnett, but you never know.

I wanted him more than Diamond. Now Diamond is an absolute priority

We march on, were Michigan

PeeWee sounds pissed. Looks like JG to him he was blue.

I hate my life right now. What's the point now?

He is talking about Josh Garnett.

Can't trust people but I wouldn't want it around me or #Michigan

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Strange tweet from Ondre "I wouldnt want it around me or Michigan"

He led Magnuson on a bit...

Ondre Pipkins is not please

Sucks, but best of luck to JG. The Farm is a great school and I wish him the best unless he plays Michigan.

I really feel like we're not going to get Diamond either

Man we could really use Kozan now.  We need another solid OG

Maybe we will find a Diamond in the rough

Well the chances of us playing Stanford in the next four years are actually pretty good, so I'm sure we will see him.  And he will lose.

For once, I can't say that a kid isn't as serious about academics as he claims because he didn't pick us. He chose the one place that has us beat in that department. Best of luck to him. We still have a killer O-line class, and we'll probably land Diamond. 

Quick! Somebody make sure Magnuson is not hyperventilating!!!

Will come because of Garnett not coming and there being more space for playing time. Hopefully Michigan turns up the notch because lately we haven't done jack shit

For no reason at all, my gut feeling says Diamond is going to Arkansas

Losing him to ohio would hurt much more.....we already have a good group of off. lineman but getting Diamond-Kozan or Muller from Rutgers would be nice....I long for the days when I didn't follow recruiting and just read the list of stud recruits Bo hauled in on signing day....an 18 year old kid from Washington just ruined my day lol

and play his football in front of 50,360 fans in Stanford stadium. That's a capacity crowd there. The last time Michigan had a home game with fewer people than that?

1969  Sept. 27   Washington (Bo's second game as HC)   49,684 fans.

You have to go back to 1963 for another Michigan home game with a crowd that small.

I wonder if Jim Harbaugh encouraged him to choose Stanford. After all, that was Harbaugh's number one choice—not Michigan:

"I used to stare down at that field as I was stenciling those numbers," Harbaugh told reporters, athletes and others who crowded into the Arrillaga Family Sports Center's Kissick Auditorium. "I so very badly wanted to go to Stanford and play for the Cardinal. … This was my number-one choice all along."

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2007/january10/harbaughsr-011007.html

Can you all please save the disingenuous "Oh well best of luck to him!  Great choice nonetheless!"  It's incredibly lame and needs to stop.