Laquon Treadwell eliminates Michigan
Down to Ole Miss, Oklahoma & Oklahoma State. Not unexpected but still disappointing he didn't make it to Michigan for an official visit for a final shot to change his mind.
Josh Helmholdt @JoshHelmholdt
#Sooners meet expectations for 5star WR Laquon Treadwell, who has trimmed his list to three schools http://bit.ly/UqOuJl
Josh Helmholdt @JoshHelmholdt
5star WR Laquon Treadwell has taken officials to #OU and #OleMiss. Now has 1 scheduled to #OKState http://bit.ly/UqOuJl
December 16th, 2012 at 3:46 PM ^
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December 17th, 2012 at 8:51 AM ^
December 17th, 2012 at 10:50 AM ^
i heard he's visiting next weekend with stefon diggs.
at least i think that's what was said. i do need to clean my ears out a good bit.
December 16th, 2012 at 3:46 PM ^
December 16th, 2012 at 3:46 PM ^
December 16th, 2012 at 3:47 PM ^
December 17th, 2012 at 2:11 PM ^
Nah, it just climaxed back in July.
December 16th, 2012 at 3:47 PM ^
December 16th, 2012 at 5:08 PM ^
You don't know me and you know nothing of my work
December 16th, 2012 at 3:48 PM ^
/s
December 16th, 2012 at 3:52 PM ^
Hate to beat on my home state, but, to answer your question:
kids who are from there and see a freezing winter and being close to Detroit as the alternatives
December 16th, 2012 at 3:53 PM ^
December 16th, 2012 at 8:36 PM ^
As someone who has lived in Oklahoma - then he's got the wrong idea. USC or Florida would be better choices.
December 16th, 2012 at 11:06 PM ^
December 16th, 2012 at 3:48 PM ^
Where exactly did this recruitment go wrong? Obviously he favored us for a long time while maintaining he wanted to visit the Oklahoma schools. Then he said the Michigan coaches hadn't been in contact for a while and suddenly he's interested in Ole Miss. Am I missing something?
December 16th, 2012 at 3:50 PM ^
He's been to Ole Miss multiple times and been interested for a while. His teammate andd friend from HS, Standifer, is playing down there.
December 17th, 2012 at 10:58 AM ^
anyone else wonder if our handling of Standifer--while an important way to handle and ultimately win the war--might have lost us this battle?
December 17th, 2012 at 5:55 PM ^
How did we incorrectly "handle" Standifer? From my understanding, he failed a class required for admission.
December 17th, 2012 at 11:48 PM ^
nope. it seems we didn't handle it well (not saying he's a prima donna, but maybe)
standifer withdraws his UM commit ... the comments are now gone, I don't know, but
it was ND with the admissions-related decision (and he was totally upfront about that; so it's not as if he were BSing about UM)
standifer admits he didn't have enough foreign language for ND
and act III:
We will see how this plays out with Nyles Morgan...
December 16th, 2012 at 3:56 PM ^
December 16th, 2012 at 10:07 PM ^
That, and the fact that Michigan probably doesn't offer the same kind of cash incentives that schools in the great (pffft) state of Mississippi does.
December 17th, 2012 at 10:51 AM ^
I though the logic was that we were losing receivers during the RR days because they didn't think they could make it to the league in that offense. Now I'm confused.
December 16th, 2012 at 4:20 PM ^
He watched our terrible offensive playcalling...
December 16th, 2012 at 4:23 PM ^
Blame it on Borges!
December 16th, 2012 at 6:54 PM ^
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December 16th, 2012 at 4:49 PM ^
December 16th, 2012 at 4:57 PM ^
Dude likes attention. It's been very obvious from his Twitter account for a long time. I mean, I don't have a Twitter account or visit Twitter more than once a month, and I know about his dramatic turns trying to rile up fan bases. But when I've said stuff along the lines of what EZMIKEP said here, everybody downvotes it. Maybe now that he's eliminated Michigan people around here will be willing to consider that this kid might just be a diva.
December 16th, 2012 at 8:44 PM ^
If you're basing someone's character solely off of things like Twitter feeds, you could probably call Shane Morris a "diva" too. You don't amass 19k+ followers by not craving attention. And yet, we're all cool with Shane, so what's the difference with Laquon?
December 16th, 2012 at 10:23 PM ^
I would try to explain the difference, but the only thing I know about Shane Morris's twitter is that he uses it to talk about Glee. Is he routinely dramatic? Does he pretend he's going to commit to different schools to rile people up? Does he dissimulate in any way to rile people up? I'd be happy to revise my opinion of him if you want to point me to some tweets where he does stuff like that. If not, maybe those questions can point you in the direction of what the difference is.
December 16th, 2012 at 6:27 PM ^
He didn't come here. Must be a diva. Couldn't possibly be our offense hasn't showed off the WR position lately like those other schools.
December 16th, 2012 at 7:06 PM ^
December 16th, 2012 at 8:37 PM ^
This is like Purdue pulling the top WR in the nation out of Georgia. Just doesn't make any sense.
December 16th, 2012 at 3:50 PM ^
Go to Oklahoma kid. They've developed good wideouts lately and the BIG XII can't play defense. Ole miss is shouldn't be on that list (and OK state).
December 16th, 2012 at 3:58 PM ^
Seems like OK State sends WRs to the NFL every year.
December 16th, 2012 at 4:25 PM ^
they've been 1st rounders too (blackmon and bryant). I didn't realize OK state has had 2 double digit win seasons of the last three (OU is 3 for 3). Oklahoma is traditionally better and has just as good of an offense for wideouts, but I guess both are good fits.
And Ole Miss is... $EC! $EC! $EC!
December 16th, 2012 at 3:51 PM ^
December 16th, 2012 at 3:57 PM ^
Your post lacks an accurate context and is thereby hollow.
December 16th, 2012 at 4:03 PM ^
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December 16th, 2012 at 4:22 PM ^
i don't see much the way of elite talent coming up the next few years.. and im talking about playmakers on O.. unless you think darboh or chesson are gonna be incredible which i highly doubt..
December 16th, 2012 at 4:44 PM ^
December 16th, 2012 at 6:13 PM ^
See the posts below for a description.
December 16th, 2012 at 7:23 PM ^
December 17th, 2012 at 7:47 AM ^
While I agree with the premise of your post, I don't think all of your examples fit that description. David Terrell was regarded as one of the prize recruits in that top-rated 1998 class, along with Drew Henson. He came to Michigan with a lot of hype and pretty much lived up to it almost from the start.
The other two players definately fit better with your idea of not knowing what we have until we get them on the field. Mario Manningham was regarded as talented, but raw out of HS. Edwards was a meh 3 star legacy with little expectations and frankly played that way for the first 2 and a half years of his college career.
December 16th, 2012 at 4:35 PM ^