Lo Wood to decide on Friday

Submitted by Flood on
Per the Scout boards, I see that Lo Wood is making his choice on Friday. Since I haven't seen much talk of him lately, I guess it's time to let go of any hope that he'll spur ND in favor of us? I really liked this kid, and I was trying my best to avoid the writing on the wall for the past few weeks.

Tacopants

June 25th, 2009 at 1:42 PM ^

Maybe Bielajew got tougher over the years, but I remember we were the oddly different class. We learned how to do math in binary and hex, then went straight to C++. Then, I earned something like 155% on an program due to extra credit, we ran out of time to learn MATLAB so the only MATLAB program was optional, and he gave us the answers to the final to memorize. Now that I think about it, it probably wasn't the best way to learn programming.

Sandler For 3

June 25th, 2009 at 2:37 PM ^

Ours had a similar feeling towards the end.. with the OH SHIT WE FORGOT MATLAB! part but he himself said that he had been reading his ratemprofessor posts and didn't like being thought of as easy. He also stopped giving extra credit when I took it despite the students' pleading. I wouldn't say it was OMG SO IMPOSSIBLE HARD, but combined with a shitty GSI who looked and acted like a caveman and no desire to learn programming, it wasn't one of the more pleasant courses of my college career. Especially considering I just took a Civil-required course in Fortran and found it interesting and semi-entertaining.

jg2112

June 25th, 2009 at 12:21 PM ^

....earlier this week Lo posted something on his Facebook to the effect of ... "Hey Facebookers, I commit on Friday, what should I do?" About 35 posts came back, all telling him to go to Michigan, except for one guy who said go to FIU. He also said in a response that he was considering NOTRE DAMN. Is that a Freudian slip or what?

gpsimms not to…

June 25th, 2009 at 11:47 AM ^

I missed Sam Webb this morning, and the title of the podcast is "Football, Elite basketball camps, and a possible gut feeling." Which sounds pretty tantalizing to me. Anybody catch it? Gut feelings are near 100% accurate, so possible gut feeling must be 75%+ range?

Sandler For 3

June 25th, 2009 at 11:51 AM ^

It may be completely irrelevant to Lo Wood. I'm pretty sure the writing has been on the wall for some time. I think someone on here mentioned a couple of days ago his plans to let his dad know tonight and then they will fly up to his choice and announce on campus. I forget who it was who posted this but I agree, sounds like a chunk of $$ for a next day flight. Either way, if he's not on our campus he's not committing and I don't think he will be.

CincyBlue

June 25th, 2009 at 12:03 PM ^

There was talk that he was going to be at an ND camp this weekend anyway. Which is really too bad becuase we were his leader for a long time. Maybe Ricardo can talk him in to coming to Ann Arbor.

pz

June 25th, 2009 at 12:18 PM ^

Have to chalk this one up to some good recruiting on behalf of the Irish. We were after him hard, and even leading (unless we were being led on somehow), and ND looks to have picked him up. Kudos to ND, and hopefully Lo has a good career and in the meanwhile the Irish go 0-48 over the next 4 years.

Maize and Blue…

June 25th, 2009 at 12:25 PM ^

fixated on star rankings and were upset about C. Avery's commitment yet Scout has him as the #23 CB and Lo as the #41 CB. Of course, if your a Rivals guy then Lo's 32 and Avery NR.

MGoAndy

June 25th, 2009 at 1:11 PM ^

Didn't everyone hype him up to be one of Michigan's 786098 5* recruits out of Florida before the 2010 rankings came out?

blueblueblue

June 25th, 2009 at 2:30 PM ^

I just don't understand why anyone would want to go to ND right now. They have neither current winning program nor exciting upside to offer (realistically). There is a good chance that someone who comes in now will live through a few years of transition. Charlie is likely to go, then someone will come in and take at least 2 years to right the ship. Who wants to spend a good portion of their time there during those years (like several of our players had to do)? And who knows if they will fit the new system (again, like several of our past recruits)? In a few years, yes - it might be a good place to spend your college career. But now? Too risky. I would rather go somewhere that is doing well or that is about to ride their upside to the top. Like...ummm....us.