Malik McDowell trending toward MSU
December 29th, 2013 at 6:45 PM ^
domino's pizza stock has exploded in price since D. Brandon left. I'm beginning to question his abilities as executive. . . He's managed to piss off boosters and alumni and alienate a great deal of the fanbase by charging absurd prices and now the quality of the product is suspect.
December 29th, 2013 at 9:15 PM ^
December 29th, 2013 at 7:04 PM ^
left.
December 29th, 2013 at 7:43 PM ^
December 29th, 2013 at 6:01 PM ^
That's the most promising news I've heard that could indicate a turnaround. As you said, money speaks, and this is all about the dollars. If that takes a hit then management will do something. Stopping spending your money is really the only tangible thing any fan can do to force a change. I've your unhappy, stop spending your money and tell your friends and family to stop getting your gifts of U of M licensed products.
December 29th, 2013 at 5:28 PM ^
Can't say I fault the kid for wanting to play for the B1G champions and coaches that are able to make just about anybody into a defensive stud.
December 29th, 2013 at 5:30 PM ^
Why wouldn't he? This team needs Dline talent, whether already talented or developed, it doesn't matter. But without him our Dline better develop into semi-studs for 2014 or we're fucked again.
December 29th, 2013 at 5:32 PM ^
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December 29th, 2013 at 5:39 PM ^
December 29th, 2013 at 9:05 PM ^
Have.
Should have. Not should "of".
Or, should've.
Should've = should have
Should'(ha)ve.
*twitch* /sorry
edit: now the word should just sounds weird to me after repeating so many times. I hate that.
December 29th, 2013 at 5:37 PM ^
Yesterday's shitshow on defense certainly doesn't help in recruiting, unless you put all your eggs into the "Malik, you can start immediately because we're so bad" basket.
If MM was truly a UM lean he would have committed to us already. He knows certainly knows enough about our program and his parents are supposedly big UM fans.
The fact that he hasn't tells me he was looking for reasons not to, or there were things preventing him from pullling the trigger for UM. The respective end of the seasons for MSU and UM may have provided him with the reasons he needs to make his final decision.
December 29th, 2013 at 5:35 PM ^
We still have a solid class though and don't lose sight of that. We just need to prove it on the field!
December 29th, 2013 at 5:41 PM ^
Is Bosch enrolling early?
December 29th, 2013 at 5:41 PM ^
December 29th, 2013 at 6:25 PM ^
MSU does not rely solely on the 4 man rush. They do a lot of disguised LB and CB blitzes and count on their DBs to disrupt the routes at the line of scrimmage with press coverage. All of the pressure along with tight coverage results in a lot of turnovers.
December 29th, 2013 at 5:42 PM ^
If I was Malik McDowell, I'd be headed to MSU too...
Honestly, they have proven that they can develop talent, and they have had a consistently dominant defense for a few years now.
December 29th, 2013 at 5:43 PM ^
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December 29th, 2013 at 6:02 PM ^
December 29th, 2013 at 5:48 PM ^
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December 29th, 2013 at 6:43 PM ^
December 29th, 2013 at 5:53 PM ^
This is the same guy that everyone seems to say no one can get a read on and now all of a sudden someone proclaims they do??? I really doubt someone who has kept his recruitment so close the vest all of a sudden decided to tell some recruiting guy where he is going to committ.
December 29th, 2013 at 5:59 PM ^
December 29th, 2013 at 5:54 PM ^
December 29th, 2013 at 6:04 PM ^
That sounds like a generic quote from a recruit.
December 29th, 2013 at 5:54 PM ^
Is anybody surprised by this news? I'm pretty sure our recruits have televisions and can see what we all see. I'm not calling him gone.....yet.....but it's got to be getting difficult to sell in state kids on going Blue when it's pretty clear the staff in EL is doing a much better job getting the players ready to play.
As somebody said ealier in the thread recruiting is Hoke's last pillar of strength. If that starts to crumble he's in real trouble.
December 29th, 2013 at 6:02 PM ^
December 29th, 2013 at 6:49 PM ^
...but this is b/s. Yes the class is still solid and yes 2 guys don't necessarily make a class, but not getting Hand and McDowell hurts. BIG TIME. The class goes from elite to "solid" and we all hope for and except elite.
December 29th, 2013 at 7:04 PM ^
December 29th, 2013 at 9:26 PM ^
But not getting an elite DE in the class is a blow, any way you look at it. That's a position that we need a playmaker, and we were obviously banking on at least one of the two.
December 29th, 2013 at 9:46 PM ^
Agree completely. If you look at our current overall ranking we are #20 on Rivals with an average star rating of 3.44 which is 13th overall of teams in the top 40. Solid. Not spectacular and certainly nothing close to what OSU is doing but solid. If we lose both Hand and McDowell the class will also be somewhat disapointing given what it could've been just a month or so ago.
http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/recruiting/teamrank/2014/all/all
December 29th, 2013 at 10:02 PM ^
Just pray to Tiny Jesus that Peppers sticks it out. At this point I think some type of coaching change is coming, and I'm not sure how I feel about that.
December 29th, 2013 at 8:58 PM ^
Agree and what hurts more is the dline at this point appears to be a position of major need.
December 29th, 2013 at 5:56 PM ^
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December 29th, 2013 at 5:59 PM ^
Here are the comprehensive predictions over at 247Sports as of right now (LINK).
For the time being, it is 70/20 in favor of Michigan with a smattering of Ohio State and LSU to account for the other 10%. Most of the predictions either made or updated from the weekend before Christmas until now are MSU predictions, including Wiltfong's as mentioned. Many of the predictions were made earlier in the year, of course, so if other people have changed their minds, they have not done anything as yet - a limitation of this method, I suppose.
December 29th, 2013 at 6:31 PM ^
was going to choose UM, but as you perhaps meant to imply, predictions made six or even three months ago have no relevance or value right now.
Right now, we're coming off a dismal season that concluded with an embarrassing bowl loss in which our D played very poorly while MSU is playing in the Rose Bowl as conference champs with a nationally-elite defense. Draw your own conclusions.
December 29th, 2013 at 6:44 PM ^
Part of where I was going is that these predictions really don't mean as much as some think in the end. I took a quick survey of about half of the people who have their Crystal Ball picks in for McDowell right now, and sample size disclaimers and all that for each individual apply of course - the average came out to 70.78%. If that is reasonably accurate, then we're talking about dozens of analysts who are typically wrong a not insignificant amount of the time.
December 29th, 2013 at 6:05 PM ^
We are deep in the d line, he wont play for two years ......next
December 29th, 2013 at 6:28 PM ^
I'm sorry, but what an immature and irrational way of reacting. There are dozens of better ways you could've responded this news that wouldn't have made you sound like a little middle schooler talking to his friends after getting dumped by his first girlfriend.
December 29th, 2013 at 7:28 PM ^
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December 29th, 2013 at 6:27 PM ^
He's "trending" toward MSU? Like 70% of the time when he makes his commitment, it's to MSU? God, I swear high school recruiting "news" is dumber even than stock market narratives, which is tough.
Instead of trending, maybe the post title should use the verb "changing in opinion of some guy who has a job, unbelievably enough, to take moderately educated guesses at where 16-18 year-old kids might go to college in order to get affuent alumni to keep paying monthly subscription fees"
December 29th, 2013 at 6:42 PM ^
I doubt that anything more than a tiny, tiny number of UM alumni are dumb enough to throw money away to pay for recruiting "information" that eventually will be rendered moot by signing day anyhow.
December 29th, 2013 at 7:03 PM ^
December 29th, 2013 at 7:38 PM ^
So? There is literally no connection between being a UM graduate and being a member of Scout. None.