Yes, he was there.
It went
He decided to go to Oklahoma
He decided to go to Oklahoma with Jerry Montgomery.
I heard Ole Miss is leading
I heard Ole Miss is leading now.
On Rivals insider it says he
On Rivals insider it says he had a fine weekend and is staying open.
He will visit OSU and ND (the other early favorite besides UofM) later in the summer and that will give a better sense of where he is at. It is very early in the process for him.
A positive note I read is that UofM was out in front of the Montgomery move with the prospects so it shouldn't be an issue with the guys he was recruiting (Hand, Mone, etc.).
or uh, Duder, or El Duderino if you're not into the whole brevity thing.
He said per scout
all his other UM visits felt rushed a bit, but he spent a lot of one on one time with Hoke and Mattison. Coach Heck was chatting him up good during the game also.
If I say a duck can pull a truck, shut up and hook the sucka up!
You shouldn't be too worried
about a photo taken on Saturday not including a recruit who visited on Sunday.
Eating is murder.
McDowell took the picture.
McDowell took the picture.
Dreads > Lil Boosie fade
The reason his reaction has
The reason his reaction has not been posted is because it has not been determined if McDowell did, in fact, react to his visit. No need to worry.
You need to find a hobby. I
You need to find a hobby. I love following recruiting too, but just because you don't see a recruit in a picture, it doesn't mean you should panic.
“When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing” - Bo Schembechler
I think you mean he needs to
I think you mean he needs to find ANOTHER hobby. This appears to be his hobby, and he's getting a little too emotionally involved.
Oh Magnus
Of all people you probably hit F5 more than any of us.
...and yet I rarely get
...and yet I rarely get worried about whether a recruit comes to campus or not.
I also run a blog and make money from it, so it behooves me to keep my finger on the pulse of Michigan football.
The F5 button is the pulse of
The F5 button is the pulse of Michigan football? Who knew!
a clarification
Well, considering what went on below my comment, I want to make clear I wasn't intending to insult Magnus with my comment. It was just a play on the juxtaposition between "hitting the F5 button" in Glove's comment and Magnus's comment on keeping his finger on the pulse.
I know once you have to explain a joke it's no longer funny, but I'd rather be unfunny than to be seen as knocking a guy when that wasn't my intention.
Agree
I dislike posts asking about recruits statuses as well, but I will give you credit that you had the initiative to seek out the information instead of waiting for it like the rest of us. With all do respect, you are a sarcastic dick though haha
Good luck buddy - remember if
Good luck buddy - remember if enough people start clicking on your home page those nickels will turn into quarters. Quarters into dollars. And dollars into tens and twenties! Some day it will happen!
"to make a complete evaluation off video w/o seeing guys in-person - I don't believe that at all." - Josh Helmholdt
How am I still in Bolivia and
How am I still in Bolivia and you're not?
ATTN NBA Dads and Siblings: Have brothers / sons on the hoops come-up?
Michigan = NBA Family U
Because Magnus is not a mod?
Because Magnus is not a mod? Just some dude who watches internet videos?
Also, I did not think my post was very negative. I thought it was funny. Oh well, humor doesn't hit home the same with everyone.
"to make a complete evaluation off video w/o seeing guys in-person - I don't believe that at all." - Josh Helmholdt
You need to stop with constantly...
going negative on Magnus. I don't know what your deal is with him, but when pretty much every post I recall of yours is attacking and/or making jokes at another posters expense, that's a problem.
"We bring you to Michigan to take care of Michigan; your job is to protect that block M."
-Carol Hutchins
A problem for who exactly?
A problem for who exactly? Certainly not for the recruits this guy badgers about knee bend.
or uh, Duder, or El Duderino if you're not into the whole brevity thing.
A problem for the MGoBoard...
which is something you should be able to understand. All it does is make this place less enjoyable and discourage the kind of good discussion most people come here for.
"We bring you to Michigan to take care of Michigan; your job is to protect that block M."
-Carol Hutchins
I agree except for dealing
I agree except for dealing with this particular commentor.
There is a negative to just accepting his opinions as fact and accepting him as some sort of assumed expert on recruiting. I understand what you are saying that these sort of comments make the board less enjoyable, but I think to post under an assumed platform of expertise on a subject is just as bad/wrong.
or uh, Duder, or El Duderino if you're not into the whole brevity thing.
Then disagree with what he writes.
If you have a problem with an evaluation Magnus writes, then post what yours is, link to another that has a contrary view, or question him on specifics. Saying he's fat or has no life discredits the guy posting it, not the one he's replying to, in addition to making life a little harder on everyone reading it.
"We bring you to Michigan to take care of Michigan; your job is to protect that block M."
-Carol Hutchins
It just seems rather odd to
It just seems rather odd to me that if a person got some news on a recruit say... recieveing money and posted it on the board it would be stripped down in an instant in order to be checked for legitimacy and factual evidence, but in the case of this poster it is on the user to research and dis-prove his often surprisingly negative, baseless and clearly amatuerish OPINION. Seems to be - if not hypocritical than at least very disengenuous.
or uh, Duder, or El Duderino if you're not into the whole brevity thing.
But you just said it, it's
But you just said it, it's his opinion. There's a difference between me saying a player took money from a booster and me saying a kid shouldn't get an offer.
Look, lots of people give their opinion on recruits on this board, many with less experience than Magnus has. Why do you dislike him so much? Just because people listen to him?
If he was any good at
If he was any good at scouting talent he would have moved on to bigger / brighter pastures by now (e.g., TomVH, TimS, SteveL, etc.).
Also, he was never upfront about "99% of my scouting is done by watching internet highlight videos". Once that was sussed out, I lost a lot of respect for him.
Essentially, he is a man on the internet watching videos and posting blogs about Michigan. All the while having a negative slant towards a majority of our targets. I don't think there is another poster on this board that can say I "attack" them.
"to make a complete evaluation off video w/o seeing guys in-person - I don't believe that at all." - Josh Helmholdt
I certainly can't
I certainly can't dislike anyone I have never met.
I dislike the idea that he can report his analysis of a recruit which is assumed by the board -or at least not clearly pointed out to be anything but - expert analysis. That is clearly dangerous to the recruits themselves. A lot of people see this board. A lot of people blindly take his amateur opinion as an expert one. It should be clearly pointed out that his opinion is not on par with that of expert analysis.
or uh, Duder, or El Duderino if you're not into the whole brevity thing.
You've said it again...
If you don't think his analysis is up to snuff, then post your opinion on what's wrong with his opinion.
There's really nothing more to say on the subject: you cannot post personal attacks against other users. Whether you agree that should be the rule doesn't matter, it's a board rule and it won't be happening again on the board.
"We bring you to Michigan to take care of Michigan; your job is to protect that block M."
-Carol Hutchins
Why is the onus on the user
Why is the onus on the user to prove or disprove the legitimacy of the posts form this poster, but not of any other?
I don't see where I have personally attacked him in this thread, Justin so that doesn't even have to be discussed.
or uh, Duder, or El Duderino if you're not into the whole brevity thing.
I will clarify by saying...
I was using a generic "you". Re-reading my post I should have been more clear about that, and I'm sorry if it came off as a strong accusation; that wasn't my intention here.
All that said, the sentiment still rings true given past history (and the "awesome life" post below was personal).
"We bring you to Michigan to take care of Michigan; your job is to protect that block M."
-Carol Hutchins
Fair enough.
Fair enough.
or uh, Duder, or El Duderino if you're not into the whole brevity thing.
I have never claimed to be an
I have never claimed to be an "expert." If that's an inference people make, then that's on them. I have made it very clear on my blog that I am a high school coach. Clearly, I can't/don't follow kids around the country to the various camps and go watch them play on Friday nights, because I coach on Friday nights.
And while I won't claim to be an expert, I will say that many of the recruiting "analysts" out there don't have much football experience. You may (or may not) assume that everyone who works at Rivals or Scout or wherever has a background in football, but they don't.
I find it hard to
I find it hard to believe most high school football recruiting analysts don't have a background in football, but I understand some might not. It's the accountability of being a professional that makes me trust their opinion. If they suck and continually whiff on their analysis of recruits their access and soap box are removed whereas with you the former was never an issue and the latter is what will seemingly never be called into question.
or uh, Duder, or El Duderino if you're not into the whole brevity thing.
I don't believe Tim, TomVH or
I don't believe Tim, TomVH or Ace have any football background. Or Brian.
I was reffering to the
I was reffering to the guys/gals at Rivals, 247, Scout, etc. but yea those 4 don't. Fair point.
or uh, Duder, or El Duderino if you're not into the whole brevity thing.
"I find it hard to
"I find it hard to believe most high school football recruiting analysts don't have a background in football, but I understand some might not."
I'm not sure whose football opinions you trust in regard to recruiting. But you might want to make a mental list and then do a little bit of research. I think you'll be surprised.
Trent Dilfer gets bashed quite a bit for how he ranks recruits (and I don't really pay attention to him, so whatever), but he's one of the most accomplished football guys out there who pays attention. The guy from ESPN (I'm blanking on his name, but he played QB at Georgia Tech) is another one. Meanwhile, there are numerous guys at Rivals and Scout who are simply journalists (for lack of a better term) who are interested in football. I'm not sure how much of a football background TomVH, Ace, and Brian have, although I still like the product they put out there.
I think you are talking about
I think you are talking about Tom Luginbill.
Yep, that's the name I was
Yep, that's the name I was looking for. Thanks.
Considering that most of
Considering that most of Magnus's post on here where he is giving his opinion on something are usually negative themselves. I don't see why he would exspect anything other that what he receivers from Rager.
If you listen to him We have been recruiting talentless hacks and have little to no shot at most of the 5 star guys we offer. I'm just saying, sometimes it's true but, man this is a Michigan fan blog. keep all that negative crap on TTB
" If you listen to him We
" If you listen to him We have been recruiting talentless hacks and have little to no shot at most of the 5 star guys we offer. I'm just saying, sometimes it's true but, man this is a Michigan fan blog."
You're exaggerating about the "talentless hacks" part. I was much less a fan of the guys Rodriguez recruited, and the NFL Draft and Michigan's win totals for most of the recent years suggest that a lot of those guys weren't Michigan-caliber recruits. And we don't have a shot at most 5-stars. I don't really care whether it's a Michigan fan blog - the truth is the truth. I'm not going to say that every kid is a future Hall of Famer and that we're going to get every 5-star. What's the point of discussing anything if that's all anyone says?
You bashed most of the
You bashed most of the class of 2013 if not everyone of them at one point. People would like to hear optimistic opinions not constant bashing of players coming to Michigan.
We have as much of a shot at most of the 5 star recruits as anyone else.
Your truth is your opinion. Michael Cox was never a game breaker
Although I agree that Magnus
Although I agree that Magnus can go overboard sometimes, not everyone wants an optimistic opinion of our recruits I sure don't. I don't need someone to tell me how awesome we'll be because all of our recruits are just the greatest.
The funny thing is that everyone got so upset about Magnus' evaluation of LTT after he committed, but then every camp report after that said close to the same things. And LTT tweeted that he would prove Magnus wrong, which is the right attitude.
Like it or hate it, Magnus points out strengths and weaknesses of our recruits as he sees them, and he watches a lot of high school football. It's not gospel, just another guy's opinion.
Hah. If by "bashed" you mean
Hah. If by "bashed" you mean I commented on things they need to work on, then yeah, I'm guilty. I had the audacity to say that Dawson isn't an elite prospect (in my opinion) and that Logan Tuley-Tillman looked like he never had any quality coaching (which numerous other analysts have more or less echoed in the months since he committed).
I also never claimed that Cox was a gamebreaker. I said he deserved a shot to be the starting RB or at least get more carries. Vincent Smith just finished his career as Michigan's third-string running back after being surpassed by Toussaint and Rawls. Maybe, just maybe, I was onto something back in 2010...
Remember when you said
Remember when you said this?
http://mgoblog.com/content/tuesday-recruitin-unveils-surprise#comment-19...
I find the fact that you
I find the fact that you bookmark commentors' comments so you can repost them later in some sort of childish retort both extremely sad and hilarious.
Awesome life.
or uh, Duder, or El Duderino if you're not into the whole brevity thing.
A large number of your
A large number of your comments are taking shots at me, so that seems a bit hypocritical.
As for your first point, no bookmarking is necessary. I simply clicked on Mr. Rager's name and scrolled down a few comments. It's a pretty simple process, maybe even easier than it was for you to respond to my comment.
Whatever you need to help
Whatever you need to help yourself sleep at night.
One of us went to UofM, graduated, and did something constructive with his life. The other "coaches football", runs a blog based on review of internet videos, and has a white van with "FrEE CaNDY" written in red on the side of it.
Just because you have the support of most of the lemmings on this board does not mean you get to win. In fact, you lose by a rather large margin.
"to make a complete evaluation off video w/o seeing guys in-person - I don't believe that at all." - Josh Helmholdt
So coaching football is not
So coaching football is not constructive with his life, teaching young kids is more constructive than working on Wall Street, in my opinion. And I work on Wall Street too.
Yeah, the 1 hour a day he
Yeah, the 1 hour a day he spends coaching kids is very constructive. Have you ever been to his site? Guy posts more blog entries per day than Brian. And Brian has a staff helping him, and it's his only job. How can the guy seriously coach football? Has no one else ever thought of this? I can't believe the logic of this board sometimes. Everyone is either too gullible, too young / innocent, or both. Get your heads out of your ass.
"to make a complete evaluation off video w/o seeing guys in-person - I don't believe that at all." - Josh Helmholdt
That's enough. You've
That's enough. You've already lost your points. Keep it up and your case will be referred to upper management. You made your point, however unimportant it was. Now KNOCK IT OFF!
Disgruntled former moderator. I got a lot of problems with you people!
Yes, he was there.
It went well.
He probably won't be committing anywhere anytime soon.
Twitter - Recruiting Update: June 17