MI DB Raymon Taylor Gets Offer

Some of them will need to bulk up to play NT

if he's a legit 4.43 40, i take him for sure.  the current commits will have to compete and someone may end up transferring down the road.

Did you watch our DBs this year?

Rawls is a heck of a player. He is severely undervalued. If Justice Hayes is ranked as high as he is, than Thomas Rawls deserves to be that high and then some if Justice is the standard at his ranking. I wouldn't be surprised at all at the programs that would jump in on Thomas if he ever gets a test score.

to then ask that coach if he has seen each one of these men in action live.  Plus, I think the Michigan coaches are probably better judges of talent that one high school coach.

I know that's a joke, but it doesn't make sense since MSU isn't recruiting him.

True NT's are pretty hard to find. Kids walking around in H.S. at 300 lbs are few and far in between, and the only DT's that are uncomitted that they haven't offered, or are worthy of an offer are Mason Fuller and Kevin McReynolds. It is not a terribly deep year for DT's this year, and you can't make them come here just because they have an offer. I am sure the staff would love a DT or too.

Q. Washington, Ash, Talbott



But yup, we'd be in a lot better shape right now w/ Hankins. I know you've been on this in the past. No question a DT or two would round out what is shaping up to be a great class

i don't know, man. a lot of the things that happened to our DBs could have happened to any position group, so by that logic, you can't have too many of anything. except that you only get so many scholarships. i always cringe when people get excited for lower-ranked recruits at already covered positions who "build depth." depth in one area often means lack of depth in another (or less than top-level talent).

p.s. i'm not targeting this at raymon at all. i only have congrats for the kid.

Pluse he knows what so-called talent  should hit the pavement.

So one guy is a life-long Michgan fan but might go green ... what?  The other wants to get a great education and has doubts about Michigan ... what !!!!  Does not compute but hey they are kids.

Hypothesis, Magnus:

Woolfolk, Floyd, Talbott and Avery are the four CBs predominantly being counted on for the 2011 season. Their freshmen 'backups'/redshirt candidates are Crawford/Countess.

Perhaps Christian is considered fifth in line, but also will be competing with Vinopal for the deep safety position (Carvin as well). Their backup/redshirt guy could be Taylor if he commits.

At the Kovacs position, maybe ... Carvin is the backup, and GERG Brown is the 3rd in line.

At the Cam Gordon position, Thomas Gordon is the backup, with Furman as a co-backup for 2011.

I'm also trying to make order of out this DB chaos.

Hmmm.  I took a closer look at our CBs and safeties, and Taylor looks more like a corner if you only look at height, weight and 40 time.

The heights and weights come from the Spring '10 roster for anyone arriving earlier than this years true freshman.  All the 40 times and the heights and weights come from 'hello' posts except Taylor which is from Scout. 

Based on this, Floyd and Christian look like the best fits for a CB moving to free safety.  Crawford also has the size and speed if he's got the mentality.

I guess I am surprised that it takes the recuits this long to say yes.  I wonder if it took a recruit that long to say yes to Bo / Lloyd etc

He's had the offer for about a day.  I'm sure Bo and Lloyd had plenty of recruits who took a day or longer to decide.

Yes, Jones decommitted on signing day.  He was "committed" to Michigan but sent his LOI to Arkansas.

You're right, he turned us down. Jones was a recruiting battle we could have, maybe even should have won, but we lost it, and that's kind of the point. We've lost enough recruiting battles that now we're in a pretty sticky situation. And you're right, Hankins was way worse because 1) having lost Jones before we knew we needed a NT and 2) he was an athletic 320 pounder with offers from OSU and Florida and 3) he grew up in our backyard and desperately wanted to come here, so much so that he held out for most of the recruiting cycle for an offer.

The basis for this was his lack of conditioning. Meanwhile we recruit a guy from florida whose high profile suitors have backed away after questioning his motor. This guy shows up to fall camp 60 pounds heavier than advertised and Hankins contributes on OSU's 2 deep as a true freshman. Gah, just gah.