Michigan offers [greyshirt] DT Brady Pallante. Per Tremendous: very likely on the verge of adding a new commitment

 I'm sure you all remember another heavyweight state champion wrestler we had:

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We like wrestling champion DT's at Michigan.

Coach Hoke coached D-line when we won a national title. The man knows talent.

I believe this is a Jeremy Clark situation. I'm guessing this could be a greyshirt?

Tremendous tweeted that this was a greyshirt situation with a story upcoming. Looks like the tweet has been deleted and the story is up with no mention of a greyshirt (I'm not VIP though) so I would bet it is a normal scholarship.

Highlights

context clues says he camped last summer...the coaches have seen him in person so they must love what he has....hope he comes aboard

Unless the staff feels he is a top second option should they not land McDowell and a few others at dt....  With Mone already committed I would be suprised if they accpet a commitment quickly before Mcdowell even visits....

No doubt though the staff knows defensive talent so we shall see how it unfolds. I don't think McDowell ends up at DE unless it's SDE......

We want all Robinsons.

Get thee to the training table, son.

If this is a normal scholarship offer, it's extremely puzzling given the small class size and interest from other big prospects.  Something doesn't add up here.

Can someone explain how the Greyshirt situation works? How can they offer someone a Greyshirt?

He did camp at Michigan last summer and apparently did pretty well. Will be interesting to see how this plays out. The stories on his wrestling championship say that he's at 288 lbs, so he's got some good size for a 2014 guy.

Also, Tom VH has confirmed that its a gray shirt offer. Story is up on Wolverine Nation.

Either way he'll have a blue shirt from Ferns.

Guys we take this early in the cycle tend to be the program's first choice.  Yay I say; hope we get him.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/117418-college-football-recruiting-for-beginners-part-iii-oversigning-and-greyshirts

I hate to link to bleacherreport, but for a change there is something a value.

So this is pretty much like a 2015 commit?

puzzling at such an early stage in the process.

Congrats to Brady if valid.

This is good news.  Always like to see kids who can compete in other sports get a shot if they can make the cut.  Not sure how the process will play out, but state champs in wrestling seem to be a good thing at UM.

so were is all the shit talking about the sec grey shirting a player?

if there's one thing hoke and mattison know, its the d-line. hoke personally oversaw a d-line that won a national title. he knows what he's looking for. state champion wrestler shows he must have great strength, and a coach's son means he should have great technique and fundamentals. plenty of guys fly under the radar that turn out to be studs. not saying he'll be a stud, but he could. bottom line is that if he's good enough for hoke, he's good enough for us fans.

This thread shows us that while 85% of M fans are pretty knowledgeable, those other 15% are idiots. 

Edit: I suck at the internet. Nevermind.

Not sure if a reliable source, but Joshua Henschke of the Big House Report has a post up—Quick Hits with Brady Pallante—based on an interview with Pallante. It indicates a commitment isn't imminent.

I don't think he is going to be a 5 star recruit, because his ceiling is somewhat limited by his athletic ability, but he has a very high floor. The kid consistently maintains low leverage, shoots off the ball pretty well, has a strong base, and uses his hands well. He has the technique already that is often the most difficult to teach many of the guys in the trenches. Now he isn't going to be chasing down WRs sideline to sideline, but if he has always dreamed of playing for Michigan, he camped at Michigan, and decides to commit, I would be happy with the pick up. Would be solid as a penetrating 3-tech or be able to hold his own at the nose. He won't be a star of a class, but would be a great foundation to build around because you would know what you have in him.

All I care about is toughness and physicalness.

The coaches could recruit all unranked guys, but they would still know what they are doing and it'd still be a great team.

Some on this thread clearly only care about stars and rankings.

But maybe Brady just likes Bradys.

WOOOO GREYSHIRT

people need to quit being jackasses.  Do the people complaining about this realize that 'Bama took a pro style qb last class rated at an 81?  or that they took an ILB rated at an 84?  LSU took a DT rated at an 86 and an OT at an 84.  UF had a non special teams player rated in the 70s.  Point is, no team is going to get all 4-5 stars, deal with it

I don't know much about evaluating players. Would someone who does post on what he does well/poorly based on highlights? They look pretty good to me at first glance

This is a curious, shrewd and somewhat tantalizing bit of news. Curious in that a 2014 guy would agree to a "greyshirt" so early in the recruiting cycle. A shrewd move by Hoke & Co. if they are taking a guy who's a M lock and deferring the scholarship since he'd redshirt anyway. Tantalizing is the confidence the staff must have in some of the high-profile targets signing on that they would take this course of action.

As has been stated many times in this thread, our coaches definitely know that they are doing in evaluating defensive line talent. They also know what they want in regard to toughness and character. In reading the articles about Pallante, it's clear to me that he has those traits.

"Barron Collier's Brady Pallante didn't so much as win the Class 2A state heavyweight wrestling title on Saturday night as he earned it.

Two weeks ago after he lost in overtime in the 2A-District 12 finals to his archrival, Fort Myers' Fequierson Charles, a crestfallen Pallante talked about leaving nothing in the practice room if he hoped to beat Charles the following week at the regional championships.

Pallante worked out three times a day that week while doing his roadwork at night. He beat Charles in triple overtime to take the region crown"

"Pallante says it is such an honor to be offered a scholarship to UM. As a kid, he grew up dreaming of playing for the Wolverines."

My cousin is graduating from the same high school as Pallante this year. They're friends. I asked my uncle what he knows. Here's what he said:

Pallante has an incredible work ethic. My cousin is a touted baseball prospect, so my uncle knows hard work when he sees it. Pallante is also arguably the best wrestler in the country. He's also a great kid.

This move is intriguing to me.

it turns out that this guy is pretty good and the coaches determined he was good WITHOUT THE HELP OF A RIVALS PAGE. CRAZY, I KNOW

Hoke of Rob Renes or he has potential to plug the middle in short yardage.

He is not a top tier talent at this point, but the greyshirt puts him 2.5 years from his first season and his supposed work ethic means a whole of lifting in his future.

Strategically, he is also a good kid from Florida that could help us build a recruiting base in the area.

While we are at it, can we also get Brandi Passante (from Storage Wars) into a tight greyshirt, as a package deal?   Boobs.

Stays low, uses hands well...lots of power.  Plenty of times saw him drive his blocker back several feet right off the punch.  Textbook technique.

Whoa, whoa, whoa. Back to the "Urban will kill Hoke in recruting, year in and year out" statement. Who is this guy? omgcodysigned. I'm not even sure that can be used as a username. I would call you sir, but instead I will use, Boy. Boy, did you pay attention to recruiting this year. Ohio and Us virtually were evenly matched in recruitng and this is Michigan coming off an 8-5 compared to Ohio coming off a 12-0. If we had played Gardener vs NEB, or if Shoelace hadn't gotten hurt, and won that game and beat Ohio, and ND, and SC, which were all very close, we would have passed them unanimously in all of the recruiting services. Somebody take this guy's dimebag from him.

Kid seems like the ideal nose.  If he comes in as part of the 2015 class then he'll be 3 years behind Pipkins.  I think the kid could be valuable in goal line situations at the very least.

I think maybe we need to let the guys who have been coaching football forever (Hoke, Mattison, etc) decide this stuff.

I'm definitely a "trust the coaches" type, but this seems strange.  Its just that the kid has another season of football, so the two most likely things to happen are:

1.  He has a great season, receives other offers and Michigan has to decide whether to match those scholarship offers.

2.  He has a meh season, maybe picks up some low level offers and Michigan takes him on as a grayshirt.

It just seems strange to offer him even a grayshirt option so early in the recruiting cycle, I could understand if he was a 2013 kid who showed great raw skills or maybe played at a small school somewhere off the beaten path.  But it seems like if this kid shows promise UM will have to pony of a scholarship offer in order to keep him coming here.  I guess maybe its their way of saying we like your potential but we have a small class so this is our way of showing our interest?  

Can someone explain how the Greyshirt process works?

I'm late to the part (had a busy weekend), but I would like to echo what Space Coyote said.

It would be great to get huge guys who can stay low AND move well, but those are rare.  Otherwise, you have to manufacture success.  If a William Campbell clone came along at Cass Tech, you would all be rooting for Michigan to recruit him.  But he had a mediocre career, because he couldn't stay low and he didn't go hard every play.

Pallante has great technique and leverage.  What he lacks in size and athleticism, he'll make up for in other areas.  Mike Martin was somewhat similar, but probably a better overall athlete.  Regardless, I see Pallante as a two-down defensive tackle who can hold the point of attack against the run, and then you might pull him in third-and-long situations.  I see no problem with a grayshirt offer at all.