Michigan picks up #20
S Carvin Johnson has made it official. Dont have insider but here is the link
http://michigan.scout.com/
November 3rd, 2009 at 8:05 PM ^
is excellent news for our safety depth / quality.
November 3rd, 2009 at 8:08 PM ^
Which means they haven't "scouted" him at all. The jury is out until the kid comes and shows that he can be a force at safety. Hopefully he will do just that and be a reliable safety that knows how to tackle and take angles with out the help of a protractor (not that that even helps the current safeties).
He be "carvin" up the offense!
November 3rd, 2009 at 8:06 PM ^
GoBlueWolverine will have more on this braking story in the hours to come.
Good heavens.
But yay! Safeties!
November 3rd, 2009 at 8:10 PM ^
to point out grammatical issues! :P
November 3rd, 2009 at 8:18 PM ^
I figured I'd point it out here, and someone else can work on the formal written complaint.
November 3rd, 2009 at 9:04 PM ^
Not trying to bust your balls over it..just was funny that you commented about it. Scout was probably so ecstatic over getting a defensive player to commit that they didn't have time to look over what they wrote.
November 3rd, 2009 at 9:17 PM ^
Look at you, being all courteous and such on the MGoBoard. That may be an offense worthy of being whacked 'round these parts.
But yes, I picked up the joke. No offense taken.
November 3rd, 2009 at 8:07 PM ^
He is the sleeper safety prospect people were talking about correct?
November 3rd, 2009 at 8:08 PM ^
He doesn't have a rating on either scout or rivals, but the rivals users rate him a 4 star. I wonder how many of those are M fans.
November 3rd, 2009 at 8:13 PM ^
Probably a lot. I'd venture >75% of those voting.
November 3rd, 2009 at 8:11 PM ^
Ahoy! Reclaiming the safety depth one man at a time.
Anybody watch his film?
November 3rd, 2009 at 8:12 PM ^
Complete speculation on my point but we have a lot of defensive players on the board still so I'm kind of surprised that we'd take a chance on this kid at this point in the process.
November 3rd, 2009 at 8:15 PM ^
we might not feel that great about some of the prospects we have left. I'm starting to notice that RR is a big bird in the hand guy...
November 3rd, 2009 at 8:58 PM ^
Really, what is RR's beef with Big Bird?
November 3rd, 2009 at 8:18 PM ^
he bulks up and moves to linebacker!
November 3rd, 2009 at 8:35 PM ^
Will he be a 2 or 3 star? Is there any info at all on him anywhere?
November 3rd, 2009 at 8:33 PM ^
how does this effect of landing Grimes, CC, Knight?
November 3rd, 2009 at 8:36 PM ^
I wouldn't think much, if at all.
November 3rd, 2009 at 9:50 PM ^
Grimes is a corner, so it doesn't affect him at all.
Knight is a strong safety type (and Johnson is probably a weak safety), so it probably doesn't affect him, either.
Christian wants to play corner and if he did switch to safety, it would probably be strong safety.
So in other words, it doesn't affect those three at all, really.
November 3rd, 2009 at 8:37 PM ^
What other positions will we take? Another LB, DL, 2 CBs, and maybe an OL?
November 3rd, 2009 at 9:52 PM ^
We'll probably take an ILB. I don't think we need a defensive lineman, especially if Paskorz and Wilkins move to DE (which they should, in my opinion), but Clarence Murphy might come in a package with Grimes. We still need two corners and one or two offensive linemen. We're also recruiting Alex Smith at tight end.
November 3rd, 2009 at 8:42 PM ^
We have five more scholarships available i think, could be wrong thou. I would imagine that were gonna try to get 3 DB's, a DL, and a LB
November 3rd, 2009 at 8:46 PM ^
CC, Grimes, Knight
Clarence Murphy, and a beast????
November 3rd, 2009 at 10:37 PM ^
Let's hope it's Aramide Olaniyan or Josh Furman
November 3rd, 2009 at 8:43 PM ^
we take 2-3 more db's,1 dlineman,and 1 lb.
November 3rd, 2009 at 8:50 PM ^
After my quick look over the current commits, it isn't an amazing class by any stretch, but it's still solid. I'd say 2-3 DBs with an LB and either an OL or a DL. I'd prefer OL because we have some playmakers on the DL and we could use some depth at OL for the future. I'm really hoping for a lockdown type corner.
November 3rd, 2009 at 9:05 PM ^
That LB that is a Duke commit,that would be huge for this class!!
November 3rd, 2009 at 9:11 PM ^
He already decommitted from Duke, we're in his final four, I think, with Stanford, UCLA, and someone else.
November 3rd, 2009 at 9:15 PM ^
I know he has been to AA once already and is coming back in Dec. with his parents.
November 3rd, 2009 at 8:55 PM ^
Not worthy of its own thread, but FWIW, Kenny Stills just said Michigan is getting a visit (in place of Penn State). He's a 4 star WR. Really low chance at getting him though. It's on ESPN's recruiting page.
November 3rd, 2009 at 10:46 PM ^
PSU probably doesn't have space for him anymore
UM probably has as good a chance as anyone on his short list to land him, I won't bore with all the details but his recruitment didn't really go as planned and he is open to what possibilities remain.
November 3rd, 2009 at 8:58 PM ^
i would prefer defense at this point but Stills seems to be a solid WR. Hey! i'll take it
November 3rd, 2009 at 9:48 PM ^
If they're recruiting Stills, the coaches either a) plan to move a current WR commit to defense or b) plan to lose the phone number of a current WR commit.
November 3rd, 2009 at 10:53 PM ^
even though i think he could be an incredible WR and the best in the class I think it would have to be Jerald Robinson moving to S. Or they lose a number of someone.
November 3rd, 2009 at 9:02 PM ^
So, he's a sleeper? Does that mean he's a middling three-star sort like Emilien was, or is he some diamond in the rough sort?
It's hard to be *too* excited until we know who the guy is (his other offers on Scout, FWIW: Minnesota, Utah, ULM, some other small schools).
Obviously it's great that we found someone, though, even if he does end up a 3-star sort.
November 3rd, 2009 at 9:12 PM ^
His most notable other offer was OSU who we beat out for his services. He probably would have gotten more hype but with his injury a lot of schools cooled on him.
So no they are not similar in any sense.
November 3rd, 2009 at 9:25 PM ^
Ah, I just remember one of the services having Vlad at 3*, but of course, I'd rather he have the fourth.
PS - My comparison of him to Vlad was based more on pure ratings than any kind of "sleeper" tag.
I wish we had more info on Johnson.
November 3rd, 2009 at 9:27 PM ^
I've been following recruiting for a long time. I think that it was a torn acl/mcl or something along those lines and he was out for all of or most of his senior year.
And their ratings are not even comparable. You are comparing apples and aardvarks.
November 3rd, 2009 at 9:32 PM ^
I misunderstood you. I edited my post because I thought you were talking about Carvin, not Vlad, when you talked about the senior year injury - I follow recruiting a decent amount too, so I kind of remembered that (about Vlad).
November 3rd, 2009 at 9:30 PM ^
To be fair, UM did NOT beat OSU for Vlad. OSU basically stopped recruiting him when he blew out his knee and UM was able to land Vlad because they did not stop recruiting him.
November 3rd, 2009 at 9:32 PM ^
But then tried to get in on him I think in the last 2/3 months but it was too little too late.
At least that is to my best recollection.
November 3rd, 2009 at 10:37 PM ^
Vlad actually visited Ohio State after committing to Michigan and OSU's recruiting sites were making noise about pulling him away. Vlad said no, on the basis that Michigan continued to go after him when the other interested schools backed off.
November 3rd, 2009 at 9:16 PM ^
Vlad was higher rated until his injury took away his senior year, FWIW.
November 3rd, 2009 at 9:24 PM ^
If this was a camp offer then I feel much better about this.
November 3rd, 2009 at 9:46 PM ^
Some articles say he was offered back in the spring. Others say he was offered in August. I'm not sure which is true.
November 3rd, 2009 at 10:55 PM ^
Front page says he was offered way back in the spring. I don't mind this pick up at all. Hopefully he can come in and contribute and after a couple years be a stud.