Michigan State lands verbal commitment from WR Kyle Kerrick
Michigan State gained its 7th commitment when WR Kyle Kerrick verbally committed today. Kerrick is a 3 star on both rivals and scout, and is rated the 72nd WR on Scout. Michigan was not targeting Kerrick, and he is the 6th 3 star commitment for State in the 2012 class.
Link: http://www.mlive.com/spartans/index.ssf/2011/06/reports_michigan_state_…
This is also being reported on rivals and scout
Mod Edit: Not OT and more relevant to Michigan football/sports than most of the front page posts. That said, have fun with the national profile MSU.
Pennsylvania - now in Michigan! At least you didn't make any snide remarks about intelligence!
never mind...
Part of that national recruiting approach Dantonio has since he had since MSU's 5th consecutive bowl game loss...
For every time a rival lands a recruit, whether we were interested in them or not? I'm pretty liberal on not caring what people post, but not sure how this matters to Michigan...any more than any other recruit State, OSU, ND, PSU, Nebraska or Wisconsin gets, and I don't think we need a Hello: post for all of them. Maybe good for RCMB.
Who is this? I guess with Kalis, Diamond, and Wormley visiting this weekend. There is not much else to post around here.
First, let me say, none of this is to be directed at the OP. You and I both clearly haven't made that many MGoComments, and this is probably your first topic given your point total. That being said, I am sick and mutha flippin tired of hearing about MSU. I'm sick of losing to MSU, and that's probably where most of this angst comes from.
I so badly long for the days when I worry about their football team for exactly 6 days a year, enjoy the victory for 1 day, and gloat as they bring up basketball for the other 358. Yes, they're an important rival, but mostly because they're in state and we all went to high school with a bunch of kids who end up there.
THEY are not, and will never be nearly the program that we are. We are the winningest football team in history and they're maybe the 5th most important football in the B1G, depending on the year.
Can we please, PLEASE, treat them as such? I propose that we put a moratorium on hearing anything about them unless it directly relates to us. Schadenfreude is cool. If they land a recruit that we actually offered or even sniffed, then I'm all ears. Until then, WHO CARES about the Situation or Gerard Butler or their "national" recruiting class?
Again, I'm sorry for ranting, but good God I can't stand hearing about them anymore, especially when it's pretty irrelevant what they're doing.
Actually I thought the whole The Situation thing was really funny in a schadenfreudy sort of way.
Yea, that's true. In my anger I couldn't think of other random garbage anecdotes about them which I couldn't care less about. I was more suggesting that the fact that their athletic department pays "celebrities" to come to games is just sad.
The day we pay Hugh Jackman to come stand on the sidelines is the day I take up metalsmithing to fashion the world's sharpest pitchfork and head straight for DB's door.
I don't care!
on the thread. There are some of here who actually are curious about state's class. It doesn't make us obsessed like some claim. I'm interested in all our rivals' classes and don't see why we should have to wait till tim's rankings come out. It's not like the title gives an inaccurate description either.
To become a HELLO posting ground for 80 commitments to rival schools that aren't even being considered by us. If you want to know about MSU's class, go to a MSU blog.
This is probably the best post in the thread. It might be on topic, but if it wasn't a Michigan target at all, I don't see the need to post it.
on the thread. There are some of here who actually are curious about state's class. It doesn't make us obsessed like some claim. I'm interested in all our rivals' classes and don't see why we should have to wait till tim's rankings come out. It's not like the title gives an inaccurate description either.
This was just discussed in the "how to behave on mgoblog" thread from earlier today. If you don't care, don't click. I don't care that you don't care.
put. Would give this post a +1, but for someone reason I can't right now.
content on this site is considered to be 'defining' for the fan base.
http://michiganstate.247sports.com/Board/93/They-Dont-Care-2803367/1
now, since there's a post about it, we suddenly do care and Dantonio is "in our heads."
ESPN called him a prized recruit and I never heard of him. I guess they forgot about Pitt, Maryland, Rutgers, North Carolina, and Virginia on the East Coast.
I laughed at that too. Prized recruit with a 45 grade and NR at position ranking. They must have just not gotten around to his game film yet.
hmmmmm, lets check his offer list.
Michigan State | Verbal | Yes | None | ||
Akron | No Interest | Yes | None | ||
Boston College | No Interest | No | None | ||
Cincinnati | No Interest | Yes | None | ||
Illinois | No Interest | Yes | None | ||
Penn State | No Interest | No | None | ||
Pittsburgh | No Interest | Yes | None | ||
Syracuse | No Interest | Yes | None | ||
Temple | No Interest | Yes | None | ||
West Virginia | No Interest | Yes | None |
Penn State and MSU are "lower tier B1G" teams now? I believe both of these programs have had more success over the past half-decade than have we.
<br>-Chet
has yet to win a bowl game. Psu's 2008 team, their best in the past 5 years, was shredded by Usc in the Rose Bowl. Both teams have no B1G outright championships in the past 5 years. Color me unimpressed.
When derping, do it properly
I'm just saying that those who live in glass houses should not through stones. Coo?
that's exactly what i was saying to you. why bring up things that you're claiming are bars of impressment that UM has failed to accomplish also?
I'm saying that none of those three teams have been terribly impressive in the last 5 years. About all Msu can point to is beating Michigan 3 out of 5.
We need to actually beat this team before we make fun of them. And I'd be cautious of even mocking their recruiting - Dantonio's gotten a lot out of 3-star guys to date.
Agreed. All I can do is congratulate them and keep my head down. Time was that a win against Sparty was fine and a loss was devastating. A win against ND was great and a loss really sorta pissed me off (except during their 4 year run when I thought about them at least once a day). A win against OSU or a loss against OSU were equally emotional and required a couple of weeks to regain equilibrium.
Things are different now. The next victory over sparty will feel damn good. If we want to discuss their recruits in terms of how they will or won't benefit future S teams that's fine. If we want to gloat over their current recruiting situation as it compares to ours we should do so within our own little personal M worlds using whispers and mild smirks. Anything more is undeserved until we lay the wood to them for about 3 or 4 straight.
Who cares?
That is the traditional response I am accustomed to hearing at these announcenents.
This kid did not have a Michigan offer, nor do I believe he was on the verge of getting one. From what I can see this kid was not on the radar of hardly any other Big Ten schools; netting his only other offer from Illinois. Congratulation to the kid, but personally if a kid doesn’t have a Michigan offer I can carless where he goes.
who gives a shit
^This is a valuable post. Thanks enlightening me. This is the type of insight every poster should strive for.
<br>-Chet
I applaud your enthusiasm, you remind me of a young me like that. One piece of advice: let the board come to you - don't force it, you will find a pattern in the chaos and understand how to avoid being grumped upon.