Mike Farrell on potential Dior Mathis surprise

Submitted by kriegers on

"He's saying Oregon's his leader and that's where he wants to go [but] it wouldn't surprise me at all if he just picked Michigan out of the blue."
http://michigan.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1036023

I think this would be quite surprising. Just passing along the info to share the wealth.

Blue in Yarmouth

January 5th, 2010 at 2:48 PM ^

and don't find Magnus' post very informative. Anyone know where there is more information on this Witty thing?

As I said, I have been away for a while and searched the board but didn't find anything. This is some crap news if it's true!

Edit: evidently it wasn't Magnus' post as this was not from his website. I was just going by what Blue Bull had in his post.

bacon1431

January 5th, 2010 at 1:15 PM ^

If Grimes decides to go elsewhere, I'd be in favor of picking Mathis. But I like Grimes more than him right now. But it's hard to turn down an instate kid.

dahblue

January 5th, 2010 at 1:29 PM ^

"Tiny" and "Slot WR"...words I'm so tired of hearing!
Mathis seems like a strong player, but I remain worried that we're too small for Big Ten play. I used to live on the East Coast where my Big Ten friends and I would routinely laugh about the tiny players in the Big East/ACC and the trouble they'd have in the Big Ten. I sure hope I'm wrong.

JC3

January 5th, 2010 at 4:01 PM ^

I'm just sayin'. As much as people on here don't want to admit, Mathis is a very solid cornerback. He's extremely physical for his size- and he never shies away from getting in receivers faces.

Personally I would have been fine with him coming to Michigan. Whether or not he's "too-short" is a different matter.

BigBlue02

January 5th, 2010 at 4:37 PM ^

5 of the 8 CBs playing in the pro bowl are 5'10 or 5'11 and more than half of the top 15 Cbs in the NFL are 5'11 or shorter....they don't seem to have any trouble putting up a fight against 6'2 and 6'3 receivers. Also, to say that Mathis is 5'6 is a little ridiculous. Although, even if he is 5'6, don't you think Cullen or Avery or Turner might cover him? Plus, Floyd is an outstanding talent and even if Mathis was 6'5, he still might have trouble covering him. Jump balls in the endzone are not the only thing CBs are required to defend.

Blue in Yarmouth

January 6th, 2010 at 8:46 AM ^

but all account I have read suggest he IS no taller than 5'6". How many of the top 15 pro CB's are that Height? There is a BIG difference between 5'11" and 5'6", you're talking about 5 inches for pete sake.....That is a huge difference where height is concerned.

Also, your arguement about jump balls is partly true, but any good QB/WR tandum will exploit a height advantage of the magnitude that dior will present.

Consider a team with just an average size WR (6'0), that is a 6 inch height advantage for the WR. You don't think that every time that QB throws to the WR he isn't going to put extra air under it and throw it up for grabs?

Also, the other corner can cover one other WR, but what about the second? Many teams in college football have more than one WR that is over 6 feet tall. What do you do then? Good college QB's will look at that mismatch and exploit it as often as possible.

I am perfectly content with the notion that Mathis is going to Oregon.

ShockFX

January 5th, 2010 at 2:25 PM ^

What, exactly, is immeasurable about the number of fumbles Mike Hart had, his YPC, his amount of broken tackles, or the number of TFLs he avoided?

Also, if he's highly rated, it's not "immeasurables", by definition of being rated based on them.

Beavis

January 5th, 2010 at 1:38 PM ^

Bottom line is I hope this is serious and he's at least tinkering with the idea of coming.

I don't know about the rest of you, but it really fucking burns my ass whenever I see a player from "[Hometown], MI" showing up on another team and performing extremely well. See: Ingram, Mark.

GOBLUE4EVR

January 5th, 2010 at 2:47 PM ^

ingram was never going to come to michigan... we did offer and he took a visit IIRC. but from the story i heard is that saban helped out him and mom when his dad went to jail. because of that mark looked at him as a father figure and thats why he picked bama.

Magnus

January 5th, 2010 at 2:12 PM ^

mgorecruit.blogspot.com isn't my blog. I'm not sure whose it is. Not that there's anything wrong with it, but I've never heard of that blog until this thread.

That being said, Rivals reported yesterday that Witty's chances of getting in are slim. He could still sign again in February instead of enrolling "early" in January, but obviously that's not the ideal situation.

Blue_Bull_Run

January 5th, 2010 at 4:15 PM ^

I was working off the top of my head. I had visited your blog, as well as others, recently, and got them confused. (I did get a little suspicious when the recruiting blog claimed to be by an Englishman, doesn't sound like you.

Moreover, in my haste, I think I misspelled you handle name. So, double sorry. I apparently have no attention to detail so far in 2010.

ldoublee

January 5th, 2010 at 2:30 PM ^

closer than I'd like to admit sometimes. The kid wants to goto UM, IMO. He could have committed when DG did way back when, but he wanted to wait and have his "Big Will" moment. The problem is that the UM bus moved on and pretty soon there was no room left at the inn. So, he was stuck. He might have been set on Oregon and holding out hope for UM...I would say with Witty gone, his chances improve. And if Grimes bails, I'd say he would be welcomed. JMO, though.