Murphy and Grimes Update (again)

maybe Columbus will sink under water

I agree. I also expect that Richrod and company aren't surprised by some of the changes in DB recruiting. A month ago, our DB recruiting looked like the following.

6 CBs
Christian
Avery
Talbott
Witty
Grimes
Brown (2011)
We also had anywhere form 3-4 more offers out on 2011 CBs

2-4 Safeties
Johnson
Vinopal
Parker ??
Knight ??
We also have 3-4 offers on 2011 safeties.

While I know we all had to live through the lack of DBs last year, I was thinking that it seemed like we were a bit in DB overkill with more needs in the trenches and LB. However, our early recruiting of 2011 DBs perhaps should have been a bit of a tell that there were doubts in the coaches minds or that they have lived through many recruiting cycles and things change in the minds of high schoolers.

What does this all mean? 1) I like to write long posts. 2)There is always a silver lining. We still should be in pretty good shape in 2010 with DB recruits. Christian plays as nickel and the other two redshirt. Hopefully picking up Parker and or Knight gives us a solid 6-7 DBs in this class(not counting the possibility of a WR switching positions), which is good. Also, I think that too many recruits for one position in a class can hamper recruiting in future classes (See 2008 OL recruiting impact on 2010 OL recruiting IMHO)and that shouldn't be the case here.

Seriously, I was just thinking the same thing with regards to Grimes and the weather being a legitimate issue.

If weather is actually a driving force behind this and he is using the current cold weather as a reason, since this news is basically coming out of nowhere in the last 2 days, then that is absolutely the dumbest rationale eva.

Not only is our country experiencing below norm temperatures but the entire northern hemisphere is! I wonder if the young African futbol phenoms are currently having second thoughts about signing with the Manchester United's, Chelsea's and Liverpool's and are choosing to go to Barcelona and Madrid instead. aw, hamburgers.

Tom is Alice Cooper:

how the coaching staff might actually have a better handle on their class than nearly everyone thought.

Mind Blowing, huh?

Ann Arbor has crab people too...

If he's afraid of crab people we stand no chance!

http://mgoblog.com/content/2009-recruiting-craig-roh

And just wait until he has to drive in the snow with those crazy people. He'll rue the day that he committed to the East Coast!

He just played at the O/D game where it was a gametime temp in the 30's in Myrtle Beach. Florida has been unseasonably cold (int he 40s in Miami). Just talked to a colleague in the panhandle and not expected to get out of the 30s for another few days.

Its cold down there and he is experiencing a few weeks of cold for the first time in his memory most likely. Pretty sobering.

I know it shocks my system every year and I grew up in Minnesota and live in Chicago.

No, but Florida did.

Record cold temps in recent weeks are almost certainly giving recruits a little sampler of what cold can start to feel like.

EDIT: Jinx, owe me a Coke J :-)

"Hostesses" and, uh, "Southern Hospitality."

We will likely see some signing day surprises. If we don't end with 28, we'll use the schollies next year.

I guess RR will let Dior commit now.If he still wants to.

I'll wager 10 MGoPoints that he doesn't commit to M.

And if we could wager points I would probably be well into the negatives.