Naseir Upshur trending FSU
Shit.
Hey WD I came across you on CollegeSpun. Just wondering if you knew, and if they got permission. I know some people are very particular when it comes to showing their seat numbers across the internet.
Those aren't my tickets. Those are from a user on here who posted that photo.
BTN also picked it up.
Ok. Does that person know that you are sharing their seat numbers online? I'd hate for you to piss off the wrong person on twitter and they come looking for you and beat someone else ass instead. I know its far fetched but people are crazy.
The important thing on the tickets was blurred out in the photo which was the barcode.
You shouldn't tweet pictures of someone elses tickets without their permission though. Even if he already blanked out the barcode.
It was already on the internets. Please source though!
So much for very good feelings.
This about sums it up....
I had a good feeling about Nauta.
I think you're intentionally missing my point.
This is kind of a silly post.
Summary:
1. No change in Pop's visit schedule to Michigan.
2. He is taking a trip to FSU that he was going to take anyway. It's going to be his first time there, but he's already been to Michigan a couple times.
3. There is still a long time until his commitment.
So that leads OP to say PANIC!! Seems like you are applying your own pessimistic lens to the facts at hand.
We aren't doing so well with these "silent" commitments.
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Upshur was not a silent.
How do you know, as if he was then it would have been SILENT!
Upshur is a great prospect but if he's going to blow off Michigan for FSU on a whim like this then I'm not sure he was ever Michigan material. Also, what would it say about him that he was going to attend FSU because he'd have to compete with Nauta, which is what this whole thing would seem to imply.
Wasn't* going to attend FSU.
This line of thinking - If player X chooses Team A over Michigan, he probably wasn't Michigan material - is nauseating.
It's rationalization after the fact. Oh he rejected us? Let's reject him in kind.
I'm not rejecting him. FSU was recruiting him the whole time and he seemingly wasn't reciprocating because he'd have to compete to start with Nauta. That's a telling feature of his character if true and would imply he doesn't like competition.
I'm with you. What you're saying is completely logical based on the situation but some can't separate it from those who shit on kids as soon as they decommit or show interest elsewhere.
But calling him "not Michigan material" is extremely arrogant which we haven't deserved to be with football in a while.
That's calling the #4 tight end (rivals) with offers from everywhere "not Michigan material." Come on.
I prefaced that by saying he is a "great prospect". I want people who want to be here, that's it.
WHy would you think he doesn't want to be at Michigan? He did not cancel a Michigan trip, he only scheduled a FSU visit that he was planning to do anyway. He's not even committed, so he can go on visits if he wants to. So you are saying that you only want to get recruits who have never visited another school. Come on.
Give me a second to stop choking on all the words you just put in my mouth and I'll give a thoughtful reply to your ignorance.
the point is legitimate. Upshur was a major Michigan lean, in fact he said himself he almost commited. Now all of a sudden FSU loses a TE commit and he cancels his announcement date and everything is trending FSU including a ton of crystal balls. This huge swing in his recruitment immediately followed the loss of the FSU commit. If you don't think this related you are dumb. We still want him, but there is a legitimate point that he didn't embrace the competition. Unfortunately on this board pointing out a very real point like this gets generalized into somehow attacking recruits or making excuses when it's neither.
His announcement date was cancelled weeks ago. He does not control the CB's. THose change based on the recruiting analysts who have probably not even talked to Pop about this.
You obviously haven't been following his recruitment at all. FSU and ASU have always been in the mix and FSU was the top competitor with Michigan the whole way. He is great friends with Nauta and that was one of the strong points of FSU that he could play with Nauta.
You are not pointing out any real points as you are claiming, but rather, you are stating falsities and trying to pass them off as truth, when you haven't even paid attention to his recruitment.
Are you seriously unaware of the shift in this recruitment since Nauta decommited? Stick your head in the sand if you want. Answer this, has there been a shift his recruitment since yesterday? You can't be serious. Smh
No, there has not. You are obviously a 2% milk guy. Jay and Jim Harbaugh have this. He going to get Nauta and Pop now.
What type of juvenile starts off a reply with "are you stupid?"
We had a 10% loss of Crystal Balls. Go cry me a river.
I don't think it makes him afraid of competition, but it does help his chances of playing time and that's a smart move. They should look at a situation and see if it gives them the best chance of being successful. We wouldn't say that Rudock was scared of the competition at Iowa. I doubt he would've picked us if Gardner had another year of eligibility or if Morris would've been the starter last year.
I don't think it's fair to say they are afraid of competition when a player looks at a roster and picks a school with a need at his position.
It's the same thing. No one is calling him a coward or even saying it's not perfectly reasonable to want an easier path to playing time. Stop being so PC and sensitive. Harbaugh does value that ultra-competitive type which couldn't care less about who is there.
Except that Pop has said 100 times that he doesn't give an F about who he has to compete with.
Actions speak louder than words. What's he gonna say? That he wants to go where there is no competition?
How am I being pc or sensitive? Why is it a selling point to recruits when players are graduating and early playing time is available? I guess any player who falls for that is afraid of competition. So I guess every rookie free agent who looks at depth charts before choosing where to sign is afraid to compete. It makes sense to evaluate schools based on their depth chart. It happens all the time.
First of all, he has always said Michigan and FSU were his top two. So you haven't been paying attention at all. He actually said that playing with Nauta was a positive about FSU.
He wanted to play with Nauta so since Nauta decommited Michigan should be trending. Uh, not so much. Don't be obtuse, this recruitment swung 180 degrees once Nauta bolted.
Oh, we lost 10% of our Crystal Balls. Give me a break. There are months left to this recruitment and Harbaugh isn't going to throw his hands in the air and surrender like you.
That was my dating strategy in high school.
Plus...who knows what the pre-existing relationship between FSU and Uphur was...clearly they staid in communication.
Staid. There's a new one.
petty grammatical and spelling error corrections is what I enjoy the most hear. You guys really love that feeling of superiority and arrogance, huh?
"Even with Nauta committed, tight end coach Tim Brewster maintained regular contact with Philadelphia (Pa.) Imhotep Institute four-star tight end Naseir Upshur. The two have amped up communication since yesterday's news broke on Nauta.
"Every hour," Upshur said of his communication with Brewster over the past 24 hours.
...He was going to wait until October to take an official visit to FSU, when the Seminoles host Miami. But with the recent change in FSU's situation at the position, Upshur can't wait that long."
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There has been a monumental swing in Upshur's recruitment since FSU lost a TE commit. FSU has been recruiting Upshur for a long time which would make it even more obvious why the shift occurred now as opposed to last week or a month ago when FSU was recruiting Upshur.
I'm referring to the way in which he will have (presumably) gone about it, not that he chose a different school over Michigan. Jumping on the FSU train the second after Nauta decommitted and abandoning his plans to attend the BBQ/Michigan would definitely imply he wasn't a good fit at Michigan or his heart was never in coming here. It also implies he was afraid of competition with Nauta since his decommiting is the only new variable here.
More news that has come out in the last couple minutes is saying he was always planning on visiting FSU around this time and he tweeted that he was never planning on coming to the BBQ. If that's the case than I am off base with my assessments.
By a lot.
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Stay classy.