ryebreadboy

April 27th, 2011 at 11:48 PM ^

Guys, guys, Dantonio is just ring selective. Their recent success on the field has enabled him to carefully pick and choose the players best suited for their team. He doesn't consider such ridiculous things as star rankings. He doesn't even know what Rivals is. He picks his players directly out of the Michigan court records. "Felonious assault? We got us a linebacker!"

dahblue

April 28th, 2011 at 1:23 AM ^

Not so fast, my friend...

Prison leagues don't allow their recruits to publicly announce commitments.  Word from CB4 is that Coach Dantonio (aka "The Warden") has a slate of 5-shank (they use "shanks" instead of stars in the Prison League) athletes who've given silent commitments. 

rbgoblue

April 27th, 2011 at 10:59 PM ^

Someone on 247 posted that Godin was considering pushing back his announcement.  He later said that Godin had re-decided to announce on May 12 as scheduled.  If that was what Tom VH was referring to, I think that points to Dantonio as the obvious candidate.

Belisarius

April 27th, 2011 at 11:03 PM ^

If you're right about Godin, I wouldn't rule out Bielema. He's also kind of an...unpleasant individual, although I'm unsure if that transcends ordering vicious assaults on field. But Wisonsin is also in Godin's top three, and they've had a lot of success in recent history. I believe Godin was also planning on visiting or cheese-eating brethren in the future (if I remember correctly). 

Section 1

April 28th, 2011 at 12:17 PM ^

OSU is the one school, that we know from a first-hand eyewitness, was NOT negative-recruiting.

It wasn't all that long ago, that former Head Coach Rich Rich Rodriguez gave this interview, specifically exonerating OSU, within his knowledge, as a negative-recruiting team:

http://detnews.com/article/20110310/SPORTS0201/103100446/Rich-Rodriguez--OSU-didn’t-recruit-negatively-against-U-M--but-others-did

What is still interesting to me was that Coach Rod suggested that everyone would hear, "soon," about some of the details on negative recruiting.  I suppose that he might be talking about John U. Bacon's book.  Or perhaps something else.  Perhaps Tom VH knows.  Perhaps Tom knows about more, newer, evidence since Bacon's manuscript has gone to the publisher.  Maybe another source altogether.

Section 1

April 28th, 2011 at 1:42 PM ^

Better yet; if it was in the Free Press, written by Roesenberg and Snyder together, with nothing but anonymous sources cited, and with nothing else -- no other on-the-record sources, no other information, documents, et cetera -- would you trust that?

FreddieMercuryHayes

April 27th, 2011 at 10:22 PM ^

The sky is blue.  Also Hope is a douche.  As well as Dantonio.  And Pelini is mean.  And JoePa is old.  And Zook is an idiot.  And Tressel is a liar.  And Kill...well he's got a cool name.

Section 1

April 27th, 2011 at 11:18 PM ^

I'd just like to know who, what, where.

I have had zero doubt whatsoever that negative recruting is alive and well ever since Coach Rodriguez mentioned it.

But what I still don't understand is why this story would be so hard to report.   Recruiting involves lots of guys, talking to lots of other guys, and in the end there is one "coupling" (coach/recruiter and player) and a dozen or so jilted suitors.  One would think that somebody would talk, with all of those breakups.

I'm really curious about this.  Why doesn't negative recruiting get outed, on a daily basis?

fatbastard

April 27th, 2011 at 10:26 PM ^

recruiting Dunn today at school, right.  If he was "negative recruiting", by telling him he wouldn't be playing for Tressel if he went to OSU, then I've got no problem with it.  Guy is good as gone.  Actually, OSU's best case scenario is that he is gone, cause if they can somehow keep him, and do, they won't be playing in a bowl game for at least 2 or 3 years.

Mr Mackey

April 27th, 2011 at 10:27 PM ^

Not to be naive or anything, but is it necessarily such a bad thing to do negative recruiting? I mean, would it be awful for Mattison to meet with Dunn and say something like, "You never know what will happen to OSU down the road, with coaches and sanctions etc. Sooooo... come to Michigan" ?