New offer for O'Brien
I was actually shadowing Danny at school yesterday. He was in Religion class when the office called him down. Waiting for him in the office was Bobby Williams, Alabama's LB ? Coach. They talked about the scheme and Bama's depth chart. He then set up a time for Danny to call Saban around 2 pm. He called and that's when Saban extended a scholarship offer to him. Obviously he is very excited and wants to visit either later in the spring or early fall. He said UT may be his #1 but doesn't want everyone to think he's a lock. You have to be an insider for the Scout and Rivals artcicles.
EDIT: Forgot to mention, Saban said they only have 3 DT's on their roster, and 2 of them are SR's which he liked.
http://michiganpreps.rivals.com/barrier_noentry.asp?ReturnTo=&sid=&scri…
http://recruiting.scout.com/a.z?s=73&p=2&c=1067452&ssf=1&RequestedURL=h…
i hereby declare Ppowers17's post to be informative!
April 27th, 2011 at 10:05 AM ^
Weird, I am not able to vote on your or Magnus's comments after I made a comment.
Pics or it didn't happen.
April 27th, 2011 at 10:06 AM ^
Danny Obrien.
April 27th, 2011 at 10:03 AM ^
i think Sunseri is the LB coach. I may be wrong. For the knowledgeable, how does O'Brien compare to Pipkins, Godin, Day or other guys who are in the picture with Michigan. Thanks.
April 27th, 2011 at 10:08 AM ^
O'Brien could be a real disruptive player. He seems like he would play the 1 tech a la Martin. Day and O'Brien are the two that I would prefer at DT (ones which I believe we have the best and most realistic shot at).
April 27th, 2011 at 10:36 AM ^
I remember hearing that he was in A2 a while back but didn't hear anything else on him. Both he and Godin didn't come to the spring game. And you hear nothing about him, almost seems like he is a silent to Tenn.
April 27th, 2011 at 10:04 AM ^
This is one of the more intruging prospects in this class in regards to Michigan. It would be a shame for him and Richardson to go out of state. It seems like they are battles that will not be won by this staff. Hopefully some of the instate commits will get in their respective ears and sway them our way.
April 27th, 2011 at 10:11 AM ^
But we have some pretty good options at cb and dt at this point. That being said i hope we are able to land ross.
April 27th, 2011 at 10:26 AM ^
I am with you on that. To have 3 of the top LBs coming in next year would help in the recruitment of a lot of other players and I'm sure the staff would exploit that. In the most respectful way of course.
April 27th, 2011 at 10:14 AM ^
FYI - I moderated your post as "Flamebait" just because it seemed like a fun thing to do since I do not know what "Flamebait" actually means. I decided to test it on you because we've had some fun battles in the past. I assume its bad rating because your score went to zero so I apologize for that.
April 27th, 2011 at 10:19 AM ^
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April 27th, 2011 at 10:21 AM ^
No worries. The new system still needs to be tinkered with to some degree but I like how the comments that are deemed as flamebait (or some other negative adjective) collapse down so they don't clog up the conversation.
April 27th, 2011 at 10:58 AM ^
I didn't realize the comments collapse down. My bad. Thanks to you and Mich Faithful for educating me!
April 27th, 2011 at 10:05 AM ^
"So What... Who Cares?" He's a lock to MSU, they own in-state recruiting.
April 27th, 2011 at 10:08 AM ^
Not quite but he is going to their spring game this weekend he mentioned.
April 27th, 2011 at 10:05 AM ^
Thanks for the update; congrats to Dannny on a big offer. Did Danny happen to mention why UT leads for him? They haven't exactly been the toast of the SEC lately.
April 27th, 2011 at 10:09 AM ^
He said he loves the atmosphere down there, and also said he loves Dooley. He thinks he is gonna get the job done there.
April 27th, 2011 at 11:41 AM ^
Okay, Dooley is the bizarro Les Miles. If that isn't reason enough to stay away, I don't know what is. Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory doesn't seem like it would be too fun.
April 27th, 2011 at 10:43 AM ^
they do look great, but man that orange will always be awful
but I heard it is flame retardant.
April 27th, 2011 at 10:19 AM ^
Flint Powers is the Auburn of the Flint/ Genesee county area. If your from the area you know how it is.
April 27th, 2011 at 10:27 AM ^
Besides the 1-8 year in football last year, they have brought in a new coach who means business. But yes, perennial powerhouse usually in basketball, golf, lacrosse, hockey and recently football.
April 27th, 2011 at 10:59 AM ^
I was talking about the paying to win championships. I don't know about perennial powerhouse, but they're usually very good.
April 27th, 2011 at 11:03 AM ^
And by paying to win championships I mean paying part/all the tuition to get the kids to go to Powers.
April 27th, 2011 at 11:13 AM ^
at his point?
April 27th, 2011 at 11:18 AM ^
this moderate button is way too fun. really killing my motivation to study for my last final of my college career. now thats power
April 27th, 2011 at 11:50 AM ^
I thought that off-campus, in-person contact by a coach is not allowed during this time period. Does this only apply to contact by a head coach? Does anyone have a grasp of the recruiting rules?
April 27th, 2011 at 12:57 PM ^
He's gone, Michigan's going to need to win consistently for a few years in order to start putting a fence up. As it is, who can blame a guy for wanting to play in nice weather for a recent national champion. Besides I'd rather celebrate the kids who want to come here than stress about the ones who don't.
Just a quick question, are you in 8th grade? I only ask because I know 8th graders visit Powers and shadow kids for a day and can't think of any other non-creepy way to shadow a high-school kid, though I'm sure there is one.
I was wondering what the meant exactly. I also find it interesting that he was able to shadow him while he met with the bama coaches.
I wonder how much of an affect having Godin potentially commit to us will have on O'Brien. Because as of right now, I think were a long shot. Which, I don't understand, I mean does he realize we now have the former Defensive cordinator of the Ravens in Mattison, Brady Hoke who specializes on the DL and a young, enthusiatic defensive line coach in Montgomery....thats seems to be a recipe for success for any defensive linemen imo and would certainly be a very attractive option. But yet, I hardly hear anything out of the O'Brien camp about Michigan. Maybe it comes down to were just not recruiting him that hard anymore?
For some reason this thread is setting off my Avast virus detector. Must be the flamebait.
Is it at all possible that O'brien and not Godin is the silent commit????
I'm gunna say NO.
want him at Michigan. Go Blue!!!!!!
Go Blue