New Rivals 100
Sharrif Floyd and Kyle Prater earn their 5th stars. Latwan Anderson is #35 and Cullen Christian moves all the way up from a 3* to #60....now if he would just commit already!
http://rivals100.rivals.com/viewrank.asp?SID=880&Year=2010&ra_key=2369
Would anyone prefer he rise in the rankings and suck at the camps?
Recruiting is all about aesthetics. And rubbing it in your rivals(no pun) faces. For instance, Brett Gallimore sucked more dick than any Michigan commit ever. HOWEVA, he was a top 100 player on rivals - which allowed me to brag about him for a couple years before it was time to accept that he sucked.
Recruiting is a numbers game. I want to see everyone with a 4-star and a 6.0 next to their name. I don't give a shit if they do nothing at Michigan - it's all about what we think before they play a down.
MGoBlog has enough clout that Brian should be able to create his own recruiting lists and heavily favor M commits.
Best. Question. Ever.
Fuck. Shit. Up.
I bet he drops to 3 stars because that's all RR can recruit.
Most of the player's tag-lines are descriptions with stats, then this for #91.
"The top prospect in Tennessee sports a 3.8 GPA."
Best Edukation ever!
He's a Rhodes Scholar. I think it worked out pretty well.
He's a smart kid he could have and should have done better than FSU.
FSU=Joke of an educational institution
And yes I am still bitter that he chose FSU for it's great academics over such other schools as Michigan and Florida. If he had picked Florida it wouldn't be a big deal but it's like the kid being the #1 recruit in the country saying "I want to go to the NFL and be a big time player in College Football" and then settling on BGSU.
You're way off, FYI. At no point did he say "I intend on going to the highest ranked college in the NCAA according to US News & World Report." He wanted to go somewhere that would both challenge him academically and prepare him for the NFL.
He is now a Rhodes Scholar and is projected to go in the first round of the NFL draft next year. Looks like the joke's on you.
And if you did a combination of the two Academics+athletics... FSU at that time was hardly at the top.
FSU hasn't been a huge power in football for a while and academically is a (pardon my french) complete shithole. If he had gone to the "best of both worlds" school he would have gone to Florida top 15 program in football and top 40 school or Michigan Top 25 program in football and top 25 school. But no he chose to go to FSU which is a Top 25 program in football (at best now) and a bottom 25 school in the nation (as far as D-1 programs go)
So yes I still do question his decision to go to FSU. Now if he really meant "I want to go to a good football school and a college that will not challenge me so that I can get sweet grades then yes he probably picked the best college.
And how is the joke on me I know that he's a Rhodes Scholar and is going to Oxford (I think) and is delaying going to the NFL...
Because you think his decision was poor, yet he accomplished exactly what he wanted to. Just because Florida is ranked in the top 40 (unconfirmed by me, FYI) doesn't mean that they are as good as FSU in terms of academics among athletes, or in his particular program. But goddamn don't you know everything?
I'm calling bullshit on FSU being in the bottom 25 of all D1 football schools. For these purposes, I'll assume you meant FBS, since LOTS of FCS schools are ranked below FSU.
Here are FBS schools (certainly not exhaustive) ranked below FSU.
Oklahoma
Oregon
South Carolina
Tennessee
BYU
TCU
Ohio University
Kentucky
Washington State
Arizona State
South Florida
Colorado State
Arkansas
Utah
Kansas State
LSU
Cincinnati
Louisville
Mississippi
Miss St
Oklahoma State
Oregon State
Temple
Texas Tech
West Virginia
I stopped at 25, and I was about halfway through tier 3 out of 4 according to US News. I also skipped over nearly all the non-BCS schools.
FSU is #102
Alabama is #83
Auburn is #96
Thug U is #51
OSU (the worst school in the Big Ten(11) is #55)
UGA is #58
And all of these schools provide better football and education than FSU... Wow... That was hard.
If you really think that FSU is such a great school.... Well I'm sorry but there is no help for you because the school blows.
Just to prove to you that you are either retarded or just really bad at reading lists, OSU is certainly not the lowest ranked school in the Big Ten (as much as we'd like to think so).
55 - OSU
61 - Minnesota
66(tie)- Purdue
66(tie)- Iowa
71(tie)- Indiana
71(tie)- Michigan State
Ohio State is very much in the middle of the Big Ten, in fact they are the median school.
But everyone says that OSU is the worst school in the Big Ten and yes I did see that. I decided to put common perceptions of schools and also none of those schools are good at football.
And is there really that much difference between the 55th and 71st... not really..
I'm retarded... Yeah I just graduated from Michigan in Engineering.... Yeah I'm an idiot.. Engineers can't read/do statistics/look at data...
You can take those 750 mgopoints and shove them up your ass
Then try... you know... reading... and looking at data and lists and stuff. Do they teach students in the engineering program LOGIC? Because that is another deficit that you forgot to mention.
You may have just graduated from UM in engineering but you might want to go to the Everest Institute for some help with your reading comprehension.
winner winner chicken dinner
Ha I knew he was going to say he was a Michigan graduate. Pretty sad that fellow alumni think that other schools are inferior and are incapable of providing an good education. Getting an education from Michigan is nice, but there plenty of other ways to get an solid education and build a successful career.
Hey engineer, 55>71? A course in remedial counting is also in order.
Lording your Michigan degree as a sign of intellectual superiority is idiotic. Lording it over a forum comprised of people who have the same fucking degree as you is something entirely more pathetic.
I know that most people here have Michigan degrees I wasn't trying to "lord" my Michigan degree as a sign of intellectual superiority. I was just trying to say
"I'm not a fucking idiot". But no I'm on the same level as Bluefront and McFarlin I should go and play in traffic
Having a Michigan degree does not mean you're intelligent.
So yeah when you guys went to personal attacks on me that's when I get pissed off. You have no idea about me, what my intelligence level is or what I do for a living.
Just because I have an opinion on something doesn't mean that I should get castrated by the community like this.... This is ridiculous.
I believe you're referring to my post, and I never said that are retarded. I said that you are either retarded or bad at reading lists. You could have said "yeah, I must have read that list wrong" and you would have satisfied one of the criteria. Instead, you jumped right on the retarded option like you wanted it.
I did not say you are retarded, nor did I say you are retarded AND bad at reading lists. My comment implied you were only one of the two.
Example: If you said to me, WolvinLA, you are either retarded or brunette, I wouldn't be offended.
You're either retarded or double retarded!
jk jk
but srsly...
When your opinion is stupid, people tend to call you stupid.
Lording your Michigan degree as a sign of intellectual superiority is idiotic. Lording it over a forum comprised of people who have the same fucking degree as you is something entirely more pathetic.
lolz u posted 2x
There was obviously a mistake at the Registrar's Office.
P.S. - I'm sorry Rolle turned out to be more successful than you. I know it hurts. Time heals all wounds.
engineer huh? take a wild guess as to how many posters here are engineers. i'll give you a hint: it's a lot. and we all manage to post (relatively) coherent, rational thoughts
See if you can find the relationship between your point total and the number of times you've posted on this thread.
Do you really think that winning the Rhodes Scholarship is based merely on "getting sweet grades"?? You do realize what winning one of those entails, right?
I just like to talk shit. Getting a Rhodes scholar is like getting a high school diploma anybody can do it. (turn on your sarcasm meter)
Nevermind... everything you write is demonstrably false, so why bother.
No. He doesn't. He really thinks that the Rhodes Scholarship people are only looking at his "sweet grades" and not reading his papers, doing personal interviews, etc. And that's why he is an idiot.
I don't have the link, but Rolle has said that Florida State actually sold him on their academics by coming up with a detailed plan specifically tailored to him.
I don't have proof of this so just take it from my Uncle who never lies and is a high school football coach
You are treading in dangerous waters, my friend. Rolle liked FSU better than Michigan. Deal with it. FSU offered him everything that he needed to accomplish his goals. It is ass-backwards to claim that he made the wrong choice when things have worked out so well for him.
But it just goes to show you that when a recruit says something like that that it means absolutely nothing.
Unless, of course, they actually mean it, like Rolle did, and go out and achieve exactly what they hope to, like Rolle did.
No one is going to disagree with you that recruits are not always to be trusted, but Rolle is basically the worst example of that fact that you could use. William Campbell is a good one. Use him next time
For being FSU's first Rhode Scholar (and probably last). I'll say it again. FSU IS A SHITTY SCHOOL. Going there for Myron Rolle is like a Devin Gardner going to a school for the blind and deaf and trying out for the football team. He's an all-star comparatively just like Rolle is an all-star academically at FSU.
It's a joke.
1) He is not their first Rhodes Scholar
2) If all your argument boils down to is "FSU suckz!!!," then there is no point in talking to you. Have fun being super bitter
"last"
http://www.fsu.edu/indexTOFStory.html?lead.rhodes-oshea
Oops. Guess you're still talking out your ass.
Since I'll assume you have trouble reading, he's actually the 4th and 2nd student-athlete to get one.
I thought you had to be an athlete to be considered...
Edit: As per Wikipedia one of the four standards by which a candidate is judged is energy to use one's talents to the full, as exemplified by fondness for and success in sports.
So I guess you don't have to be an athlete, I don't think Bill Clinton was, but it's probably a big help.
Is just about the dumbest fucking thing I've ever read. Oh my shit.
Unbelievable. I don't like calling names, but you're one of the dumbest posters on here, after today. Myron Rolle is the 4th (FOURTH) student to receive a Rhodes Scholarship from FSU, and the third since 2005.
Wait, WHAT??? AT A SHITTY SCHOOL????
EDIT: Wow, you guys really beat me to it.
"and the third since 2005"
Which is 2 more than Michigan during that time....
Ummmmm.......