Open Thread: Under Armour Game

Submitted by JDVan on

 

Under Armour All-American Game
Tonight, 8 pm, ESPN
Full Rosters

Michigan commits and targets (with jersey numbers):

Black ("Highlight") Team:
#1 CB Terry Richardson
#27 LB Joe Bolden

White ("Blur") Team:
#78 OL Josh Garnett

 

Info from an Ace post

umich_fan1

January 5th, 2012 at 9:34 PM ^

There is live chat on ESPN now with some analysts. They are getting asked over and over again about Garnett and they keep saying its looking good for Michigan.

Also, Bolden leads team with 5 tackles in the 1st half.

JackDonaghy

January 5th, 2012 at 10:05 PM ^

Deion Sanders Jr. is really the 177th best player in the country when the only school they can list him considering is Houston. Probably tells as much about ESPN's recruiting rankings as anything.

Pdeaner

January 5th, 2012 at 10:36 PM ^

If you compare the rankings with all the other sites they have UA participants ranked higher than the others.  They also rank Army game participants lower.  They also have a large amount of SEC and Texas players compared to the Army game.

TheLastHarbaugh

January 5th, 2012 at 10:53 PM ^

That might have been the most awkward nationally televised commitment of all time.

For those who didn't see, Landon Collins (SP?) annouced his commitment to Bama and his mom said, "He should go to LSU. LSU Tigers, number one!" She had this sour grapes look on her face for the duration of the interview, and when he held up a pair of Bama gloves, she held up a pair of LSU gloves.

Maizenblueball

January 6th, 2012 at 2:36 AM ^

I hate to say this, considering I was pulling hard for Bolden, Garnett, and T-Rich, but T-Rich had a really bad game.  I'm not sure he could have played worse.  I'm assuming it was just an "off night" and was trying too hard to make a play.  I watched the entire game, except for the last few minutes- so maybe he made some spectacular plays that I missed, but the first 3 and a half quarters....not pretty.  Bolden looked pretty good.  He was a little overzealous in his pursuit to the football a few times, but he does have good instincts, and reads plays very quickly.  He just needs to break himself down as he is about to tackle someone- sometimes he would run to the ball so quickly, that he was off-balance when he got there, causing him to miss a few tackles.  I guess that's why the announcer said Bolden plays like his hair is on fire.  With good coaching though, he'll be a good one.  Overall, really looking forward to Bolden as a Wolverine.  T-Rich needs to hit the weight room, because he looked TINY out there.  T-Rich did show a little speed on a return, and I know he's got talent, he just didn't have his best game tonight.

Zok

January 6th, 2012 at 11:03 AM ^

UM has no business recruiting these smurf CBs. I'd rather they just recruit ATH's with size and speed and just groom them into a CB then get a smurf.

I remember Cissoko getting burnt badly in his All Star game too. And he was a pretty filled out little guy who "played bigger than he was".

Gotta upgrade the CB talent. We need more than one good one at at time. Seems like we always just have one. it'd be nice to have 2 marlin jacksons, 2 warrens, 2 leon halls, or 2 Countess' on the field at once(in their prime)! I say Countess I mean a Jr Countess as he had some groing pains this year but held his own. He will be a good one.