OSU no longer recruiting Derrick Green
Which I hope we are not taking part in.
Also, 4 year scholarships indicate the answer to your question is no
No. Just No. THIS IS MICHIGAN FERGODSAKES!!!
Let him come eat some BBQ I hope texas style and see what he missed out on,
Huh?
Like this quote from Green;
“I think they had one scholarship left or something like that and they took a receiver (Taivon Jacobs) instead of waiting on me and not getting me.”
Maybe the Buckeyes pulling his offer rubs him the wrong way a bit, he wants to show them they were wrong, and Michigan moves up his board.
How many spots does OSU have? I think they currently have 15 commits; did they eat up all of their slots with oversigning the 2012 class?
We are expected to take 4-5 more. And with you guys having only 20-21 current openings, but possibly 25 in a class, I wouldn't say OSU has done anything different with roster "oversigning".
The more playmakers in the class the better, and I would like to see another well regarded RB to add to the class.
I'm not overly concerned about the scholarship numbers. It doesn't look like the coaching staff are going way over 85, and there is always attrition (whether through voluntary transfers or for medical reasons). If the offered scholarships would push the team to 95, then I would be nervous and wonder where the space will come from. However, I think it is safe to assume that there will be three to four players that we don't expect to transfer or be forced to quit football because of injury. Also, I wouldn't be surprised if one of the current commits wants to go elsewhere by LOI day. They're 17-18 year olds after all.
Side note here in Cali Is that Silis Redd is gonna decide in a day or two on whether to come to USC ....he is gone IMO
Pretty sure nobodys "losing patience". Its July dude
Hoke is going to close the deal this weekend. 3 days in ann arbor and not commiting, that would be a negative.
How is it spin when we turned him away? Was it spin when Hoke turned Anzalone away?
I don't give a shit about spin, but I think it's possible Meyer gave Green an ultimatum, similar to what he did with Brionte Dunn, and Meyer was rebuffed, leading OSU into another direction. Just the nature of recruiting,
Deveon Smith looks like a much better runner to me as well. Derrick Green doesn't do much in the way of running over/breaking through tacklers for a 230 lb. high school kid. He just kind of runs until some form of an obstacle appears in his way and that concludes the play. I'd rather wait and get a shiftier guy in the coming years. You can get any running back to go as far as their blockers will take them, you need a guy who can make something happen once in a while on top of that.
This one baffled me. Kid seems to want to come to OSU (tho not enough to commit quite yet, which may be the telling tale in itself), grew up an OSU fan, is the #1 RB, we have a spot for him and then we tell him "Thanks, but no thanks" all of the sudden? I mean, we need a lot of offensive talent, but RB we are pretty solid, so that's my only explanation is that Urban wants another WR more than he wants the #1 RB. I wish the kid the best of luck. And if he commits to UofM this weekend, I'm totally claiming it was out of spite. (I'm just kidding there if it wasn't clear).
are saying he is on the verge of committing to them. TIFWIW.
Let's hypothetically say that Green commits to us, where does this leave Shallman and Smith? Smith is similar as a player to Green, just not as good according to the recruiting sites. Shallman is being brought in as a bruiser, but Green is supposed to be able to do that too. Shallman can play Dline (where I think he ends up) or fullback, but Smith would get buried behind Green.
And actually find out who the better player is, rather than leaving it up to some recruiting service guys to tell them who's better.
And right now wouldn't you love to have a proven talent behind Fitz?