Poggi Official Visit to Bama per 247
January 26th, 2013 at 7:58 AM ^
January 25th, 2013 at 6:20 PM ^
he gone. Praising SEC and Ohio approach to recruiting. So much for Poggi family "valuing education." No Biff, you want get a pile of cash or street agents in Ann Arbor.
January 25th, 2013 at 6:21 PM ^
Does this mean we need to start offering cars, cash, and girls?
January 25th, 2013 at 6:23 PM ^
January 25th, 2013 at 6:28 PM ^
January 25th, 2013 at 6:28 PM ^
January 25th, 2013 at 6:40 PM ^
January 25th, 2013 at 6:53 PM ^
A) Dude's name is Biff
B) Is this really the type of Helicopter dad you want around your program? Craig James anyone?
C) An adult male responds to the name "Biff"
D) I didn't realize Kentucky, Tennessee, and Auburn were such juggernauts last year compared to the bottom teams of any other conference
E) Geography anyone? Most of the top players are in the south
F) Biff. LOL.
January 25th, 2013 at 7:04 PM ^
This is ridiculous.
Leave the kid's dad alone...please return to RCMB or MLive where this crap belongs.
January 25th, 2013 at 7:14 PM ^
I don't have much time to read MGoBlog anymore but with comments like these I will continue to make time to do just that. I've never laughed so hard from a comment since I started reading. This is how I picture Mr. Poggi
January 25th, 2013 at 6:20 PM ^
Game set and match.
January 25th, 2013 at 6:26 PM ^
Alright everyone, take a deep breath and think about what you're going to say before you comment. He IS STILL a Michigan commit, we do not know all of the details.
January 25th, 2013 at 6:27 PM ^
January 25th, 2013 at 6:27 PM ^
January 25th, 2013 at 6:35 PM ^
What else would you expect but a smokescreen...froma KGB sleeper agent!!!
January 25th, 2013 at 6:45 PM ^
And he was actively recruiting a couple guys at the UA All-American game. This visit seems fishy, but there has been plenty of evidence of him sticking to his M commitment.
January 25th, 2013 at 6:51 PM ^
January 25th, 2013 at 9:24 PM ^
The SEC can pay well if you're a Dad.
January 25th, 2013 at 6:30 PM ^
January 25th, 2013 at 6:30 PM ^
has 14 tweets and is following 11 people..it doesn't look very legit
January 25th, 2013 at 6:33 PM ^
January 25th, 2013 at 6:41 PM ^
I never trust an egg on Twitter.
January 25th, 2013 at 6:55 PM ^
January 25th, 2013 at 6:40 PM ^
was following Lennay Kekua on Twitter...
January 25th, 2013 at 7:50 PM ^
Made. My. Day.
January 25th, 2013 at 6:40 PM ^
January 25th, 2013 at 6:55 PM ^
To be fair, if there were a spoof/parody/imposter account about me or one of my family/friends, I'd be compelled to follow it.
January 25th, 2013 at 6:40 PM ^
That's a really spastic Twitter account.
January 25th, 2013 at 6:56 PM ^
I'm thinking he still winds up in the Maize and Blue when it's all said and done.
January 25th, 2013 at 6:56 PM ^
This is not how I wanted to start my day.
January 25th, 2013 at 7:03 PM ^
Did you just wake up?
January 25th, 2013 at 6:57 PM ^
January 25th, 2013 at 6:59 PM ^
I say this with a bit of sarcasm, but if we lose out on Green and Poggi it will indeed be another disappointing ending to a good recruiting class. For the second year in a row, what started out early as a top 3 class would slide to just a top 10 class.
Good, yes. Great, not quite.
January 25th, 2013 at 7:08 PM ^
But on the bright side, that would mean Shane is our top-ranked recruit again.
January 25th, 2013 at 8:30 PM ^
1. Our program is all of 2 years removed from the 3-year fiasco that was RR's tenure and the process that left us essentially without any real 2011 class. Ending up with a top 10 class after that is still pretty impressive.
2. Skill position stars. Sure we all would have loved a treadwell or Isaac level player. And we will be sorely disappointed if we don't land green in 19 hours and 38 minutes. But, reality check: for the past 4-5 years, these kids knew Michigan as a team on which Denard was the entire offense, RBs did virtually nothing (yes, fitz had a decent 2011, but it's not like he was a top 15 RB), and aside from a few hemmingway catches, the vertical passing game didn't exist. That's been a widely held perception of our team since these kids were in junior high school. We all made fun of MSU thinking of itself as receiver U, but in recent years, they have featured mote star wr talent than us. So, I can somewhat understand why these kids are not choosing Michigan. We need to change the perception, and I think that this will happen next year with a full year of running a more traditional offense with devin.
3. Competing with the SEC. If poggi drops us for bama, it will suck but at the same time, it is hard to blame the coaches when the sec schools have such a decided built in recruiting advantage. Put aside what I believe to be widely acknowledged improper recruiting practices, the weather is amazing, the girls are smoking hot and the schools get more ESPN love than we have seen in a decade. Being features on 2-3 gameday games a year and playing in primetime almost every week matters. Doesn't hurt that Bama has not only won a get titles recently, but their entire roster seems richer drafted on day 1 annually. Again, we can whine about the unfair advantages, the oversigning and the rest, but these things exist and will always put us at a disadvantage in recruiting.
Ultimately, I think that as hoke builds line depth, gets a somewhat more mature (upperclass) team and installs hosnfull system, we will be back to regularly going to b10 championship games, which will help recruiting, which will help us win more, which will help recruiting . . .
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January 25th, 2013 at 10:01 PM ^
January 26th, 2013 at 9:32 AM ^
Ohio State had one bad season, and prior to that they were Big Ten Champs like 6 years in a row. And that bad season was only because they had their coach leave 3 months before the season was supposed to start, the Upperclass QB didn't pan out as a Game Manager, and the Freshman QB couldn't handle it all.
So their situation isn't really comparable to ours, and of course their recruiting would pick up right where they left off
January 25th, 2013 at 7:05 PM ^
GO HOME, BIFF. YOU ARE DRUNK.
January 25th, 2013 at 7:06 PM ^
and he is still following a bunch of UM recruits. If he is decommitting he sure is going undercover to do so.
January 25th, 2013 at 7:16 PM ^
January 25th, 2013 at 7:07 PM ^
I know for certainty that Poggi (and Biff) will do one of the following:
1. Stick with his original commitment to Michigan
or
2. Pick another school
Book it!
January 25th, 2013 at 7:08 PM ^
Ha, that Twitter count is weird as hell.
January 25th, 2013 at 7:11 PM ^
January 25th, 2013 at 7:14 PM ^
That is too much common sense. You need to panic more.
January 25th, 2013 at 7:35 PM ^
January 25th, 2013 at 8:32 PM ^
"the unexamined life isn't worth living"
January 25th, 2013 at 7:15 PM ^
Not cool what Biff said about the B1G, his son Jim is still an Iowa LB. If it's really his twitter.
January 25th, 2013 at 7:20 PM ^
So Biff is talking up the SEC, implying that Ohio does it right, and telling the coaches that they're going on a business trip? Can't imagine this will end too well.
January 25th, 2013 at 7:53 PM ^
Well we have chased them off for sure if they read this thread,