Recruiting 2008: Who Decommited?
January 31st, 2010 at 12:34 PM ^
John Wienke, pro-style QB from Illinois. He immediately decommitted from M and committed to Iowa. He was their 3rd string QB this season.
Edit: Forgot he was from Illinois, not Iowa.
January 31st, 2010 at 12:31 PM ^
I thought he either went to or was from Iowa.
January 31st, 2010 at 12:36 PM ^
RB/FB/TE Christian Wilson ended up at North Carolina, because RichRod stopped recruiting him.
QB John Wienke ended up at Iowa because he didn't think he fit our system.
January 31st, 2010 at 12:38 PM ^
IIRC, the coaches honored Wilson's scholarship, but told him that he had to play linebacker.
January 31st, 2010 at 12:41 PM ^
According to Magnus' site, RR continued to recruit him as a linebacker. Wilson wanted to play offense. Thus they both parted ways.
http://touchthebanner.blogspot.com/2010/01/what-could-have-been-christi…
January 31st, 2010 at 12:56 PM ^
marcus witherspoon never made it to Michigan and landed at rutgers and taylor hill transferred after one game to ohio.
January 31st, 2010 at 1:02 PM ^
IIRC, Witherspoon never qualified and did what Drake did (Drake just did it much earlier); I think Hill was on campus for less than a week then left
January 31st, 2010 at 1:11 PM ^
Witherspoon showed up on campus for fall camp, but then the coaches told him that he never made it through admissions.
January 31st, 2010 at 1:07 PM ^
UM had a greyshirt qb commit from someone in-state who switched over to MSU
January 31st, 2010 at 1:09 PM ^
I don't think that's true, but I could be wrong.
January 31st, 2010 at 1:15 PM ^
am i thinking 2009 and not 2008? is that the problem, that the OP is referring to 2 years ago and not last year?
yah. 2009 was Casey Blackport. i got the entire intent of this post wrong
January 31st, 2010 at 1:47 PM ^
Michigan wanted him to come in as a preferred walk-on, but he decided that MSU fit his talents better, and walked on there.
January 31st, 2010 at 5:23 PM ^
I saw him play in high school; throughly unspectacular as I remember.
January 31st, 2010 at 1:11 PM ^
Will Campbell decommitted because he was 100 Delta Sky Miles away from getting a free shower radio. And he may or may not be addicted to SkyMall per Rivals ($).
January 31st, 2010 at 1:11 PM ^
Campbell was in the class of 2009.
January 31st, 2010 at 1:16 PM ^
yah i got the intent of the draft class wrong. had assumed the OP meant last year
February 1st, 2010 at 12:03 PM ^
Didn't Boubacar decommit having wandering eyes for Penn State then decided to reaffirm his commitment to UM?
February 1st, 2010 at 12:20 PM ^
Cissoko never decommitted. He talked about visiting elsewhere - particularly Illinois - but nothing ever materialized. He was a Michigan commit throughout the entire process.