Shane Morris to wear the famed #7 jersey, J.J. McGrath #46
Per twitter. Quite a number for QBs-
Leach
Henson
Henne
And who could forget the great Spencer Brinton?
EDIT: MOAR jersey numbers per twitter. Incoming kicker J.J. McGrath will wear #46. Really great to see a large contingent of local kids coming to Michigan. Morris from DLS, McGrath from Lutheran North, Hockey's Evan Allen from Henry Ford.
Shane is going to play his freshman year. We need a backup beyond walk-ons.
Henne was the backup his freshman year. Gutierrez got injured in fall camp. By the time that he healed, Henne had won the starting role. Henne got injured during the Oregon game and was nursing that injury the rest of the year. Had he not been injured, I'm sure that Mallett would have seen playing time in the 38-0 beating over ND.
A Buckeye friend of mine (I know, but yeah) told me that Morris is not a serious threat to be a great QB at UM because he's unfocused...witness his addiction to Twitter. So for the last couple of weeks I've followed him on Twitter (he's my second follow after Jon Stewart) and I gotta say that I'm concerned because he seems to be on Twitter 24/7...posting nonsense. I've stopped following him because it was too depressing...I hope my impression of him is wrong since I kind of agree with my Buckeye friend now.
You're worried about a kid for Twittering too much. Time to take a step back, chief.
You're probably right, but it demonstrates a lack of seriousness on his part in my book. I really hope I'm wrong.
He's like 17 years old. How serious were you at that age?
Not very, but I wasn't going to be QB at UM. My summer before UM was a drink fest....I remember nothing.
Your still unattractive and quickly aging wife still working the window. ;-P
It was there. Had to take the shot. :-)
I give props to those guys for being able to keep it up in those freezers. brrrrrrr
probably 99% of the Top Whatever List guys have twitter accounts. Just be chill bro
Chillin'.... we'll see what happens. I just hope he doesn't wake up one day and wonder why he didn't work harder a la Big Will.
Man, this is the most idiotic (or ignorant) string of comments I have read in quite a while. Everyone today has a smartphone and sending a tweet takes only a few seconds. Although I think tweeting your every thought and action is stupid, most people do it, especially people with a lot of followers. Doesn't mean he isn't working hard or doing something else. I don't think Morris is wasting his life away sitting at a computer sending tweet after tweet.
But that's overblown. Recruiting doesn't take effort, focus, or persistence. Clearly, Shane Morris is a risky prospect because he tweets so much.
/s
Not only that, but he's worried about him "posting nonsense." You know, instead of posting eloquently written insights, like Twitter is famous for.
I'm serious but it's just me probably...I've looked at Twitter and can't believe it's a "thing" out there that people waste time on. Tell me that's it.
You do understand that it takes like 7 seconds to tweet, right? You could tweet 100 times a day and only spend less than 12 minutes doing it.
I don't understand it...and I really hope my OSU friend is way wrong.
We can all assume your OSU friend is way wrong, not only for the reasons you stated above.
Better friends.
But that's 12 minutes he could be studying the playbook! How dare he!!
Back when Navarre, Leach, Henson, Brady, Griese, Henne et all played QB they never spent 12 minutes a day in HS doing social activites - it was only football. Yep. Yes sir.
But I GUARANTEE none of those guys were spending all that time tweeting. You can bet Bo would never allow it!!!!!!!
I wouldn't be that worried. The kid was a 5 star recruit until mono sidelined him, and he still played some while he was still recovering. He was one of our top recruiters and was a constant presence at games last year (I shook hands with him a few times from the front row).
To me, the most important feature of a QB (other than his arm) is his competitiveness, and Shane has that in spades. Whether it is on the football field, on the recruiting trial, or leading his Land Sharks at The Opening, he always seems to be working his ass off to win.
That was my impression of him all along that he's a competitor and that will be the difference. I just have a low opinion of Twitter so when I see a guy who's about to go to UM and become a star QB and possible NFL QB I get worried that he's a slacker. Problem is that when I think back to my summer before Freshman year at UM, all I did was drink beer all day and night on Walloon Lake.
"Oh, this kid's nothing like me and likes things I don't, so he must be a slacker."
Sure, bro.
Brian Griese threw a chair through the front window of Scorekeepers. Honestly, if Shane Morris' biggest vice is that he likes to Tweet alot, I'm thrilled.
I am only worried about his accuracy and ability to look off his first option - those are his 2 major weaknesses per camps and scouting reports. (focuses too much on first option and his balls, while thrown hard, dont necessarily go to the right spot) I could care less if he tweets 150x a day. There are other kids who play fucking video games 7 hrs a day which idiots like us would never see since its not on twitter.
My gut feeling is that he will be a high risk high reward type of player. He will have you throwing a beer can at the TV one moment and then have you singing hail to the victors the next
Your friends a clown. It didnt seem to hurt Johnny Manziel.
What I find is most 15-17 year olds these days dont spend an ungodly amount of time on social media...
...at least not while playing video games.
friend's part (is he really a friend?). Look on the bright side, maybe it will keep him out of the tattoo parlors.
This sure sounds like throwing random shit against the wall and seeing what sticks.
you are so oooooooold. I hope you dont ever look at Bacari Alexander's during one of his patented tweet blitzes #HALOL. he goes HARD on his tweets, guess we should be worried about him not focusing on coaching.... oh wait we went to the championship game. #GetOffMyInterwebsOldMan