Shaun Crawford to announce commitment on the 23rd.
Per TomVH:
2015 DB Shaun Crawford (Cleveland, Ohio) will be making his announcement on August 23, which will be broadcast live on ESPN.
— Tom VanHaaren (@TomVH) August 14, 2013
It'd be really surpising if he picked anywhere but Michigan, as he's considered a heavy Michigan lean.
August 14th, 2013 at 4:18 PM ^
August 14th, 2013 at 4:34 PM ^
Out of curiousity, did he have no interest in Ohio, or did they not have any interest in him?
OSU is not even listed on his page.
Someone above called this a dong punch to Ohio, but clearly if they had no interest it is not a dong punch. Is it?
August 14th, 2013 at 4:37 PM ^
but they no he is a MICHIGAN LOCK. They will say they had no interest though.
August 14th, 2013 at 4:42 PM ^
August 14th, 2013 at 8:26 PM ^
The dong punch line looks to be about Lattimore choosing M, not Crawford.
August 14th, 2013 at 4:35 PM ^
August 14th, 2013 at 4:35 PM ^
book it. Brady Hoke and the Michigan coaching staff are taking who the want!
August 14th, 2013 at 4:39 PM ^
so the real question becomes what class finishes first '14 or '15?
August 14th, 2013 at 5:44 PM ^
According to 247Sports, both Greg Mattison and Curt Mallory are on the case when it comes to getting Shawn Crawford into the Michigan fold potentially.
The only other offers listed as "Warm" (ours is "Warmer") are Tennessee, Kentucky and Notre Dame, so it is difficult to see any of those suddenly being the favorite. His offer list is Big Ten heavy - Northwestern, Penn State, Michigan State, Iowa, Illinois and Indiana are among those listed.
August 14th, 2013 at 8:35 PM ^
There is no offer from Notre Dame though.
August 14th, 2013 at 9:05 PM ^
Thanks sparty.
August 14th, 2013 at 6:40 PM ^
August 14th, 2013 at 8:33 PM ^
Not making a judgement, but just found it interesting he is much smaller than the CBs Michigan has been targeting at 5'8" per 24/7...5'9" on some other sites (throw in a cass tech CB joke here). I realize he is 16 or what not and could grow an inch or three but interesting nonetheless. Nice solid 4 starish offer sheet with names outside the Big 10 including Florida State, West Virginia, Arkansas, Tenn, Kentucky, and Miami.
August 14th, 2013 at 9:07 PM ^
Stop pretending sparty.
August 14th, 2013 at 11:24 PM ^
Don't get your panties in a bunch just because I stated a CA HS QB might find Stanford more appealing than Michigan (which he does). I have 600 posts over a year and a half and quite a few are not the "slappy kind" who parrots the company line. That is my nature. Some are happy happy go lucky Michigan stuff, others are realistic. Feel free to go read through them.
To outline reasons why a Josh Rosen is not interested in Michigan is commentary... not a "SPARTY". I also posted a few times that Michigan has not gotten many high end players out of the Cass Tech pipeline. Those are realities. Sorry if it offends your sensibilities - I see now why Magnus has his haters, if you say ANYTHING that is not seen as complete and utter love and blind adoration for everything you get pushback from those who live in maize glass houses. Class of 96 LSA, lived in Alice Lloyd on the hill for 2 years, then lived near corner of State/Hill for another 2 by the way - not that you need to be an alum to be a fan. Enjoy your hate mustache man.
p.s. just for morbid curiousity I opened up your profile page to see what sort of commentary you make - I see a lot of one line comments full of swear words and accustations of people being closet buckeye fans so I see it's a pattern. Now that I did that, I feel dumb for wasting my time on you.
August 14th, 2013 at 11:43 PM ^
Height might be Crawford's biggest drawback, but like you said he might grow some more.
More importantly, the kid is more filled out than Terry Richardson or even Joudan Lewis were in high school. He is a willing hitter and can play against the run and pass. So add that to his track speed and good production as a sophomore, and he's a nice looking recruit.
August 15th, 2013 at 12:10 PM ^
Yep. And I think Michigan is going to take just about any top 15 kid out of Ohio who has a love for Michigan. :) With the taller CBs they emphasize having 1 or 2 shorter ones is fine versus have mostly the shorter ones with 1-2 tall ones thrown in. Plus this kid (or any CB) is going to have PLENTY of practice going up against very tall WRs in practice for the next 4-5 years.
August 15th, 2013 at 8:51 AM ^
August 15th, 2013 at 12:13 PM ^
I actually lived in an all guys floor (floors above and below were all girls) the rest of Lloyd was mixed on each floor at the time, no idea how they do it now. No, the reason was I wanted to meet more people since I had been exposed to a lot of people the first year and enjoyed it. I came up to school with a small group from HS (2 who lived next room to me) but I ended up really expanding my circle of people, esp from the east coast so I thought it would be fun to do again. But by middle of sophmore year I had wished I had moved out as the "kids were loud" and not getting to sleep until 3 am due to noise in the hall was annoying me lol. And my application to live in Stockwell (all girl dorm at the time) was denied for some odd reason. ;)
August 16th, 2013 at 3:45 PM ^
Live in a dorm two years?
August 16th, 2013 at 5:09 PM ^
Not when I was there - I am sure the dorms are much nicer now. The dorms not on north campus were dumps back then. About 80% moved out of dorms after frosh year back then, maybe 20% stayed. Could have been 90/10% or something like that but it was over 3/4 that moved out their sophomore year.
August 18th, 2013 at 12:43 AM ^
August 14th, 2013 at 8:40 PM ^
August 14th, 2013 at 11:21 PM ^
Agreed, but aside from Lewis they seem to be going towards an ideal of length on the team at just about every position. That said its a highly ranked kid plucked out of Ohio who loves Michigan so it makes sense, and it would be nice to have 2-3 extra inches in the next 2 years if he can manage it. ;)
August 15th, 2013 at 3:14 AM ^
August 15th, 2013 at 12:50 PM ^
About the same size as Antoine Winfield, probably the greatest Buckeye defensive player I've ever seen.