Snappy Sypniewski Article
Rivals Article talks about our new LS. While the article/commentary is about what you'd expect in a glowing bio, and I'm loathe to bring up the topic again, I'm petty enough to take the opportunity to suggest that we should all relax a bit. Taking a step back, let's remember that recruting is not an exact science, and let's celebrate with a kid who, based on the article, has worked hard and seems to be the type of student-athlete we can be proud to consider a Michigan Man.
Yes, I'm still scratching my head on it, but I'm happy that we've added a bright, diligent young man, and I'm more than happy for him.
/steps off soap box
Just having someone with the nickname "Snappy Sypniewski" on our roster makes it worth the scholly as far as I'm concerned. Top notch.
one of these, posted previously by various members:
Snappy Snapperton
Seamus O'Snap
Silas McSnappy
Shmuel Snaperstein
etc.
EDIT: alternatively, maybe someone could just help me out on the correct pronunciation of "Sypniewski"
Snappy Sypniewski was one of the suggested nicknames, obviously one that has my strong support.
I think Snappy Snapperton is hilarious too.
While I like Seamus O'Snap, seeing as his real name is a slavic one, lets try something else like:
Stanislas Snapinski
I'd be totally down with "Snapinski."
Snappy Snapinski.
Done.
"Beam it back, Scotty"?
day to get him prepared to be the kid who holds the ball for kickoffs on windy days at the D1 level. In addition to his grueling physcial workout, he is pursuing a rigorous course of study in intra-stadium meterological phenomena. He has the Big House down, but he is struggling with East Lansing and Champaign.
I figure we are going to be so stacked with talent after 9 more years of Hoke recruiting that Michigan will certainly offer my kid an education worth about $295,491.09 (assuming about 5% annual increase in costs) to eliminate the lone remaining weakness in Michigan's roster.
DISCLAIMER: This post has been a misguided attempt at humor and should not be interpreted as a slight on our newest commit or our coachs' decision to offer him.
1) Bo once suggested that he was reluctant to expand his long snappers' duties and give them more playing time for fear they would get hurt. If a long snapper is valuable to Bo he's valuable to me.
2) Seems to me that more than a few on the board who are wringing their hands over this are overly concerned over our final recruiting "ranking". I don't really care. I want quality in terms of winning in the future.
I am also more concerned about the team recruited to play the field and not concerned about what some douche (possibly named Mike) over at rivals thinks of our class. Although it would be fun to be number 1 on all sites, I am just happy to see Michigan land top talent, especially in the state of Ohio!!
Not much of a headscratcher anymore and has become more commonplace at a lot of programs. Alabama just offered a longsnapper this weekend, and Michigan State stole one of our 2012 preferred walk-ons with a promise of a scholarship. I expect we will probably offer a longsnapper about every 4-5 years.
The timing makes complete sense with Jareth Glanda being a RS Senior in 2013 when Sypniewski would be freshman (most likely redshirting).
Two Deep.
Yeah. If he can't, you send out an offer to Snappy in November, when such things make more sense.
Maybe they were worried that some other top program would offer. I think it is hard tell a LS to hold off on another offer because we may offer him in five months if somebody else doesn't work out. Then you are stuck trying to get the kid to switch a committment when you show up in the fall with an offer.
There is always going to be a need for more than one longsnapper on the roster (a walkon most likely). It is pure speculation on the talent level of the 2012 walkon and the coaches expected role for him.
I think you also leave out that being a preferred walkon also gets you admission to the university which is not always a given and a benefit for many.
Now if we could somehow land Crackle Cramerstein and Pop Petrovic, we'd really have something special!
Neglected to post this earlier, but when Andy Reid interviewed for the Eagles years ago he spent the entire time talking through big binders of data showing the importance of long snappers. The owner (Jeffrey Lurie) indicated that this attention to detail is what got him the job. (trying to post a link, getting spam blocked, long time reader, first time poster, etc)
Now if only the Eagles had hired a two-minute drill timeout coordinator I, as a UM and Philly fan, might have been able to celebrate a national title AND a Super Bowl win in my lifetime....
For the love of God can we stop posting these threads where the entire point of the thread is "everybody calm down about our longsnapper"?
An article about Scott Sypniewski is cool; all that other crap after you posted the link is really, really annoying. We get it: some people are upset we offered a LS in June.
If you're one of them and need to console yourself, posting a new thread about how Alabama offered a longsnapper or how a rivals fluff article makes you feel better is the wrong next step. The appropriate next step is to stop complaining about it.
I know it's slow right now but jeebus, guys.
I don't disagree to an extent. I think it's worthwhile, however, to take a step back and just feel happy for the young man and to lighten up a little. My message is to relax. I suggest that's a message you might want to hear.
I still think we should have offered a walk on the opportunity.
"Full scholarships aren't given to many specialists like long snappers very often. This shows that Michigan is very serious about their special teams and went after one of the best in the nation at his position,"
This is probably the takeaway statement in a way. The trend in offering long snappers in general has been discussed here at length, of course, so there's no need to go further into that, but it is because there is a growing emphasis on technically proficient special teams play and securing personnel that will aid in that effort. As has been mentioned, many teams in FBS want the deep snap in under a second.
If the team is as serious about this as they are about being proficient in the other phases of the game, then I see where this coaching staff might want to occasionally (i.e. once every few years) offer a scholarship to someone who is strictly a special teams player like this because it makes those units potentially that much better when they are out there.
If you feel that you have room and can do so, there's no real compelling reason not to at least consider offering at positions not traditionally filled by scholarship players. We all know that lack of proficiency at this position could spell disaster on field goals and punts, even if everyone else out on the field is excellent.
As one former Wolverine noted recently, whoever wins the long snapping job is always on scholarship
I actually thought that was the takeaway line, i.e. a good long snapper was never taken for granted. The only thing that seems to be changing is that to attract top talent for the competition now you need to offer a scholarship up front
Perfect nickname.
complaining that we had too many walk-ons in the 2 deep. Now we have many complaining about giving out scholarships to kids who are rated #2 in the nation at their position.
Situation normal, here at MGoBlog.
i hope people realize that they will completely forget about all of this the day after signing day.