TomVH: A couple Recruiting Updates
- I talked to FL TE Jeff Heuerman recently about Michigan. Jeff's dad was an Academic All American on the Michigan basketball team back in the day. He actually grew up around Ann Arbor, and played hockey there as well, so he's familiar with the campus and environment.
There has been reports that Heuerman is concerned with the status of the program, but otherwise is very high on Michigan. He repeatedly denied this, and said he has no concern with the program whatsoever. His only concern is how he, as a tight end, would fit into the offense.
He hasn't received an offer yet, but the coaches have told them they're very close, and it will probably come soon. The highlight of his year came on a 97 yard TD catch.
- FL DE Anthony Chickillo tells me that he has around 42 offers, so far. He says he doesn't really have a top list yet, and I have to believe that's somewhat true, with that many offers. Chickillo has offers from all the top schools, including Michigan. He's not sure if he'll be visiting any time soon, because it gets expensive. He did say that Michigan would be one of the schools we would consider taking an official visit to.
The only film he has online is his Rivals page, so here's that. It's worth watching:
http://rivals.yahoo.com/michigan/football/recruiting/player-Anthony-Chi…
has his priorities right.
On such a big sports day, he still finds the time to dig deep and deliver the nuggets that we crave!
caption. But that picture is huge.
Lets say you have no bias going into the decision process, that has to be a hard thing to narrow down. About how many recruits a year get that many offers? That just seems like a lot to me. Especially with only a handful of official visits.
Most 5 stars get that many and a majority of the 4 stars do too.
And I'm sure it's not harder than trying to figure out which college to go to from the huge array of different choices.
Yeah thats what you can expect numbers wise. Being from a state that puts out a ton of football players, coupled with him being a national recruit gets you noticed and offers. Its also likely that all 42 of those offers did not come from D1 level schools.
Wayne Lyons is another with around 45 offers, he is also from Florida and top 3 at his position, so its not an unprecedented number of offers received.
Its also likely that all 42 of those offers did not come from D1 level schools.I do not think you mean what this says.
yeah it should have been D1a, I think I deleted it by mistake
as one of the interested schools on that link u gave. interesting that rivals should miss something like that. glad to see michigan getting a foothold in the talent rich state of florida(stay out of texas please:) haha).
@blueintheface i doubt more than a handful of recruits(10-15 MAYBE) get 40+ offers.
We're pretty satisfied with mgoblog as Michigan fans. So what blog do you prefer for Texas football? And how does it compare.
i personally use burntorangenation.com it has a much smaller userbase but has exceptional analysis and the people there are really nice, helpful, etc. i spend most of my time here, again theyre very analytical.
if ur looking for a more..i dont know the word blog then try shaggybevo.com. to explain why i dont know the word ill give this as an example. the more the person posts the better(i think better) their little title gets. it goes like this: fucktard - dipshit - bunghole - asshat. take it as u wish. however, they are possibly the funniest blog to read(the responses, not necessarily the threads themselves) and they have absolutely EPIC MSPaint-Offs
link?
its rather up and down in comedic value. the bag-o-dick reference gets old after awhile but there are some diamonds in the rough. again: really up and down. some of it is downright stupid and immature. a lot actually haha. lots of "childish" dick humor. dont neg me to death for posting links please(i have 0 posts there, im a BON guy all the way), the MNC game experience one is actually pretty funny.
http://www.shaggybevo.com/board/showthread.php/55421-My-Bad-Fan-MNC-Gam…
http://www.shaggybevo.com/board/showthread.php/18080-texas-vs-ou-ms-pai…
That "my bad fan MNC" shit was epic. I think that was on the mainboard here a while back, I laughed my ass off.
Did anybody else spend 5 min starring at the avatar of the guy two posts beneath the My-Bad-Fan-MNC-Game?
EPIC!
Not a whole lot of info ... looking at local schools first.
Did say academics are important (his moms a teacher) and he wants to forge a strong relationship with his strength and conditioning coach and his position coach. Someone get Barwis and Tall on the phone.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Zu0x7mQPyU
I remember his dad playing for Michigan. His dad was a pretty good player. He played with Mike McGee, one of those, "I only shoot when I have the ball", type of guys, so it was hard for Paul Heuerman to get many looks with the B-Ball.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzUC1rTtfyI
James Wilder Jr is number 32
Not sure about Chickillo though. Good goal line stand at the end though.
nobody asks about YOU
what's new with you buddy? you gettin enough sleep? where would YOU want to go to school? if you were a hotdog, would you eat yourself?
"Don't jerk me around Seth. If you were a manager, would you put the Predator monster in the game?"
.....GOULET!
Paul lived with the Bodnar twins in West Quad my freshman year. All three are great guys and have deep UM loyalty. What a fun team with Geeter, Johnny Johnson, Thad Garner, Mark Lohsier. I later roomed with Dan Pelekoudas and Gerard Rudy. Lots of good memories all through the Frieder years.
I bet none of those people are real.
they were all real.
Sounds like we're the same vintage. Loved Thad Garner. Too bad he had to play on a couple of pretty sucky teams (81-82). Were you there during 83-84 (the NIT championship team -- when winning the NIT didn't seem quite so lame)? That was a fun team. Tim McCormick, Eric Turner, Leslie Rockymore, and the beta version of the fab five (Tarpley, Wade, Henderson, Relford and Jokisch). Beginning of the glory years. Eric Turner was such a great player, I don't think he ever got his due.
Yes I was there in 84 still trying to graduate. And no winning the NIT wasn't lame back then. That was the beginning of a great run of entertaining UM hoops and great big10 basketball. Every year from Eric Turner to Gary Grant to Daniel Horton we had a stud #1, PG. Hopefully Morris can be that guy (or Zeigler). btw Pelekoudas is alive and well in SoCal as lawyer.
I'll have to see some film on him. I've never seen him play but if he looks like he could play in this offense I wouldn't mind adding him to the class at all.
that it looks like Frost had a pretty solid visit to Auburn. I know we were (obviously very early) tentative leaders, but has that visit changed things at all? I can imagine kids visiting some of these SEC schools in the spring would have a big impact on them.
Per http://mgorecruit.blogspot.com/ it looks like Kevin Williams plans on announcing beginning of May. I think the last I read he was going to visit Neb for their spring game, any chance we get him on campus one last time before he decides?