Twitter Recap: Per Brandon Brown surprise visitor (WR Tarik Black) on campus

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#Michigan hosting 13 plus one big surprise visitor.  ($) https://michigan.forums.rivals.com/threads/official-visit-thread-dec-9-11.199275/#post-3069383 …

EDIT: Based on comments, looks like WR Tarik Black is the surprise visitor.
 

When the pieces start coming together it's a beautiful sight

Garrett Fishaw ‏@MGoFish  14m

#Michigan is hosting one hell of a group of recruits this weekend, including the #1 player in the nation:

http://mgofish.com/look-whos-visiting-now-december-10th/

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Ronnie Kaye

December 10th, 2016 at 12:39 PM ^

Yes, mock an impresionable high school kid for a decision they made. It's not like that would put you in the rather pathetic position of being a grown man whose emotions were affected by a high school kid that you'd be salty three years later. 

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DairyQueen

December 10th, 2016 at 6:34 PM ^

meh, ESPN was looking to do a "story", they needed something to cling on to.

Engineering sounds good and is a story. Story drives the media.

For instance you probably know a LOT about Jabrill Peppers, from his ethic, his heisman opinion, family background etc. but, what's he majoring in at Michigan? You don't need to know, because he's interesting in other ways.

With Hand, it was the same, they didn't have a story, he's a 17 year-old HS kid, 99.9% have about as much personality as a goldfish, and had to dig and exaggerate in order to "find" the story.

I wouldn't blame the kid whatsoever for not pursuing Engineering. It probably sounded ideal to him too, and the fact that he was socially praised and thought-highly-of for it likely made him continue that "persona". Then "Physics for Engineers" class came, or, the Alabama coach's dissuaded him (there's the real story I'd like to hear about).

I wouldn't criticize him for it, nor stop someone from making humor of it, because either one buys way too much into a ESPN media piece in the first place.

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Toasted Yosties

December 10th, 2016 at 12:49 PM ^

I get it. He was looking around too, as Harbaugh encourages. I doubt they pulled the offer, as the word weeks ago was that he'd go elsewhere if we picked up another RB. This is recruting today, but still sucks for him considering how long he has been committed. Also, until Harris is committed, it just feels like we lost one of our best athletes in the class. I sure hope this pans out. I'd hate to lose out on both.

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Blau

December 10th, 2016 at 1:30 PM ^

Hoke's classes traditionally wrapped up very early with few surprises close to or on NSD. I was furious this time last year with the Swenson fiasco because it seemed he had very little time to find a new landing spot extremely late in the recruiting process with very little communication between himself and staff. That was mishandled IMO but the staff has to do what the staff has to do to sign the best players exempt from shitty recruiting tactics. 

In regards to the Samuels stuff, although it seems somewhat shady and low-brow on the surface to basically put the writing on the wall, all commits should know that recruiting itself is a competition and we're not going to stop recruiting the best players just because we appear full at a position. Take it with a grain of salt and compete your ass off once you get on the field. At that point, your HS stats/rankings/stars don't mean shit. 

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Blau

December 10th, 2016 at 3:24 PM ^

On Erik Swenson And Talent-Based Decommits by Brian and then come at me bro. Not saying these are all facts but if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck...

In fact, let me help you out:

"However, Swenson's situation is considerably more sketch. He has not made a peep since his commitment and was tweeting about signing with Michigan as late as January 3rd. Webb says "don't be surprised if a little mudslinging happens." Swenson took the high road, but if someone pops off after a LOI is safely faxed I won't be surprised, nor will I have much to say other than "seems accurate."

If Michigan was going to pull Swenson's scholarship it should have at least warned him about the possibility during the season so he could make a backup plan. That doesn't look like the case and it appears Michigan has pissed some people off. Not a good look. 

If he wants to play and does land with the Wildcats or Huskers, he's probably better off. Michigan looked at senior film and decided he would not play.

I wouldn't want to go to a school that thought I wouldn't play and wouldn't tell me that; I would expect them to tell me that. By November at the latest.

This isn't so much a rug being pulled out from under someone as an order for a rug being canceled. Michigan does have to get more organized with this stuff going forward. Setting someone adrift approximately three weeks before Signing Day—the news took a week or two to get out—isn't enough time for them to find the best landing spot."

 

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The Fan in Fargo

December 10th, 2016 at 6:35 PM ^

Yet the kid landed at a blue-blood program in Oklahoma IIRC? Yeah boo fucking hoo to that full ride right? Get real. You're all a bunch of softies and supply the sugar with valiant effort into the concept of candy asses! 

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