Ty Isaac commits, but questions remain

Submitted by G-Man on

From CBS Sports:

Michigan expects to land USC transfer running back Ty Isaac, who according to a source is working through the admissions process with the school and committed some time after his visit this week.

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/writer/jeremy-fowler/24580869/…

EDIT: Title edited due to popular demand. Article says he committed, but there's still a lot of paperwork between him and a winged helmet.

NoMoPincherBug

June 5th, 2014 at 12:33 AM ^

Yea!  Hope he can play next fall.  I was not impressed by Green, and Smith runs hard but doesnt have break away speed.  Isaac had nice stats in limited action at USC. 

WolverineJet

June 5th, 2014 at 12:34 AM ^

The crazy thing is Ty going to USC got us Derrick Green and somehow we still may end up with both. Don't think that would have happened if Ty committed to us initially.

Wolverine Devotee

June 5th, 2014 at 12:38 AM ^

Say he does come AND gets the waiver to play this year.

If Michigan had even a 2012 OL.....

All of this rides on the OL. But if they somehow pull it together enough....look out.

T.I., Derrick and De'Veon could be reminiscent of 1992 with Wheatley, Powers and Johnson.

I'm not saying but I'm saying. 

Sllepy81

June 5th, 2014 at 12:51 AM ^

how's Drake Johnson doing? felt bad for the kid, the more the merrier in the backfield. btw I think he is just making sure he can even commit before deciding, I'm not jumping the gun here.

Ty Butterfield

June 5th, 2014 at 12:54 AM ^

Well I hope he actually commits. This is partly why I hate the twitter. Anyone can tweet about "sources".

FrankMurphy

June 5th, 2014 at 2:13 AM ^

Regarding his mother's condition, wouldn't it be better if he sat out a year? I assume that it would be easier for him to visit home more often this next year if he's on the scout team than it would be if he's on the active roster...

LSAClassOf2000

June 5th, 2014 at 7:00 AM ^

There was a tweet or two out there that seemed to indicate that with might know for certain one way or the other in the next couple days, so I assume that if that is the case, then this might be a reference to making sure the administrative end of it is in order. If Isaac does somehow end up in Ann Arbor, then I will say that I like where the RB spot is at just that much more given the options then available. 

Franz Schubert

June 5th, 2014 at 7:35 AM ^

I'm not sure many realize the freakish athlete TI really is. He is bigger and faster than either D. Harris or Weber. Kid is huge and elusive with great hands, you just don't see guys this big with breakaway speed. That's why he was a consensus 5 star recruit. If this materializes, we should be ecstatic.

Don

June 5th, 2014 at 7:54 AM ^

Says Michigan fans should be optimistic, but that nothing definitive has happened yet, according to the Isaac family.

Bodogblog

June 5th, 2014 at 8:09 AM ^

I was listening earlier and Webb addressed this at about 7:00, which posted in the other thread.

When he spoke about it earlier, he was pretty clear this morning that this is happening.  He was intentionally vague (while also intending to make it easy to read between the lines), but apparently Isaac made the decision yesterday and seemingly committed (which I interpret as signing something), though he hadn't told his parents.  He wanted to tell both his mom and dad - who was working late - before it went public.  Sam kept saying "he wanted to tell them about what he was going to do, or had already done".  He made a point to continually repeat the latter, and said follow the bouncing ball.

Maybe he's backed off that a little bit, maybe he actually did get a text from mom or dad this morning.

Raoul

June 5th, 2014 at 7:54 AM ^

Sam Webb on today's recruiting roundup said he had a "strong feeling in his gut" that Isaac will pick Michigan. It sounds like he's expecting an official announcement sometime today. He said that Michigan fans should be optimistic.

BRBLUE

June 5th, 2014 at 8:05 AM ^

Sam on the recruiting roundup says we'll know more about the Isaac situation but his "gut feeling" was that he'll end up at Michigan later today. 

Lucky Socks

June 5th, 2014 at 8:12 AM ^

Reflex is that Issac might deter Harris or Weber. We didn't take a 14 back. And top level guys, especially running backs, shouldn't be intimidated by positional depth. It's going to exist everywhere. Wisconsin has loads, OSU picks up quality backs every year. MSU got a good one last year.

Coaches are selling depth as a way to stay fresh, and Nuss can prove it with his Bama guys. I'd love to have Harris and/or Weber. But I'll take a 5 star in hand vs two long recruitments in the bush.

Seth

June 5th, 2014 at 8:53 AM ^

One good bit of news: admissions is really tough on transfers to Michigan because they don't respect the coursework of other schools, but if there's a short list of schools that shouldn't be a problem with, USC is one of them.

Of course, I couldn't get them to transfer credits from the friggin Harvard of the Francophone world (Paris IV, La Sorbonne) so...