UM to host NW Freshman 4* LB Nigel Glover at BBQ at Bighouse
This could be a good get for the good guys. He is a true freshman set to transfer after the upheaval at NW. He is from Clayton (Ohio) Northmont. This is the high school that Rod Moore attended, so likely some familiarity.
could he play this year? to be clear, he's an incoming freshman, right?
This would be his one free transfer so yeah, he should be immediately eligible.
Might start seeing this more with incoming guys getting cold feet and/or not realizing the situation is a good fit for them and using their one free transfer right off the bat. Marcus Adams is a hooper transferring from Kansas after really struggling in early practices, and after initially wanting to get out of his NLI to be an HS recruit again (this seemed very unlikely to happen), decided to go the transfer route.
Northwestern is going to be decimated. The money guys are heading for the tall grass so bye bye new stadium. Northwestern is a proud academic institution and I can imagine the school decides that where college football is headed is not for them. If so, they should join the Big East.
They should join a "National P5 Ivy" conference of Northwestern, Duke, Rice, Stanford, Vandy, Wake Forest, and other P5 private schools that get overshadowed by the big public schools.
But they will never leave the big $$$ unless they are thrown out.
Stanford may get overshadowed in the two biggest sports, but they are an athletic powerhouse overall
I like it. LB is one position where you can always use solid depth.
For anyone interested, Magnus has the full list of recruits coming to the BBQ:
https://touch-the-banner.com/visitors-2023-bbq-at-the-big-house/
Some heavy hitters in there for future classes, but seems like a pretty light load this year... is that because guys are committing earlier and earlier? Seems mostly current commits, and then a push to 2025 with guys we havent heard about yet. In the past, it would be a huge recruiting weekend for the current class. seems to be primarily 2025
Yeah we are on that old school Texas, Mack Brown, approach.
More and more the BBQ has been focused on bringing in kids for the future the last few years. For many of them it's their first visit to the school. We have locked up most of our class for this year already (though I'm sure we'll add a few between now and signing day where we still have some gaps - secondary - or with the couple of elite guys we are still in on), so this is kind of the unofficial kick off for focusing on next year's class.
seems like a pretty light load this year
I mean this class is basically done. Probably will only take a few more guys in this class i.e. a CB, WR, S, maybe another OL
We definitely need some more safties and corners in our 2024 class.
four star top 350 guy, yes please. just slap a redshirt on him this year. ernest hausman part 2
KEEP HIM AWAY FROM THE CHEESEBURGERS, FFS.
I'll buy that!
...er.
I'd gladly pay you Tuesday!
It is not about the cheeseburgers. It’s that he lied to the NCAA.
Ha! I read this comment in Toby Flenderson's voice.
You forgot to finish the sentence:
It's that he lied to the NCAA...about cheeseburgers.
Yes he lied about cheeseburgers and recruiting during a dead period. If he wasn’t stubborn and lied to the NCAA, he would be coaching the first four games.
Pffffftttt!! This is a load of crap and everyone in the world but the NCAA sees it. If it was all about lying then so many more programs would be under fire.
THEY ALL LIE!
THE NCAA is a LIE!
FIFY
No, being stubborn is the right approach with the NCAA because they are weak. Every other major program is stubborn with the NCAA and the NCAA simply wilts. We are being way too conciliatory. Per Sam Webb, the NCAA is looking for a win since they get so few, and this is their chance.
People around here really don’t like hearing the truth most of the time, do they? This site is getting a little too cultish.
I really appreciate when people can put their biases aside and have some self awareness with realistic view points.
Toby is right, the suspension is more about his lie or "refusal to cooperate with an investigation" which is how I read it, but he may still have faced a suspension if he cooperated. That, or the program would have been slapped on the wrist with something like "probation" and "loss of scholarships" which we all know would have been meaningless penalties.
To be completely clear, I don't care if Coach didn't cooperate with the investigation or not. The NCAA doesn't deserve cooperation or the truth. Continue to disregard them and move on. Best policy.
do you have the transcripts of the conversation?
They claim he lied.
If they didn't have proof, then Harbaugh (UM) wouldn't be negotiating. Somehow, some way, he got caught lying. This is college football, where boosters and rumors run rampant.
Either way, I'm not buying the four games either. I have no insider knowledge, but I wonder if the four games is what Harbaugh's team is negotiation down from. Maybe it's a 2-game suspension, if that.
I don’t believe that it’s necessarily true they have proof he lied. It’s kind of like I said yesterday. Him negotiating sounds more like a plea of no contest and isn’t admitting anything.
However, it’s entirely possible he was not 100% forthcoming. So, the negotiations could include a lot of things. Maybe he agrees to publicly say what he did/said, and how that’s an infraction in exchange for only a 2-game suspension. Or, maybe he’s in there trying to bend them over a barrel and tell them to fuck off because they have nothing but, because they’ve made up their minds, he needs to placate them somehow.
my point is we just don’t know.
4 games is likely down from 6 - which is a pretty standard number for this sort of violation.
Should of committed hundreds of level 1 violations so all we got was probation and maybe forfeit our covid win vs Rutgers. You got to learn the NCAA game.
My understanding is that he stated that he did not remember the incident...I mean its a fucking $10. hamburger...and that he's not willing to go along with the suggestion that he 'lied'. If so...how would anyone, including you, know that 'he lied to the NCAA'?
This is what was reported last year, when this 'story' first broke. He didn't remember paying for lunch, or the tip, for two committed players that showed up one day in the offseason TWO YEARS prior to last year, when asked about it! So essentially, he refused to admit to something he doesn't remember - which feels completely in line wiht the person Jim MF'in Harbaugh has proven he is over the decades.
The username checks out - this is why nobody likes Toby Flenderson.
Screw that, they should only serve burgers this year.
Please shower the field with cheeseburgers before every game he doesn't coach in (if any)...
Anyone else find it mighty suspicious that this leaked right before Media Days? I know it sucks because it's our HC, but I love the behind-the-scenes grinnin' and snitchin' in the offseason.
The NCAA knows what its doing. You think Alabama has had the number 1-2 class for ten years and they are looking through their cheeseburger receipts from two years ago? Come on this is blatant shit. Imagine Michigan Realist losing his beloved Saban for 4 games because of a lunch from two years ago. He would lose his shit.
This would require a lot of projection, but possibly Glover will be to Moore as Josaiah Stewart is to Mike Sainristil. At least the scouting should be good.
Glover was a 300-something recruit to 247:
https://247sports.com/player/nigel-glover-46118610/high-school-270236/
He's visiting OSU this week (canceled a trip to EL to fit that one in), already went to KY and then to Michigan. Time to steal another Ohio recruit from Day and the Bucknuts.
OSU's standards are clearly slipping if they're giving the time of day to a guy outside the Top 300.
/s
Well considering how well they tackled Hassan and THE DON, a top 350 LB maybe a step up for them.
FUCK OHIO.
What does it matter, Jim is leaving after this year due to the stupid NCAA. All current commits will decommit and no new recruit will want to come to a school that cheats.
/s
Not sure if I agree on any of the above. Tennessee seems to have recruited decently regardless of their self admitted transgressions - which, I believe, number in excess of 200 violations.
i renew my request for a sarcasm font.
i think it would be a great idea.
All the talk about tennessee, but ask yourself, would you rather be tennessee right now?
No, I wouldn't want to be Tennessee, can you imagine how hard it would be to walk through a door if you were Tennessee, let alone go on a roller coaster, or a water slide, hang gliding, your life would be so limited if you were actually Tennessee.
No. I'm a Michigan grad school alum and have never considered applying to Tennessee for anything going back to my high school days. Here's something no one ever says: "Tennessee is a great school for academics!" Maybe they are, who knows! I doubt it though.
Tennessee only got probation. There is a slide rule...
100s of violations = probation
2 cheeseburgers = 2 games per
I would be very pleased if this young man were to play for the Wolverines this year.
Harbaugh’s suspension will be extended to 8 games because Michigan is buying recruits brisket.
Is there any truth to the rumor that menus on the players breakfast menu - including fresh fruit, smoothies, and chocolate milk - violate NCAA policies?