We Recruited Tebow?!
So I was wandering aimlessly through Rivals.com yesterday, when I came to Tim Tebow's page. I was curious to see who recruited him back in 2005 (part of the 2006 recruiting class), and suprisingly, Michigan was on his list of schools, was offered a scholarship and took a visit. Does anyone know how serious he was in coming to Michigan? Was Michigan on his top five list? Maybe this is old news but I never knew about this until a few days ago.
Here's the link:
http://rivals100.rivals.com/viewprospect.asp?Sport=1&pr_key=31436
At least we got David Cone...haha
December 8th, 2008 at 8:58 PM ^
would be our current efforts with Reuben Randle. But its been a while. I just remember having the clear understanding that even though we had been mentioned and gotten a visit, it would have been a big upset if we landed him.
December 8th, 2008 at 9:11 PM ^
oh ok. that's kind of what I thought, seeing that we weren't running a spread or anything, so Florida would seem more attractive to him. Plus he's from Florida. Thanks
December 8th, 2008 at 9:00 PM ^
It's exactly what you read. We were on his brain, but not alone. The coaches kinda knew earlier on he was staying south. Not like we were down to the wire.
December 8th, 2008 at 9:12 PM ^
were the only schools he seriously considered.
I'm glad he didn't go to UM. His hall of fame career would have been replaced with one that peaked as a freshman in an archaic offense.
December 8th, 2008 at 9:29 PM ^
One of the early nails in Mike Shula's coffin was that he put all of his efforts into getting Tim Tebow, who was pretty much considered a lock for Florida all along. Tebow's recruitment was chronicled on an MTV show I think. Anyway, Shula didn't get him and soon after he was canned. I think Tebow's dad went to Florida or something, so he was never really in play for other schools. I was also struck by the fact that we recruited Matt Leinart pretty hard. It came down to us and USC and he stayed in state.
December 8th, 2008 at 9:42 PM ^
Dang it. I guess it worked out with the whole Leinart thing, Henne was good. But thank god we are getting quarterbacks who can run now, I was getting a bit weary of guys who can barely run a 5.5 40 time or guys who trip over their own feet cough MALLETT cough.
December 8th, 2008 at 11:28 PM ^
ESPN show...
December 8th, 2008 at 9:44 PM ^
I believe at the time it wasn't somuch of a loss because the summer of 05 Ryan *Big Tex* Mallet came to camp an WoW everyone with his gunslinger arm. However, he wasn't the number one quarterback cruit Michigan was looking at. Iirc, Mitch Mustain was the bigger fish everyone wanted. He went back and forth with ND and Ark before deceiding on the Hogs...the rest is history.
December 8th, 2008 at 10:09 PM ^
we got mallett is because mustain went to arkansas
December 8th, 2008 at 9:45 PM ^
Wasn't it something about Shula that Tebow's father didn't like...?
December 8th, 2008 at 9:54 PM ^
Michigan set its sights on Mallett very early in the process. Mustain was not someone Michigan zoned in on, and they did get the better of the two based on the recruiting services. The only QB with more hype than Mallett was Clausen.
December 8th, 2008 at 10:01 PM ^
I'm pretty sure the first SHIRTLESS quote was in reference to Tebow, because Brian had him on the radar as one of our recruits. I think someone's google search for "TIM TEBOW SHIRTLESS" showed up in mgoblog's google analytics.
December 8th, 2008 at 10:12 PM ^
a couple of my friends on the team hosted him and said he was a pretty good guy (did you know that he is a missionary? omg who knew). anyway, when they tried taking him out he didn't really want to and wouldn't dare take a sip of beer they thought he was a bit weird. anyway, that's my premium insider info on tebow and his visit to michigan.
December 8th, 2008 at 10:18 PM ^
Tebow's a Christian, but he still does fine:
http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/2324/la4a27d062c92ca0274573fgs2.jpg
December 8th, 2008 at 10:23 PM ^
i heard that is his cousin. and by saying that i am admitting that yes, i may have used google search.
December 8th, 2008 at 10:28 PM ^
Jesus Christ I want me some Tebow cousin.
December 8th, 2008 at 10:21 PM ^
God is good.
December 8th, 2008 at 10:24 PM ^
I couldn't remeber if Mustain was the number one qb Michigan REALLY wanted. I do concur...Michigan did get the better of the two.