Whetley leaving EMU

Can you elaborate further on what the knock on English (at EMU) is? All I know about it is that he was telling Sam and Ira on WTKA that he felt he had a really good class coming in this year.

3 seconds. That's all it takes to read your title before you hit post.

Anybody who thinks EMU to Syracuse is a lateral move is clueless. EMU is a bad MAC team. Syracuse is a bad BCS team.

Considering Scout.com started their 2011 top 120 countdown (check it out -- they are up to 75... no Big 10 Teams yet), they named Eastern as #120... literally last place.... Going to the Big East is a good move.

From what I have heard, which I understand is hearsay, there has been a rift amongst people in the EMU program regarding philosophy and recruits. In particular,the handling of a number of local recruits (offering scholarships and then pulling them) and the manner in which a number of kids on the current roster have been treated. I don't know names, but two different coaches have said this to me on two different occasions.

especially when referencing a running backs coach. they are THE running back U. congrats to tyrone.

Tyrone Wheatley told me tonight that he's really good friends with the OC at Syracuse, which had a lot to do with him leaving.

I also am rooting for English to succeed at EMU. It would be great for the University and for English.

Who is Whetley?

Doesn't Lloyd have friends/connections at Syracuse ... maybe he brokered this for Wheatley?

1 - +1 for being Mr. Noodle. I have become exposed to him through my two year old daughter, and I get a kick out of him.

2 - I have no inside anything about EMU, but when I looked at their class in the paper the other day and saw the almost complete lack of local players, I was pretty amazed. Doesn't seem like a good way to establish a following.

Wheatley and his family live in the same elementary school area as me (though his house is, shall we say, on the much better side of the tracks!). Great family; sad if they all go to the 'cuse.

http://www.suathletics.com/news/2010/2/9/FB_0209103322.aspx

english went 0-12 last year, has the worst MAC recruiting class of the bunch and they can't get enuf fans in the stands.

so, CAW has that going for them.

wheatly is just paying his dues. i wish him well and i wish english well.

wrong placement

As we all know too well, problems arise when a new regime takes over (particularly amongst the upper classmen). Eastern is no different.....except.....they're Eastern.....and they didn't win a game last year. Their senior QB (Kyle McMahon) who played a considerable amount (including a handful of starts over the last 3 years) was bypassed for a true freshmen in the Michigan game when the starter went down.

No surprise, McMahon has transferred to GVSU for his final year of eligibility. Wheatley leaving doesn't bode well for EMU. He has roots in Michigan and was a decent recruiter in the area....particularly for a program like the HurEagle.

I know a starting olineman for EMU. He said English isn't making any friends at EMU among players families or upperclass players. He basically asked a player to "call out" teammates that he felt wasn't working hard enough during a team meeting.

Yes, I know English doesn't have to be "friends" with his players, but they have to want to play for him. and its not happening.

The whispers are that EMU is forever doomed to obscurity on account of offending the Huron tribe by abandoning its name in favor of "Eagles." The tribe has called upon the Great Spirit to punish EMU football in response. By contrast, CMU has retained the goodwill of the Chippewa tribe (and in turn, the Great Spirit) and has prospered.

Seriously, it was lame that EMU stopped being the Hurons. The Huron tribe was in favor of the name - they considered it an honor.

I hope that Ron English goes 0-36 and gets fired from Eastern Michigan after three seasons. I still haven't forgiven him for that epic fiasco in Columbus in 2006 and the disaster against Appalachain State, and I probably never will.