Wilson's teammate Cory Smith Decommits from Tennesse
Behind paywall:
http://insider.espn.go.com/ncf/recruiting/player/news/_/id/112733/corey-smith
Not sure of the significance considering he didn't have an offer and is heading to JUCO for a year since he'd already spent his academic eligibility (but not his athletic eligibility somehow) so he probably wouldn't qualify at UM anyway.
Some strong offers though according to ESPN; Alabama, Illinois, West Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Iowa, Notre Dame, PSU...
Very telling? Sure, very telling.
Edit: Looks like he's a 4 star on both Rivals and Scout:
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/recruiting/player-Corey-Smith-112584
So your saying there's a chance...
Michigan St
...with the academics and all...
I thought they only went after five stars now?
They only go after 5 stars who outside the midwest because they have go national.
Add OSU to the list of schools that think they've got the inside track on him now as well. Honestly, he's going to JUCO next year, so why does he even have to commit to a school this year anyway? If he does well in JUCO, he'll pick up even more offers from schools. He seems to have a lot of suitors, and a lot of time to choose. My 2 cents are that he ends up in the SEC somewhere.
What schools do and what schools do not accept JUCO prospects? I know we haven't really gone after any in years...
I honestly don't know all the schools that do and don't. I know it is notoriously diffcult for JUCOs to get into UM, and I do know that he vast majority of the SEC picks up lots of JUCOs. State also takes JUCOs here and there as well.
I am a South Carolina fan as my secondary school since my wife went there and I know they take 1-4 a class...FWIW.
Austin Panter I believe was our last. I know Arizona St., Pitt, UConn and a few SEC schools take JUCO guys more often.
I was about to ask if we've taken one in recent memory. I know it's not very often. MSU takes a couple every other year (Fonoti and someone else this year) so Smith could easily end up at MSU
He was looking to transfer from USC. Big difference between USC and Phoenix University.
I saw that on 247sports. Could Wilson's committment to Michigan have influenced Smith to decommit from Tennessee and heavily look at MSU? Maybe Smith wants to still have some kind of connection with his teammate, and since Michigan has not offered him a scholarship then why not go to an arch-rival and play your buddy every year? I thought that may have been the path O'neil was heading to before his latest comments of focusing on two schools which does not consist of MSU.
Well that would suck
It would prove that they recruit "nationally" now. Sparty's gone all worldly.
After the Demar Dorsey situation I doubt we start flirting with players who's potential eligibility is suspect
I wouldn't limit that to just Dorsey...
Like Thomas Rawls?
looks a lot like mine in High School.
he would be able to qualify at Michigan, he will probably end up at MSU or Tennesse.
You would think after we had been over this three or four hundred times that people would understand that if a player couldn't qualify at Michigan he isn't going to qualify at MSU or another school.
Well now I think it's a different question because it's already established that he's going to JUCO (or CC). Michigan never really takes JUCOs, while MSU and Tenn do, and that's what is coming up in this thread. He won't be able to qualify anywhere now, but it's different coming out of JUCO
Yeah, but the point I was making is that he would be able to qualify after a year of juco
But, if Michigan won't allow his years worth of credits to transfer and MSU will then he wouldnt go to UM you'd have to think. I think that is the question. Not if he would be qualified to get in but if any of his credits would transfer and then would it even make sense to throw away a year like that.
Ok so I don't mean to threadjack, but this isn't worthy of its own thread and is just a question related to MSU, so I figured I'd put it here.
Does OSU vacating the Big Ten Championship make MSU the lone champion..? Wisconsin is obviously a co-champ, but now the tie breaker would be head-to-head, not BCS ranking, which MSU now wins. I hate to see this, and sorry if it's already been covered but I was just curious. Can Wisconsin still claim a Big Ten title?
They still tied. Both are co-champs. The tie breakers (head to head) are only to determine the Rose/BCS birth, not "outright" champ. Which they already didn't get to play in so it means jack. It'll never happen again, but the only way to be sole B10 champ in the past was to have more wins in the conference than anyone else.
Notre Dame offered this guy? I live in South Bend and all I ever hear about is how ND doesn't sacrifice it's academic values for talent. Ha!
Smith won't be even on a college campus (non-JUCO) for 2 years, and there is some doubt that may even happen.
Smith's recruitment has been "interesting" to say the least.
He's leaving high school now because he wouldn't be eligible to play football his senior year (something about transferring schools that messed up his eligibility). What I read was that he likely will have to do TWO years at a JUCO before even sniffing D-I ball.
Most teams likely pulled their offers when they learned of this. Tenn was not one of them ... They offered to accept his commit, obviously with the intention of helping him through his 1.5 or 2 years of CC in order to eventually join the team in 2014.
Long story short ... I wouldn't expect to see his name pop up until 2014 recruiting is well underway.
From what I heard that sounds mostily right, except his name should be popping up in the 2013 recruiting class instead of the 2014 one. This is because he is planning on enrolling in a CC or JUCO this fall instead of his "senior" year of high school (he already was in high school for 4 years, but still has an extra year of eligibility). I have no clue how that worked out though.
With regard to UM's not really taking JUCO transfers, is that more of a coaching staff philosophy or the fact that it is difficult to transfer into UM (and therefore an unofficial admissions policy)? I ask because it's possible Hoke is willing to relax the strings on that in order to help the team make the jump it needs to. Obviously if it is admissions though, there's nothing Hoke could do.
to Michigan, you just have to plan on it from the first semester. If you are just taking some gen ed stuff to get your GPA up and just pass classes then there's a good chance you won't have the prereqs to tranfer in.
it's all about what credits transfer over from the JUCO. Generally UofM does'nt honor alot of JUCO credit, so if someone attended a Juco and trasferred to UofM it would be like starting from scratch. It's far easier just to transfer elsewhere