Cam Dillard to Florida
Just glad that Sparty missed on yet another highly ranked in-state prospect.
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Canton (MI) High 2013 OG Cameron Dillard commits to Florida. http://florida.247sports.com/Article/Gators-lands-touted-OG-69349 via @247Sports
No Schadenfrude yet, too busy freaking out about Trey.
Apparently Meyer didn't have a chance to tell him how F^#{ed up he left their program.
Kind of weird that neither us nor State offered him but he had offers various schools around the country such as Florida.
If he was a big time midwest OL prospect, I would expect a Wisconsin or Iowa offer.
State is recruiting nationally now.
Good for a fellow Cantonian! Much rather see him go to Florida than State.
Everything should be about Trey Burke today!
I enjoy laughing at MSU as much as anyone else, but they didn't even offer this kid. Let's be rational. There are countless other things to make fun of them about.
can we start with their stadium? that bleak period piece that looks like an industrial - city national league stadium builtin the early 70's?
It looks more like a parking garage to me.
You mean the parking lot where they park their spaceships that they use for intergalactic recruiting?
he's a guy Michigan would have offered in any other year. Kind of in the same boat as Reschke as a non-offeree. Plus other guys with offers like O'Daniel, Anzalone, Bivin, McGovern that we had to cool on due to space concerns.
i had thought he was 4star. guess i mis-remembered
I kind of wonder what the deal is with this kid. No offer from Michigan, MSU, ND, or OSU, but he had offeres from Florida, Arkansas, and Oregon. Considering he didn't even get an MSU offer, the utter lack of interest from local programs is strange considering his offers.
You are assuming that local schools didn't want him. Perhaps it was the other way around? Maybe his plan was to go to school someplace warm and he let MSU, Iowa and Wiscy know he wasn't in play.
He quite obviously wasn't getting a Michigan one (given the circumstances).
From our side, the guys that we have and the ones that were on our list were just higher rated. From the State side, what I've read is that they're going to have a relatively small class this year and are only looking to add a couple of OL and have guys ahead of Dillard. I think that he would have been a Plan B for either program.
Is it me, or has Florida dropped its sights off of all 5 star and upper 4 star prospects after Muschamp became head coach?
more pro-style types and fewer skill-position recruits means lower ratings.
That doesn't even make sense. Spread speciality players typically are ranked lower than players who can play in any system. Look no further than our team, as our recruiting rankings increased dramatically after our coaching change (part is obviously due to a better recruiting coaching staff).
They're still recruiting high caliber prospects, but it's tough to match up with what Urban was bringing in based on recruiting rankings.
The key to remember is something like 14 players from Meyer's #1 class in 2007 (08, can't remember, can't find the article I was looking for) were gone before the start of Muschamp's first fall. I think Muschamp is looking for the cliche "his players" as opposed to Urban's star hunting.
Just my opinion from 2000 miles away.
Felt bad he never got the UM offer he wanted, but this year's recruiting on OL is unusually strong. Best of luck to him.
Florida has really gone after a lot of midwest kids lately eh?
From what ive heard, MSU was interested in him but they felt Caleb Benenoch from Texas was better so he got the offer instead of Dillard.
How's that national recruiting going for Sparty? What do they got like a couple 3 stars committed?
this intergalactic recruiting has beaten us the last few years
The MSU recruiting nationally meme was started by an MSU writer after Hoke cleaned up recruiting the in-state class of 2012. We're yet to see the results of their new recruiting strategy.
OL recruting for the second straight year has been pretty strong. Hoke is proving that he will go out of state to get the type of guys he feels will help turn the offense into a dominate pro-style offense. I'm really happy with our last 2 OL classes. Hopefully Ty Isaacs will see the guys he will be running behind and make a decision to join the class soon.
We're doing well I'm not concerned about it. Wish him the best.
with Barwis personally, and before that with the same trainer I use. Talked to him multiple times, he is a good kid. Always talked about wanting to go somewhere warmer though, so this decision makes sense. He is definitely a good player, though a lot of the competition he has faced is questionable.
Interesting...
Totally unrelated:
Is anyone else cheering for Yu Darvish to fail? I am. And it's coming true so far.
April 10th, 2012 at 12:11 PM ^
This is like them making fun of us for losing Lyles who we didn't even offer.