Columbus Nike NFTC Open Thread
Several of Michigan's 2013 commits are participating in the Columbus Nike NFTC camp this morning. Reported that Shane Morris (on the heels of his Elite11 Columbus regional MVP yesterday), David Dawson, Jourdan Lewis (EDIT: Lewis did not make it), Khalid Hill, Logan Tuley-Tillman, Taco Charlton, and Mike McCray will be competing against some of the Midwest's best prospects. The best performers receive invitations to the national competition, The Opening, later this summer. Should be interesting to see how MIchigan's commits stack up against Ohio's and others in the B1G.
Some previews:
http://recruiting.scout.com/2/1183576.html
Several reporters from the various recruiting sites will be covering the event.
247Sports has a free thread with updates from reporters:
http://247sports.com/Board/30/Ohio-NFTC-Updates-9431470
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One OSU grad/coach said to Logan Tuley Tilman: keep using that bad form. Yeah, make sure you're doing that til November in the horseshoe.
Hopefully he uses that as motivation to get better...
Looks like even the OSU staff fails regularly to stay classy. LTT did have an OSU offer according to several sites; sounds like someone feels slighted.
I think it was probably someone on clinic coaching staff either a high school coach or former pro who said it.
Are you sure it wasn't Magnus? Check for a TTB shirt. Has about the right mix of snarkiness and condescension.
I'm not surprised that Tillman is struggling. One look at that picture will tell you that he is carrying a ton of bad weight. Sure fire red-shirt canidate imo as he's going to need to work his body.
Agreed. Even by OL standards, he does not look healthy in that picture.
But he could possibly have the highest ceiling of any of the commits in the class. You can't teach that kind quickness combined with that size. Hopefully once he gets under the watch of a full time training staff and training table, he will blossom.
Time for the main events
When I saw that picture, I wasn't sure if LTT looked too big or Dawson too small. It does seem that LTT needs to shed some bad weight.
Steve Wiltfong 247:
"Just walked over to OL-DL drills. Dwayne Brown of Indianapolis Warren Central gets the best of Ohio State commit Billy Price."
Feeling good about all these guys representing, keep up the great performances. Go Blue!
Wiltfong on Dawson
"Michigan OG commit David Dawson is a nasty offensive guard! Good feet and punch too!"
David Dawson just absolutely stoned someone after the coaches put a Michigan hat on the QB dummy and said it was Denard Robinson
Then OSU commit Billy Price got to the QB and screamed that he wanted to stomp the Michigan hat
It should be noted that Tom also tweeted that that Price was not up against Dawson.
Here is a pic of the dummy from Chantel Jennings:
"Michigan LB commit Michael McCray and Michigan State LB commit Jon Reschke bottling up RBs in 1on1s. Darrien Howard also performing well." -Wiltfong
Steve Wiltfong 247:
Louisville TE commit Keith Towbridge moves to OT, perhaps his future position and has performed well.
Michigan LB commit Michael McCray and Michigan State LB commit Jon Reschke bottling up RBs in 1on1s. Darrien Howard also performing well.
Iowa commit Delano Hill with a few INTs today.
David Dawson just stoned Billy Price to end one on ones.
Taco Charlton just bull rushed and got to the QB twice in a row #NFTC
GO BLUE!
what else needs to be said
David Dawson stoned Billy Price to end the 1-on-1s. I think you are looking at your OL camp MVP right there.
Yeah, same. Dawson has gotten rave reviews from every source I can find, especially Wiltfong. The only other person on the OL he has seemed high on is Lovell Peterson.
Overall, it seems like every Michigan committ mentioned has had a good day. Only positive stuff coming out.
Didn't find anything great on LTT, but Hill, Morris, McCray, Charlton, and especially Dawson all got good reviews. Maybe it means a bump coming up for all of them. The only stuff on LTT was the technique stuff from the OSU coach, so I'll take that with a grain.
It also seemed like Price struggled. Lost in a tug of war with a 2/3 star OL Dwayne Brown, and got stuffed by Dawson. I want to see the reaction to that by scouts.
I also wonder if the good reviews on Peterson mean an OSU offer might be coming his way.
I recall Magnus saying he had it on good authority that Price was soft (though he didn't claim he knew it for a certainty). As he said then, let's hope that's really the case.
Let's hope it is.
This is somewhat reminding me of the Kalis/Schutt situation last year. Two highly ranked players, equally for the most part. Then Kalis shuts down Schutt at the AA game practices. Lets hope these results are indicative of what will happen on the field too.
Dawson may end up a 5* by years end.
Just another reason to trust the players that these coaches are going after. It would be great to see him win Camp OL MVP.
you are not kidding! dawson may be this years Kalis.
Don't exactly see the parallel to him as a recruit. Kalis was stud from the get-go; he was the top player in Ohio and a 5 star to several sites. Dawson will move up the rankings but doubtful he gets to 5 star range. Maybe he is that type of talent but he has to jump all the kids ranked and the sites are at least a little conservative when it comes to massively adjusting their rankings (don't want to be seen as being wrong). If your comparison is to him as being an impact kid from day one at Michigan, mainly on the interior of the line, then I think you are right since our interior line depth (line depth in general also) will be bad next season. We will have Kalis and Bryant in there then freshman, thus, Dawson might get on the two deep immediately. That is also assuming Lewan stays.
If he continues to dominate the camp circuit like he has been it's a definite possibility. Keep in mind 2 months ago he was regarded as our lowest rated O-line recruit. It's nuts to think that it's a possibility that we could have like 3 borderline 5 star guys coming in on our line this year (Kugler (Scout), Dawson, and Fox (top 50 player on Rivals I believe)) and add that to Kalis and Magnuson. Shane will have time to make and eat a sandwich in the pocket.
Kalis, Dawson and Kugler...Shane Morris has to be feeling good about his future.
TomVH David Dawson just absolutely stoned someone after the coaches put a Michigan hat on the QB dummy and said it was Denard Robinson 5/5/12 1:38 PM |
It does increase the need for a restraining order against Florida, though. They need to keep the hell away.
I bet Dawson's dad is looking down with a big ol' smile today!
Every time you post something, I always visualize it and see you roaring it to the crowd like Long is doing in your avatar (or Lewan, can't tell). I always think you are yelling it. Just a funny thought, that is all.
All of them seemed to get great reviews all day
Well, our MVP beat their MVP, so nyah!
Dawson-OL MVP
Price-DL MVP
Highest SPARQ- Mike Dudek
LB MVP- Mike McCray
All from Trieu on Twitter. More coming I asume.
Wow, impressed with McCray getting the LB MVP. Good stuff.
Guess he is not too soft.
Great showing. Would have been nice if Charlton pulled the DL MVP. Surprising, Luke Del Rio won the QB MVP.
Conspiracy!
Probably didn't want to give the Elite11 regional winner the Nike MVP as well.
QB MVP- Luke del Rio
WR MVP- Garry Brown
DB MVP- Delano Hill
Cass Tech representing even with Jourdan Lewis missing. Impressive beating out Cameron Burrows and Ross Douglas.
Cass Tech is going to be stacked with talent next year: David Dawson, Jourdan Lewis, Delano Hill, Kenton Gibbs, DeJuan Rogers, Dennis Finley, Damon Webb, William White, Deon Drake, Gary Hosey, & Jayru Campbell. All those guys are going to have D-1 BCS offers.
You gotta think that adds up to another championship, right?
Michael White @MikeWhiteESPN
Observation from today's Nike Camp. Cass Tech (MI) is a DB factory. Today's MVP Delano Hill is 1 of the top S in the country. #hawkeyes