TomVH Interview with Michigan Opening Invitees at Columbus NFTC
TomVH interviews the 2013 commits who won invitations to The Opening while competing in the Nike NFTC in Columbus yesterday (Morris, Dawson, Charlton, McCray). The video includes some highlights of the 1 vs 1 drills, including Taco Charlton destroying some poor O-linemen.
http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=7895820
(It's a slow day, and I didn't see this posted anywhere, including the other NFTC threads... but if it already has been posted, feel free to neg me into deletion land)
Ha,i love Dawson standing Bilky Price straight up at the end of that video. He walks away all pissed off lol
Captured in photos as well
The photos are better than the video....almost poetic really.
I'd bet good money that Dawson sees a bump in his rankings when everyone does their updates.
You can add Taco to that list as well.
LTT definitely going to need a year with Wellman as a redshirt, but holy shit is his ceiling high.
Ha,i love Dawson standing Bilky Price straight up at the end of that video.
Motion to refer to Price as "Bilky" from here on out.
Seconded.
Price better get used to that for the next 4 years.
Recap (including LTT anchoring the Tug of War):
TomVH notebook on Cass Tech and Trotwood Madison pipeline of talent (also a bit on Malik McDowell):
Nice of Burrows to acknowledge all the Ws they're going to put up against him.
Taco is an absolute beast. I cannot wait to see him in a Michigan uniform.
- Though Ohio State commit Billy Price snagged MVP honors, he wasn't the top performer along the defensive line during one-on-ones. Michigan commit Taco Charlton was rarely stopped while Indianapolis (Ind.) defensive end Anthony Winbush and Detroit (Mich.) defensive end Malik McDowell were some of the other top guys who used a variety of moves to nail the quarterback.
- Michigan commit David Dawson looked really good at the guard position and had a better day than fellow pledge Logan Tuley-Tillman.
- With two days to watch most of the quarterbacks, there was pretty much a consensus top three of Morris, Zaire and Del Rio.
How is Shane the only QB to get an opening invite, but Del Rio is the QB MVP?... Same with Cam Burrows as the only DB to get an invite.
Im pretty positive Shane was MVP
Shane was the MVP of the Elite11 camp on Friday.
Del Rio was the QB MVP of the Columbus Nike Camp on Saturday.
Not a big deal IMHO...the Elite 11 camp was the important one for Shane and the rest of the QBs.
I think I can say this without bias, being that it happened to both UM and OSU recruits. ESPN/Nike wants to see the big names at the opening, not the little guys that perform well at a camp. They want the ESPN 150 to be proven as the best indicator of talent, and they'll bump the highly rated kids to get Opening invites because it makes them look good.
It's the same logic that gets overused, but is sadly, correlated with the UA game, and the UA 150. Guys that go to the camps that ESPN endorses get rated higher on ESPN, and get invites to more prestigious ESPN-endorsed events.
I think your pretty dead on with that veiw point. and it does make sense for them to bump up their own kids. you really need to look at all the sites i think to get alittle better overall veiw of these kds.
Agreed, just overall take it with a grain of salt. You guys may not like Urban, and I don't like Hoke, just in the sake of rivalry. But neither side can say that the opposing coach is a poor judge of talent, and these guys will find the players who fit best in their individual systems. That's good enough for me
With the talent he inherited at Bowling Green and Utah too. Which, well...
He was the MVP of the Elite#11 camp he did on Friday, but was not named the QB MVP on Saturday.
To answer the question about The Opening tickets I am guessing it was a combination of ranking coming in and how they did at camp. The really highly ranked players just have to pass the eye test. They do not need to be the top performer on that day.
He's already quite impressive, and as he continues to bulk up and get coached up he will be downright scary.
He's kinda scary right now. He's quite the athlete. With good mechanics it might not be a fair fight anymore.
No doubt. I'd not seen him next to an assortment of other guys of various size until that interview with TomVH and the other guys, but now that I have, all I can say is WOW. I thought he was kind of lean before, and would need to bulk up quite a bit....now I am not so sure.
Loving the thought of Taco and Mario coming off the edges in a couple of years on 3rd down, Pipkins coming up the gut. How long has it been since we've seen edge pressure like that? Not since B.Graham....
He can deliver quite a shot. All D-linemen beware.
I love the nasty streak Dawson plays with
When Tom and Shane were talking he just looked so pissed off. He is a mean, mean man, and that's what I like to see.
Do we know why Dymonte wasn't there?
Dymonte plays baseball.
I was hoping Dukes would/could be there to get some exposure for himself though
I thought at first that Shane Morris's shirt said "GOD"
Wait it doesn't?
The Senator Nickname? I get the idea, but hate hate the way it sounds referring to a 17/18 year old. I know people have said they hate the nickname sugar. But that nickname is 5x better.
Anyone know how Hill did yesterday. He seems to be the one player that I have not heard about.
Hill was good, he will fill the H back role perfectly. Nothing spectacular, but good in all areas. I liked what I saw.
may be shorter than Vincent Smith.
Keep in mind that all of those players are at or above 6'3"
is about 5'7", and I'd say that's just about how tall Tom looks in the picture. I think it'd be a close call.
I wonder if this can be Tom's second football related challenge (the first was his Barwis workout). Give Tom a set of pads and have him go 1 on 1 with looping lb's. Then cycle in V Smith. I'd pay top dollar.
I'm sure this has already been said, but I think Charlton's length and speed is going to be a pain for teams to deal with for the upcoming years. He has a great pass rush and hopefully all the success we are seeing on these clips will carry over once the pads get put on. I know it's early, but I really hope that he can continue to be as much of a beast that he has been in these camps once he gets on campus and starts going live.