Recruiting Question: Visits

Submitted by 814 East U on

Is Jay-nard Bostwick still visiting 1/18? According to ESPN he is. Besides Hunt and Dawson any official word on any other visits from uncommitted prospects (Larue, Foster)?

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JDVan

January 8th, 2013 at 11:03 PM ^

Larue reaffirmed his visit to A&M but no word on a UM visit yet. Also, no word on anything outside of the all star game comments with Foster. Not giving away any info but I have an ESPN Insider/Rivals account and with twitter/MGOBoard and Ace everything high profile you will see on the biweekly roundup or board.

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reshp1

January 9th, 2013 at 10:08 AM ^

You can only back date a certain number of recruits to the previous class. I think the number is 3 but don't quote me on that. So that still leaves a lot of "attrition" that needs to happen before the next season.

EDIT: Dammit, it's only a Big Ten rule to only allow 3 backdates

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duffman355

January 9th, 2013 at 12:39 AM ^

I know football and basketball recruits aren't represenetive of the university as a whole for better or for worse, but this is MIchigan, one of the elite education venues in the world.  The guy has a four year old kid at only 18 years of age.  He would probably be three years and out to the NFL.  Sure I can support the guy for trying to do good by his family with an NFL salary, but the guy would otherwise likely have no business near a majority of college campuses without his great athletic ability.  Yeah the guy made some past mistakes and has been living and learning from them hopefully.  Call me elitist I guess, but I love the stories of the Kovacs and Zoltans of Michigan (I know their situations weren't even close, but just commenting on Kovacs obivous walk on to Captain/star status and what Zoltan was able to do during the NFL strike with his education, upbringing, his charity etc.)

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Jon06

January 9th, 2013 at 12:58 AM ^

Lots of Michigan students likely have no business near a majority of college campuses without some unusual feature they happen to have (in some cases, for example, the hiring of ACT tutors by their families). Student-athletes, like student violinists and National AP Scholars, managed to hone a skill the university community values through dedication and perseverance. The only academic question is whether they have the ability to learn the requisite amount of material to complete a degree, which the admissions procedure is supposed to ensure, pace your preference for accountant types.

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Vote_Crisler_1937

January 9th, 2013 at 9:28 AM ^

Jon06,

Well said. You are exactly correct. FTR my friend and fmr Michigan stud Steve King had a child before he came to M to play D for Mattison '92-'96. Besides being an excellent football player Steve is a great guy who later worked in the AD for M and NU and has helped a lot of athletes at those schools, including yours truly, get through some challenging schoolwork and get a degree. He now runs the BeyondSports Foundation to give underprivileged kids a better chance at maximizing their own unique abilities to make it to good schools. So yeah, we like those guys.

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cozy200

January 9th, 2013 at 7:24 AM ^

Via Dan Samuelson twitter he is making his decision between us and Nebraska on the 14th. What happens if he and hunt decide they want to go blue?

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bluesalt

January 9th, 2013 at 7:45 AM ^

And the other one, assuming he Is still interested, gets told there is no more room. Although given the timing of Samuelson's announcement and Hunt's visit this weekend, I wonder if there is some sort of pecking order -- i.e. Samuelson doesn't have a commitable offer until after Hunt's visit.

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