New ESPN 300

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ESPN released their new 150/300 today. Some big (downward) moves for Michigan recruits:

#88 Jourdan Lewis (+4)

#91 David Dawson (-4)

#93 Dymonte Thomas (+4)

#101 Patrick Kugler (+14)

#104 Logan Tuley-Tillman (+1)

#114 Mike McCray (-3)

#116 Taco Charlton (+3)

#127 Shane Morris (-73)

#134 Chris Fox (-21)

#157 Kyle Bosch (-30)

#182 Jake Butt (-6)

#232 Jaron Dukes (+1)

#254 Henry Poggi (+34)

#280 Ben Gedeon (+2)

 

Not so good for Shane.  Although he hasn't looked sharp at all for a while.  Hopefully he can redshirt and work on his accuracy and reading the whole field.

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B1G_Fan

January 11th, 2013 at 4:25 AM ^

 Did you see the Brady 6 where some of the teams actually say the Michigan coaches wouldn't back Brady?

 Or even tho Brady consistantly played better in games ( better stats, scoring drives everything possible) than Drew Henson, they still split time.

 Come to Michigan and be the next Tom Brady...... What made Tom Brady a good QB was instilled in him way before he stepped foot at the University of Michigan.

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FreddieMercuryHayes

January 10th, 2013 at 1:27 PM ^

Can I say that I have a huge problem with Shane's tumble.  Not the usual 'rabble rabble my guy fell rabble rabble', but just how completely illogical it seems.  One can make the argument that Morris is only the 127 prospect in the country; that's fine and there are data points you could make to back that up.  You could also rate him in the top-25 and have data points to back that up as well, namely the ridiculous ceiling brought about by his arm strength.  But to rate him in the top-50 at the beginning of his senior year, then drop him out of the top 100?  Why the drop?  He still has the same issues that he had the previous years.  Nothing new there.  So was the initial top 50 rating based upon how they felt he was supposed to improve?  Well that's just a ridiculously stupid way of rating prospects as well; just rate him outside of the top 100 in the first place, and if he improves, move him up.  How does three days at a UA game outweight the whole camp curcuit?  There's no new data points for a drop that far, except missing half a season for mono.  At least Scout's slight drop (like 10 spots) can be attributed to just other people improving their stock over the season and Morris staying about the same.  There's just no logic to it, and that's what bothers me.

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B1G_Fan

January 10th, 2013 at 1:39 PM ^

  It was missing half a season with Mono and then the first time you see him after that was the Under Armor game where he ( and every other QB there) looked bad. The UA game is a joke and this was the last year i'm watching it. It was like the coaches patting themselves on the back and the finished product looked like a pee wee scrimmage compared to the Army and Semper FI games. So yea if you want to run some drills for a week and look like crap on national television head on out to the Under Armor all American game

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Magnus

January 11th, 2013 at 6:06 AM ^

Those rankings are presumably based on seeing some improvement as a senior.  If Morris had some problems as a junior, and then returned in 2012 with the exact same issues, wouldn't that lower your expectations a bit?  Like maybe he's hit his ceiling?

If you gave one of your employees a list of weaknesses to improve, and one year later he's still making the same mistakes, wouldn't you have concerns about whether he'll improve as a worker down the road?

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ken725

January 10th, 2013 at 1:49 PM ^

If this change in ranking was really based heavily on how Shane performed in one game that is total crap.  Brice Ramsey who threw 3 picks in the game did not fall as far down as Shane did.

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Alumnus93

January 10th, 2013 at 2:30 PM ^

well Peyton looked quite horrible early this season, didn't he?   

give Shane a pass here...  Mono is wicked.

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Wazoo

January 10th, 2013 at 3:05 PM ^

Kovacs was a walk on and Ryan was I believe a 3 star.  Some of our 5 stars have not always panned out as we had hoped.  It's not an exact science.  Ratings give us all something to discuss, but in the end, I'd rather put my trust in what the coaching staff sees in a kid they decide to offer.

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ghost

January 10th, 2013 at 4:04 PM ^

Off topic, but the first casaulty of Brian Kelly's interview is 4 star LB Alex Anzalone who has decommitted from ND and committed to Florida.  

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DemetriusBrown

January 10th, 2013 at 7:35 PM ^

Was close to a 50 percent completion rate before going down with mono. I'm excited and optimistic about his future at Michigan but I'm more surprised that he has kept his 5 star status with the other sites.

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