Lattimore & Smith will be at the BBQ
The Glenville products will make their way to the bbq today
http://michigan.247sports.com/Board/59424/Lattimore-Smith-to-attend-BBQ-20177350/1
A lot of people have Marshon Lattimore as the number 1 player in Ohio, with reports of him sitting alone at Ohio's FNL event thiis could be big for Michigan.
Erick Smith is also a 4 star safety at a position of need for us
Hopefully Frank Clark and Willie Henry put the full court press on the younger Tarblooders
EDIT: looks like 2015 WR/CB Trevon Story is with them
@TomVH: Grenville receiver RT @__Trevon: On my way to Michigan”
Everything is gravy now. Campbell!!!!!
two up would it cause a meltdown on both blogs
The best kind of meltdown.
Yeah but according to Eleven Warriors it won't matter because Hoke can't win games. Apparently he will never do better than 8-5 again.
http://www.elevenwarriors.com/forum/recruiting/2013/07/quick-bits-727-7…
I got sucked in to reading more of that thread than I should have. What important recruit did Hoke call by the wrong name?
I have no idea. That whole thread becomes a joke after that comment. My favorite is the guy who says we "should have lost the Sugar Bowl" to discredit Hoke's 11-2 season. By that logic, how many games should OSU have lost last year?
Awhile back Berger said that Hoke called him Alex.... Or that was at least the rumor.
Edit: saw that someone already posted this a few comments below. My apologies
Logic is but one of their accomplishments.
The caption under the picture read: "Refreshment stand at county fair, central Ohio."
I have to admit I wasted 10 minutes of my life that I can not get back, as far as the recruit I was wondering the same thing but who cares?
Mwahahaha
I was in denial and refused to admit it until others came forward first
told Bucknuts that on his last visit to Michigan, Hoke called him by the wrong first name and that turned him off of wanting to commit. Just what I remember reading.
I have been calling my 8 month old by the dogs names. Hope she doesn't commit to another parent
You've been calling her Indiana?
I think they're taking about Tom. But that was RR, wasn't it?
Edit: too slow, and wrong too. Oops.
There's always some great quotes there. I'll pick this one as my favorite:
"I would put "0" confidence in the verbal commitment 5* George Campbell. He is an out of state talent, that lives so far away, I doubt he stays committed to TTUN, in the end I think he ends up staying south, just probably caught up in the moment."
would be a far better reference
all i see there in the comments is one ohio a*shole who will not accept the fact that there is no way in hell RR would have gone 11-2 two years ago.
To be fair, there is a decent bit of insight as well:
Urban once remarked that a mediocre coach can win a NC with great players but a great coach can not win a NC with mediocre players. (Urban was talking about the importance of recruiting) if you subscribe to this theory of Urban Meyer's, then hoke should be considered a NC contender based on the recruits he's been getting.
So you're tell us we have a chance......
Hoke can sell ice in the winter, always a chance
Brady Hoke once sold me an umbrella in the middle of the Sahara Desert and I felt damned good about that purchase.
you should. that shade must have been awesome with the sun beating down on you in the middle of nowhere.
Umbrellas can provide shade in the desert.
He forgot to mention the umbrella was 100 percent transparent.
Brady Hoke sold Michigan jerseys in Ohio, and they sold like hotcakes.
He then proceeded to turn the tide in the rivalry.
Hoke sold sand to an Arab and ice to an Eskimo. He may in fact be Steven Bloom
Never once thought I would ever see something like that...
Hoke once sold ocean front property to a man in South Dakota.
that man was me
Once sold a car to Bill Brasky, at sticker price.
Would be a fair trade, I think.
I would take Lattimore over Webb in an instant. Not a fair trade. Both have electronic 40 times from combines: Lattimore was 4.48, while Webb was 4.68. Lattimore is more expolsive and has a couple inches on Webb. Webb was measured at 5'10 at The Opening, not the 5'11 or 6'0 he's sometimes listed at.
Webb is a pure cover corner with size and fluid hips. I'd take a tall cover corner with size over a safety any day of the week and twice on Sunday.
Lattimore is pure cover corne, Smith is the safety
I thought Lattimore was more of an offensive recruit. Has he expressed a preference for defense?
He literally just said he's 5'10, which is 4 inches shorter than I am and I never even got an offer. Granted I've never played organized football.
So you also ran a 4.48 40 and won the MVP at the Best of the Midwest Combine?
yes.
Webb just ran a 4.68 40
I'll take Lattimore. name me the last corner back from Cass Tech to live up to the hype?
Watch and see.
Lattimore is a borderline 5 star corner/athlete to most sites and would be a huge pull in the face of slowing with our other top db targets. It'd take some of the sting out of Ohio landing Michigan's top corner if we land theirs in turn. With the physicality and versatility of him and Peppers and Watson, they could complete our db recruiting with 3 and still have the top secondary class in the country.
The sting of Ohio getting Webb was taken away when we got Peppers.
Alabama south. He'd be a great pull but imo(from articles I've read) he's headed to the vaunted SEC. That also could be why he was an outcast at the FNL event.
I saw somewhere that he was sitting alone at one of the FNL events. How does Ohio fuck up that bad?
Before we read too much into that not everyone has a personality that is super outgoing. There are people out there - even football players - who are quiet, shy, introspective, etc. So that could be Lattimore. If you watch his interviews he is not gregarious. Doesnt mean a thing on the football field but just like Lewan is super outgoing and Schofield you never here a peep out of, it would be nice to have that tandem in Peppers (oozes charisma) and Lattimore (quiet assassin). But getting to your point dont read too much into it - we just assume every football player is rah rah type of personality.
...then he visited for the BBQ!
I wouldn't put anything past this staff. Hoke might just be the best recruiter in the history of Michigan football - can't definitively say that yet but we're heading that way FAST
“@TomVH: Grenville receiver RT @__Trevon: On my way to Michigan”