Hello: Brandon Brown (who is not a recruit)
Good news, everyone! We have expanded our team by one around here by adding Brandon Brown, late of The M Block, as a recruiting reporter. He is pictured at left above.
We found it hard to have Ace be both the recruiting analyst and the reporter at the same time since those roles often conflict, and now that he's moved into basketball pretty heavily we had a gap in our coverage. Brandon will fill that by talking to recruits.
Credentials time: Brandon started doing this himself after an offer to write for another burgeoning site went under when the primary author shut the thing down suddenly. In a relatively short time Brandon established himself as a guy on top of things, correctly identifying the mystery quarterback recruit out of Virginia who would soon become Wilton Speight, commit and George Campbell closer. He also pegged the direction the Drake Harris and Chase Winovich recruitments were going seemingly before anyone else. In a relatively brief period of time he's established himself as a guy who gets things.
He'll be posting two to three things a week, mostly interviews. A Central Michigan grad, Brandon's day job is teaching middle school science in South Carolina; he also coached that level of football. He'll have something coming up in the next couple hours that's rather cool.
The quality of these "Hello" posts is really starting to wane. Where are his Fake 40 times? His predictions based on flimsy evidence? What about the upshot for the rest of the class?
Brandon claims he can type 40 letters in 5.7 seconds, which gets 4 FAKES. Prediction based on flimsy evidence: Brandon will continue with his good work. While he may need a redshirt day to get the hang of the site, expect him to be a solid contribute to the team.
Upshot for the rest of the class: This rounds out the Mgoblog class, as there's no more scholarships available, barring attrition.
I think this means my M Block Recruiting Shirt is now a collector's item.
Big Congrats to you Coach Brown and best of luck here on MGoBlog!
Will you be shutting down your M Block site?
No the site will continue on with the other guys on staff. They've been doing a great job lately so it's still relevant. Ironic timing with the shirts. Right when the shirts were being sent out and finalized, Brian and I were talking about me coming aboard here.
YMRMFSPA - Tom VH
Yeah, that should do. Somebody get to work on a Brandon Brown signal.
Brandon's profile sounds like someone that used to post frequently back in the Haloscan (is that the right word?) days. As I recall, his userid included the word coach. Same guy? I thought he made intelligent postings, but he seemed to have stopped at a certain point, perhaps because he was working with another site.
You mean "halcyon?" You capitalized so i'm not sure if you're talking about some proper noun.
Goooooooooo CHIPS!!!!!
I have no affiliation with Central but it is my understand that this is to be yelled when meeting a Central grad.
IIRC, TomVH was also a Chip ... we got ourselves a feeder school!
As a Central Grad myself, I believe "FIRE UP CHIPS" is the phrase you were going for :)
This is correct.
Cmu grads that cant effing stand fire up chips. I had an r.a. my freshman year that said it all the time and it pissed me off.
yeah, didn't say I liked it...just that it was what he was trying to get.
it always seemed like a derogatory term, but it isn't going away.
Awesome! It's been a bumpy ride since TomVH moved on, first with Ace who (while I find to be a great asset to the blog in his current role) never really emerged to be a recruiting guy in the reporting sense, and then with the deal for Tremendous that fell apart, but hopefully we finally have our guy!
So as I understand it, Ace stays on as the recruiting analyst (meaning Hello posts and weekly roundups), and Brandon will add on with some interviews and whatnot? Or will Brandon be taking some of Ace's old responsibilities too? Either way I'm excited to see how this turns out, the more the merrier when it comes to contributers for this site.
Correct. Ace's role remains the same. Brandon's content is a bonus.
We hired Coach Brown!
Clowney's alter ego as he comes back for more against us?
Welcome! What does "scuttlebutt" mean to you?
Welcome! Looking forward to reading your posts!
Does he have an M-Block Signal?
Congrats Brandon! While I too miss TomVH and others, I commend Ace on the job he's done. Will be nice to have even more content, though. Nice of Ace to put up Thursday Recruitin' today even as he handed over those reigns.
Seriously, welcome Brandon! More people = more content = happier me.
Great hire! Welcome! Direct interviews with recruits was one thing lacking since VH left. Great to see that corrected.
welcome brandon. but come august 31, you're going to get killed.
I'm no longer the rookie!
/drops Brian's and Seth's helmet and pads.
I feel like BiSB might be the best hazer on the staff. Enjoy your upperclassmen status and keep the board posted on the forthcoming shenanigans
Or Brendan Shanahans?
/rimshot
/ducks
This site is dope.
Never thought we'd get updates from a red sun looking thing that says NEW.
/snark
Welcome Mr. Brown! I will from here on call you Mr. Brown and nothing else.
Brian, Ace, Seth, BiSB, Mr. Brown? If that's wrong, I don't want to be right.
Hold me Brandon Brown. Ya, that will work
Brandon B?
Nope. I claim trademark infringement.
I think we need to move on to new phrase. How 'bout "Nurture me Brandon Brown" or "Coddle me Brandon Brown"?
On second thought, maybe we should stick with "Hold me..."
Welcome, Brandon!
Hold me Coach B?
Good news.
Welcome.
...Brandon. Looking forward to reading your work here.
Welcome aboard Mr. Brown. Also Brian hinted he is putting something interesting up today so looking forward to seeing your first piece of writing on the site.
Welcome coach Brown! Have enjoyed the short run of The M Block and now will find your content on my main source/mania/addiction. Congratulations!
Congrats, Brandon!
Coach Brown,
I'm glad to see you on board here. Not that you wanted or needed it, but in my mind this helps give you some level of vindication on this site and should silence the members who bashed you on here.
I've read your site daily for over a year now and always got solid info. Usually, I learned the names of young dudes who would go on to be high level recruits, some even going blue.
MGoBlog just got that much better!
Why would this silence people?
Nice, always good to have more Chippewas around here. Fire Up Chips and welcome aboard
Does this mean that we'll now get post-7pm content? If so, that'd be swell!
the m block and tremendous were always favorites
great, adding to the headcount, next thing you know Brian is going to ban recruiting topics in the interest of national security.
just kidding, welcome to the site look forward to your contributions. If we don't maintain the current recruiting streak its totally your fault.
First off, you look way too clean shaven to be mgostaff. We readers like our bloggers to have either wild cave man hair or a sort of Fred flintstone/ Homer Simpson stubbly thing around their mouth nose. At this point, you look a lot like the guy on that show New Girl, very pg13. We let Heiko slide because of his saving the world through medicine thing and no one has ever seen the mathlete, so I am not yet convinced he is not just a teddy ruxpin with a handheld coleco football game smashed into where the tape should go. From what I can tell, bisb is a dog wearing a hat, so he is covered.
Since we are all likely sitting at desks living vicariously through you, let us lice the dream of having some badass mutton chops or something.
your mis-type of "lice the dream" is particularly enjoyable.
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