2014 RB Jeff Jones offered (MIN commit)
Per Allen Trieu. https://twitter.com/AllenTrieu
He looked awesome last night in the UA game. Trieu says he thinks there will be some interest.
Discuss!
Recruiting profile: http://espn.go.com/college-sports/football/recruiting/player/_/id/166744/jeff-jones
January 3rd, 2014 at 11:42 AM ^
May the best Block M win!
January 3rd, 2014 at 11:53 AM ^
Well, since they use an upside down W, I think that'd be us by default.
January 3rd, 2014 at 12:25 PM ^
I'm just hoping the Manhattan College Jaspers don't sink their hooks into him.
January 3rd, 2014 at 12:23 PM ^
that we beat them last night in basketball?
I really liked the way he looked last night and happy to see we are pursuing him.
Edit:
According to Rivals he is also interested in both Iowa State and Florida. He has a visit scheduled with Florida on January 24th.
January 3rd, 2014 at 12:27 PM ^
Damn...if only Michigan's offense looked as dangerous as Florida's.
January 3rd, 2014 at 1:39 PM ^
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January 3rd, 2014 at 2:46 PM ^
January 3rd, 2014 at 3:15 PM ^
January 3rd, 2014 at 1:06 PM ^
I hope Marshall doesn't catch wind of this battle.
January 3rd, 2014 at 11:43 AM ^
January 3rd, 2014 at 12:16 PM ^
He was the MVP.
January 3rd, 2014 at 2:59 PM ^
No, YOU are the MVP my friend.
January 3rd, 2014 at 11:43 AM ^
Not trending for Vic Enwere?
January 3rd, 2014 at 12:10 PM ^
The run at the 0:37 mark. Tripped up by the sholaces, and proceeds to pound the ground with his fists. I remember a running back who would do that, and that ALWAYS meant he would go for over 100 yards that day.
January 3rd, 2014 at 12:37 PM ^
All Mike Hart had to do was wake up any given Saturday morning, and he was pretty much going for 100 yards that day.
January 3rd, 2014 at 1:16 PM ^
admittedly, i didnt watch most of the game last night but in this highlight video it looks like he goes down by a lot of arm tackles. I think i saw maybe 5 legitimate tackles broken, everything else he fell down or slowed down enough people caught him.
I don't like that. Was he breaking tackles and running through arm tackles in the UA game?
I have learned over the years that kids that are shifty in high school do not pan out too well in college where everybody is bigger and faster and stronger. (see: Sam McGuffie)
January 3rd, 2014 at 2:37 PM ^
So, bad example. He had 2 100 yeard games as a true freshman, better than any of our guys this year, and with just as (well almost) as poor a line. His career was derailed by home sickness and injuries, not by not being good.
I think there are far more examples of big kids who break tackles in HS and can't in college (see Green, Derrick, Grady, Kevin, and Rawls, Thomas) than of shifty guys who don't succeed.
January 3rd, 2014 at 4:08 PM ^
It's a stretch to say that McGuffie was good in college. At Michigan he was the fourth-best running back going by yards/carry (behind Minor, Shaw, and Carlos Brown). His best year came as a senior slot receiver for Conference USA's Rice, where he had 603 yards receiving, averaged 11.2 yards/catch, and scored 5 touchdowns. If that means he was a good player, then there are lots and lots of good players out there...which really dilutes the term "good."
January 3rd, 2014 at 2:38 PM ^
He ran hard and willingly attacked defenders. A little shift, but he didn't dance.
January 3rd, 2014 at 11:44 AM ^
Looks like a lot of teams are going to come after him hard down the stretch...
This kid is (and has been) a beast... Would be huge.
January 3rd, 2014 at 11:44 AM ^
January 3rd, 2014 at 11:46 AM ^
He looked among the best in the game yesterday. Would love to see him in highligher yellow and blue!
January 3rd, 2014 at 11:46 AM ^
January 3rd, 2014 at 1:56 PM ^
be slightly in our favor.
January 3rd, 2014 at 2:05 PM ^
But he lost...Now I'm confused. Do we want him or don't we?
January 3rd, 2014 at 11:49 AM ^
'bout damn time
January 3rd, 2014 at 11:54 AM ^
January 3rd, 2014 at 11:55 AM ^
We currently don't have any RBs in this class.
And if we got Jones, we assuredly would stop recruiting Enwere.
January 3rd, 2014 at 11:59 AM ^
Michigan currently has zero RB commitments in the '14 class. Damien Harris is a '15 recruit.
January 3rd, 2014 at 11:54 AM ^
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January 3rd, 2014 at 12:22 PM ^
GR III's leg wants to have a talk with you.
January 3rd, 2014 at 12:23 PM ^
This is just an offer. I think we offer talented players every year.
January 3rd, 2014 at 11:58 AM ^
But uh, I like Michigan's chances.
A lot of nice offers though: Wisconsin, Florida, MSU, Michigan, Iowa, Iowa St., Kentucky, Illinois, Syracuse. Oregon passed on him looks like.
January 3rd, 2014 at 12:01 PM ^
Looks like a solid player. I like the offer.
January 3rd, 2014 at 12:05 PM ^
I'll caution everybody by saying Derrick Green looked like a damn bulldozer last year in this game.
But yeah, Jones looked great yesterday. Had no idea we hadn't offered him. He's been on a lot of people's radar for a while.
January 3rd, 2014 at 12:09 PM ^
January 3rd, 2014 at 12:35 PM ^
"Debby" was the tropical storm in Florida last year that killed a dozen and affected thousands...
January 3rd, 2014 at 12:42 PM ^
January 3rd, 2014 at 1:58 PM ^
Classic Debbie!
January 3rd, 2014 at 12:09 PM ^
And? Green will be a good player for us. I'd take another... Jones is a very different type of player than Green is though.
January 3rd, 2014 at 12:15 PM ^
Both HUGE, Both POWER, Both #27
Henry runs behind Alabama's OL...and you saw what he did last night.
Green runs behind Michigan's OL...and you saw what he did all season.
It all comes down to the OL. They make the QB, RB and WRs all look good.
January 3rd, 2014 at 3:05 PM ^
This is ridiculous. If it is all about the line Mike Hart would have had the same statistics as David Underwood and Jerome Jackson in 2004. Actually, he never would have started that year because their shortcomings wouldn't have led the coaches to look for a different RB.
January 3rd, 2014 at 3:58 PM ^
YOUR argument is ridiuclous. It implies that all RBs are the same. That's not what I said.
And Max Martin was the 3rd RB on that team. Martin and Jackson both averaged more than 4 yards per carry.
Still, that's not the point. Mike Hart isn't Mike Hart if he has the 2013 line instead of the 2004 line.
Chad Henne isn't Chad Henne, and in turn, Braylon isn't Braylon.
THAT is what I am saying.
Put Derrick Green behind Alabama's OL or Devin Gardner behind Alabama's OL and I guarantee we have a better year and a better offense.
...how you took THAT to be "all RBs are the same and it's just about your OL" is stupid. And I think you know it.
January 3rd, 2014 at 4:35 PM ^
I pointed out the fallacy of your statement that "it all comes down to the OL." I did so by pointing to a specific example of different RBs obtaining different results while running behind the same OL. That doesn't imply that all RBs are the same, it illustrates the opposite. If all RBs were the same they would get the same results when the OL variable is held constant. The example shows that production isn't simply a question of what linemen are in front of a RB.
I'm not sure what point you're trying to make by referencing Max Martin. Tim Bracken, Alijah Bradley and Pierre Rembert were also RBs on that team. They also performed more poorly than Mike Hart. I simply referenced the 3 RBs who had starts that year.
January 3rd, 2014 at 6:09 PM ^
Of course different running backs are going to have different results behind the same offensive line.
Please tell me where I said that they would have the same resuts.
I said it's all about the OL. And that goes for the RB, QB, and WRs.
Mike Hart, would not have been Mike Hart behind our OL, Henne and Edwards the same.
How can you not understand that very logical...and factual statement?
January 3rd, 2014 at 7:20 PM ^
"Please tell me where I said that they would have the same resuts."
That would be where you said "it's all about the OL." "All" means "wholly; entirely; completely." I tried to point out to you that it is also about the ability of the RBs. It's obvious that a better OL will give a team better results all else being equal. If that pedestrian observation is your point we can just agree.
Finally, while it's true that Mike Hart's statistics would have been less glorious if the various OLs he ran behind had skill equivalent to this year's OL he would still have been Mike Hart.