Officially official: Eric Gray decommits
December 1st, 2018 at 1:07 PM ^
Speight was never good.
December 1st, 2018 at 1:10 PM ^
He was a solid starter. Considering he was a 3 star Hoke recruit I consider that a success.
December 1st, 2018 at 1:14 PM ^
Speight was a Hoke recruit. He played far better than anyone ever thought he would. So not anything to with Harbaugh's recruiting and a solid example of Harbaugh's coaching.
December 1st, 2018 at 1:20 PM ^
Healthy Speight beats Iowa and OSU that year...just saying
December 1st, 2018 at 1:25 PM ^
Speight was healthy against Iowa until the 2nd to last series in that game. He was awful.
December 1st, 2018 at 1:34 PM ^
Michigan lead the entire game and lost by one point when the momentum turned after the Speight injury he wasn’t great but he was managing and Michigan would have one in my opinion for not the injury.
December 1st, 2018 at 1:40 PM ^
They did not lead the entire game, they were losing for a good portion of the 2nd half before Kenny Allen kicked a damn near 50 year FG. Scoring 13 points on the road and overthrowing multiple wide open WR is not getting it done. There was no momentum. The offense couldn't move the ball all night and a lot of that was because the QB was below average.
December 1st, 2018 at 1:44 PM ^
Cool. Hook em’
December 1st, 2018 at 1:15 PM ^
Well he was first team All American compared to you and your 1-star posts.
(I had to edit that from 3-star to 1-star...3 was way too generous for this JC recruit)
December 1st, 2018 at 1:24 PM ^
In the 2016 season, Speight took us to the Orange Bowl. You, Diagonal, were otherwise occupied sticking crayons up your nose and missed this achievement. For your own good and that of this board, please let the doctors remove them.
December 1st, 2018 at 1:27 PM ^
We went to the Orange Bowl in spite of Speight not because of him. Amazing how history keeps getting rewritten by some on here. Harbaugh was so done with Speight he brought in Shea Patterson this year because he knew he couldn't win with him.
December 1st, 2018 at 3:49 PM ^
Speight was on the the heisman watch list prior to the Iowa game was having a 1st team all BIG season prior to the Iowa game. He was playing great. It's not Harbaugh fault walker couldn't cut it in the class room. QB development has been very good Ruddock and Speight performed great their first years. Peters looks like a miss however Patterson and Mcaffery have turned out great. Diagnol blue why do you post here and follow this team?
December 1st, 2018 at 1:36 PM ^
Better than you and the other armchair quarterbacks on here
December 1st, 2018 at 1:09 PM ^
Please don't feed the troll.
December 1st, 2018 at 1:09 PM ^
Your posts are bad.
Higdon--Very good player
Deveon Smith--Solid productive player
Tru Wilson--solid productive player
Chris Evans--Solid productive player
Additionally, you referenced guys who were brought in more as athletes than RBs.(Haskins/Barrett)
You consistently shitty posts. We'll call you DysenteryBlue from now.
December 1st, 2018 at 1:16 PM ^
Haskins and Barrett were both brought in as RB's don't kid yourself. Smith was a Hoke recruit and I said Evans was a nice player but he is miscast as a RB and he should probably be playing slot WR. He can't run between the tackles. Finally, if you're citing a walkon RB who gets a couple carries a game as something to hang your hat on while programs like UGA are trotting out backfields with guys like Gurley, Michel, Chubb, and Swift then that really shows how delusional this fan base is about what it takes to win a national title.
You know whats consistently shitty? Losing to OSU every year and not winning a big ten title in 15 years while all everyone does on this board is defend the players and coaches responsible for that.
December 1st, 2018 at 1:21 PM ^
15 years my stomach just turned thanks for the reminder guy
December 1st, 2018 at 1:50 PM ^
Shut up Maizen/Bluey.
December 1st, 2018 at 2:58 PM ^
You’re an idiot. Higdon was the first commit, and he just was first team BIG. Evans has has a better career than most RB recruits, including folks like Max Martin and Kevin Grady and Derrick...what was Mr. Twinkle Toes name?
Evans better than Sam McGuffie’s career.
Rarely has Michigan had a first or second year RB be the workhorse. Chris Perry was not Chris Perry as an underclassmen.
Chris Howard was never the best, but he barely touched the field in first two years.
O’Maury may pan, or maybe he gets it together.
We alsonhad Ty Isaac. But sure, name all the ones that don’t work out and insult the ones who do. That’s your MO.
December 1st, 2018 at 5:24 PM ^
Dude...you kinda need to move on. Michigan is 38-13 in four years and ascending. Frustrating they’re not 51-0, but come on man. Everyone but Michigan fans hate Michigan and teams bring their A game against UM every game. There is no entitlement. You got to work. The days of Michigan giving 49 points against Houston and taking Michigan to cover are over. (I took Michigan in that game btw and won) Things are more balanced with the exception of Alabama, Clemson and freaking OSU.
December 1st, 2018 at 1:12 PM ^
He would've stayed committed if we were playing today.
December 1st, 2018 at 1:17 PM ^
So he somehow knew that UM would not play today months ago when he chose to skip an OV to Ann Arbor all fall ...
December 1st, 2018 at 1:24 PM ^
He used his OV to Michigan in the summer.
December 1st, 2018 at 1:29 PM ^
You are correct. Ok, he didn’t even step foot in AA since June?
The point still stands. This decommit had no causation/correlation relationship to UM missing the the B1G championship game.
December 1st, 2018 at 2:12 PM ^
I disagree. Yes, it's been known he's been good as gone for 2 months now, but if Michigan was getting into the playoff and looking better than they did last week, there's still a chance he stays in the class. Winning is attractive.
December 1st, 2018 at 1:33 PM ^
Loved his film. Oh well. We need speed like his, he's a good bit faster than Chris Evans.
December 1st, 2018 at 1:36 PM ^
There sure are a bunch of awful takes here. Sure, it would be nice to have Gray. However, Michigan's RB room will be in very good shape next year. Anyone, and I do mean ANYONE, who believes this is a make or break deal...well, it simply is not so. Otherwise, I would be very happy if they got that Williams kid out of Florida!
December 1st, 2018 at 1:41 PM ^
Lose a top 100 commit and flip an Appalachian State commit, and we wonder why we never beat OSU anymore.
December 1st, 2018 at 1:53 PM ^
Weren't you the guy who was constantly complaining about Beilein & his recruiting?
December 1st, 2018 at 2:00 PM ^
No, but even Beilein adopted a recruiting strategy of taking mostly top 100 guys. DeJulius, Castelton, Johns, and Brazdeikis are all top 100 guys. So are Xavier Simpson, Charles Matthews, Isiah Livers, and Jordan Poole. Teske and Brooks are the only guys in the rotation who weren't. Bajema and Wilson next year are both top 100 guys.
December 1st, 2018 at 2:09 PM ^
Adopted a strategy? Do you really think these kids can be made to commit? If they could get all 5 stars, they would probably do that.
And yes, it is you... You post the exact same shit, just under a different name. It's so obvious, it's funny.
December 1st, 2018 at 2:44 PM ^
I'll keep it simple for you. In football there are 85 scholarships and in basketball there are 13. So multiply the basketball rating by about 6.4 and you have some semblance of an equivalency rating.
December 1st, 2018 at 3:02 PM ^
It has taken nearly a decade for Coach B to consistently get those top 100s. He won early with guys like Stu Douglass and has to take guys like Blake McLimans. You have some seriously selective evidence. It’s as if you’re afraid to acknowledge that Coach B used to not have a chance at any top guys until he started taking early looks at the GR3s of the world who were under the radar when they committed.
December 2nd, 2018 at 8:57 AM ^
I'm adopting a recruiting strategy of recruiting the best possible players. My previous strategy of not recruiting them didn't go so well.
December 1st, 2018 at 2:26 PM ^
Have you seen the "Appalachian State commit" tape??? Do you believe Gray is clearly the better college prospect??? In a "blind" assessment, I probably take Williams.
December 1st, 2018 at 1:36 PM ^
What took so long?
December 1st, 2018 at 1:57 PM ^
Sad to see him go. I think he will be a great player and wish him the best.
December 1st, 2018 at 1:57 PM ^
I thought Gray had already officially decommitted.
As for DJ Williams, he's got offers from Auburn, Texas, Tennessee, SC, Miami, and Georgia.
I predict the response here will be that they're really non-committable offers.
December 1st, 2018 at 3:36 PM ^
I'm no recruiting expert but would you turn down all of those offers to play for App St, then drop App St as soon as Michigan came calling?
December 1st, 2018 at 2:19 PM ^
Best of luck to him. His commitment always seemed a bit tenuous. He'll be good at UT, but Michigan is pretty set at RB as well.
December 1st, 2018 at 2:28 PM ^
"A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject." —Winston Churchill
December 1st, 2018 at 2:35 PM ^
Everything sucks?
December 1st, 2018 at 3:16 PM ^
Next recruit in.
December 1st, 2018 at 3:46 PM ^
Good luck young man...
December 1st, 2018 at 4:19 PM ^
Thanks for using us while never actually planning to come here. 99.99% of the time I wish decommits the best, but not this one.
December 1st, 2018 at 4:23 PM ^
Eh whatever...dont need him. Michigan gon' be just fine. Go enjoy redneckball in the ess eee see.
December 1st, 2018 at 5:55 PM ^
Not really much of a surprise, but still...time to move on.
December 1st, 2018 at 5:59 PM ^
Happy trails
More carries for Charbonnet
December 1st, 2018 at 6:37 PM ^
Enjoy the dumpster fire that is Tennessee football
December 1st, 2018 at 8:12 PM ^
What?!?!? Where did this come from? I thought this guy was rock solid? I swear this Ohio State loss is going to kill this recruiting class!