Dax Hill Flips to Bama

I’ve been off the internet all day.  I finally log and and see this shit....fucking unreal! No other way to describe it....this is painful.  

Totally sucks.   Damn it

FUCK SPORTS

We’ll see how the coaching staff handles this.  This could be the beginning of more decommits and recruits going elsewhere as the cycle ends.  Even more pressure than usual is on them to finish this class in a positive way.  Everybody hold on!

Not surprised.  CFB is dirty.  Anyone who does not see this is choosing to be blind about it.

Bama has 22 4/5 stars.  Only one 3 star (a kicker).  Bama might end up with the best recruiting class of all time.

Saban clearly is one of the all time great CFB coaches. 

Still, the recruiting run Alabama is on logically cannot only be the result of Alabama winning a lot and 4/5 stars wanting to play for a winner. 

Sure that is a big part of it.  But it is obvious that a system of institutionalized 'extra benefits' are an integral and necessary ingredient too.  Do yourself a favor and Google "Alabama football players' cars."   Tip of the iceberg.

Problem is that some level of extra benefits exist at all major programs, including Michigan, just in much smaller amounts and in a much less institutionalized way (less directed by and/or directly connected to the program).  Thus, it becomes impossible for anyone to rat out the most dirty programs. 

Everybody involved in the system knows what is going on.  But because no program is totally clean (couldn't be even if they wanted to), omerta prevents reporting on the Alabamas of the world.

Plus, the NCAA does not want to damage its most valuable brands with vigorous investigation of illegal benefits, so it pretends not to know.

Michigan is sort of stuck.  Can't be totally clean, otherwise they would not be able to compete at all in recruiting.  Yet Michigan is not a place that is willing go to the full on Alabama level of institutionalized 'taking care of guys' either, so it will lose out to Bama (or even Ole Miss, etc.) on the key recruits that could get the program to the very top level.

Illegal benefits are everywhere in CFB.  Alabama (and some others) are just more willing to perfect that part of it than Michigan.  And the NCAA is not going to lift a finger to fix it.

It is what it is.  And it makes the whole 'stretch gate' thing seem silly, doesn't it? 

Well, I was just about to decide to go "all in" on college football and start watching something other than Michigan.  Not now, i'll support our boys and continue to ignore the rest. 

Alabama is like Lance Armstrong.  It's so obvious that bullshit is going on it isn't even funny.  But Saint Nick and Father Dabo can do no wrong.  I am sure Paowl Feianbaowm will tell all of us that everything is as it should be.

Fuck Bama, go Sooners

This has shit to do with $$$ 

this has to do with Michigan being what .... 0-infinity vs OSU?  You want to play the best football and win conference titles  and play for the national title?  You go to Bama.  Our #1 defense got shit on by a power offense on national TV.  Bama has won what ... 5 titles in 9 years?  If you want to win all the football you go to Bama.

I love Michigan but I had an opportunity to go to a better school.  So I did despite my love for M.  If I was a 5 star and my main goal was to win football games, I’d go to Bama/Clemson over M too, regardless of how much I loved M.

Saban manipulates these kids every year into making Harbaugh think he has a highly rated/ wanted kid and then... "surprise" kid chooses Bama. That means Harbaugh can't recruit other (maybe slightly lower ranked) kids and scares off others.

Then, boom... 2 weeks before signing day and... kid flips to Bama, as a complete surprise. scramble for Harbaugh.

Dax could have told M sooner, he could have not poisoned other recruits.

One big advantage an NFL head coaching job has over a college job is that the acquisition of talent is conducted on a level playing field. As much as this kid’s decision is bothering fans, I’d imagine that it frustrates Harbaugh even more.

The SEC bagmen are definitely a factor

Remember Otis Reese flipping late last year? Yeah well a picture came out shortly after of him and who I assume to be his girlfriend posing in front of a brand new Cadillac Escalade. The kicker is the Escalade had a window decal of his number on it in Georgia colors so it was without a doubt his SUV.

And Nick Saban owns fucking Mercedes Car dealerships and pictures come out all the time of his 5 stars owning vehicles that middle class families would struggle to afford. Beyond obvious whats going on there

If the NCAA isn't going to do anything about the paying of recruits then Michigan needs to go ALL IN dropping bags. Forget your bullshit moral superiority. All the top programs are buying the best classes annually. Why aren't we doing it

Where did this come from? 

Bagmen in Bama with really deep pockets

LOL.. this is why everything that is said in the recruiting business is bullshit.  Did any of the “insiders” see this coming?  I was lead to believe that this kid was “different”, and all that shit.  Best of luck to the kid, I guess.  This is frustrating, because there’s no new information for him really now than when he committed.  We had a good, not elite, program at that time.  Alabama had an elite program at that time.  Focus on the OSU defensive performance all you want, but this defense had been prone to at least one “WTF? Outing” per year.  

I honesty can’t invest much into this type of stuff anymore.  It’s bad for my health.  

I guess the Spring Break trips Dax would have taken to South Africa, Antarctica and the Moon weren't enough to make up for the 62 point depantsing in The Game.

Harbaugh did everything backwards. . .the trips, the signing with the stars, the satellite camps, the vanity project picture books, all the bling. . .win something first, then do all that.  As it is, Harbaugh looks like some has-been celebrity who pays the paparazzi to keep him in the headlines.  Frankly, he's been an embarrassment. . .and that's without even mentioning his hiring of his alcoholic Colonel buddy and that American Sniper nonsense.  

To anyone encouraging Michigan to employ unethical methods to get recruits (bagman) please feel free to go root for some other team. My allegiance to Michigan football is not only because of the education that I received there, it's not only because of the incredible tradition of the football program, but it's also due to understanding that for the 40 years that I've watched college football (of course pre-dating my enrollment), Michigan has won with integrity, character, and the standard of molding student athletes into productive adults. 

I don't EVER want Michigan athletics to stoop to the "win at all costs" level of Alabama, OSU, USC, Miami, etc... If Michigan EVER stooped that low, I'd no longer root for the program. The basketball program in the 1990's broke my heart, and caused me a decade of consternation over the basketball team. Coach Amaker restored my faith in the program's integrity, and Coach Beilein restored my enthusiasm.

So, I'm fine if Michigan is an ethical 10-11 win team, annually. I want another National Title, who doesn't? But I am not willing to see the university that I love have its football program devolve into soliciting recruits with 'bagmen', prostitutes, and cars. Further, I do not want any student/athlete whose commitment to our fine university can be compromised by one football game. I prefer student/athletes who commit to not only the football team, but to the university that has edified many of our lives, and that offers so much more than football. I want recruits who come to campus and love MICHIGAN, not just Michigan football.

Yes, I'm frustrated with losing to Ohio State. But, I'd rather lose another 14/15 years than to become OSU. As Nietzsche once said - "Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster". 

Go Blue!

Well, that’s painful. Thought he was actually focused on a great education based on the comments by him and the family.  Guess great football + mediocre education > good football + great education.

Until UM decides to recruit with the same “commitment” as UGA, Bama and OSU, we will struggle to compete for the top tier.

College football is broken. Alabama has fractured it, removed any surprise. Monopolized it.  Sure, there used to be dynasties and 2-3 serious contenders a year...now there's just one. Alabama at just 75% effort should win any remaining games and their 6th championship in 11 years. They were basically a few insane plays away from 8 or 9 in 11 years. Who will be the favorite next year? Not Alabama?

College football has gotten top heavy and boring. Predictable. No need for a "Phil Steele" "most accurate prediction mag"... Any casual fan can predict the playoff or get darn close. 

Michigan is just one of many programs that will never compete for anything meaningful while this continues. Feel worse for LSU, Georgia, etc. They are throwing even more money at something they can't hope to overcome. And they have to play Alabama at least once a year to go anywhere.