New in-state offer: 2024 QB Isaiah Marshall
I'm about to make you feel really old:
Michigan offered Southfield (MI) A&T quarterback Isaiah Marshall this morning from the class of...2024. This is his first offer of the recruiting process.
Here's a link to his highlights, which indicate that he threw 51 TDs last season (LINK).
January 15th, 2019 at 12:13 PM ^
Also, this is the first 2024 offer from Michigan that I've seen. AFAIK, Michigan has only offered one 2023 player so far, too.
January 15th, 2019 at 1:00 PM ^
Hey Magnus, thanks for keeping us up to date. Is this the furthest out we've ever offered a kid, at 5 years-ish from signing a LOI?
January 15th, 2019 at 1:04 PM ^
I believe so, yes. Michigan offered 2023 QB Dante Moore in June of 2018, so this is about 5 months ahead of that time frame.
January 15th, 2019 at 12:19 PM ^
Any word if Don Brown offered that 2030 ATH who plays for Dexter Pop Warner?
January 15th, 2019 at 1:10 PM ^
He did, great pad level!
January 15th, 2019 at 3:20 PM ^
I had great pad level too when I was in 1st Grade. Good bend, low center of mass. Couldn't reach the darn microwave to get my mac-n-cheese though, so I was a bit underweight.
January 15th, 2019 at 12:21 PM ^
we are now recruiting players who weren't even born when we won our last B1G championship.
January 15th, 2019 at 12:31 PM ^
Beyond sad.
January 15th, 2019 at 12:32 PM ^
Ouch. Some truths are better not stated.
January 15th, 2019 at 1:40 PM ^
Incoming freshman class wasn't born yet the last time we won in Columbus :(
January 15th, 2019 at 2:08 PM ^
This isn't the first kid that we've recruiting that wasn't born in 2004. Some 2021 kids and 2022 kids weren't alive for that.
January 15th, 2019 at 12:23 PM ^
class of 24? born in...07?
January 15th, 2019 at 1:06 PM ^
Or 06, same class my son is in. Still awaiting Harbaugh's call. Maybe not playing football has something to do with that.
January 15th, 2019 at 1:11 PM ^
I can see that being a deal breaker unless they are on the soccer or rugby team.
January 15th, 2019 at 1:15 PM ^
I never saw myself as being "old," but I graduated high school in 2006 and this is making me feel a certain way.
January 15th, 2019 at 1:35 PM ^
Well that's good news! Most of the guys we're recruiting now don't remember the Horror.
January 15th, 2019 at 12:27 PM ^
This kid is my son's age. I think it's wrong to offer kids this young. Not because he's twelve, but because he's my fucking son's age and that makes me fucking old and that's not fucking OK...
January 15th, 2019 at 12:37 PM ^
Surprised you haven't already, but eat your son. You'll feel better.
January 15th, 2019 at 1:05 PM ^
Username checks out.
January 15th, 2019 at 12:27 PM ^
I feel a thousand years old.
January 15th, 2019 at 12:35 PM ^
Wait till you're the 2,000 year old man. You'll be pretty funny, by 1960s standards at least. Mel is 92 and still alive and kicking it with Carl Reiner on a daily basis. impressive.
January 15th, 2019 at 10:14 PM ^
Reiner will be 97 in a couple of months so long as there's no grabber or whatever.
January 15th, 2019 at 2:53 PM ^
How do you know how a thousand year old feels? Just asking for my great, great, great, great grandfather.
January 15th, 2019 at 12:30 PM ^
Well, the kid has a good start. If he can throw and see the field like that in Jr High...he just might end up being pretty good.
January 15th, 2019 at 12:32 PM ^
I know its all an arms race and seeing who can get to these kids first, but offering a 7th grader is ridiculous, in my opinion. I don't care if you're Rutgers or Alabama. I'd want to see the kid play at least one year of real HS football before I even start talking to him. How much can you really learn about a kid when he's barely even grown into his body yet?
At this point, I won't be surprised if college football recruiting starts moving into eugenics. Some company will start growing test-tube recruits in some underground lab somewhere, and they will get sold off to the highest bidder. $10,000.00 for five stars, $7,500.00 for four stars, but if you buy three four star recruits now, you get the fourth one free.
January 15th, 2019 at 12:42 PM ^
On the surface it seems ridiculous they offered a seventh grader but here’s a thought I had:
In Europe, every soccer club has a youth academy with players his age or even younger and it’s completely normal. You can tell elite talent and athleticism at an early age. Just because he was offered doesn’t mean he will commit or end up at michigan. Just in case he does end up being an elite player he will always remember Michigan was the first to offer him and it may help in his final decision in the far far future. I don’t have a problem with it.
January 15th, 2019 at 1:05 PM ^
Yeah, there are kids in their mid-teens playing pro basketball in Europe, so it's not that far of a stretch on a global scale. It does seem weird in America, though.
January 16th, 2019 at 12:18 PM ^
Eh, these super early offers are usually for publicity. Obviously it's a crap-shoot whether the kid will develop but it's not like the offer binds Michigan in any way and it got UM football a front page story on ESPN and all the talking heads shows for a day or so which was the real reason UM offered.
January 15th, 2019 at 12:34 PM ^
Offered him what?
To cut the crust off his sandwich?
To drive him to the mall?
To help him figure out multiplication?
Did we hire Kiffin or Gattis?
January 15th, 2019 at 1:17 PM ^
Offered him a chance to a) go tree climbing, b) go go-cart racing, and c) attend a sleepover, just normal Harbaugh stuff.
January 15th, 2019 at 12:35 PM ^
So we just offered a 12 or 13 year old? How does his 7th grade tape look?
January 15th, 2019 at 9:49 PM ^
Actually, it looks pretty good. Check out the link.
January 15th, 2019 at 12:36 PM ^
Holy crap, one of my kids is basically his age then (assuming born in 2006 to be in class of 2024, of course). Yeah, that one actually does make me feel rather old then. Worse, when we talk 2025 at whatever point, I will have a kid that is the same age as that one AND one that is a year older then. That might make me feel even older.
January 15th, 2019 at 12:41 PM ^
Think of dates as a number only. You are as old as you feel and act. Some of you are very young at heart.
January 15th, 2019 at 12:45 PM ^
12 year old kid has a better arm than I ever had. Can he play baseball also?
January 15th, 2019 at 12:46 PM ^
is he related to Lawrence Marshall?
January 15th, 2019 at 2:17 PM ^
Yes, him and Lawrence are cousins
January 15th, 2019 at 12:48 PM ^
He threw 51 TDs against...middle schoolers. That seems a bit unfair.
January 15th, 2019 at 12:50 PM ^
My son will be class of 2024 and his 7th grade film is amazing. I did not know I needed to have this stuff online so early. Goodness.
January 15th, 2019 at 12:49 PM ^
It is ridiculous, IMO, for schools to be offering full rides to kids that haven't academically qualified for high school yet (generally speaking). I understand that this is just a prelim offer and doesn't mean anything until the kid is actually admitted, but the NCAA should really draw a line about how early this process is allowed to begin. This assumes the NCAA is a competent organization though.
January 15th, 2019 at 12:52 PM ^
I mean...its not like he has a binding contract that he can sign at any time. This is definitely one of those "you are on track to be a D1 athlete and we have interest now. If you continue progressing we will continue showing interest"
January 15th, 2019 at 1:27 PM ^
So wait, the offer is not committable???
January 15th, 2019 at 1:17 PM ^
I agree 100%. My son is also in the 2024 class and I can't imagine big name coaches calling my son. Not to mention what that would do to his ego or how the kids at school would react. Let these kids be kids. They need to focus on school, video games, watching stupid YouTube videos, girls, whatever but not what they'll be doing in 5+ years.
January 16th, 2019 at 7:52 AM ^
Concern noted. Otherwise, that is what parents are for...do your job and your kid will be fine. My concern is that you are concerned about an athletic scholarship offer but think your kid should be focusing on video games and ...hmm. Here, as a retired pediatric nurse, I am concerned...really, I am.
January 16th, 2019 at 9:29 PM ^
Right. I know plenty of kids who were concerned about video games and Youtube videos that are doing jack squat now that they're 19 or 20 years old. If the kid has a goal of playing big-time college football and keeps his head on straight, then good for him and for his parents.
January 15th, 2019 at 12:53 PM ^
If he stays in college 5 years, he'll be done in 2029!
January 15th, 2019 at 12:58 PM ^
I had no idea that they had state champs for jr high football.
January 15th, 2019 at 1:02 PM ^
Was he playing up any levels? There were some huge kids on that team for middle school.
Edit: NVM there was a kid about 5 feet tall trying to tackle him towards the end. Has to be middle school.
January 15th, 2019 at 1:10 PM ^
Magnus, any "household name" college players that were originally offered scholarships at that young of an age? I don't follow recruiting well enough to know if any of these insanely early offered recruits ever pan out.