Damien Harris Drops Michigan
Guess it was a mere formality at this point, but Damien Harris just released a top 5 that didn't include Michigan. Happy trails.
Both your skepticism and the kid's interest in other schools are understandable. I am a life-long Michigan fan too, but I considered MSU when they showed a little bit of interest in me as a baseball player in high school. Fandom means less to kids.
Can't say I'm surprised. Better now than later. We can focus on Weber now 100%
I think we should worry about the 5 star RBs that we already have.
Amen.
time to move and find another option, hopefully Mike Weber
Do we blame this on ThadMattasagoblin too?
(I kid ThadMattasagoblin - I never fully got the disdain for him around here.)
August 1st, 2014 at 10:27 PM ^
so, yes.
Wish the kid the best. Would love to have him but Mike Weber is an in state guy so full court press time. I think Harris will be SEC bound. Got 4 text messages from members of my golf club, who are buckeye fans, (I am the Head Golf Professional)... I told them their lesson rates just went up as well as certain (club charges) that might appear on their account.
I hear Dee Hart.
Life will go on.
Too many good players available to worry about losing one.
I guess we can call this the Friday drinking thread
We have Green, Smith & Ty in the stable with Mikey Weber on the way.
Happy trails & good luck to Mr Harris. I do hope he is smarter than to sign with Urbs.
Must have been all of that negative recruiting from Borges.
DAMN YOU AL!!!!
Thank god we came finally stop worrying about a kid none of us even know personally. No more Al Borges talk, no more hand-ringing about him at all. Goodbye Harris, you're moving on, and Michigan is moving on.
Now onto worrying about the rest of the kids none of us knows lol. I get your point though. All-in on Weber, which it seems like that's what they've been doing more and more recently.
On the chance the kid goes to Ohio and becomes anything resembling Barry Sanders then I think you might hear his name and Borges' name thrown around a few times in the future around these parts.
If Damien Harris goes to Ohio and plays for Urban, and proceeds to rush for 2,600+ yards in a Heisman Trophy-winning junior year and then goes on to be among the top 3 RBs ever in the NFL, I will eat my hat.
I hope he never sniffs the playoff and regrets this decision for 4 years. Neg away ya bunch of namby pambys.
ok. Thanks for the info.
uhhhhh whatever
He gone
No hard feelings. Go do what's best for you.
Unless you end up at OSU. In which case I hope you do well, but have the 3-4 worst games of your career against Michigan.
(I'm thinking that's a phrase not a lot of MGoBloggers have heard) Anyway, I don't care much about this development as it's been in the cards for months now. Time to move on everyone. The good news is we already have a lot of stud running backs in the house for the next 3 years.
It was clear He wasn't coming here for awhile. It's Weber or bust at RB
Another strange recruiting process of a 5 star prospect that grew up a wolverine fan has come to an end. Ty Isaac, good back up
Will do that to your recruiting. I'm more worried about O/D line production and What Coach Nuss brings to the table than any recruit at this point.
This has more to do with Borgas being fired than anything else.
I think Harris is the guy that committed because his high school coach was coached by and loves Al Borges. When m canned Borges, it all went downhill. It's not a record thing, maybe George Campbell was though.
have we gotten any OL attributed to Nuss yet? serious question
Good luck to Mr. Harris. 1 player does not a team make. GOBLUE
felt he was an actual complete package at RB; size, speed, catches it well. All our RBs seem to be missing something pretty substantial to their game. Isaac being the most gifted of the bunch but I still think he's too tall and upright....
I really hope he goes to Ohio State...
Hopefully M can get Weber.
May not matter much is Isaac has to red shit this year though.
I hope he doesn't have to red shit.
Sounds like it could be trouble.
Why? You got something against beets?
ha...last yr i thought i was internally bleeding after bathroom visuals, and was quite in scared denial.... Only to realize later it was after eating a big plate of beets
Bring on KAREEM WALKER. that dude is the man
I BLAME THADMATTASGOBLIN
I know everyone thinks Ohio is the favorite to land him but I wouldn't count out Saban and his voodoo. Sad to see him go but we seem to have a good stable of backs for the future. We also seem to be in good contention with some 2016 backs.
Was awesome, sorry to thread jack
It was great.
Now back to our regularly scheduled thread.
Well this really sucks, I really hoped he recommit been a big fan of his since I saw his freshman highlight tape.
I thought he was headed to OSU but I though we'd remain in the top 3. Falling completely out of the top 5 is pretty interesting considering this was his childhood dream school.
Anyhow I am not concerned about any 1 player. Unless he is TJ Yeldon or Fournette I think running game success is 80% line and 20% RB. Under Carr we had a good running game every year without having guys who were super high end NFL RBs - but we had high end OL players constantly. If you have the right OL the RB is more or less plug in play if you get just about any group of four star RBs in the backfield. All my eyes remain on this OL - if that develops correctly, with the type of RBs we recruit we will be more than fine. If not, than it wont matter who the RBs are.
Supposing Mr. Harris choses Ohio I hope he recalls they had an 80% senior OL last season. While I don't expect a tire fire this year, I also don't expect a repeat performance.
Meanwhile Michigan's OL is on the rise. Things can only get better, and will. 29 for 29 is a thing of the past. We also now have official tight ends too who can block, no offense to TEs who were amazing receivers but less than amazing blockers.
Despite the complete lack of hype my gut feeling is Mr. Isaac is going to tear up the field at Stadium and Main one day soon, making him a completely greater replacement.
No hard feelings to Harris, but its completely weird he was a recruit who wanted to play for Borges above all others.
Let me preface this by saying UM's line should be a lot better in 2015, 2016 unless we truly have a tire fire coaching staff.
But (a) saying it's on the rise is not saying much considering it was probably the worst OL in the country last year and (b) we have no idea if the OL will just be average in 2015-2016. It could be. Or it could be above average. Or great. Who knows - you don't, I don't. Just going by HS Starz and plugging and playing and saying "wow great things you are missing out on" is not a helpful exercise. Name me one established elite OL we have. The answer is none.
As for OSU losing players, they are recruiting just like we are at OL so to project our OL to be great down the road and not OSU's is wearing massive maize shades. In fact OSU has the advantage as their OL coach produced one of the best OLs in the nation and is getting talent on par with Michigan's to coach now. Meanwhile UM's OL coach has major questions over his head.
Last point, I dont think kids are as analytical as you. Most look at recent results and the relationships and go from there. Projecting the 2017 OL is not what a RB is going to do.
August 1st, 2014 at 11:30 PM ^
I'll bet you $1 that our line will be better than last years. 2014 will be closer to 2012 than 2013.
This has nothing at all to do with recruiting stars. I don't know who was ranked where.