A Bo home-visit recruiting story
February 15th, 2015 at 9:43 PM ^
February 15th, 2015 at 11:42 PM ^
So, when Ara recruited him, did he drink they Coyle family under the table?
February 16th, 2015 at 2:02 PM ^
Gucci I am just happy you get to read the blog from behing bars.
February 15th, 2015 at 9:44 PM ^
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February 15th, 2015 at 9:51 PM ^
February 15th, 2015 at 9:54 PM ^
OP: Thanks for your contribution. I'd give it at least 7 or 8 out of 10 on the MGoBoard scale.
February 15th, 2015 at 10:03 PM ^
Any Bo recruiting story is one I'd like to hear
February 15th, 2015 at 10:04 PM ^
February 16th, 2015 at 10:54 AM ^
Farewell and adieu to you fair Spanish ladies
Farewell and adiev to you ladies of Spain
For we're under orders
For to sail to old England
And we may ne'er see you fair ladies again.
February 16th, 2015 at 1:33 PM ^
Anyway, we delivered the bomb.
February 15th, 2015 at 10:37 PM ^
He ended up transferring to CMU because he was eventually told by Bo that he couldn't play basketball anymore. The most interesting thing about this to me on the heals of the Weber ordeal is the fact that at first Bo wouldn't sign the papers. My colleague sat in a dorm room at CMU for a month not attending classes or participating with his soon to be team. After pressure from the high school coaches in Detroit to sign the papers Bo folded in order to keep recruiting doors open. He played at Detroit Western.
Go to work Mgo detectives.
February 15th, 2015 at 11:48 PM ^
"heals of Weber"?
Anyway you can ask Greg the best story out of visiting Fayetteville that day we got crushed was John Antonides getting accidently kicked in the nuts ( by future Piston Scott Hastings?).Anyway he suffered a hemotosis of the scrotum meaning his privates swelled up to the size of grapefruits. It was so bad he couldn't fly home with the team. He apparently was very popular with the attending nurses.
February 15th, 2015 at 11:54 PM ^
February 15th, 2015 at 11:08 PM ^
Great story! Totally belongs here. DON'T YOU DARE DELET MODS :-)
February 16th, 2015 at 12:18 AM ^
February 16th, 2015 at 1:16 AM ^
Yeah I was just teasing
February 15th, 2015 at 11:20 PM ^
February 15th, 2015 at 11:47 PM ^
Here's his senior portrait. Quite the Irish 'fro:
http://bentley.umich.edu/athdept/football/fbcapt/1972cap1.htm
February 16th, 2015 at 12:00 AM ^
February 16th, 2015 at 7:44 AM ^
I met Tommy when he was living at Wampler's Lake in the Irish Hills. He spent alot of time hanging out at the Starling's Nest Bar on US12. I got to know him pretty well as we played some golf together and tipped quite a few cold ones over about a 2 year period. It was great to talk UM football with him.
February 16th, 2015 at 7:44 AM ^
I met Tommy when he was living at Wampler's Lake in the Irish Hills. He spent alot of time hanging out at the Starling's Nest Bar on US12. I got to know him pretty well as we played some golf together and tipped quite a few cold ones over about a 2 year period. It was great to talk UM football with him.
February 16th, 2015 at 12:10 AM ^
Are you sure Old man Coyle wasn't Robert Shaw?
February 16th, 2015 at 7:43 PM ^
February 16th, 2015 at 12:00 AM ^
you are obligated to upvote any story of a Bo Schembechler in-home visit...
February 16th, 2015 at 12:09 AM ^
Cool story, Bro +1
February 16th, 2015 at 12:11 AM ^
Does anyone know the full Tommy Maddox (?) recruiting story?
It goes something like Bo sitting in the living room of the Maddox family watching Monday Night Football" on television. Schembechler was there to recruit Tommy, to play quarterback for Michigan. Then Schembechler heard Dan Dierdorf, whom he had once coached, say on TV: No UM QB has ever thrown a TD pass in the NFL and smirks that Jim Harbaugh (assuming a rookie then) is from that great quarterback factory, Michigan. Bo then says to the recruit without missing a beat "and I want you to be the first one to throw an NFL TD pass from UM". He then walks out with the coach and says "I gonna kill that SOB Deirdorf".
I may be mixing up players but I think I have the jist of it...
February 16th, 2015 at 12:20 AM ^
Great Bo story. That is pretty amazing to think that Harbaugh was pretty much the first good pro quarterback Michigan ever had, especially considering it seems like every QB in the 90s and all through Carr's coaching era was in the pros for at least a little bit. Leach was obviously a real talent here, Dennis Franklin was a good dual threat, and Wangler and Smith could throw pretty well, despite Bo's style of offense.
If it wasn't for World War 2, Forest Evashevski might have gotten a shot if he'd wanted one...Fritz Crisler said he was the greatest QB he'd ever coached. But that was definitely the nascent days of pro football.
February 20th, 2015 at 7:49 PM ^
for the NY Giants in 1929. Might have been a brief hiatus in between, but there was at least one, and he was pretty fantastic.
February 16th, 2015 at 1:02 AM ^
Benny Friedman is turning over in his grave
February 16th, 2015 at 4:30 AM ^
Friedman and Newman threw more TD passes than any of their contemporaries, incuding guys like Ernie Nevers(HOF) until the rules changed in the mid 30s and Sammy Bauh showed up. Still, it took a long time for Baugh to eclipse Friedman.
February 16th, 2015 at 1:49 AM ^
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February 16th, 2015 at 10:38 AM ^
February 16th, 2015 at 12:21 AM ^
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February 16th, 2015 at 12:55 PM ^
that same Hoke fellow had some success at San Diego St.
February 16th, 2015 at 12:40 AM ^
February 16th, 2015 at 1:11 AM ^
COOL STORY BRO! Two thumbs up! Keep the Bo's coming!
February 16th, 2015 at 1:43 AM ^
February 16th, 2015 at 2:07 AM ^
When Messner visited CA, UCLA I believe, he was determined to go there. He no more than got back to Michigan, not realizing Bo had already learned of his "transgression" and that's what he thought of Michigan kids leaving state. He told Mark, "You are not going to California. You are staying here, you are playing for Michigan and that is the end of this discussion." We all know where Mark ended up. These kids simply had a very, very difficult time looking him in the eye and saying NO when push came to shove. Yet they all were so thankful that Bo convinced them to make the correct decision in the end.
February 16th, 2015 at 1:02 PM ^
I rememeber it being Messner went on the UCLA visit, and while out there, told his parents thats where hes going.. Bo gets word of it, and him and Moeller stay up at 1 am in front of his house awaiting his arrival from the airport... and once he gets out of car, Bo and Mo approach him, give him a Michigan football vhs video and say to the likes.. "youre a michigan man and you belong at michigan" and left...
February 16th, 2015 at 5:39 AM ^
February 16th, 2015 at 5:18 AM ^
Kind of ridiculous when a poster has to wonder whether this is "off-topic." Hyper-critical a little bit, are we?
On the other hand, even posing the question is a bit like asking, "here is a story about how Moses got to be a leader of slaves, if that is off-topic for a religion post, truly sorry."
(See???) :)
Er......, you can fairly rest assured poster, that any personal account of what Bo did or said is NOT going to be off-topic in any Michigan blog.
Great story, besides.
February 16th, 2015 at 6:54 AM ^
February 16th, 2015 at 8:23 AM ^
I would love to go back and live a year in this time period. Sounds like such a good time.
February 16th, 2015 at 12:45 PM ^
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February 16th, 2015 at 10:29 AM ^
February 16th, 2015 at 11:19 AM ^
A 17- year old kid downs a beer in front of Bo and no reaction? I would love to know the rest of the story-did Bo ever bring up that incicent to Coyle again?
February 16th, 2015 at 7:51 PM ^