Eddie McDoom decommits from Oregon, will visit Michigan this coming weekend
This is according to 247. We are back in the running for best named recruit.
Also, Steve Wiltfong has ballz'd Kiante Enis to IU. This might be thread worthy but the board is probably ballz'd out for the day.
Edit: Ryan Bartow, one of 247's lead analysts, has ballz'd McDoom to Michigan. It appears that this is happening.
January 17th, 2016 at 11:01 PM ^
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January 18th, 2016 at 12:23 AM ^
Boom!
January 18th, 2016 at 12:33 AM ^
boom... boom.. McDoom shakes the room! Tick... tick... tick...
January 17th, 2016 at 11:02 PM ^
I'm going to guess that this reduces the chances that Nate Johnson ends up in the class, especially given his recent offer from Notre Dame, his dream school.
January 18th, 2016 at 9:43 AM ^
His recruitment was a little strange. Visited and committed as soon as he was offered while saying he would take other visits. Steve Lorenz said that a couple of our commits were asked by the staff to wait, but committed anyway. It sounded strange, but might fit that scenario.
January 17th, 2016 at 11:02 PM ^
January 17th, 2016 at 11:04 PM ^
I'm sure they'll unleash Brady Hoke on the recruiting trail to get McDoom or Crawford back.
January 17th, 2016 at 11:14 PM ^
January 17th, 2016 at 11:45 PM ^
They could either "cue" it or "queue" it. Either would be correct. "Que" is Spanish for "what".
January 18th, 2016 at 12:00 AM ^
interesting.
Anyway, McDoom's senior highlights, now that's a highlight reel, touchdown after td, great break away speed.
January 18th, 2016 at 12:17 AM ^
"Cue" is actually the only correct usage in that sentence, in its meaning "to prompt or direct to begin." "Queue" refers to a line of people waiting for something. "Que" is not a word in English at all.
/pedantry
January 18th, 2016 at 12:38 AM ^
queue can also be a verb; a synonym for "enqueue," or to place an item into a queue, as in a list of clips of Peter Griffin to be played.
/extra-pedantry
January 18th, 2016 at 12:53 AM ^
But the meaning here is to give the person the command to perform now - like a stage direction in theatre - and not later on. So only "cue" makes sense.
/Still more pedantry
January 20th, 2016 at 5:12 PM ^
I agree with Drometh and disagree with you because you disagree with he who agrees with me.
January 18th, 2016 at 6:27 AM ^
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January 18th, 2016 at 8:19 AM ^
An absolutely essential attribute for full participation in this blog.
January 18th, 2016 at 9:11 AM ^
January 18th, 2016 at 12:32 AM ^
Or perhaps Hoke is actually a sleeper agent, sent by Harbaugh to pry loose Oregon's commitments?
The plot thickens.
January 18th, 2016 at 7:27 AM ^
McDoomed
January 18th, 2016 at 8:02 AM ^
Or this was a failure by Hoke to execute.
January 18th, 2016 at 9:56 AM ^
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January 17th, 2016 at 11:03 PM ^
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January 18th, 2016 at 7:17 AM ^
That's what she said...
January 17th, 2016 at 11:03 PM ^
Was recruiting this topsy turvey (in a good way) under Carr's heyday?
Haven't been this interested in a long time.
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January 17th, 2016 at 11:07 PM ^
This has been the weirdest/most eventful Sunday in recruiting that I can remember.
January 18th, 2016 at 12:09 AM ^
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January 18th, 2016 at 12:53 AM ^
Nothing substantive, but from Michigan's standpoint there's been a ton of news. I've never seen so many recruiting-related threads here.
January 18th, 2016 at 12:33 PM ^
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January 17th, 2016 at 11:59 PM ^
Exactly, and WAY back in the day, our recruiting roundup was 3 - 5 bullet points in Sports Illustrated from some recruiting expert name Joe Terranova, who IIRC worked in Dearborn for Ford.
January 18th, 2016 at 12:48 AM ^
I remember one year during the '90s getting my copy of The Wolverine in the mailbox in late February and seeing that we had the #1 recruiting class. I had no idea until then how recruiting was going, nor could I find out very much even if I wanted to.
Different era.
January 18th, 2016 at 8:05 AM ^
I just figured a bunch of guys showed up at Fall camp in hopes of making the team. You mean there was a plan?
January 17th, 2016 at 11:32 PM ^
January 18th, 2016 at 12:30 AM ^
Was recruiting this topsy turvey (in a good way) under Carr's heyday?
No, not really. Recruiting went on a slower (and more sane) pace back then. Lloyd liked to target his recruits from their performance at Michigan's camps. This happened before the fall, so there was not a lot of churn leading up to NSD. They were mostly locked in early.
Also, NSD was not the theatre it is now. Once kids committed, they tended to stay with it. The whole world was not watching their every move. Three-star linebackers were not dragging their entire high school class to the gym in the middle of calsses so they could announce their college decison on national TV.
January 18th, 2016 at 3:13 AM ^
January 18th, 2016 at 7:41 AM ^
He did get some recruits on NSD, but it was not his regular mode of operation. Also, because there was so little information back then, you only heard about some of these guys on NSD when they actually signed. We weren't following the whims of 3-star safety's in June back then.
January 18th, 2016 at 12:36 AM ^
Not in a good way. We had guys "going to bed a Wolverine and waking up a Seminole" (or Trojan, Gator, etc.).
January 18th, 2016 at 9:05 AM ^
Recruiting wasn't covered nearly as much back then. So recruiting itself may have been just as crazy, but fans didn't know about it.
January 18th, 2016 at 9:09 AM ^
January 17th, 2016 at 11:03 PM ^
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January 17th, 2016 at 11:04 PM ^
I don't want to lose Crawford but I'd take McDoom.
January 17th, 2016 at 11:12 PM ^
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January 18th, 2016 at 12:32 AM ^
I'll be honest, it's entirely because of his cool name. I don't know shit about him.
But man, McDoom. Are you kidding me?
If his first name was Igor, we'd be talking 5-star.
January 17th, 2016 at 11:04 PM ^
Seems to me like Brad Hawkins is going to be playing defense considering Don Brown and Partridge visited him in home today. Assuming players get visited by there position coach or at least side of the ball.
January 17th, 2016 at 11:26 PM ^
I dont usually read recruits replies to people but when he was recruiting coordinator for the week (i.e. week he talked about 2 officials coming - Walker and Bush - plus another (Pie) plus another one "soon") I saw some his back and forth with fans (hey fans dont tweet to recruits) and it was asked if based on his HUDL film (which opens with defensive plays) he'd play both ways at UM and his respone was "that's the plan"/
I'd also claim the #2 jersey might signal this but he did wear 2 in HS.
With this many WRs in the class and lack of experience in 2017 we are going to need to convert. Basically our 2 deep in 2017 is Brandon Watson, Ty Kinnel. Brian Cole, Keith Washington plus whomever shows up in this class. I guess can you can throw Canteen in there if he is still around and still playing CB. So we need to get a lot more bodies in there to account for dropouts, busts, etc - we need an entire 2 deep of DBs rebuilt in 2017.
I hope we land all the DB targets: Hill, Hudson, Long to throw in the mix as it's going to a lot of true SO and RS FR out there in 2017 in the defensive backfield and with a typical miss rate we need 8 bodies or so to account for say 3 safeties and 3 CBs.
(I assume Mettelus is somewhere in there but like Washington is more of a project type)