Rashad Weaver Decommits
https://twitter.com/R_Weaver80/status/691808427765534721
I'm sure there will be more mudslinging from this one.
EDIT: For those who didn't click the link, he says that JH says they didn't know if they would have room for him and ultimately offered him a PWO. He does thank JH and UofM for the opportunity. Not as bad as Swenson, but some will overreact to it.
January 25th, 2016 at 9:44 PM ^
January 25th, 2016 at 9:45 PM ^
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January 25th, 2016 at 10:40 PM ^
My son had offers to several Ivy league schools because he could throw heavy things a long way. He couldn't have qualified for any of them if they let him square his GPA.
January 25th, 2016 at 9:38 PM ^
I'm hoping my "/s" meter is broken, but...
January 25th, 2016 at 9:34 PM ^
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January 25th, 2016 at 9:45 PM ^
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January 25th, 2016 at 10:08 PM ^
But he says "it's okay" after all the bad stuff!
February 3rd cannot come fast enough.
January 25th, 2016 at 9:36 PM ^
January 25th, 2016 at 10:12 PM ^
To be fair to the kid -- we didn't "know" he wasn't part of the class until just now! Certainly we "believed" that he would not ultimately enroll at Michigan based on signs, rumors and numbers.
Regardless of what we did or did not know, the fact is he has every right to consider himself a commit unitl explicitly told otherwise. I do wish the staff would have better / faster communication. Granted, we are only hearing one-side....but that one side sounds pretty bad
January 25th, 2016 at 10:17 PM ^
Prior to JH we would have looked down our noses at this type of recruiting. The time has come to either accept that we were all full of shit, or call out JH for shitty practices.
January 25th, 2016 at 11:32 PM ^
If Sparty or the turds down south were doing this same thing we would be up in arms. I guess in the future we'll have to temper our sentiment when similar scenarios arise around rival programs?
January 25th, 2016 at 9:36 PM ^
January 25th, 2016 at 11:19 PM ^
.... did not show improvement."
Magnus, hardly one to shower praise where he thinks it unmerited, was positively astonished by how much Weaver improved in his senior season. Clearly you disagree. I'd be interested in hearing what similarities you see between his junior and senior Hudl film.
January 25th, 2016 at 9:39 PM ^
January 25th, 2016 at 10:50 PM ^
January 25th, 2016 at 9:40 PM ^
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
January 25th, 2016 at 9:38 PM ^
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January 25th, 2016 at 10:16 PM ^
January 25th, 2016 at 10:25 PM ^
January 25th, 2016 at 11:45 PM ^
People talk about animals at auctions.
Animals are not recruits.
People shouldn't talk about recruits like animals at an auction??
Weaver is going to do just fine. He almost and still might have a chance to play for Michigan. These recruits are exceptional athletes. That is fun to talk about. That logic works, I think.
No one is talking about recruits as animals. They are talking about recruits as recruits. That is OK.... here... have a fuck.
January 25th, 2016 at 9:38 PM ^
January 25th, 2016 at 9:39 PM ^
Out of curiosity how is this "not as bad as Swenson?" The staff offered, he committed, seven months later and a week before NSD, the staff decided they could do better and pulled his offer. He may end up in a better position than Swenson by accident, but unless I'm missing something (totally possible) it seems to me to be the exact same behavior by JH and the staff. It's hard to say at this point that the Swenson situation was a misunderstanding or that he just wouldn't take a hint.
January 25th, 2016 at 9:41 PM ^
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January 25th, 2016 at 9:50 PM ^
Didn't he schedule a Temple visit like 5 weeks ago? Wonder how he could have such foresight if the staff just told him today.... Also, haven't Ace, Brian, Lorenz, and Sam all been counting this kid out of the class for weeks now? Weird, how they all know, and he scheduled the visit, even though the staff only just told him today. Really weird.
January 25th, 2016 at 10:25 PM ^
Exactly. He knew. Yet he acts as if he's shocked today.
Under the old regime, the staff would have cancelled his commitment as soon as he visited Temple, and nobody was raking Hoke and Co. over the coals for that.
January 26th, 2016 at 8:59 AM ^
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January 25th, 2016 at 10:06 PM ^
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January 25th, 2016 at 9:39 PM ^
January 25th, 2016 at 9:39 PM ^
That is like showing up to my ex girlfriends place who wouldn't call me for months, nor did I try and call her and saying what I thought we were fine?
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January 25th, 2016 at 9:54 PM ^
January 25th, 2016 at 10:09 PM ^
All I have to say is we had better win a fucking national championship...
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January 25th, 2016 at 11:27 PM ^
That won't make unprofessional behavior magically professional though.
January 25th, 2016 at 9:45 PM ^
The fact anybody here is blaming Weaver for one damn second is astonishing.
This isn't what Michigan is supposed to be.
January 25th, 2016 at 9:50 PM ^
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January 25th, 2016 at 9:51 PM ^
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January 25th, 2016 at 9:54 PM ^
January 25th, 2016 at 10:09 PM ^
Social media didn't exist when Bo was coach.
January 25th, 2016 at 11:33 PM ^
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January 26th, 2016 at 3:15 AM ^
And Bo pulled the scholarship because the kid did not keep working hard in HS. He did not pull it because the next shiny object caught his eye.
January 25th, 2016 at 10:58 PM ^
January 25th, 2016 at 11:39 PM ^
For years we've touted Michigan as 'classier than thou'. Does the phrase "The Michigan Way" ring a bell with anybody? This underhand recruiting practice is forcing the fans to either a) Make excuses for it, or b.) say, "welp, that's what being competitive is going to cost"... We can't have it both ways.
January 25th, 2016 at 9:40 PM ^
I can't wait to read the hot takes from everyone about how awful this is. Should be really insightful.
January 25th, 2016 at 9:51 PM ^
kinda like your insightful post
January 25th, 2016 at 9:54 PM ^
January 25th, 2016 at 9:42 PM ^
January 25th, 2016 at 9:44 PM ^
The Swenson bit was out there at least a month prior and Weaver has visited the likes of Syracuse and Temple.
Doesn't fit the narrative though, so you won't hear about it.
January 25th, 2016 at 9:50 PM ^
Don't act like there is only one narrative here. There are good chunks of comments both questioning these recruiting tactics and defending them.
January 25th, 2016 at 9:51 PM ^
January 25th, 2016 at 9:41 PM ^
If a kid says he hasn't heard squat from the staff in over 6 months, don't you think he or his coach would contact the staff to find out what the hell is going on? Something doesn't sound right.
January 25th, 2016 at 9:50 PM ^