Najee Harris will not be making public decision, will show up at school
5-star RB Najee Harris: he will not make a decision public. He's ducking out after Army Bowl, and will just show up at a school. Buckle up.
Bonus Comment from apparentely*** Najee's Brother...
Malachi Harris Malachi Harris Retweeted Steve Wiltfong
I want my brother to go to Michigan simple as that. He can be a legend there!
Foreshadowing???
#Michigan QB commit Dylan McCaffrey has a change to be a game-changer with his legs in Ann Arbor, perhaps faking to this guy Najee Harris.
January 3rd, 2017 at 3:25 PM ^
Those are the guys that should have ceremonies. May be the last or only chance at some fame. A guy like Najee will most likely end up playing om sundays. He will get plenty of adulation then.
January 3rd, 2017 at 2:56 PM ^
If only this was the norm.
January 3rd, 2017 at 2:56 PM ^
Please come to Michigan!
January 3rd, 2017 at 2:57 PM ^
Just showing up at class as the #1 player in the country? Much respect young man.
January 3rd, 2017 at 2:57 PM ^
I have a sinking feeling that he will stick with Bama, despite all this.
January 3rd, 2017 at 2:58 PM ^
This is a pretty cool way to do it. A different kind of cool compared to wifi problems with the video/man in sweater standing in front of the camera, and a high school concert before you open a present with a dawg hat in it.
Got to think the national recruiting sites are going to go all TMZ at various airports.
January 3rd, 2017 at 3:18 PM ^
Like the one where the pug pretended to be a bulldog (dawg) after an elementary school Christmas program that 8000 "fans" streamed live.
Good times...good times...
/s
January 3rd, 2017 at 8:17 PM ^
This could set a new back to basics trend. Next thing you know, they'll stop wearing uniformz.
January 3rd, 2017 at 2:58 PM ^
January 3rd, 2017 at 3:32 PM ^
is that it is turning out to be even more of a circus. Two fan bases are talking about stalking a kid via flight tracker, enrollment databases, showing up the airport, etc! Certainly unusual.
January 3rd, 2017 at 8:18 PM ^
Not unusual.
Hence the problem.
January 3rd, 2017 at 4:27 PM ^
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January 3rd, 2017 at 2:58 PM ^
With Fisch leaving, the the NCAA considering increasing the number of coaches allowed, I am just saying that a guy with Najee's brother's obvious smarts could have a place on this staff. Does he know anything about football? Georgia wouldn't care.
January 3rd, 2017 at 3:09 PM ^
Is the brother older or younger? My mind immediately assumed younger and started wondering about his pad level.
January 3rd, 2017 at 2:59 PM ^
Somebody slip Lorenz a fifty to tale Najee from the hotel.
January 3rd, 2017 at 3:00 PM ^
Brandon Justice said "Buckle up." Coincidence? I think not...
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January 3rd, 2017 at 3:01 PM ^
This is just awesome. For my own personal gain I want to know now, but part of me just loves this. I mean come on, this has a Harbaugh guy written all over him. Just take your lunch box and show up to work.
January 3rd, 2017 at 3:02 PM ^
I love this kid even if he doesn't choose Michigan. Most kids seek extra attention...he just wants to show up and take care of business.
January 3rd, 2017 at 3:08 PM ^
I am still hitting F5 on Ronald Johnson.
January 3rd, 2017 at 3:31 PM ^
because I had that bookmarked since before the holiday break.
January 3rd, 2017 at 3:34 PM ^
Somehow I suspect you will get less downvotes for this admission than WD did...
January 3rd, 2017 at 4:08 PM ^
I work at a University, so researching student files is my kind of my thing.
(Not that it makes my admission any less creepy)
January 3rd, 2017 at 4:28 PM ^
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January 3rd, 2017 at 3:03 PM ^
I'd like to think this bodes well for Michigan's chances, as it appears he is trying to avoid any kind of fallout that may come from fans/coaches/media. Still seems like he wouldn't really owe Michigan much since he has been committed to Bama, so it feels like most of the blowback would be coming from the team that he is essentially bailing on for lack of a better word.
Regardless where he ends up I like his style, and this will end up being a recruitment to remember.
January 3rd, 2017 at 3:09 PM ^
exactly (bodes well for the good guys).
January 3rd, 2017 at 3:22 PM ^
Maybe this is just my recruiting paranoia, but I thought the opposite. He's technically committed to Alabama (since April 2015), so if he's saying he's not going to communicate any more about his recruitment, and he's just going to show up and enroll, that sounds like he's going to do so at Bama.
January 3rd, 2017 at 4:38 PM ^
I'm with Blueph on this one. There's nothing that truly points to him coming to Michigan. He's been a commit for over a year. He's a high character kid that likes Harbaugh but something made him choose Alabama in the first place. You assume he's going to Bama. Then, if he really does flip, you're ecstatic. You do it the other way around....some people are going to lose their shit and get all huffy puffy about an 18 yr old and how he lead us on.
January 3rd, 2017 at 5:30 PM ^
The reason he'd say something is to carify the situation. Like it or not, the fact that he's committed to Alabama is now in question. This creates drama. If his true goal is to avoid or minimize drama as much as possible, and if he knew he was in fact going to Alabama, all it would take would be 3 5 minute phone calls to end all of this speculation--one to Saban, one to Harbaugh, and one to a reasonably high profile scouting insider on the 247/scout/rivals network.
He hasn't done that, so to me it tells me one of two things:
1) He's going to Alabama and ISN'T about reducing the drama & is playing this up masterfully; or
2) He's either genuinely undecided still or he's coming to Michigan & despite his best efforts, it's becoming more dramatic than he wants.
He strikes me as a high character kid, so I think #1 is out. Either he's truly undecided still, or he's coming to Michigan & wants to minimize the Alabama blowback.
January 3rd, 2017 at 8:32 PM ^
January 3rd, 2017 at 3:04 PM ^
He just sounds like a guy that would have a great relationship with our head coach.
I like him already... unless he chooses Bama...lol.
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January 3rd, 2017 at 3:04 PM ^
just sayin
January 3rd, 2017 at 4:38 PM ^
Hank, is that you?
January 3rd, 2017 at 3:04 PM ^
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January 3rd, 2017 at 6:05 PM ^
It's tiny...not much to scope out! Maybe I should put a webcam on the front door after the AA game for you guys? There's only 2 terminals it cant be that hard to stalk him, right??
January 3rd, 2017 at 7:39 PM ^
Avatar checks out.
January 3rd, 2017 at 3:05 PM ^
when do classes start?
January 3rd, 2017 at 3:17 PM ^
Winter classes begin tomorrow. But, I'd expect Najee to have enough assistance from tutors and such to catch him up on actual missed class time. He has planned to be both an early enrolee and to attend the Army Bowl for a while, so he must have a plan for their overlapping this week, maybe collecting materials and studying in advance.
January 3rd, 2017 at 3:05 PM ^
so they can pick him up at the airport, right?
or just Uber-ing to campus?
January 3rd, 2017 at 8:07 PM ^
I say Uber. Then, you just check into your dorm and lay low the rest of the day. The next day you go visit the Athletic Department and let Harbaugh or Saban you're there and ready to work. Boom. Done.
January 3rd, 2017 at 3:05 PM ^
That's awesome.
January 3rd, 2017 at 3:07 PM ^
Whichever decision he makes, you have to respect this young man. He's different and it's pretty awesome how low-key he is.
January 3rd, 2017 at 3:08 PM ^
Now his is a strategy I find kind of interesting, just showing up at an institution. I don't know that we've seen many - if any - high profile recruits choose to make an announcment (or not make one, if you see it this way) quite like that. Actually, I kind of wonder if it will leak out somehow anyway, but I do like the approach.
January 3rd, 2017 at 3:15 PM ^
It's not such a novel strategy. In fact, several years ago I arrived in Ann Arbor without fanfare, a press conference, or any of the other videos, etc. I sure as hell didn't do a "hat ceremony".
Just showed up at Michigan, registered for classes, and got down to business.
(Of course, I'm not a great athlete and nobody really gave much of a shit whether I attended Michigan or not. There's that. But still, I feel I blazed a trail at Michigan for folks like Najee.)
January 3rd, 2017 at 3:38 PM ^
It'll get leaked out. One of these recruiting guys is going to follow him around I bet. They are nuts.
January 3rd, 2017 at 3:08 PM ^
as well as Campus Corner, Skeeps, the Brown Jug, and Rick's.
January 3rd, 2017 at 3:09 PM ^
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January 3rd, 2017 at 3:15 PM ^
Hahahaha. I'm sure the Bama fans would take it all in stride if he just shows up at M. I'm guessing the backlash from Bama could be even more vicious if he doesn't "man up" and let their coaches know.