Aubrey Solomon Apologizes

I said a lot of stupid things when I was his age out of bravado or whatever.  Glad there weren't mobile phones around to record the stupidity.

Much credit to him for cowboying up and apologizing. 

Maybe he lusts for us rather than loves.  Then it makes sense.

 

By apologizing. My respect for him went up a little.

This year's Jordan Elliott.

I stopped paying attention months ago. I suggest you do the same.

No need for us to be bitter about what a kid thinks of our beloved University. I imagine this will be the last time we mention his name on our board and this confirms he was never coming.

This feels a lot like he's sorry cuz he got caught not sorry that he did it. Yeah he's a kid and kids mess up and this is really nothing compared to how other recruits mess up sometimes, but I feel like this is an apology to maintain a perception of mystery and intrigue about his recruitment. He's not coming here. Thanks for the apology, AS. Good luck down south.

someone ask this kid and his "handlers" whether they realized how powerful the Harbaugh family is in the NFL?

Richard Sherman still has a grudge against Jim because he wasn't effusive in his praise of him coming out of Stanford and it affected his draft stock. 

Michigan should yank his offer publicly.  This apology is lame and he isn't coming anyway.  

Brent Musberger-  (everyone deserves a second chance) aside. 

So the AD fucked up by misspelling his name, he fucked up with the video. So I guess we're even now. Go ahead and recommit.

I like to follow recruiting - but if I got worked up over every up and down I think I'd have a heart attack within the next few years.

 

Good for the kid for apologizing, but I don't think he's coming here based on that and a number of other comments he's made. Would have been nice if the comments he's made about UM in the past and his (brief) commitment here stuck, but tough to pull kids from the South especially when their family isn't on a visit. We're going to be fighting an uphill battle on that for the next few years until we're perennially viewed as "back" from a national perspective.

 

Personally, I don't get the Georgia thing, but it's not my decision soooo yeah. Good luck to the kid wherever he goes except when they play UM, regardless of whatever he said.

Is he coming or not? I don't care about all of the other stuff.

He won't come here and he made a mistake. Both of these things are completely okay.

Lol, it absolutely does reflect who he is as a person.

I love that phrase,  "my actions do not reflect who I am as a person".

Your actions define who you are as a person. It means, "this action doesn't define who I want to be, but unfortunately, this is who I am at this time."

Appreciate the apology.  Easier to say 'Bye' to him after the vid.

Kid accepted responsibility for his actions and corrected them. Learning the lesson of being an adult. Most kids his age don't recognise that they did something wrong, much less apologize.

 

Good for him.

I've never heard of someone being so angry about others' getting his name wrong. Coaches deal with hundreds of recruits. I cannot blame them if they forget one kid's name. Good lord.

One the one hand, I think that him issuing the statement shows some maturity:  He screwed up publicly, acknowledged it and apologized.  Many kids his age would not have the maturity and humility to do so. 

On the other hand, the kid received an offer to attend the University of Michigan on full scholarship, with a spot on our football team and an opportunity to be coached by Don Brown (his coordinator), GMAT (his direct position coach), oh, and Jim Freeking Harbaugh.  If he doesn't want to accept that offer, and wants to go to another school, that's fine - there are a ton of great schools and programs out there.  But, for him to be trashing us to others and to go so far as to say "F*ck Michigan" because some graduate assistant misspelled his name (by the way, Solomon of often spelled Soloman, so while not excusing the mistake - attention to detail and all - it is not quite the heinous act that he has made it into), seems immature.

At this point, it is irrelevant - I think that we can collectively remove this kid from our recruiting board.  He is Georgia (or some other SEC school) bound.  Move on to other prospects. 

I completely understand EVERYONE makes mistakes. We all do, no matter if we are 10 or 90. 

But we have to stop calling college athletes "kids." Once you have reached the age of 17, 18, you know what proper conduct/function is. You know how to address adults, how to speak the language properly, and you know what's right and wrong.

He made a mistake as a human being, getting caught up in the moment. He didn't make the mistake because he was a "kid who doesn't know any better."

Once you reach the end of your high schooling life, that whole "kids do dumb stuff" goes out the window, in my humble opinion. You know what you are doing and how you are communicating. You aren't going to suddenly become a bastion of proper function from a few more years of college. I work in education, all grades. I've seen high school seniors who are more adult than some of my 30 year old friends.

This was a person, making a mistake. He'll move on. 

Wow sound like a lot of people on this board have never made a mistake. I'm amazed by all the flawless posters.

God bless that intelligent, self inflecting, young man. He realized at such an early age what words can do. Hopefully, some of us will be able to do the same, soon!
GO BLUE, and come back Aubrey or Abbrey, or Abbott and Costello, or whatever your name was at the picnic that you didn't attend!/s