December 17th, 2017 at 9:54 PM ^
hope he does well
December 17th, 2017 at 9:57 PM ^
December 17th, 2017 at 10:04 PM ^
Keep Blazin'!
December 17th, 2017 at 11:44 PM ^
December 18th, 2017 at 10:05 AM ^
" 'Cause when I screw up once, I do it two more times"
December 18th, 2017 at 8:19 AM ^
I have a toddler, man. I hear the word Blaze and I immediately start singing the following in my brain.
December 18th, 2017 at 8:24 AM ^
Pray he never gets into Barney.
Your brain will torment you.
December 18th, 2017 at 10:13 AM ^
My oldest daughter was born in 91. She loved those Barney vids as a kid. The youngest was born in 95, and was into Teletubbies.
I will take Barney every day of the week, and twice on Sundays before sitting thru more Teletubbies. Holy Hell!!!! Whomever thought that crap up needs to be kicked in the junk...daily.
December 18th, 2017 at 2:12 PM ^
I got stuck with both. And the Wiggles thrown in for extra punishment.
December 17th, 2017 at 9:58 PM ^
I hope he runs over some fools in C-USA!
December 17th, 2017 at 9:59 PM ^
In his future. Hopefully he can succeed at a program that produced Roddy White, Joe Webb, and Sam Hunt.
December 17th, 2017 at 11:55 PM ^
December 18th, 2017 at 9:30 AM ^
Didn't that RB who tore through us in Bloomington in 2015 start out at UAB as well?
Jordan Howard.
December 18th, 2017 at 1:31 PM ^
by several people in the B1G with the exception of people who actually saw Howard play at UAB. Howard was a stud at UAB and his success at IU and NFL didn't surprise me at all.
Also, Bill Clark is a great coach. Led them to bowl eligiblity before the dismantling of the program. Stuck with the program and went bowling this season on first year back which is amazing when you think about it. UAB had zero business winning 8 games in their first year yet they did it.
December 18th, 2017 at 8:01 AM ^
Awww... you changed it before I could ask if Sam Hunt was related to Mike.
December 17th, 2017 at 9:59 PM ^
December 18th, 2017 at 7:18 AM ^
Well, he'd have experience over Mason, so he'd probably be starting. But you're right, he wanted to be a TB and had no path to the field at that position. I wish him good fortune...
December 17th, 2017 at 10:02 PM ^
Best of luck, Kingston. Tear it up down there!
December 17th, 2017 at 10:15 PM ^
December 17th, 2017 at 11:47 PM ^
December 17th, 2017 at 10:38 PM ^
December 17th, 2017 at 10:46 PM ^
He wasn't. He left in the spring and played at a community college this year.
December 17th, 2017 at 11:09 PM ^
more like Independence CC > UAB or Michigan > ICC > UAB.
December 18th, 2017 at 10:41 AM ^
December 18th, 2017 at 1:32 PM ^
and this season is their first year back in football. They're playing in the Bahama Bowl against Ohio. Amazing coaching job by Bill Clark
December 17th, 2017 at 11:21 PM ^
Was one of Harbaugh's first recruits in his first class. It was always kind of a weird offer when he didn't have the offer sheet or measurables of other recruits and then ended up not hacking it at Michigan.
December 18th, 2017 at 12:33 AM ^
Cases like Kingston Davis, Keith Washington, Ulizio Nolan, and others are why people are worried about this 2018 class.
Yes, we can all hope that Harbaugh and his staff are finding all of these underrated diamonds-in-the-rough, but the statistics isn't really on their side. It has been shown in multiple years that former 5* recruits are four times more likely to be drafted than 3-4* recruits combined.
That means Harbaugh has to pretty much be hitting it home 9/10 with these 3* guys to match the classes like OSU's 2017 or 2018 recruiting class. So far that hasn't been happening with some of the "flyers/developmental guys" in the last 2-3 classes.
December 18th, 2017 at 3:05 AM ^
a low-rated RB that elicits some head-scratching. Done it every class thus far: Kingston Davis, Kurt Taylor and Hassan Haskins. They're all in fairly fertile SEC recruiting territory so it's almost like they're relationship building offers as much as anything.
RB seems like a fairly difficult position to project though, so maybe they're seeing something other teams aren't and one of them will pan out.
December 18th, 2017 at 7:57 AM ^
December 18th, 2017 at 9:53 AM ^
December 18th, 2017 at 1:48 AM ^
I thought he was too, but both 247 and Rivals list him as a 2016 recruit, Harbaugh's second class.
https://247sports.com/college/michigan/Season/2016-Football/Commits
As far as his measurables go, he was 6-1/225, which for a FB is right in line with what Harbaugh has recruited for that position.
It's not an indication of failure for a FB to not play much his freshman year, and Davis left the team before the 2017 season, so he hardly gave himself much of a chance to prove himself. Since he was recuited by Wheatley, it's just as plausible that a kid from Alabama who loses his primary recruiting contact and position coach was uncomfortable so far from home. And he's going back home to Alabama.
In other words, we don't have any proof one way or the other whether Davis had the talent to succeed at Michigan; sometimes things away from the field have a defining impact on how a particular recruit does.
From what I recall reading about him during his recruitment he seemed like a good kid and I hope he burns it up at UAB.
December 18th, 2017 at 2:58 AM ^
that's what people mean. He had about a month to recruit for the 2015 class.
December 18th, 2017 at 7:16 AM ^
He was one of the first satellite camp commits, from the camp in Alabama. That same camp brought in Kieth Washington, and later J'Marick 'Ole Woods' Woods. It also brought in one of the coaches for a couple of weeks before he decided to move on somewhere else.
Davis wanted badly to be a tailback, so much so that I remember his dad even saying he would be at TB. We all thought he would be converted to a FB, and whenit appeared that he had no path to the field as a TB, he left. Too bad, as he would have been a great FB, very similar to what Ben Mason projects to be.
Good luck to him!
December 18th, 2017 at 8:33 AM ^
I thought it was cool when Harbaugh was hired that he was recruiting these guys from Prattville, Alabama, Saban's back yard. My in-laws lived there and I was very familiar with the area. It's unfortunate the ones recruited have transferred out. Good luck to them!
December 18th, 2017 at 10:14 AM ^
December 18th, 2017 at 11:10 AM ^
Thought it would become a pipeline.
December 18th, 2017 at 12:06 AM ^
Another part of the Michigan difference. You really have to do something particulary bad or speak about our beloved school in a terrible manner before we will wish anything but the best to those who ever made the decision to attend this great institution.
Give them hell and best of luck in all future endeavors.
GO BLUE!!!!!
December 18th, 2017 at 7:43 AM ^
I've never been sure of the proper MGoBlog early departure/de-commitment etiquette.
December 18th, 2017 at 8:00 AM ^
I find myself getting closer to Larry David. My next birthday is 32, so I'm afraid to see what 50 looks like haha.
December 18th, 2017 at 8:19 AM ^
I first read this as "Kingston Davis to Alamama."
I thought: Damn, how did we let that one go?
December 18th, 2017 at 8:28 AM ^
I just noticed that when I clicked on this link, I got this ad in the sidebar:
I guess I will need to be very careful about clicking any "Tight End" links.
December 18th, 2017 at 8:41 AM ^
Partially because I know this will bother some on the board, but mostly because I mean it: best of luck to this young man.
December 18th, 2017 at 8:45 AM ^
Don't be that guy. His faith sustains him and you mock him for it. How accepting of you. Way to perpetuate the a-hole mentality.
December 18th, 2017 at 9:11 AM ^
“Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things…one of the beginnings of the human emancipation is the ability to laugh at authority, its indispensable”
December 18th, 2017 at 9:59 AM ^
December 18th, 2017 at 11:22 AM ^
I am all about poking fun at dogmatics, pragmatics, and religion when it is done to lighten the mood and create conversation, but to do so in a manner that belittles or lessens the decisions or beliefs of another crosses the line. KD sees that there is another way when many would say that he "lost" his chance at a dream he had. So he thanks God and moves forward. Hitchens was so embittered and anti-religion for his own reasonings and rationalizings that he attacked anyone who was not aligned with his thought.
In reality, this single lane thinking polarizes individuals and drives apart families, friends, and communtiies. In the end, religion/belief/faith is a personal choice, like the food you eat, the people you love, and the team you cheer for. To mock someone because you want to troll anything that is anti-Michigan (Which the process of deductive reasoning to get to that point from KD's tweet is a little rediculous) is childish and should have been thought through a little more before deciding to include it in the initial post on KD's future educational/athletic location.
There is actually a really good book by de Botton on the topic you should read. Just my two cents.
December 18th, 2017 at 3:23 PM ^
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