Wayne Lyons visited today
I see from headlines on Scout that Wayne Lyons is a visitor this weekend. While "google-stalking" for info on the visit, I stumbled on a great article about him. It may have been posted here in the past, but in light of his visit I thought it was worth sharing.
Highlights:
Coaches at 44 schools have offered Wayne Lyons a scholarship
His list includes offers from Alabama, Boston College, Florida, Florida State, LSU, Miami, Michigan, North Carolina, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Stanford, Tennessee, UCLA and Wisconsin.
For example, of all the blue-chip high school players who now post details of their recruitment on Twitter, how many also include tweets such as the one Lyons sent out last week? "High school GPA has jumped to a 5.0 on the head! Gotta keep that no. 1 spot! Holding on to the dream -- Class Valedictorian for DHS c/o 2011."
He took calculus as a 10th-grader, is his class president and helped Dillard coach Manny Martin start a mentoring program this past spring.
When it became clear in ninth grade that Lyons would be an excellent football player, Bush simply assumed he'd go to Florida, the school she had attended and the school Lyons' sister currently attends. Then the recruiting mail started pouring in, and Bush began reading up on all the universities.
"His sophomore year, he'll get his bachelor's degree" Dillard's Martin said. "His junior year, he'll be working on his masters."
"I want a school," he said, "where the degree is worth something."
Wants to know:
"How many African-American players have graduated with an engineering degree in the past five years? Year-by-year? Please list their names."
Reading the whole article makes me really want this kid to be a Wolverine. What an incredible role model he could be.
I can't wait to hear about his visit.
December 5th, 2010 at 1:33 AM ^
Sounds like a great kid.
December 5th, 2010 at 1:45 PM ^
I just pooped myself.
December 5th, 2010 at 1:34 AM ^
Me likey
Conclusion: This highly intelligent defensive back is the kind of player that can get the defensive unit lined up properly and excel on coverage teams. Look for him to be a team leader and a possible three-year starter.
December 5th, 2010 at 1:43 AM ^
Possible four year starter at UM.
December 5th, 2010 at 1:45 AM ^
3 year - leaving early?
( see, our defense is not so good so he would likely start as a freshman, see?)
December 5th, 2010 at 9:40 AM ^
I could see him playing for three years and leaving early.......to attend Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar if he maintains the level of academic excellence.
December 5th, 2010 at 11:54 AM ^
he could play as a fifth year senior
December 5th, 2010 at 11:54 AM ^
he could play as a fifth year senior
December 5th, 2010 at 9:43 AM ^
And everyone knows that if you want the best education in college with a sure path of becoming a Rhodes scholar, you go to FSU! :P
December 5th, 2010 at 1:53 AM ^
almost a must get. I am really hoping we can land this kid because i think he has defensive stud written all over him.
Hail
December 5th, 2010 at 1:57 AM ^
"How many African-American players have graduated with an engineering degree in the past five years? Year-by-year? Please list their names."
This guy is awesome. Come to Michigan, Wayne! You won't be disappointed!
December 5th, 2010 at 2:32 AM ^
to the recruiting post from Tim talking about his visit.
He would fit right in with this team and program.
December 5th, 2010 at 2:44 AM ^
Top mechanical engineering schools (as ranked by National Research Council[1]): Brown, Cal Tech, Northwestern, Stanford, Princeton, Michigan, MIT, Berkeley, UCSB, Johns Hopkins, UCSD, Illinois, blah blah blah.
Of these, NW, Stanford, MI, Cal, IL have good football teams.
Of these mechanical engineering schools with good football teams, these have wings: Michigan.
Also, Space, Bitches, Space.
[1] NRC actually looks at research coming out of an institution, unlike US News and World Report, which goes on gut feelings of institution heads. NRC looks at research money, papers published, measurable quantities.
December 5th, 2010 at 2:56 AM ^
I would wonder how many players period graduated with an engineering degree. That is no small feat. Hate to see skin color always brought into this...I believe Omameh is an engineering student.
December 5th, 2010 at 4:19 AM ^
Not sure about Omameh, but I'm fairly certain that Ezeh is an engineering major.
December 5th, 2010 at 5:14 AM ^
You don't have to guess at this stuff. There's a fantastic site called mgoblue.com that has all this info listed.
Ezeh is a sociology major.
Omameh was in engineering but is now a sociology major which is totally understandable because being a starter on a Big Ten football team and majoring in engineering are both 40+ hour/week time commitments.
December 5th, 2010 at 5:39 AM ^
One of those is only 20 hours and 15 minutes.
December 5th, 2010 at 9:51 AM ^
Kevin Leach is a mechanical engineer. I know Eric Puls from the basketball team was also an engineer, but he dropped basketball so he could keep up with his studies. Both players are walk-ons fwiw
December 5th, 2010 at 11:03 AM ^
Karl Tech has been in a bunch of my mechanical engineering classes. He's a smart guy...I know I wouldn't be able to do football and engineering.
December 5th, 2010 at 3:09 AM ^
but i think Patrick is majoring in Sociology.
December 5th, 2010 at 3:13 AM ^
Sounds like Wayne Lyons and Harbaugh would be a match made in Heaven, honestly. Either at Michigan or at Stanford.
December 5th, 2010 at 9:57 AM ^
....an engineering major? :P
December 5th, 2010 at 3:31 AM ^
We should have our new superstar recruiter, Kellen Jones, jump on this one. From what I've seen and read on here, Kellen Jones also wants to enroll in the Engineering school. He may feel a lot better having a fellow recruit going through the same classes as him at the same time. It's fairly easy to line your schedules up similarly..
December 5th, 2010 at 3:38 AM ^
When you come in and get rid of some of your highest performers and have no QB contingency plan for 2008 causing you to be 3-9 despite having 5 NFL players on defense...you my friend have really F'd up. When your second year, you run out the avg. but experienced starting QB and start a true freshman, causing you to go 1-7 in the Big Ten, you my friend have really F'd up. When in year 3 you still have not beat one (maybe '08 wisco) good team...yet you are 34 games into your tenure...you my friend have really really F'd up.
I'm honestly weary from trying to reason with people. To me there are two major problems with Rodriguez and staff, the first is recruiting. In particular, recruiting talented defensive players and recruiting your own backyard (Mich, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Chicagoland). This staff has focused on Florida kids that the Big 3 primarily did not want. Most elite kids out of Florida will not leave SEC land, so we are looking at good but not great players from there. This has been the strategy of many Big Ten teams over the years, but never a top level Big Ten team. Michigan, Ohio St., Penn St. have all established themselves as elite programs primarily drawing from their nearby regions.
December 5th, 2010 at 3:45 AM ^
boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
December 5th, 2010 at 10:49 AM ^
ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!
December 5th, 2010 at 3:51 AM ^
"In fact, the atrocious offense of 2008 actually scored more points in the 1st half of the Big Ten season than did our 2010 offense."
Little Known Fact: The first half of John Holmes dick was three inches long...
December 5th, 2010 at 3:51 AM ^
1. This is the wrong thread for this comment.
2. This is the sort of uneducated drivel I try to avoid by coming to MGoBlog.
3. Negged.
December 5th, 2010 at 4:24 AM ^
How in the hell is this relevant to this thread? I guess you did mention Florida, and Wayne Lyons is from Florida, but I do not see how a student with 44 scholarship offers is a "leftover". You sir, = FAIL.
December 5th, 2010 at 5:43 AM ^
I hope you like South America because you sir will be going there shortly.
December 5th, 2010 at 8:23 AM ^
take your "rational" debate back to rivals and meltdown with your friends there. and stop hijacking threads
December 5th, 2010 at 10:19 AM ^
Well THAT was out of left field.
December 5th, 2010 at 11:33 AM ^
I wish I could neg this twice.
December 5th, 2010 at 11:45 AM ^
Ciullo....
December 5th, 2010 at 1:16 PM ^
i really appreciate you putting this thread up. +1 on to you for posting. Great to hear how intelligent he is, and able to excel with both books and football! Love to have him in the maize and blue!
December 5th, 2010 at 3:53 AM ^
I didn't know any of that about Wayne Lyons, so thanks for sharing. Sounds like a great kid.
December 5th, 2010 at 8:40 AM ^
This kid sounds fantastic.. U of M may seem like a long ways away, but Wayne, you will be right at home here. I hope you come!
December 5th, 2010 at 8:59 AM ^
The kid sounds great! And we could use some more Academic All Big Tens, I'm kinda dissapointed we only had 8 this year.
December 5th, 2010 at 9:21 AM ^
On his rivals page I saw he's being recruited to ND by our very own Mike Elston, now their D-line coach.
December 5th, 2010 at 10:27 AM ^
Lyons has more maturity as a high school senior than I did at the age of 30. And certainly more than some of the people commenting around here lately.
He is going to be successful in life and would be great to have on the team.
December 5th, 2010 at 11:47 AM ^
Lyons spends much of his time at school building robots,
http://www.engin.umich.edu/newscenter/feature/robotics/
A U-M team of over 20 students won a $750,000 grant as first place finishers in the Multi Autonomous Ground-robotic International Challenge (MAGIC), a two-year competition organized by the defense departments of the United States and Australia.
I'm having trouble embedding a picture of the team found on that page, but it may answer another of his questions. The kids may not have graduated yet, but they're certainly there. On the team. Along with the white kids and the robots.
December 5th, 2010 at 4:46 PM ^
That is exactly the photo I failed with. Your superior skill is appreciated.
December 5th, 2010 at 11:31 AM ^
He sounds a lot like Myron Rolle. Bobby Bowden got him because his official visit focused heavily on academics, during which they outlined a class by class plan to meet his academic goals while playing football. Everyone else focused on football and didn't understand that academics really came first with him.
December 5th, 2010 at 11:40 AM ^
He does sound like a great kid to have on the team. Seems like he could develop into a great leader on our defense. Does anyone know how the visit went for him? Tomvh?
December 5th, 2010 at 12:22 PM ^
I can't wait for Tom's visit reviews on Countess, Lyons, and others. FIRE UP THE SIGNAL.
December 5th, 2010 at 1:13 PM ^
He has a 5.0?! Holy crap!