Ben Roebuck Has Committed to Michigan
News from the front! Another major citadel in Ohio territory has fallen to the Wolverines. The Lakewood St. Ed's tower of Ben Roebuck, long predicted to fall into Wolverine hands, has surrendered its gold pants peacefully.
BREAKING: 2024 OT Ben Roebuck tells me he has Committed to Michigan!
— Hayes Fawcett (@Hayesfawcett3) March 22, 2023
The 6’7 315 OT from Lakewood, OH chose the Wolverines over Tennessee, Penn St & others
“I was an OSU fan growing up, but then I grew up and realized that Michigan was the place to be.”https://t.co/x6K3QYHSya pic.twitter.com/hfZzzHjHlO
The 6'7" Roebuck was one of Michigan's top tackle prospects in this class, and one they've been focused on since the start of the cycle. The private powerhouse has been good to Michigan relative to other area schools. Two of Roebuck's fellow St. Ed's linemen, the twins Deontae and Devontae Armstrong, have also been longtime Michigan targets, though not on the same level as Roebuck. OSU finally offered the pair in January. Including longtime commit Luke Hamilton it was possible for Sherrone Moore to build an entire line class from a small circle of Western Cleveland. However there are a lot more linemen on Michigan's board right now, so the Armstrongs may not be as high of a priority. If they become so, having a teammate pushing Blue should help bring them around.
Roebuck was. Like Hamilton, he profiles as a mauler. He played RT last year but is expected to shift to the blindside. I think Michigan sees him as a right tackle, but we'll know more after a thorough hello.
Right now I just want to talk about The War, as Michigan continues to build its 2024 class at the expense of its main rival. Coming on the heels of their major early commitment from 4.5* RB Jordan Marshall out of Cincinnati, Harbaugh's program now has pledges from three out of Ohio State's top ten prospects for 2024 as of June, versus one (Cade Stover's cousin) for Ohio State. Youngstown Edge Brian Robinson is expected in Ann Arbor eventually, though he wants to get his visits in before making a decision. The front now shifts to 5-star Aaron Scott, the Springfield cornerback long expected to go to Ohio State because that's what the #1 prospect in Ohio does. It's usually what the top tackle prospect in Ohio does too.
In a map:
We'll get a full hello up probably tomorrow. There is no content after the jump.
Didn’t have a OSU offer! Must not be that good since they have won back to back Joe Moore awards!!
More fuel for the complete Columbus melt down. Go Blue!!
How can you not love a guy who says “I was an OSU fan growing up, but then I grew up and realized that Michigan was the place to be.”
Anyone know what OH cornerback Michigan has a better shot at between Bryce West and Aaron Scott?
The non-VIP vibe is M may have a better shot at Aaron Scott but that could be largely based on history with the school that West attends.
IF OSU was star-watching they might have slowed-played Scott a bit as he just jumped from about 250 overall to 35 overall to 247 yesterday. West has been highly ranked for a longer time.
March 23rd, 2023 at 10:17 AM ^
They kind of flip flopped.
CB Aaron Scott #243 -> #36
CB Bryce West #60 -> #175
West was ranked quite a bit higher. Now Scott is ranked quite a bit higher.
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Where’s that guy who showed up in every Risk thread
well according to the risk map -- we own cedar point.. probably the best thing in ohio... lol
"but then I grew up..."
Harbaugh has now achieved another objective. First was gaining our state back and jumping back ahead of MSU. THIS MUST NOT BE UNDERAPPRECIATED. MSU was on fringe of becoming a top program and taking our place. That momentum is hard to reverse.
And beating OSU (consecutively)
Then winning the Big Ten, (consecutively.)
And now, he gets us back into Ohio, fixing it since Tressel shut Lloyd out.
And been in playoffs two years in row now. A national title is gravy, considering the disadvantage in recruiting we have with the south among other things.
Resounding success, as far as I'm concerned.
I agree with almost your entire post but would never regard a national title as "gravy" - more like steak and potatoes (with milk).
Even short of one, Harbaugh has been a resounding success. If we beat OSU again, Day will be fired, and the real separation will begin, and a decade of having the upper hand.
Well I think that's a bit overstated and short-sighted. Do you remember that time that Tressel got fired...
March 22nd, 2023 at 10:42 PM ^
Maybe so a bit, but in 2012 we were talking about replacing probably a top 15-20 coach of all time with a top five coach of all time...which isnt gonna happen again.
I mean… the guy IS available. I wouldn’t put it past them to bring him back
Is he selling jerseys in Ohio?
Bring me all of the LargeSons of Ohio
In honor of our Ohio recruiting haul...
Or you could go with one my slow faves by the Ohio Players - "I don't want to be alone"
Ohio is crucial to staying competitive in the rivalry. There is something about being born in Michigan or Ohio that outside players will always have trouble understanding. Hutch, Woodson, Howard (just to name a few) all understood the assignment.
It's because they have infinitely more skin in The Game.
Love to see that Dayton, where I live, is represented in Michigan territory. Make it even more obvious Aaron Scott!!
I had gold pants once.
Sorta gold. Similar color.
It was when I wore white pants and had an intestinal disorder.
That story stinks.
Good things happen to Michigan athletics when they recruit Ohio. Obviously these last 2 wins help a ton, but love the emphasis on recruiting this state hard again.
Love it the map is cracking me up.
I feel like, "...but then I grew up" could be a chapter title for all of our biographies. It's just a matter of how many chapters in to the book you hit that mark.
I’m glad to see that we’re distributing our stars evenly between Cleveland and Cincinnati to avoid the efficiency loss that come with concentrating them in one place.
Am excited about the influx in commitments; hopefully they'll keep up steam the next couple of days. OSU is now seeing what UM fans have seen for a while vs. both OSU and MSU - if you win consistently against your rivals then you have something to sell to recruits about helping to sustain it.
I also think that there's always been a sense between Ohio and Michigan that if it's a rivalry then people leaning toward one program can "justify" going to the other side. For so long it wasn't and you could tell there were kids who wanted to leave but felt heavy pressure to not go to the "loser" program. Bring something approaching parity back to this rivalry and we're seeing the positive fallout with kids wanting to go to UM being able to with less blowback.
March 22nd, 2023 at 11:03 PM ^
I also think that many Ohio recruits who grow up within the Ohio State monoculture get tired of their fanbase being such pushy dates for their school.
Let the good times roll! So… who’s committing tomorrow?
There's quite the rankings disparity. On3 is all "Meh" Rivals says "Woo!"
i can't even describe how much more interesting this map is than all those cfb risk maps.
This one jumps us past Florida State and Notre Dame to #3 on 247 Sports' national ranking of schools for the 2024 recruiting cycle. RB John Marshall's commitment had pushed us to 5th this morning.
Still early, so it doesn't mean a lot yet, but we could end up with a very highly ranked class this year.
We were already in 5th before Jordan Marshall committed.
We got a RB commit named John Marshall to go along with Jordan Marshall!?!
John Marshall once worked with Justice Hayes.
...kind of like how Ben Roebuck was business partners with Johnny Sears.
“I was an OSU fan growing up, but then I grew up and realized that Michigan was the place to be.”
HAHAHA
We all make mistakes as young ones big fella, you correctly righted your path to success :-)
Pulling Ohio talent out of Moeller and St. Eds at the same time makes me feel 20 years younger!
The Ohio copium is insane on Twitter!! Go Blue!!
Now we just need a recruit named Sears.
Thought I was gonna have to scroll all the way to the bottom for this. Risk map mentions are straight up lapping corny retailer puns.
Does Johnny have a son?
ah, I missed the maps since risk ended. More maps please.
the BEST players from ohio come to MICHIGAN.
Go Blue.
This is the Michigan I grew up knowing.
We owned Toledo and Massillon, we competed in Cleveland, especially private school Cleveland. And Cincinnati was more blue than it was "red," as was Youngstown (+ Michigan owned Western PA).
Take all of their land
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