Stephen Herron Decommits

Submitted by BiSB on

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Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man. Stephen Herron's decommitment went from foregone conclusion to likely outcome to possible outcome, but after spending several weeks denying any ongoing interest in Stanford, Herron finally yanked the band-aid.
 

The most likely scenario was that Herron hadn't gotten formal word from Stanford admissions, and has now received said word. Herron was a composite five-star until recently, and remains a top-100 prospect.

Michigan now has three defensive end commits, 5-star SDE Chris Hinton, 3.5-star-for-now SDE David Ojabo and 3-star WDE Gabe Newburg, and will presumably look to replace Herron in the class. They remain Lloyd-Christmas-There's-A-Chance interested in 5-stars Zach Harrison (a presumed Ohio State lock) and George Karlaftis (a Purdue commit).  The Herron news may actually help somewhat with 3-star DE Aeneas DiCosmo, who seems to be down to Michigan and Stanford. 

Michigan's class is now down to 18 commits, and is ranked #9 in the country and #2 in the Big Ten behind Ohio State.

Stephen Herron

Comments

Bobby Thomson

July 24th, 2018 at 10:48 AM ^

Thought this was going to be a log (or "diary") of the Stephen Herron journey.  I know I can't remember all the ups and downs, is he in is he out twists and turns of the story.  I thought somebody else had documented it and posted it in such a way as to merit a diary rather than a common board post.  Alas...

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Mongo

July 26th, 2018 at 9:10 PM ^

His performance at the Opening was a "C-" at best, so we have guys as good or better committed or already on the team.  Not a big loss team-wise.  But he is a high character kid and could have been good in A2, but we were his backup all along I guess.  Football-wise all is good without him.  Wish Mr Herron well at Stanford.  

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