2018 4 Star OG Curtis Dunlap Decommits from Florida
December 5th, 2017 at 9:31 AM ^
Michigan offered Dunlap a while back and actually made his top five in April: Link
He's friends with Cesar Ruiz from their time together at IMG.
At one point he was listed at 6'4", 370 lbs.
December 5th, 2017 at 9:38 AM ^
would excite me a lot more if he was 3" taller with good pass pro technique...
December 5th, 2017 at 9:33 AM ^
Is this the cat that's originally from Chicago, or was that Verdis Brown? Both guards recently decommitted from Florida schools.
December 5th, 2017 at 9:36 AM ^
He is expected to go to Illinois now. Good luck with that.
December 5th, 2017 at 12:48 PM ^
A bit surprised UM isn’t going after Brown, especially with Ekiyor out of the picture.
December 5th, 2017 at 1:22 PM ^
With an occasional exception, Michigan should be recruiting tackles and "tackles" because failed tackles and "tackles" can move inside to guard or even center. You generally can't go the other way. Verdis Brown is a guard/center, and you don't need to recruit those guys every year.
December 5th, 2017 at 3:44 PM ^
THANK YOU. past staffs pre-2007 understood this.. the present ones seem to do the opposite, that is, overly recruit interior guys, and then kick THEM outside.
December 5th, 2017 at 11:20 AM ^
Dunlap is originally from the Jacksonville area.
December 5th, 2017 at 9:35 AM ^
I wonder if we take another look given Ekiyor's decommitment.
December 5th, 2017 at 9:44 AM ^
2 Jake Longs.
One on the right side of the line, one on the left side.
Is that asking for too much?
December 5th, 2017 at 9:49 AM ^
Could you imagine that freight train running at you in the open field on a screen or something?
I pucker just thinking about it.
December 5th, 2017 at 2:06 PM ^
and an exceptionally nice man in person. He saw my friends and I at a bar in Miami (when he played for the Dolphins) wearing Michigan hats and came over and gave us a GO BLUE. We were watching games and hadn't even noticed him - hard to believe, but he was on the other sid of the restaurant. He sat down and talked with us for about 10 min about Ann Arbor and missing college.
I know - cool story bro, but really, he was one of the most authentic famous people / athletes you will ever come across. And he is an absolute gigantic human being - it's absurd how big he is in person.
December 5th, 2017 at 9:46 AM ^
Name is not Patterson DO NOT WANT
December 5th, 2017 at 9:48 AM ^
Can't have enough gigantic objects downblocking. Here's a safety's view of him pulling...
December 5th, 2017 at 10:01 AM ^
I can't stop watching this. I hope it was some sort of Mythbusters test and didn't involve real humans. Otherwise I'm staring at a snuff film.
December 5th, 2017 at 10:01 AM ^
but am guessing that did not turn out well
December 5th, 2017 at 9:55 AM ^
ROWING THE BOAT SOON! Fleck is gonna be trouble for us guys....
December 5th, 2017 at 11:03 AM ^
Fleck is coaching JV team. We are varsity level.
December 5th, 2017 at 12:13 PM ^
But Fleck has a boat.
December 5th, 2017 at 1:35 PM ^
Break Out Another Thousand
December 5th, 2017 at 4:34 PM ^
the day you buy it and the day you sell it...
December 5th, 2017 at 11:06 AM ^
Meh, we don’t play them until 2020. I’ll hold that concern out for a while. Harbaugh in year six has the potential to be ridiculous
December 5th, 2017 at 11:08 AM ^
Although as I look at it, they are the fifth team of this string of games:
VT, Wisky, Ped St., at Little Brother, at Minny.
Yowza.
December 5th, 2017 at 9:59 AM ^
Would be very nice if Michigan could snag one of these O-line decommits. Won’t matter who the QB is if the O-line is a tire fire yet again.
December 5th, 2017 at 10:16 AM ^
Yes but the problem with OL is that it is not a spot for a true frosh to come in and be an immediate impact. The OL needs to improve, absolutely, but it's not gonna come from a 2018 kid. It is VERY rare that a true frosh OL is a stud or even good so banking on an 18 year old kid is just gonna end in disappointment.
Better bet is that two of Filiaga, Stueber, Honigford, Hudson or someone else develops enough to provide us solid bookends. JBB is the assumed RT unless someone blows him out of the water.
No, I did not include Newsome because I seriously doubt he can come back and play football and even if he does it won't be at the level it was before that injury. I hope I'm wrong, we could use him, but an injury that causes you to lose almost two years is really bad.
December 5th, 2017 at 11:23 AM ^
During one of the games this fall we used our binoculars to scope out Newsome standing on the Michigan sidelines. The scary thing we saw was his injured leg (he was wearing shorts) with this very noticeable depression like some internal portion of his muscle in the knee area was gone. I'm no medical person, so I'm wondering how do you recover from that and still play football? Walking, maybe jogging, yes. We'll see though.
December 5th, 2017 at 11:56 AM ^
Not a doctor either, but have several friends who are and while nothing is ever an absolute situation they've all stressed that it's not likely he returns..
I mean, I hope for the best and if he could be back at even 70% of what he was it'd be great. It just seems like we're setting ourselves up for massive disappointment if we're expecting him to be back on a football field.
December 5th, 2017 at 12:18 PM ^
Considering that the surgeons were weighing the possibility of amputating his leg, anybody who is making the blanket assumption that Newsome will play again for Michigan is irrationally optimistic to the point of delusion. If he ever does play, consider it nothing less than a medical miracle.
December 5th, 2017 at 10:04 AM ^
How awesome would it be if he changed his name to Patterson and all the Pattersons came to Michigan?
December 5th, 2017 at 10:15 AM ^
Speaking of Patterson, just saw the movie Paterson (one T) last night. It's a Jim Jarmusch film. I highly recommend it. Nothing to do with football whatsoever though.
December 5th, 2017 at 10:11 AM ^
he is heavier than Onwenu, who they pushed to lose weight
if we are stackin on inside OL we should just keep going for tackles
December 5th, 2017 at 10:14 AM ^
yeah, we only have 8 tackles on the team.
December 5th, 2017 at 10:52 AM ^
Filiaga
Hall
Mayfield could go inside
2019 recruit Rumler certainly is not a tackle at the college level
tackles on the depth chart
Newsome - may never return
Ulizio - did not fare well
JBB - good run blocker, 1 year left
Stueber, Honigford and Hudson - RS Freshman
Hayes - true Freshman
so yes - take tackles!!!!
December 5th, 2017 at 11:29 AM ^
Hall is a tackle
December 5th, 2017 at 11:31 AM ^
The coaches plug OL in all over the place, but FWIW, he was practicing almost exclusively at LG earlier in the season.
December 5th, 2017 at 10:14 AM ^
we should be taking any offensive line recruits that we can get. Nothing wrong with keeping the cupboard full. That being said, QB, OT, S, and WR seem to be the staff's focus right now.
December 5th, 2017 at 1:06 PM ^
We have plenty of depth. We're not desperate to add more. A project might be okay, but we need high ceiling types, not pluggers. Not sure where Dunlap falls, but it sounds like UF pushed him out.
December 5th, 2017 at 12:25 PM ^
Yeah--correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding is that he's 6'3" and listed at 370lbs., but it's not "good weight."
So basically Mike Onwenu but slower.
December 5th, 2017 at 12:53 PM ^
at his HS?
December 5th, 2017 at 1:24 PM ^
Well, he's listed at 6'5", not 6'3".
December 5th, 2017 at 1:02 PM ^
Kid needs to mix in a salad.
December 5th, 2017 at 1:05 PM ^
Nobody went with, “his belly Dunlap over”?
December 5th, 2017 at 8:20 PM ^
That is terrifying.