Article on The Big Lead regarding Swenson: Opinion piece(no new facts)
I saw this article.
http://thebiglead.com/2016/01/22/jim-harbaugh-erik-swenson-and-the-importance-of-context/
Edit: Fixed so that this is now just a link to another article you can feel free to read or not read. It is an opinion piece basing information from the Spath article that everyone except myself had read previously. Sorry for getting all your hopes up for some new bits of information. Go Blue.
January 22nd, 2016 at 2:17 PM ^
Isn't this the Spath article?
January 22nd, 2016 at 2:19 PM ^
I haven't seen the Spath article because I believe it is paywalled on Rivals. The article I read is by Ty Duffy but the part I pulled was a quote within his article.
January 22nd, 2016 at 2:21 PM ^
Spath article isn't paywalled. All can read it.
January 22nd, 2016 at 2:28 PM ^
45 million adults in the US are functionally illiterate and, therefore, cannot read Spath's article...
January 22nd, 2016 at 5:30 PM ^
January 22nd, 2016 at 2:40 PM ^
Wow, I got a point! Mr Duffy is that you?
January 22nd, 2016 at 2:19 PM ^
But it actually provides nothing groundbreaking, and certainly nothing we didn't already know or suspect. Basically a retread of the Spath piece...but not as good.
January 22nd, 2016 at 2:19 PM ^
This was covered in UMBig11's Post.
January 22nd, 2016 at 2:18 PM ^
I now have a @247CrystalBall forecast of #Wisconsin #Badgers for OL Erik Swenson: https://t.co/BPxv3kjbiQ @Evan_Flood @RyanBartow
— Steve Wiltfong (@SWiltfong247) January 22, 2016
January 22nd, 2016 at 2:21 PM ^
Swenson is going to be just fine. Another good program with a good school roughly the same distance away. So, no one is going to end their life over all this...
January 22nd, 2016 at 2:40 PM ^
Wisconsin is 1.5 hours closer to him.
Source: my high school was in that conference and I've made the drives to both Madison and Ann Arbor from home.
January 22nd, 2016 at 3:14 PM ^
...they have to read another "opinion" piece about how the whole matter was handled, based on one side of the story. Then, someone might end their life.
But not me; I won't end my life until Mike Tyson publishes his views on the Swenson situation. Then I will commence death by hoverboard.
January 22nd, 2016 at 5:48 PM ^
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January 22nd, 2016 at 7:39 PM ^
January 22nd, 2016 at 2:22 PM ^
this can't be correct... I heard that Michigan had ruined this kid's future.
/s
January 22nd, 2016 at 2:24 PM ^
Wisky has a good sense of Olinemen given their history with the running attack. Harbaugh feels differently obviously.
Going to be neat to see who is right.
January 22nd, 2016 at 2:26 PM ^
January 22nd, 2016 at 2:36 PM ^
Chryst was the OC under Bielema for those Rose Bowl runs, which were built on top of Montee Ball, James White and a dominant OL. I would think the sense has carried over.
January 22nd, 2016 at 2:19 PM ^
It's basically the same info posted here: http://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/free-rivals-article-recruiting-michael-spath
January 22nd, 2016 at 2:20 PM ^
PJ Fleck kind of sounds like a dick.
January 22nd, 2016 at 2:25 PM ^
Dick like a fox!
January 22nd, 2016 at 2:26 PM ^
The part you pull quoted was from the Rivals story already posted and widely discussed this morning. The rest of this one seems to be pretty middle of the road opinion.
How about we stop posting Swenson articles from around the interwebz and start to move forward? We can continue the moral examination of us as a fanbase if this appears to happen again with another recruit. (And I'm not talking about Rashad Weaver.)
January 22nd, 2016 at 2:23 PM ^
It sucks.
January 22nd, 2016 at 2:24 PM ^
January 22nd, 2016 at 2:50 PM ^
this story in general...
January 22nd, 2016 at 2:26 PM ^
I'm sooooooooo over this. Definitely done with this.
January 22nd, 2016 at 2:29 PM ^
Yeah, as a general rule, The Big Lead is a place you go for terrible #HOTTAKES and pictures of attractive women. To expect anything substantive from that place is a bar too high.
And yeah, nothing particularly wrong with the article, but just a repeat of a dozen others (and with a nice big block quote to fill out the word count).
January 22nd, 2016 at 2:34 PM ^
Ah i see. I hadn't recalled ever reading anything from there before. I will note that for future reference.
January 22nd, 2016 at 2:31 PM ^
January 22nd, 2016 at 2:33 PM ^
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January 22nd, 2016 at 2:37 PM ^
People who have moved on usually wouldn't click into a post about the thing they've moved on from...because they've moved on. Soooo why are you here?
January 22nd, 2016 at 2:39 PM ^
down to the 32 overall tackle. Not even in the top 300. WOW!
January 22nd, 2016 at 2:45 PM ^
Ace and Wiltfong both put in their ballz picks for Swenson today. Ace for Northwester and Wiltfong for Wiscy. Thunderdome's rules are simple, gentlemen.Get to the weapons. Use them any way you can.
January 22nd, 2016 at 4:40 PM ^
this is a non story perpetuated by people who dont like Michigan..Can we please just not talk about this any further? we gotz bigger fish to fry
January 22nd, 2016 at 6:25 PM ^
Another issue here is the way recruiting is covered. A “verbal commitment” is not a contract. It’s a media construct to keep track of recruiting classes.
ALthough the article doesn't reveal much that wasn't already known, this is a point that is worth mentioning because it seems like there are a fair number of people - on Twitter, on blogs, etc... - that seem to think that "verbal commitment" holds some real weight when it doesn't at all. I suppose I never understood why some people get irate when a teenager backs off a verbal commitment, as if it was binding.