Commit Watch: 2016 LB Daelin Hayes sets announcement date
According to Brandon & multiple other sources 2016 LB Daelin Hayes, younger cousin of Justice Hayes will announce his decision April 27th at the Rivals Camp Series stop in Detroit. Gotta think Michigan is the favorite after offering March 22nd. 8 of 11 his 247 sports Crystal Ball predictions are for Michigan as well
“@CoachBrown3: 2016 LB Daelin Hayes will announce commitment April 27. He holds offers from Michigan, Michigan St., and Tennessee.”
“@TomVH: 2016 LB Daelin Hayes (Orchard Lake, Mich.) says he's announcing his decision on April 27.”
From Magnus's scholarship count we will lose three LBs.
Daelin Hayes, Go Blue!
Yeah, 2015 will be the final year for Bolden, Ross, and Jenkins-Stone.
Great, but damn it would be nice to see some 2015 Hello posts.
when UM would get 30 recruits and it seemed every other day there was a hello post. At least these guys have been 4 stars for the most part Rarely a 3 star ranking and its .usually only one recruiting service with the others calling him a 4 star.
Yeah can't wait to have a full class again in 2016.
I believe the 2016 class will be just as small as the 2015 class.
There are 15 scholarship guys scheduled to graduate after the 2015 season. If you count Glasgow, there are 16. If you count Glasgow and Kerridge, there are 17. So that class should be a little bit larger than this one, but probably not back up to 25.
April 12th, 2014 at 10:23 PM ^
It's the benefit of the honeymoon phase. Penn State is going through the same thing now with Franklin. A 10-win season would change so many things around here, our recruiting and collective mood ain't the least of it, either.
Where does he stack up? 2 star 3 star 4 star 5 star?
13 stars
Butch Jones?
was their Michigan recruiter.He played QB and coached at MSU.
Brandon B had him as a 4 on the Brandon scale with the quote that it would be a 5 if the decision date was nearer (i.e. committing). That was with the assumption his recruitment had only begun.
So now Brandon needs to call him and if he is eagerly returning calls our smoke signals are clear. If he avoids the calls, its either blech in EL or Tenn.
http://mgoblog.com/content/michigan-offers-daelin-hayes
I like certain things about each school. With Michigan State, my relationship with Coach Dantonio and Coach Salem that I’ve had since I was in the 9th grade. That was my first unofficial visit and I’ve been up there maybe six times so it’s familiar.
Going down to Tennessee, being in SEC country, football is like a religion down south. They took everything very seriously. They were the only school that actually went over what they would do with me on defense. They were trying to quiz me on what I would call if I was on the field. It was very hands on and they got to the point very quickly.
Then something like the degree from Michigan. It’s such a prestigious school, on the field and off the field. The degree to fall back on if football doesn’t work out is unbelievable. Every player wants to play in the NFL but we all know that’s not the reality. Being able to do both, being able to be a great student in the classroom and a great player on the field at a place like Michigan is special.
April 12th, 2014 at 10:25 PM ^
April 12th, 2014 at 10:42 PM ^
They won a National Championship the year after Manning left in 98, ya dingus.
April 12th, 2014 at 10:49 PM ^
What would you say about Michigan since Woodson left? It's pretty much the same. 8 or 9 wins a year.
April 12th, 2014 at 10:59 PM ^
April 12th, 2014 at 11:04 PM ^
Tennessee has been worse. They haven't had more than seven wins since 2007 and have had five losing seasons in the last eight years.
April 12th, 2014 at 11:47 PM ^
This is like a circle jerk of mediocre (hey we suck less than you sucked!!!) but I did a lengthy piece last year comparing the "blue blood" programs and only ND was worse than UM in terms of lack of great seasons. (Tenn in the past 8-10 years is probably worse but that's because they have had a string of losing seasons - they had a few more high end seasons than UM over the past 20 yrs)
http://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/reality-check-um-football-has-been-mediocre…
My measure of a great season was losing less than 3 games - in that regard UM has only been able to do this 4 times since 1993 (20 years)...that's sorta sad. In comparison OSU has done it 9 of the past 12 seasons (8 of the last 12 if you exclude cheating). And 13 times in that same measuring period.
Frankly all have been major dissapointments. Our 97 NC was a lot like ND's 2012 appearance in the NC game - sort of out of the blue (no pun intended) sandwiched in between a lot of "decent" seasons. UM has not had a 4-5 year period where they were considered a perennial elite program since maybe the 80s (70s for sure). Almost every other major program has, mixed in with some downfalls. Up until Carr left where UM stood apart was its lack of a downfall period... but now we've joined every other major program in doing that without the 4-5 years of excellence (by that I mean a string of 12-1, 11-2, worst case 10-3 seasons that most have enjoyed) as an offset.
Anyhow its sort of silly to bag on Tennessee right now, we are better but these 3 programs are generally the bottom 3 of the blue bloods over the past 15 years certainly, and I'd argue 20. Outside of 2006 and 1997 we have not been truly in the conversation for elite at the end of the year. Frankly the brand has been outworking the product on the field for a long while now... a lot of teenagars we are recruiting - unless they live in the Midwest and didn't blink in 2006 - don't remember UM ever being a program that was elite, even for 1 year. It has sort of been one of those "historically elite" programs that "our dads" talk about.
April 13th, 2014 at 12:38 PM ^
losing kess than three games needs to be revised. That's the number of times they were sanctioned for cheating. If you exclude the years they cheated and were not caught, the record is more like 0 for 12.
I'd like to see things improve and I think they will however I don't want to start using the ethics of Ohio State to get there.
Cheating in recruiting or in retaining players is no guarantee of success on the field. You still have to do something with the players you get, and in that one respect Tressel was highly successful, unfortunately. He might be a scumbag when it comes to ethics, but he was a smart coach with very capable assistants.
What we want for the football team is the equivalent of Beilein—smart as hell, ethics beyond reproach, with a proven eye for both for assistant coaching talent and for player talent to match his system. I'm not 100% convinced that the present football staff is incapable of providing all that, but there's not a huge amount of evidence so far that it can do it, either.
The 2016 class should be pretty big.
April 13th, 2014 at 10:33 PM ^