Da'shawn Hand Prediction Thread
Where do you have Da'shawn Hand committing to tomorrow, and why?
Popular Predictions:
Mike Farrel
Prediction: Michigan
TomVH
Prediction: Michigan
Jeremy Birmingham
Prediction: Michigan
Jamie Oakes (Virginia Recruiting Insider)
Prediction: Michigan
Tim Sullivan
Prediction: Michigan
JC Shurburtt
Prediction: Michigan
November 13th, 2013 at 11:10 AM ^
Wait, what prediction thread is this again?
Oh, Michigan.
November 13th, 2013 at 11:14 AM ^
exactly what I was planning to do.
November 13th, 2013 at 11:24 AM ^
Seconded.
November 13th, 2013 at 11:25 AM ^
involves pain.
November 13th, 2013 at 11:30 AM ^
At least it's not a football prediction thread about an actual football game. It's more about potential pain in future years, rather than immediate pain. So, that's something.
November 13th, 2013 at 1:41 PM ^
Isn't it a little early for posting our ohio game predictions....
November 13th, 2013 at 1:52 PM ^
He might have been posting his Northwestern prediction.
November 13th, 2013 at 11:09 AM ^
I predict he will not be going to Florida
November 13th, 2013 at 11:09 AM ^
If Farrell says Michigan, that's who I'm going with. He knows that area really well, and is close to Hand and his family.
November 13th, 2013 at 11:11 AM ^
That's what gives me the bes feeling about it. Mike Farrell is an ass, and has huge ego. But the guy is almost always right (for better or worse)
November 13th, 2013 at 11:14 AM ^
Just as an FYI, only Hand and his father know where he is going up to this point. People really close to him, including his former coach and mentor do not know who he is choosing. So, Farrell, like every one else, is just speculating.
November 13th, 2013 at 11:21 AM ^
But Mike's speculations about kids from this area are rarely wrong.
November 13th, 2013 at 11:26 AM ^
For him to start getting them wrong.
November 13th, 2013 at 11:36 AM ^
Yo.....
November 13th, 2013 at 12:16 PM ^
Mike Ferrell predicted Michigan, but tweeted the following according a MLive article:
"Honestly if Hand picked #Alabama tomorrow I wouldn't be stunned,"
November 13th, 2013 at 12:01 PM ^
November 13th, 2013 at 12:56 PM ^
I talked to his coach last night and he said that he actually told Da'Shawn that he specifically did not want to know. Da'Shawn has kept a lot of this to himself so anyone besides him is just guessing based on the evidence that is pretty much all public knowledge at this point.
November 13th, 2013 at 7:00 PM ^
What is your feeling on hand? Anything changed since the last time you updated us?
November 13th, 2013 at 1:45 PM ^
I am not of the belief that the the nosedive the current team is currently encountering is enough to pull him over the the Alabama side for as long as he has been a Michigan lean. I also don't believe that Alabama has as many recruits he has become close with and that have been recruiting him as hard as Wilton and Jabril. I mean, how can he watch that video of Jabril and not want to come play with him???
November 13th, 2013 at 3:28 PM ^
Playing against B1G players he will be a star. Against SEC players, he would have to do some heavy lifting to be competitive. If it was my decision, I would go where the likelihood of being successful is greater.
BTW, I find it interesting that of all the schools making offers to him, MSU has not. What do they know that the rest of us don't know?
November 13th, 2013 at 3:48 PM ^
Probably that they never had a shot with him
November 13th, 2013 at 3:51 PM ^
"What do they know that the rest of us don't know?"
He's secretly a dog, and Dantonio knows that the NCAA is on the verge of passing new rules that prohibit dogs from playing after the whole "Air Bud" controversy.
Or, maybe one school not offering one particular player doesn't mean a whole lot.
November 13th, 2013 at 9:59 PM ^
He needs to develop to get to the NFL and he might feel that his development will be more successful at Alabama.
November 13th, 2013 at 11:22 AM ^
Poopy Ferguson
Prediction: Alabama
This isn't just based on our struggles this season. I probably would have predicted Alabama a month or two ago. I just don't get where the "Hand to Michigan" conventional wisdom comes from.
November 13th, 2013 at 11:31 AM ^
How about the fact that he has visited a number of times, has said a lot of good things about our program and our staff or that he has befriended a number of our commits?
I know this sounds crazy, but sometimes guys pick not-Alabama. Henry Poggi did last year, and Alabama was after him hard. Recruits do not always pick the school that wins the most. Hell, this has happened to us when we were the "Alabama" in this dichotomy.
November 13th, 2013 at 6:07 PM ^
[said in my best Jon Stewart falsetto]. When were we Alabama-like?
November 13th, 2013 at 11:01 PM ^
1901-1904.
That is humbling.
Y EVERYTHING SO TERRIBLE LATELY?!?!?!?!?
Please commit to the University of Michigan, Mr. Hand. Breath life back into MGoBlog!
November 13th, 2013 at 11:32 AM ^
Didn't your original version of this post say "Michigan" before you edited it to include your rational for picking 'bama?
Which is it, Turd Ferguson? Or is it Poopy Ferguson? I just don't know what to believe any more...
November 13th, 2013 at 11:34 AM ^
I bet that's not even his real name.
November 13th, 2013 at 11:42 AM ^
Turdathon "Poopy" Ferguson, III, Esq.
November 13th, 2013 at 11:49 AM ^
SHUT UP.
No, my original prediction here was Alabama. And I'm really not an "everything's horrible / we're doomed" guy.
My honest answer, though, is that I have no idea where he's going. He surprised everyone with his final three of Michigan, Alabama, and Florida, and he's been quoted saying it's funny to him that everyone thinks he has a leader. The Michigan in front stuff, as far as I can tell, is mostly based on him saying that we have his favorite staff. But he has used superlatives for other schools too (e.g., Bud Foster being his favorite coach). Yes, he has visited here a few times and loved it, but he has also visited other places a few times and loved it. This just feels to me like a case of the blind leading the blind with those expert predictions. My clueless probabilities would probably be something like 45% Alabama, 40% Michigan, and 15% Florida.
November 13th, 2013 at 12:20 PM ^
Next you're going to tell us he doesn't really wear a monocle.
November 13th, 2013 at 1:04 PM ^
The mustache isn't.
November 13th, 2013 at 1:40 PM ^
The hell you say.
We just can't count on anything anymore.
November 13th, 2013 at 2:02 PM ^
My avatar is an actual photograph of me. What more do you want from me?
November 13th, 2013 at 4:40 PM ^
November 13th, 2013 at 11:10 AM ^
A full 24 hours seem a bit too much especially as this will be created again tomorrow at the same time.
November 13th, 2013 at 11:10 AM ^
I'm optemistic. But I've been hurt before by my optimism (cough cough. Penn St. cough cough MSU. cough cough Nebraska)
November 13th, 2013 at 11:12 AM ^
November 13th, 2013 at 11:13 AM ^
I just want to say I find the teenage thug look that Farrel tries to do in every picture hilarious when he's a fat middleaged man whose job it is to talk to 17 year olds. Plus his whole godfather of recruiting thing.
November 13th, 2013 at 11:34 AM ^
Can we please let the whole "whose job it is to talk to 17 year olds" thing? Lots of people have the job of talking to 17 year olds.
November 13th, 2013 at 12:07 PM ^
I can't believe these high school teachers. They're almost as disgusting as middle school teachers. Don't even get me started on elementary school teachers. Ahhhh. Pre school teachers. I just threw up in my mouth.
November 13th, 2013 at 1:12 PM ^
And what about parents? They deal with little kids all the time and even - gulp - may see them when they're unclothed! Sickos!
November 13th, 2013 at 1:20 PM ^
We should outlaw them or something. Won't anyone think of the children?!?
November 13th, 2013 at 2:52 PM ^
Someone always has to take it too far.
November 13th, 2013 at 6:43 PM ^
And what about those god damn labor & delivery nurses!? How can they get away with it?! Someone should call the police!!
November 13th, 2013 at 12:07 PM ^
But what if it's your hobby? Is that weird yet?
November 13th, 2013 at 1:20 PM ^
November 13th, 2013 at 1:23 PM ^
Have you ever eaten with one?