October 28th, 2012 at 9:33 PM ^
MSU a major football program with good facilities?
October 28th, 2012 at 9:39 PM ^
I did not say they were an elite academic university, and I don't particularly care for the people that go there, but they are a major football program.
(and I hear they recruit nationally....)
October 28th, 2012 at 9:23 PM ^
We just reaped the benefits of grabbing Kyle Kalis. I didn't see many people 'round these parts accusing Kalis of having a personal vendetta against Ohio State...
October 28th, 2012 at 9:37 PM ^
October 28th, 2012 at 9:47 PM ^
They ARE comparable situations. Just because they're not exactly alike doesn't mean they're incomparable.
Kobe Bryant is comparable to Michael Jordan. But Bryant didn't grow up in North Carolina, doesn't play for the Bulls, didn't go to college... I guess that means we can't have a discussion about their similarities, right?
October 28th, 2012 at 10:18 PM ^
October 28th, 2012 at 10:20 PM ^
Uncertain future, huh? Dawson has commented that he doesn't want to go somewhere and lose, and now he's got Florida and Ohio State (two good teams) in his top five.
No two situations are exactly alike, and these two situations aren't an exception. But the bottom line is that the situations are similar of a guy committing to a team and then considering/committing to that team's archrival.
October 28th, 2012 at 10:28 PM ^
October 28th, 2012 at 10:15 PM ^
I do seem to recall him planning on getting other people's blood on his jersey or something like that... so I think he does have at lease some negative feelings towards those guys.
October 28th, 2012 at 9:06 PM ^
Jeez. Dawson doesn't owe any of us anything. High school kid who just lost his dad made a decision that doesn't benefit your preferred method of entertainment. Get over it.
October 28th, 2012 at 9:16 PM ^
October 28th, 2012 at 9:17 PM ^
Please stop posting about this. It's over. Good riddance. I'm much more concerned about bringing in skill position players.
October 28th, 2012 at 9:19 PM ^
October 28th, 2012 at 9:22 PM ^
October 28th, 2012 at 9:25 PM ^
Unfortunately the whole decommittment of this kid has shown that our fanbase consists of a lot more idiots than originally thought
October 28th, 2012 at 9:29 PM ^
It was a lot easier to live in blissful ignorance before Twitter.
October 28th, 2012 at 9:30 PM ^
October 28th, 2012 at 9:34 PM ^
Yes, sad for everyone, including the high schooler that will be getting a full ride scholarship to a great university for playing a game that he loves. Super sad.
October 28th, 2012 at 9:32 PM ^
October 28th, 2012 at 9:45 PM ^
I think that we should form a fanbase enforcement brigade. Let me explain.
I should add, as an initial disclaimer, that this is not emblematic of how I as an individual usually approach life. Not only do I not have a twitter, I don't read the tweets of others with extremely rare exception. I'm also not a fan of internet mob justice. Finally, I'm a big "live and let live" human. But sometimes I read things directed at 18 year old recruits on Twitter that literally appall me. It's worse when the miscreant twits have a Block M as their little profile picture.
Here's what I propose: an official MGoBlog "Michigan Moron of the week." Ace, in his weekly or whatever twitter perusal of target and former target recruits, will select a particular individual who has tweeted something horrendously shameful at a recruit. It can't be something that opinions could be split about - it needs to be straight up gruesome and lacking of humanity. Ace will then publish the tweet in his weekly column along with the account name and accordingly the Internet Will Do what the Internet Will Do. A perfect example would have been a hypothetical tweet directed to Dawson mocking him for his dead father, which exemplifies not only extreme selfishness but also a nearly unfathomable lack of human empathy. I've never said this in any other context ever before in my life, but I have an irrepressible visceral feeling that an example must be made of these tools.
October 28th, 2012 at 9:48 PM ^
October 28th, 2012 at 10:14 PM ^
You're doing it wrong - you're supposed to hate the kid and/or not care about his future at all.