Julian Barnett (2019) commits to MSU
Julian Barnett in the 2019 class committed to MSU today. Michigan never offered him, but I thought it was notable considering he's rated #2 in state, #3 CB, and #60 nationally. Also has plenty of length at 6'1 so he would fit what Don Brown wants in a longer corner. This recruitment has always seemed strange to me. I'm sure Harbaugh and co will get the recruits they want, but it's still a shame to see a top ranked in state player go to the other guys.
December 23rd, 2017 at 8:35 AM ^
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December 22nd, 2017 at 1:09 PM ^
Based on his profile it looks like msu is leading for Dobbs right now.
December 22nd, 2017 at 5:54 PM ^
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December 22nd, 2017 at 1:04 PM ^
More seriously, I would assume there is a reason we didn’t recruit him. Whether it’s other guys on the board at a more national level or something else. This past year they have shown that they may know what they’re doing when it comes to assembling a secondary.
December 22nd, 2017 at 9:40 PM ^
December 22nd, 2017 at 10:13 PM ^
More on a national level than #60? Haha. Ok
December 23rd, 2017 at 12:36 PM ^
December 22nd, 2017 at 1:05 PM ^
December 22nd, 2017 at 1:05 PM ^
highly ranked player from Michigan. We win most of the major head to head battles these days anyway. And this didn't sound like one of those. Not every highly ranked in-state kid fits in here, or sometimes it's academics.
December 22nd, 2017 at 1:17 PM ^
You know, the ACTUAL head-to-head battle.
That would be nice once in awhile.
December 22nd, 2017 at 2:23 PM ^
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December 22nd, 2017 at 1:10 PM ^
There's no real reason for the football program to be punished directly. The administration might (should) receive punishment, which might indirectly affect some recruit's opinions of the school...but it's not likely.
December 22nd, 2017 at 1:11 PM ^
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December 22nd, 2017 at 1:37 PM ^
Extremely sad but extremely true...
It's amazing to me how these guys don't even blink about this stuff.
December 22nd, 2017 at 1:47 PM ^
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December 22nd, 2017 at 10:14 PM ^
You must be new here.
Troll alert?
December 23rd, 2017 at 6:19 AM ^
December 23rd, 2017 at 8:01 AM ^
New here? He must be new to the interwebs. Just got his first rebuilt with a smokin' Pentium II, a sweet 15" crt, and 5 mbs of ram.
Hello world!
December 23rd, 2017 at 10:28 AM ^
December 22nd, 2017 at 2:00 PM ^
I completely get that it's a business for the athlete. Which school hits the best intersection of what is most desired. Development, academics, social scene, whatever. I think for a lot of football players, that intangible sum could be pretty similar at multiple schools. So, if you are a parent of a kid who can go to MSU or fill in the blank, where would you direct them if the Nassar thing brings down part of the AD?
This isn't rivalry stuff. If my kid was going to hang his or her future reputation on a school that may get nuked for lack of institutional control, even if it wasn't their sport, there's no way I'd advocate for them to go there.
I don't think this would crater recruiting, but I would expect some extra battles being lost.
December 22nd, 2017 at 2:16 PM ^
Do you want to know why Penn State is not suffering from the Sandusky fallout? Because the kids they recruit don't know a damn thing about it. I am a college professor and I am stunned at how little peripheral cultural vision my incoming students have. A few are news conscious and politically active, but by far the vast majority are just completely ignorant about the past -- recent and distant -- and they don't pay much attention at all to the present. Once they get into the college scene and learn that it's not uncool to know stuff, they grow into a sense of cultural consciousness, but our high schools to a very good job of turning out kids with almost no curiosity.
December 22nd, 2017 at 1:13 PM ^
December 23rd, 2017 at 8:02 AM ^
That's correct, but forget it--he's on a roll.
December 22nd, 2017 at 1:27 PM ^
Because if they win anything of note this whole gymnastics scandal will result in banners coming down. That's how it works, right?
December 22nd, 2017 at 5:56 PM ^
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December 22nd, 2017 at 1:12 PM ^
2019 is going to be a monster recruiting class. Barnett just wasn't part of those plans. Good luck to the young man though.
December 22nd, 2017 at 1:20 PM ^
December 22nd, 2017 at 1:21 PM ^
I think a bigger deal is J.T. Daniels 19' graduating early to enroll in USC next year. Michigan was after him and there seemed to be mutual interest. It obviously would have been an uphill battle against USC with this news.
December 22nd, 2017 at 1:25 PM ^
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December 22nd, 2017 at 2:10 PM ^
"... this is the type of talent you offer without even talking to."
There's no such thing for a well-run program.
Aside: Who's coaching at Belleville? What's their historical relationship with UMich and Sparty?
December 22nd, 2017 at 3:32 PM ^
December 22nd, 2017 at 3:45 PM ^
Michigan offers tons of kids without seeing them. I get Belleville is close but sometimes you need to bite a bullet for a relationship, if for no other reason not offering him hurt their ability to recruit Dobbs.
Doesn't matter if the kid was an msu lean, when Hoke got the farmington hills kids he out recruited msu for them, same with Drake Harris. Maybe this specific player didn't fit into their plans but sometimes you recruit for show and pipeline purposes. Belleville is going to be a power program seemingly, you don't want that turning into an msu pipeline because one kid didn't come to a camp.
December 22nd, 2017 at 4:10 PM ^
MSU signed Davion Williams (football) and Gabe Brown (basketball) this year. With Barnett in the fold, they have a good relationship going with the school. Not sure what sparked Belleville becoming an athletic powerhouse and if it'll continue?
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