Malik McDowell has a favorite [ED: it's Michigan]
http://isportsweb.com/2013/06/08/michigan-football-recruiting-malik-mcdowell-has-a-favorite/ It's Michigan.
ED:BiSB - From the article:
He told the folks at rivals that he was planning on visiting Florida, Florida State and USC. His top four schools are Michigan, Michigan State, Notre Dame and Ohio State. When asked if he had a leader, McDowell said, ”It’s Michigan, probably, that’s home."
2nd ED - I've fixed the glitch. Move along.
It's Michigan, for those who don't want to click on the link.
who don't like annoyingly unnecessary suspense.
My bologna has a first name.
[Ed: it's O-S-C-A-R]
Or you could just read after the link, OP tells you!
But not putting it in the title is unnecessary.
As are 15 comments complaining about it.
Mmmmm, point of parlimentary procedure, sir, your complaint concerning complaints is invalid unless seconded from the floor, and supported by a quorum of MPs no less than 2/3's in number, and not containing any Welshmen (save those who fought under Chelmsford East of Suez, of course). Mmm, yes, bully.
It's gonna be michigan again. Michigan.
They can throw out all those great backs and great quarterbacks and great defensive players.
The Team. The Team. The Team.
Rejoice!
Aren't the titles supposed to be as informative as possible?
Yes, this is annoying.
This has probably been covered ad nauseum in a previous thread, but has he made any timetable for a decision?
Go blue. Lets get all the recruits.
I saw him tweet another person that he was going to announce during or after the Army game
I think he will speed his timetable up with the recent commits and other commitments that should be coming.
Pretty sure the coaches will hold a spot for him, so no real need for him to speed things up.
Lol everyone's takin a backseat to us this year
ROTFL
Michigan is my favorite too!
Sometimes it's all about the maize M
They have the golden arches... we have the golden arcs.
They have the Big Mac, we have the big mick
They both have two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, and onions; but they use a sesame seed bun. Our buns h don't have seeds....
I think they could take sesame seeds off the market and I wouldn't even care. I can't imagine 5 years from now, saying, "Damn, remember sesame seeds?
'Two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions, on a... bun.' How's a sesame seed stick to a bun? That's fuckin' magical! There's got to be some sesame seed glue out there! Either that, or they're adhesive on one side. "Take the sesame seed out, remove the backing, place it on the bun. Now your bun will look spectacular."
What does a sesame seed grow into? I don't know, we never gave them a chance! What the fuck is a sesame? It's a street...it's a way to open shit!
R.I.P. Mitch
"I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're goin', and hook up with them later."
But if we can pick up McDowell and Hand this will be a return to the dominant D-lines of Michigan past. I'm so excited about the incoming class and the class on 2014.
I think you are dreaming. With a few exceptions (like the national championship year and maybe whatever year{s} had Woodley and Branch) this has been a relatively weak position area for many years. You might have to go back to Bo's first few teams.
Notice I said *relatively* weak. Even our worst D-lines have probably been around average. But, it hasn't been a strong area like QB/WR.
Anyway, I'm excited about the class, too.
It does seem like the D-line has lacked the ability to pressure QBs for several years now. The idea of one or two elite DE's on the line is extremely exciting. But I do think Frank Clark, Taco Charlton, etc.. are a big step in the right direction.
...Ondre Pipkins, Bryan Mone, Lawrence Marshall, Mario Ojemudia
We had some excellent DLs in the '80s (think Messner) and the early-to-mid '90s. Recruiting started to fall off after we lost Mattison to ND prior to the '97 season though.
A (Good News) in the the thread title would surely help many people's initial heart palpatations before clicking in
But Hoke can't recruit and Mattison is not even a top 50 recruiter.We need Jerry Montgomery back now dammit!
Geez talk about first world problems.
"The thread title is causing a slight inconvenience for me for five seconds. You suck."
First world problems you say?
Something interesting came across on Rivals yesterday (HERE) that was rather a neat fact. Malik McDowell is not only in rare company in terms of his rankings as a defensive end recruit, but among Michigan-based talent. Since 2002, there have been 1,300 players who made the Rivals 100 list, but only 30 (McDowell included) of them have been from Michigan. Of those 30, 14 of them have committed to, are currently playing at, or have played at Michigan.
McDowell - if he committed - would make that 15 of 30. Even now, however, it's really an awesome percentage when it comes to getting elite talent in your home state.
Imagine if we hadn't had to deal with the last couple of years of Carr and RR's pretty average recruiting years when players like RoJo & Nick Perry were being recruited.
I think the % of top Mich players going to U-M will increase greatly going forward.
Also, Malik's build reminds me of Alan Branch, yes please, more of that would be greatly desired.
24/7 Michigan has a free trial until Jan 1st, 2014.
I would create my own thread but I don't have the points to do so.
https://secure.247sports.com/UserSubscription/New?promo=FSTOC&skey=59
Enjoy!
It was posted like a week ago too I think but definitely something to check out if you haven't. I've enjoyed my trial so far.
I think they changed the free trial date to August 31, 2013 now.
Too many you ask me!
/stringerbell'd
Does anybody know if McDowell and Hand are projected to play the same position?
No, they are not.
Both probably project to 5-tech/SDE. But Hand is a 5-Tech who could also play WDE, and McDowell is a 5-tech who could move inside to play 3-tech. Ace discussed it quite a bit here: http://mgoblog.com/content/recruitin-mailbag-saving-spots-d-line-numbers-second-14-quarterback.
Besides, as Ace pointed out, MIchigan rotates D-linemen so often that both would get plenty of snaps.
I just meant that the coaches are obviously not going to put them at the same position.