Per Sam: Battle for Dax Hill may not be over

I hope no kid makes their decisions based on a baseless Cris Carter statement.

It really is incredible. Even after Harbaugh and Warde explicitly renounced the NFL and all but made a blood pact to continue coaching at Michigan, I get a CBS Sports alert where Danny Kannel and some other shlub are basically saying "I've heard this so many times right before a coach leaves a program..."

It's a no-win situation. Very frustrating.

I am with you on this. I understand its importance to the program as a whole, but most of recruiting coverage are like tabloids or paparazzi. I think Sam Webb does a great job covering the program, but I don't expect him to know the inner workings of every prospective teenager and family Michigan is recruiting. Anyone expecting that is going to be disappointed.

And honest talk: one individual recruit is not going to make or break the program almost all of the time. And the exceptions are usually a QB. I remember when Michigan landed Rashan Gary, but does anyone believe the trajectory or results of the last 3 years are any different with or without him?

With the way that the transfer market is heating up, we just might. 

No, I don't think he said it might not be over.  I just think he was trying to imply in general that until signing day, weird things can still happen as in the case of Audrey Solomon.  That's it.  

I think Sam is also being careful with his wording, as befits his access and contact with recruits and their families.  You can't blame him for doing so, and maintaining his integrity.  

Shouldn't the decimal be a bit more over to the left???

You apparently didn't listen as much as I did, because he went into way more detail than that. And he didn't throw out Aubrey Solomon's name and discuss him extensively for no reason, which Sam even said as much.

If you listen to Sam Webb enough, you know to pay attention to his tone of voice as well. And he also very clearly stated in the 1st 6AM segment that he wouldn't be bringing this up if it wasn't for good reason and only to offer a glimmer of false hope. He was a bit too energetic and "happy-go-lucky" for this to be a generic "isn't over yet" statement. 

Yeah, some of this is a bit overboard and over-analysis, but I am telling you with 100% confidence as someone who listens to The Michigan Insider on a daily basis that your assumptions are in fact incorrect. Dax may not sign with Michigan, but there is definitely real legit hope that it still might happen. You don't have to believe that, and that's fine, but your statements are most definitely false. They are, however, safer than allowing yourself a glimmer of hope if your main goal is to not feel defeated all over again. And there is nothing wrong with that. 

To end this, Sam also said somewhere in today's podcasts that he would go back after this is all over and done with and explain to his listeners why he brought this up again. So there is a story.

So what? Maybe it was true.

We were supposed to be done with Solomon and Will Campbell iirc... but staying with it paid off

Which is basically as extreme of an example as it was for Solomon to be committed to Michigan right after saying "F Michigan." Neither of those stories were easy to grasp at all as they were such extreme outliers. Isaiah Wilson was heavily rumored to have met the Bagman, to which no one could deny, and stunned everyone including the coaching staff. 

And the dumb thing is that Sam Webb was one of the only people who had the Aubrey Solomon story down and very few would believe him. Which was fine, but if you're going to say he screwed up the Isaiah Wilson case, which everyone did including our own coaching staff, then you need to give him credit for being the one guy saying Aubrey Solomon is likely coming to Michigan.

Sam has more direct knowledge of the Michigan recruiting side of things than any "Insider" out there. Sometimes kids make decisions without even telling the coaching staffs of the teams they are choosing from. Heck, sometimes even the parents don't know. Everyone gets stumped from time to time.

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God I almost wish I wasn’t able to follow until the results were in. Imagine how much easier it would be to hear “Dax Hill, first round pick out of Alabama, actually originally was commited to play at Michigan” and just think “huh, didn’t know that. Oh well” instead of it being salt in the wounds.

Is this a “username checks out” obligatory?

Nick Saban wanted Aubrey Solomon very badly. Solomon was his top target at interior defensive line. Saban was at his house 2 days before signing, and spent most of the night siting on the couch talking to his mom, as Aubrey wasn't in a hurry to get home to see Saban. 

If I were a top recruit I’d demand money up front from all the SEC/Ohio State kinda schools with the promise of a commitment and then just go wherever I feel like. What are they gonna do, tell on me?