Sam Webb's Gut Tells Him the Staff Believes Ambry Thomas is Blue

One more quick recruiting note on Ambry Thomas dropped by Sam Webb this morning on WTKA.

I am mostly sharing this because I see all of these comments from various depressed or concerned mgousers stating their feelings about him being a "silent" to MSU.

Important to note - Sam's "gut" does NOT say that Ambry Thomas is going to Michigan. What it is saying is that someone on the staff is telling him that they think they have Ambry Thomas locked up. As these various mgousers have mentioned numerous times, Michigan State also thinks they have Ambry Thomas locked up.

So what does this mean? This more than likely means that, as I have said before in previous comments, Sam's take on Ambry as this year's Lavert Hill is probably accurate. More than likely both sides will be fairly confident up until the time that he tells one of the staffs absolutely no (probably right before his decision date), but also more than likely this will go Michigan's way.

You may also be wondering why you should be so confident in Sam's gut/the coaching staff when all these MSU guys are saying the same thing. Well, as Sam Webb appropriately put it, "would you rather date Beyonce or Beyonce's back-up dancer" if you were Ambry Thomas. Look at MSU's record, guys. Look.

All of this is just further evidence that we should not be worrying right now. While this doesn't say Ambry is 100% going to Michigan, Michigan's staff sure thinks he's coming.

Link to today's podcast:

https://audioboom.com/posts/5264401-06-recruiting-roundup-110916?t=0

Edit: This is Sam's exact quote that resulted in this post.

"I mentioned earlier last week after the Michigan/Michigan State game that one of the [MSU] recruits thought they had a couple silent commits.. Who is he talking about? And I said at the time that they probably do count Ambry Thomas among the players that they think that they have albeit one not announced publicly. My gut tells me that that feeling is not unique to them. My gut tells me that this is a lot like the Lavert Hill recruitment...."

Again, you need to understand what his "gut" calls mean. They don't necessarily mean that a guy is going to commit, that a recruit told him that they're going to commit, or that it even has anything to do with recruiting. What it does mean is that he has been told something (whether regarding recruiting, the current team, whatever it may be) by a legitimate deep inside source that he takes 100% confidence in. So when he says "my gut tells me that feeling is not unique to them [MSU]," he is saying that someone told him that he fully trusts that Michigan thinks similarly about Ambry Thomas to what MSU believes about him in that they both think he is going to commit to their school. And while that doesn't exactly say that "the staff told him" as I am insinuating, who else would tell him that the staff believes they have Ambry Thomas except for the staff? Who would know that information? Very very likely the staff itself. Either way, Sam's gut says that the staff thinks this way. Hence the post.

If I am inferring too much from this post, then I guess I'm being too detectivey. But I don't see how you can get any other conclusion from this quote. This was the first time anyone has ever explicitly stated that "the staff believes they are going to get Ambry Thomas" or something to that extent, so I found it thread worthy. 

This is all I will add to the discussion.