Se'Von Pittman releases top five; Michigan in it
Per ESPN
Alabama, Auburn, Michigan, MSU, and Ohio State. Says Ohio State not best for him "as I've matured."
Link: http://insider.espn.go.com/college-football/features/rumors
wasnt he a soft verbal commit to OSU once?
wow. highly touted recruits are starting to become men now! so mature!
Not a commit, but before he got his offer, he admitted that he planned to commit the moment a scholarship was offered.
Go get him Hoke!!!
"But as I grew up and matured, I've seen that maybe Ohio State is not the best move for me." --Se'Von Pittman
Ohio State: Not for mature people!
Can we get this quote copied and pasted on the Internet? Like the entire Internet? All of Internet? Who do we see about this?
of the Internet is who you see, of course. 
Al Gore.
Where is Ted Stevens when you need him?
is code for something.
its code for:
"As I've grown up and been reading lot sof blots, tweets and the general press, I've come to learn that OSU has been a stinkpit of cheating for a decade, so by the time I get there, Tress won't be there, the program will be down 15 scholies a year, a 3-year bowl ban, no TV, a Death Penalty-killed basketball team, and they won't even have free girls to entertain me anymore. Oh, and I'd have to pay FULL PRICE for my cars and apartment."
This guy is screaming to wear that BADASS MICHIGAN HELMET! Best helmet ever might i add! Too much bad news coming from OSU. Strating to show that recruits are looking elsewhere.
That's a hell of a thing to say.
It's not like he said something like I'm interested in broading my horizons, or intereted in finding new oppurtunities.
He said about tO$U what you say about your friend in high school who smokes weed all the time after you've decided to get your GPA up so you can get into college.
Yikes.
Nice.
Weird... my GPA went up after I started smoking weed...
Not what was I saying?
Only if he's stuck inside of Mobile with the Memphis blues again.
If he ends up anywhere but OSU.
I thought the same thing at the start of the recruiting cycle. I thought that McMullen and Pittman were virtual locks, but it seems like they might be more open than we previosuly thought. In the end I think Pittman ends up at osu, but not sure about McMullen.
Tim's recruiting update indicated that although we made his top group, he has one school at the top, which I assume is Ohio since the link takes one to Bucknuts. Probably tough to pull him unless Ohio really gets hit by sanctions. Plus Alabama and Auburn are two tough schools to recruit against.
would he be our third WDE?
and rated the #61 player by Rivals
He'd be our 3rd WDE at this point, but at 6'5" 245 right now, he's one of the bigger WDE recruits out there. He has the athleticism to play that spot, but he has the ability to grow into a SDE no problem. Also, Pharaoh Brown has the frame to grow into a SDE as well, and Ojemudia might be a linebacker. The problem might sort itself out, but even if it doesn't, Pittman is awesome so you take him.
ESPN needs to take "rumors" out of their URLs. It makes me not want to trust the information provided in the link.
This kid is a true freak and if Hoke can get him, that would be the icing on the cake! I read somewhere where he really wants to look hard at Bama and Auburn. GO HOKE!!
... Sounds like something he would have picked up talking to Hoke and company.
huh. Alabama, Auburn, Michigan, MSU, and Ohio State. One of these schools is not like the others, one of these schools doesn't belong
... because recruiting in Ohio isn't really "national recruiting"
Its Michigan, of course, we are not SEC cheaters, tosu cheaters or little brother.
Given that OSU is about to get hammered, and Michigan State is not in our league, it will come down to MIchigan vs. the two SEC schools.
And those two SEC schools are Alabama and Auburn. Not exactly the most ethical schools in the south.
Hell.. who knows. Maybe Auburn gets a little burnt over the next 7 months or so, and it comes down to us vs. Bama.
It feels good to be in the top 5 with such schools again. This is where we belong now I can't wait to watch some Michigan Football this fall. Go Blue
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The only bad part about this and the USC limitations is going to be that we aren't going to have enough room for all the talent flowing into A2.
We've got to beat OSU head-to-head for a couple of big-time recruits. That's the next non-football field step.
I can't wait until we are beating them on the field so that we don't need the threat of sanctions to help us in recruiting.
Just get j ross and t richardson to commit ..... Wait a sec
Sorry, I meant Ohio kids. We haven't stolen a top OSU recruit from Ohio yet. My fault.
I don't see how you could insinuate that you've matured above Ohio State and then ever end up committing to go there. Makes you look foolish. Of course I don't know why you'd ever go there in the first place when Michigan exists.
I don't want to seem too pessimistic, but I read his quote as being more that he's matured and become more comfortable in the recruiting process and won't just commit to OSU in a swoon. Instead he's going to take a level-headed approach and consider his options, etc.