Update on 5-Star Safety Daxton Hill - Lukewarm Crystal Ball for Michigan
An 247 Oklahoma Insider (Brandon Drumm) just CB'ed Daxton Hill to the good guys (h/t @TWLTanner and Garrett Fishaw).
I checked the OU message boards and, while this is good news, this should NOT be taken as a strong indication of Hill's ultimate decision. Instead, Brandon said (in so many words) that OU is out and Michigan is an educated guess.
Wanted to post this before somebody took Drumm's prediction as gospel and got people excited.
Also, can we PLEASE get editing back? That "An" I forgot to update (after I inserted "247") is going to bother me so much...
Your just going to half to live with it.
If you could edit, you could fix that "Your/You're" error
If you could edit you might notice the “half” as well and realize it was a joke.
That whoosh you just heard is the sound of the joke going right over your head
Yeah that would of made since...
you mean "wood"
Come on guys! This is a UofM message board, not the Red Cedar, with all these spelling errors, your embarrassing us!
No. You’ll get draftageddon and like it!
After another round of shots, the beta focus group for 3.0 deemed the edit feature trivial and ubiquitous.
Would be a major recruiting upset to land him.
I would not be upset.
Can he play this year? Gotta get Metellus out of the program
Why the fu&k are you going out of your way to take a $hit on one of our players?
Checking michwolve's recent posting history, his go-to whipping boys are Pep Hamilton and Josh Metellus.
To be fair though, Metellus constantly got beat last year. Safety was hands down the achilles heel of that defense.
To be fair to Metellus he was a TRUE SO last year. He was a middling 3 star recruit and I think a 4* for ESPN. He has outplayed his ranking and expectations. Blame the recruiting that happened before him.
Well that was uncalled for.
Honestly, you can dislike certain players, have negative opinions of certain players, prefer that someone else plays over them, whatever - but if you come on here and actively say you want a student-athlete in good standing out of the program, you should just get straight up banned. Totally uncalled for.
What this blog needs is a button that makes the people who post dumb shit like this, burst into flames.
Where can I contribute to this?
And where can I submit a list of people to get flamed?
i can set this up, but first i have to see if i'm on your list. please post it...
I'd settle for an electric shock sent through their keyboards.
mr. miggle, do you know where i can buy industrial insulated gloves? asking for a friend.
Industrial insulated typing gloves? I foresee a market for them in the not too distant future.
Yes!
Suggest this in the stickied thread for bugs.
Mettelus' metrics are better than Kinnel's. Just sayin'.
Can we get you the fuck outta here?
Metellus was pretty damn good. Wtf were you watching.
He is the one I want most out of all of our targets left. Sure there are a lot of other big fish we are chasing, but I would love to have a top talent at safety. Call me a star gazer if you want but I think that’s the next step (possibly the only step) for our defense. So basically my reasoning is mostly based on need
Full moon tonight, not the best for stargazing.
It's a good point. When was the last time Michigan had a truly solid all around safety? Kovacs? Trips set against South Carolina? He wasn't untouchable either although he did have many fist pumping moments. Or I should say, I had many fist pumping moments. Yeah, Michigan hasn't had a true stud at safety in a long time. Maybe back to the late 90's or early 2000s. Cant remember anyone back then except Marcus Ray. He wasn't elite talent though either. Peppers would've been lights out back there though, that's for sure from the run stopping standpoint. Obviously this defense will never be untouchable either without all 11 spots filled with solid play on every play. Kinnel talks himself up saying he'll be a breakout player. I watched him last year every play and there isn't a ton supporting that he will lock down that claim. I pray to the man upstairs that I'm wrong. Prove me wrong Tyree! As for the guy earlier in the thread who doesn't like Metellus, that play against the trash last year that let that little shit Weber get free for that run was a big ass bonehead play. Tired or not, you gotta get it done. You're conditioned man. Anyone but that little punk ass Weber. I'd throw dogshit in his face in public. Anyway, you cant honestly have a guy in there in the big games that'll drop the ball like that. It'll cost you every fucking time. So I'm not sticking up for the guys comments up above but I am saying that Kinnel and Metellus need to get their shit straight for this defense to be elite because it hasn't been close to straight at all in the big games. Although it is just a part of the whole, I hope our guy Mr. Chris Partridge can right the ship and get things on track. Just Win Baby!! Railroad crossing ahead. Trains coming bitches...
These are amateur athletes and kids you are talking about. Mistakes were made, point the finger of blame as you wish. But ease up a little on trashing them out on a public forum. Hopefully onward and upward to a more successful 2018 season. Our fanbase could definitely use it at this point.
There's a difference between trashing someone on a public forum and calling out players on the team that kept blowing their assignment (ie. both our safeties Kinnel and Metellus).
How many times has EVERYONE on this site completely dumped on JOK? I never see ANYONE get upset over that. And that's what I call a double standard.
Let's just pump the brakes on the righteous indignation a little bit.
2016, Delano Hill was also a solid all around safety. And Jabrill Peppers in 2015.
I would call Delano a star. He was drafted Day 2 last year.
And he stopped JT for no gain!
No argument here! I think he was much better than many remember him to be.
Marcus Ray and Ernest Shazor were all-american safeties.
Ernie, one of my all time favorites!
Shazor would be a LB in today's CFB. He probably should have been one back then too.
Jarrod Wilson was a great safety. So good that you never noticed him, but that's exactly what you want.
Agreed. That was what was asked of him. Wilson was a very smart and solid player.
I wonder how we'd think of Wilson if he had played for Don Brown? His safeties are frequently isolated in man coverage. Wilson would have been put in more difficult situations with the opportunity to make more big plays.
I don't think you'd be considered a "star gazer" for being excited about a top 10 player in the country. Daxton Hill is apparently the real deal. Big body for a safety who hits hard, can cover immense ground and has insane coverage skills
Sam Webb says he is going to second this ball.
I think the big takeaway here is that OU feels they are out, which is great news for us.
...on the other hand, that might mean the sole competition is 'Bama.
I'm kinda shocked he eliminated OU. I think their depth chart isn't so bad, and they've had some success in the postseason.
He's prolly goin to bama. I mean why not, it usually works out like that
He's prolly goin to bama. I mean why not, usually works out like that
What an awesome pull this kid would be.
Hopefully Sherrone Moore and Chris Partridge can pull this one off