'23 MI QB Dante Moore (Greek Spaghetti Transfer)

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If Dante does commit to ND, I wonder if his NIL earnings would be lower now than what they would have been prior to CJ committing?
 
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BoredIrish said:
If Dante does commit to ND, I wonder if his NIL earnings would be lower now than what they would have been prior to CJ committing?
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All depends on what he does on the field, if he ever gets there.

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IDK if Driskell has sources or not, but that was basically the same picture I put together just from listening to and reading all our reporters, as well as whatever the national guys say.

Multiple reporters, both local and national, have said Dante isn't about getting a big NIL deal. Yet he took visits to all of the biggest NIL schools.

It seems like an open secret now that he was a silent commit after that April (IIRC) visit, but why be a silent when he also said the recruiting process was weighing on him?

The thing that really put it over the top for me, though, was how often his father is talking to reporters about Dante's recruitment. With most other parents, they might do an interview with a reporter about the recruit's childhood or whatever other background story the reporter wants. But Dante's were talking about things that normally the reporters ask the recruit about.

I think this idea also really explains some of the weirdness of the recruitment. Here is a logical story I could see having happened: (WARNING - PURE SPECULATION AHEAD!!!)

Dante wanted to commit to ND, but was going to do that right after that whole Nico NIL story broke. Someone in his camp sees the money he could potentially get, so they convince him to take some other visits, even if he commits to ND over that 2 day stay. Freeman has the "no OVs for commits" rule, so Dante ends up silently committing. Freeman and the staff are okay with this because they have been talking to Dante and know he wants to go to ND, so they think he will go public relatively soon after. That explains the confidence coming from the Gug that it would be over quick.

What they don't know is that someone in Dante's camp is now going to nudge him into taking visits to the big NIL schools with the hope that one of them interests him. He still doesn't care about the NIL stuff, but if he decides he likes a NIL school, that person in his camp can make clear there is still a need for an NIL deal. So each of these schools he is visiting feels really good about their chances because they were communicating with someone in his camp and feel like all they need is a big enough NIL deal. The problem is Dante still doesn't care, so they don't sell themselves correctly. Once they realize the person in his camp doesn't speak for him, they quickly move on to other targets. That explains the confidence from each school before he visits and how quickly they move on afterwards.

Now everyone has ended up in a bad position. Dante didn't like any of the big NIL schools, so they all moved on, but now ND has also moved on because they didn't like that what they were hearing from Dante and what Dante and his camp were doing were different. So now his camp needs to convince him that he will still have a spot if he takes visits during the fall, with the person in his camp likely hoping ND either fills up or moves on from him, leaving him to choose from one of the other suitors, or maybe ND strikes out and has to come back to Dante with an NIL offer. But when it looks like we are about to get CJ Carr, we let him know that we are moving on. Maybe at that point he realized he might be losing his spot at the place he wants to be, so he gets back in touch with us. But now our coaches have to think whether they are just being used again or if he is serious this time. That would explain the recent flip-flop of "we're definitely not taking Dante" to "its not 100%".
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Probably the most likely and logical synthesis of what has transpired publicly and behind the scenes.
 
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I can’t possibly see how they can. Get back on the same page. But then again we also experienced Lynch’s class.
 
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Irish'15 said:
I almost get the sense that the staff just likes CJ better.
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That's the vibe I'm getting. Seems like the staff's attitude is "If we don't think it will cause Carr to look around, we'll pursue Moore. If we think it will, we'll move on."
 
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greyhammer90 said:
That's the vibe I'm getting. Seems like the staff's attitude is "If we don't think it will cause Carr to look around, we'll pursue Moore. If we think it will, we'll move on."
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What it seems like to me (and I have no clue what I am talking about, just what it seems), the blood between Carr and Michigan is not great. If that is the case, go after Dante. If there's even a slight chance you lose CJ over it, forget it.
 
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Me following this recruitment.
 
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Golfed 36 holes today. Could I selfishly get a breakdown of what has happened since about noon with this thread?
 
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If the dad thing is true, they thought they could get a deal like Nico but that isn't the market price. That is what Tennessee was wiling to spend to get their guy. Bama wasn't going to give him that. Oregon wasn't. It was an absurd price tag.
 
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ThePiombino said:
It's Driskell, so you have to take it with a grain of salt, but if this is true...woof. What a shame that a father could be SO selfish as to potentially negatively impact his own child's future.
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Mr Ball and his traveling band of mediocre globe trotters + John Brown bizarreness. …it happens
 
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CanadalovesND said:
Driskell and his “sources”.

The only person who could even know that type of information is someone in Dante’s camp. So unless it’s coming from a close member of Dante’s family, friend or coach, I call BS.

Not to discredit Driskell, but I highly doubt he has that type of reach here.

Driskell is good at hinting commitments because he is told beforehand.

Love his football insights, but don’t take to your little YouTube show to put a parent on blast.y You risk putting your foot in your mouth, even if you only get %25 of the story correct.
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His youtube show has way more parents and players and commits on it and commenting on the chat box than any other ever has in the last 20 years. Im driskell agnostic and was always a Mike Frank guy but he has changed ish and I am willing for my own entertainment value to forgive his early asshole pissing matches with all of the rest of the beat
 
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