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Come Legs... He's already on Plan X and you can bet he'll use Plan's Y & Z by Wednesday.
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Come Legs... He's already on Plan X and you can bet he'll use Plan's Y & Z by Wednesday.
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Football: Downers South OL Erik Swenson commits to Oklahoma after Michigan offer was rescinded
"Starting to show me, starting to know me
Starting to feel the shine
Starting to let go now that we know
It's time to move it on down the line, all right"
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I don't know. First, Stoops is really great at making a first impression, and closing on the hard sell.
Second, what team has the shortest route to playing time? Just off the top of my head, with my prejudices fully functioning, I would believe that Whisky and Iowa would have much better lines with much better depth.
I notice a lot of good linemen that don't consider ND, beside not qualifying, don't like the idea of taking a redshirt year. And I notice a lot of schools lately including Clemson, Texas, and a couple of the better B1G0T schools have been playing freshmen on the o-line. What do you think? Could this be the factor? Could he have been sold on going from being squeezed out at UofM to potentially being a starter at a playoff team, leaders of the Big12, and being able to show everyone?
I agree with you that Whisky and Iowa would be better choices. But for my money I would look for a PWO at ND. Well you know me!
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Completely disagree. You have no idea how each school was recruiting him, who he clicked with, his academic aspirations (major, etc). You go where you feel the most comfortable. Plenty of successful people come out of Oklahoma, not to mention they have a top football program. Kids like Swenson can succeed anywhere. If Oklahoma felt like home, then good on him...
Interesting. Biff Poggi, father of Michigan player Henry P., just retired from coaching at Gilman. He was rumored to be joining Harbaugh's staff much like Chris Partridge did after coaching at Paramus, NJ.
When (Gilman players) Devery Hamilton ,OT flipped to Stanford from Michigan with an uncommitted teammate, Dorian Maddox, Biff has tweeted that he will be joining Stanford's staff.
Stephen Spanellis, OL, who flipped from Virginia to Michigan, is also from Gilman. Calm yourselves. Spanellis does not have a Stanford offer.
It's just business. Players have their meritocracy.
When (Gilman players) Devery Hamilton ,OT flipped to Stanford from Michigan with an uncommitted teammate, Dorian Maddox, Biff has tweeted that he will be joining Stanford's staff.
Stephen Spanellis, OL, who flipped from Virginia to Michigan, is also from Gilman. Calm yourselves. Spanellis does not have a Stanford offer.
It's just business. Players have their meritocracy.
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Oh I didn't realize he wanted to be a weatherman or a truck driver
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they are going to share a sleeping bag
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Right, because that is all anyone who goes to Oklahoma can be.
And ND fans wonder why people call us elitist?
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You serious Clark?
Choosing Oklahoma over Wiscy and Iowa is not a bad choice if you're looking at "Championship Contender" as a big selling point.
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I will say that Kirk Ferentz develops Offensive Linemen as well as any coach in the country. But, even as an Iowa fan, I wish the kid well. He made the best of a crappy situation.
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Making fun of other schools is like half the fun of college football.
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If that's why a Chicago kid with an NFL OT's body would choose OU over Wisconsin or Iowa, it's a bad choice.
Anyways, I wrote that because I saw elsewhere he was offered by both Wisco and Iowa. After looking at the sites and digging a little, he was not.
As it is, if he doesn't make the NFL, he's in an obvious $$$ hole by not going to Northwestern. Same goes for Illinois to a lesser extent. The fact that he's from an affluent part of Chicagoland and may want to remain there after college makes the difference in value of a Northwestern or Illinois degree vs an Oklahoma degree that much greater.
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Maybe, being from Illinois, he realized that Wisconsin sucks.
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You can be anything you want.
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"Poly-axle transportation studies"
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Maybe, but there's better ways IMHO.
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Apparently people at both MSU and UM boards are chattering about what Lavert Hill (generally thought to be a UM lean) is wearing today.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Lavert Hill reppin the only colors today in school. Fresh kicks too. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DreamTeam2016?src=hash">#DreamTeam2016</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Spartans?src=hash">#Spartans</a> <a href="https://t.co/1xbPRVTvNj">pic.twitter.com/1xbPRVTvNj</a></p>— Ryan B. Okerström (@RBOkerstrom) <a href="https://twitter.com/RBOkerstrom/status/694152513029824512">February 1, 2016</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Lavert Hill reppin the only colors today in school. Fresh kicks too. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DreamTeam2016?src=hash">#DreamTeam2016</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Spartans?src=hash">#Spartans</a> <a href="https://t.co/1xbPRVTvNj">pic.twitter.com/1xbPRVTvNj</a></p>— Ryan B. Okerström (@RBOkerstrom) <a href="https://twitter.com/RBOkerstrom/status/694152513029824512">February 1, 2016</a></blockquote>
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Lol I love when people look into this kinda stuff. Oh no so and so wore an X sweatshirt so he's going to school X!
I remember when Mike Weber was decked out in Michigan gear and a week later he committed to OSU.
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Iowa, Wisconsin, Stanford, and Bama all seem to churn out NFL OL like clock-work. You can usually count on those schools having good offensive lines.
I really like ND and OSU's OL coaching too, only been at the job for a 3-4 years each but both of them seem to know how to really produce quality OL's.
And OL position is really 100% coaching and development. You can throw away the recruit rankings for OL's IMO, they are pretty much worthless.
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#FuckMichigan
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Funny considering he was committed to Michigan... Not sure what you are "announcing".
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Gotta reaffirm that non binding commitment
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What does this mean?
They losing out on someone?
They losing out on someone?
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Might mean there is some fire in that smoke around Onwenu see dublin's post above
EDIT: If Onwenu leaves, then UM has no MI recruits (or Ohio), right? This last minute offer to save face in the state?
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