Recruiting Forum Football Talk XXXII

[chavisut]

Breaker, you in Nash this weekend?

 

[UTProf]

Glad everybody saved me the effort of saying that scout is an idiot who isn't at the senior bowl but must have just looked at a picture of Barnett.

That's exactly what he did. Barnett physically looks like a power-only guy but that's not his game at all.

 

[UTProf]

Harrogate TN. Just through the tunnel from M'boro.

I have fam. up in there. Beautiful country but yeah, not much at all to do. I used to visit there in the summers when I was a kid.

 

[LaagerVol]

Athletes and weight loss clients. I'm about to hit up a gym tomorrow.

Dude I just joined Gold's last week after about 5 years out of the gym. Have lost 30 lbs, looking to lose about 100 more.

 

[volsfan_17]

Harrogate TN. Just through the tunnel from M'boro.

Wow! I lived in Harrogate until 1990 when we moved to Ohio. I drove through there on the way to Piegon Forge last spring. Other than LMU being bigger, and the tunnel from Middlesboro it was just as I remembered.

 

[barrylee]

As fun as this would be, I want McElwain at Florida. Couldn't recruit his dog to eat prime rib

The last thing I want is a coaching upgrade there.

True dat but if they happen to get into some difficulty with the AA, what top coach would want to step into that situation?

 

[LaagerVol]

The play in coverage versus A&M should shut down any athleticism questions.

That's why I think he could play OLB in a 3-4.

 

[VolGee4]

Good grief guys. If Conliffe wants in, he is in. Any other idea is pure madness.

Not according to Hubbs this morning. He said that the staff pushed for a commitment early in the week. He said that UT is tight with numbers now and may not have room.

 

[bignewt]

Well Hubbs could very well be wrong...

 

[VolGee4]

Well Hubbs could very well be wrong...

Could be. But he has a pretty good pulse on it. Said that he was a take, but the numbers are tight, and cutting someone this late is risky.

 

[VOL-uh-tile]

Small world... I grew up in Crieve Hall. Walked up the hill from our Barrywood Dr. home to school at Crieve Hall Elementary back in the late 60s.

My parents have been living on Stillwood for 25 years. I went to CH elementary and Overton.

 

[Ron Swanson]

Give Brady Hoke his due for Michigan football's huge NFL draft class

MOBILE, Ala. - With seven players at this week’s Senior Bowl and three other top prospects sitting out or ineligible for the game for a variety of reasons, Michigan could have the biggest draft class of any school in the country this year.

And while Jim Harbaugh has rightfully received plenty of credit for Michigan’s revival, linebacker Ben Gedeon said don’t overlook the job former Wolverines coach Brady Hoke did stocking the roster with talent.

“He recruited pretty much all of us,” Gedeon said this week at the Senior Bowl. “He deserves a ton of credit. We have so much respect for him as a coach and as a man, and that’s why we came to the University of Michigan.”

 

[Rishvol]

Speaking of Hoke will he be the next Dline coach?

 

[Ron Swanson]

Speaking of Hoke will he be the next Dline coach?

Yes

 

[Rishvol]

Yes

Will it be announced Thursday or late Wednesday

 

[OGbabyaviVol]

Will it be announced Thursday or late Wednesday

I'm going with Thursday, after the ink is fully dried.

 

[BruinVol]

Funny a back before Christmas suggested we shouldn't make changes to the staff until after NSD and so many here jumped my case saying that was dirty and dishonest.

Now strip is apparently doing just that and not one poster is talking about how dishonest that is to a recruit like Ray that has such a great relationship with him.

 

[Ron Swanson]

Will it be announced Thursday or late Wednesday

Sometime soon after NSD.

 

[BigZiti09]

They will wait a week or two IMO.

 

[Catbone]

Why. The recruits already know strip is gone, they're not idiots.. Unless we have been lying to them the whole time.

 

[InVOLuntary]

Funny a back before Christmas suggested we shouldn't make changes to the staff until after NSD and so many here jumped my case saying that was dirty and dishonest.

Now strip is apparently doing just that and not one poster is talking about how dishonest that is to a recruit like Ray that has such a great relationship with him.

Difference here is that Strip will still be on staff.

 

[BigZiti09]

You don't rock the boat close to signing day. Especially if Strip is staying on staff.

 

[BruinVol]

Why. The recruits already know strip is gone, they're not idiots.. Unless we have been lying to them the whole time.

They don't know. I saw a quote from butler last week saying how much he was looking forward to strip being his position coach.

 

[BruinVol]

You don't rock the boat close to signing day. Especially if Strip is staying on staff.

Oh I agree but it's dirty. Having a noncoaching job isn't nearly the same as being a kids Position coach. I am all for doing this but let's not act like it isn't dirty.

 

[BigZiti09]

They don't know. I saw a quote from butler last week saying how much he was looking forward to strip being his position coach.

They don't know. Neither do we really. Hoke could be coming or he could get offered a better position with another team tomorrow. If it was a sure thing a month ago I think they might have went ahead and made the move. I'm not 100% sold that a change is happening but if it does it will be a couple weeks (maybe longer) after signing day.