Recruiting is a strange business. A couple of rules:
#1: Your junior year is the most important.
#2: Make sure you have a highlight reel on YouTube
#3: Make sure you go to summer combines/7 on 7's and talk to Scouts and Rivals often.
Ok, so what happens to guys that don't do those things and have a great senior year? Sometimes they fall through the cracks and don't get a scholarship offer. I have to imagine there are plenty of guys like that. Most of them walk-on to a program or play in a lower division.
Graham Glasgow from Aurora, Illinois could be one of those kids that fell through the cracks or was a late bloomer. Graham is 6'7 295 pounds offensive tackle that didn't start playing football until his senior year. He played basketball. Now he is starting to get interest from a number of schools including Minnesota, Ohio State, and Michigan. He was a starter at tackle for a team that was the runner up for the state championship.
Ohio State was out to see one of his basketball games and has asked him to visit Columbus. He visited Minnesota a couple of weeks ago and now he will be visiting Ann Arbor this weekend. Graham's OL coach is former Wolverine Kurt Becker and Kurt feels that Graham could easily be a starter in the Big Ten. Ohio State is offering him as a preferred walk-on. Michigan might as well, but the Wolverines have two scholarships in their back pocket and could offer this young man if they like what they see.
A sleeper? Graham does not have any offers and is not rated by either Rivals or Scouts. Chris Pool from ESPN seems very high on the kid.
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Michigan Interested in a Late Bloomer for the 2011 Class?
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With only one year of football, it looks like Graham Glasgow is a big project that most schools don't want to waist a scholarship on right away. He will need at least two years before he would even see the field most likely, and schools will have to ask themselves do they have the luxury of using a scholarship NOW, especially when the 2012 class is reported to be filled with outstanding prospects.
Michigan may want to bank a scholarship or two for next year unless they are bowled over by this kid. However, I doubt it, because even with his physcial measurables, even the MAC schools are slow to offer; that says something. The preferred walk-on tag is about the best he can do for most Big Ten schools right now unless they see something that makes them change their minds which I doubt.
I agree. I haven't seen any tape on him but if he played basketball, I am hoping he is a good athlete with a big upside. A for sure red shirt year. Either way.
Look at it from this standpoint....
If he already plays basketball and at 6'7 295 that is bigger than anyone the Michigan Basketball team has as it is....
Why not bring him in on a basketball scholarship like we did for Grady....
One way or the other he could benefit Michigan in either basketball or football.....just food for thought...
I was thinking that has well. One more thing to consider: Is a scholarship worth it to keep him from going to OSU?
Also you could be very up front with him and his family that they could use a scholarship this year but would have re-evaluate that option next year. I'm usually not in favor of that but in this case, playing only 1 year it might make sense. If he turns out to be a beast keep it on him. If playing D1 football isn't for him, no blood no foul.
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