Wolverine Wednesday: Fire and Ice

If you want to make headlines do it on a holiday weekend, where there isn't much to talk about.  Logan Tuley-Tillman found that out the hard way this weekend.   His burning of the Ohio State letter made all the rounds the last couple of days.   It hit the web sites of USA Today, NBC Sports, ESPN and others.

I just put up a link because I thought it way funny more then news worthy.  Now LTT has death threats and awful twitter remarks from crazy OSU fans.   Way to take it to far Bucky!    This is a 17 year old kid having a little fun on Twitter not anymore or less.   Find some perspective please.  You wonder why Kirk Herbstreit had to move to Tennessee and he is a former OSU QB!  Don't go against the Nut!

This also isn't the first time this has happened.   Devin Gardner burned his letter from Ohio State when they decided to offer.    The background here is Devin was a 5 star QB and interested in hearing from OSU.  He was going to consider the Buckeyes but he didn't hear from them until late in his recruitment.  When he got his letter he burned it and posted in on Facebook.

So the media reaction and the reaction of OSU fans is way overblown. 

Now the Ice:

The Michigan commits took a hit on the new Rivals top 100 player ranking.   There is a philosophy out there that recruiting services prefer to rank non-committed players higher because there is more interest on where they are going to go.  

Shane Morris drops from #16 to #22
Mike McCray drops from #44 to #55
Chris Fox drops from #46 to #57
Patrick Kugler drops from #54 to #73
Kyle Bosch drops from #60 to #77
Dymonte Thomas drops from #77 to #95
Jake Butt (previously #96) drops out of top 100

• Michigan commit David Dawson now has an LSU offer and just received a call from the Hat.   This offer could make him think a bit.  He says he is still committed to Michigan, but he probably shouldn't entertain LSU too much more if he wants to stay in the Wolverines 2013 class.  

• DT Henry Poggi has been pretty quiet on the recruiting trial.  The last I heard he was hoping to make a decision before his senior year.

• RB Derrick Green has blown up the Rivals Rankings and is now a 5 star prospect and ranked #12 in the nation.