Thursday, December 2, 2021

Michigan Thursday: Thinking About Football Only

My mind is elsewhere and I'm not going to touch Michigan Basketball at the moment.  They picked a good time to struggle since most folks are thinking about last Saturday and this Saturday the most. 


Michigan Football got two commits last night, making it 3 since The Game.  

  • 3 Star 2023 Instate WR Semaj Morgan.  This is a 5'10 175 speedster who excels at slot WR and in the return game.  Early offers include Missouri, Ole Miss, WVU, The MAC and more. 
 
  • 3-star DE Ethan Burke who is 6'7 225 from Texas.  Ethan is an under the radar/COVID recruiting kid.  He broke his collarbone playing Lacrosse in an All-American Game and missed his junior year.  As a senior, he had 49 tackles, 12 TFL's, and 9 sacks.   Many programs were late to offer but they did jump on board with the likes of Nebraska, KSU, Army, Air Force, Texas Tech, Baylor and Utah. 
Welcome to both Ethan and Semaj!

Michigan is also trending for Raylen Wilson a 2023 4-star LB from Florida.  Who is ranked the 74th player in the country.  He is expected to announce on 12/8.  This kid has offers from everyone like GA, Bama, OSU, Florida, Clemson and so on...........He announced its down to a Michigan and GA decision. 

Michigan is also trending for 4-star 2022 Safety Zeke Berry, who announces on Friday.  


ND seems to be making a smart hire with the promotion of DC Marcus Freeman.  He was the DC at Cincy before taking the job at ND this past year.   This seems like a great choice; the only risk is he has never been a head coach and now is going to be the head coach of Notre Dame.   Tommy Rees the OC is also expected to stay at ND after a big offer from LSU/Brian Kelly. 



6 comments:

ScottyDoggs said...

Just a thought about Domani Jackson: money is starting to freely flow for players{{{fact}}}...could an offer by a car dealer ship offer him 250,000 a year to play for a certain school (via a booster) of course.
Did if happen here? most likely not... but you cannot discount it entirely...someday a good portion of the recruiting of big names will be that way... not yet but like a fly-wheel it takes time to rev up... some boosters will do anything for their favorite team, now nothing is stopping them from doing so...Of course you can think I am O.C.D., but to me it's the writing on the wall (just takes time)

MichiganMan said...

I think players should get paid look at these coaches getting millions of dollars... If you a college athlete you should get paid especially the football players and basketball players they bring huge some money to the university....


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Rudy said...

Scotty, I hear you. Could legalizing ganga be a step in allowing drug abuse to become rampant....similar argument made could the new NIL rules allow for all kinds of $$ abuse by programs and players?? Absolutely. I totally think there's something up with Domani "my dream school is UM", "Me and my boy Will are a package deal", "I was at the Ohio game"...and a day later he's not interested in Ann Arbor?? Something odd indeed. Glad recruiting is picking up, but c'mon 3-star players won't a Natti Champ make. Purely statistically, look at the last 10 years of top recruiting programs and you see the teams making the playoffs. Ronnie Bell was a diamond in the rough, but an outlier not the norm.

ScottyDoggs said...

Thank you for nice, thoughtful reply Rudy...now I do not feel so alone in my thought patterns, like I saw a "UFO", and nobody believes you(me).

ScottyDoggs said...

I hate to be a pain in the ass (by posting too much)....but I do believe that some schools expressed the idea of taxing the "big studs" 50 to 75% out of their total, and distribute it amongst the have not's (players and other schools), to make it more equitable....what we have right now is most players with receiving nothing, and one player (Ohio State) making over a million a year....I would not call that "paying the players".... a comparison would be 70% of lower tier walmart workers work for "free", and the top 5% get over 100,000 a year, now is that equitable?

szanreno said...

Not a pain in the ass, very interesting, very insightful...