Michigan Thursday: Recruiting Blitz

Over signing is something that has to stop.  If your not familiar with over signing; it's the practice of taking too many recruits for your open scholarship spots predicting that some of your kids will not qualify.  An example would be taking 30 kids for 25 spots and the possibility for having 5 kids with out scholarships that you have to cut if they can't afford to pay their own way.

Coach Saban at Alabama has been a regular in over signing and now a "Michigan Man" at LSU is practicing the same thing and just had a cut a kid that was already in his dorm.  Thanks to Mgoblog this is how it went down:  "I got called to coach Miles' office. I had no idea it was coming," Elliott Porter said of his being asked by LSU to 'grayshirt' this season and re-enroll next year. "He just told me that they didn't have room for me. I moved out of my dorm today and I am now back home trying to figure everything out. It's been a rough 24 hours." …  "I have to win a waiver, but it shouldn't be a problem," Porter said. "It's unfair how they told me at the last minute." …"I want to be somewhere that I am wanted," Porter said. "I understand how things are going at LSU, and they didn't have room. To me what happened today wasn't fair. But it's how things go. It's a business. And I fully understand that now."

LSU is spinning it that the kid wanted to leave on his own accord.  Which the above statement contradicts.

I know there are a lot of "sleazy" things in College Football and Basketball, but to pull a kids scholarship after he is enrolled and moved in to his dorm is pretty low. To echo Brian's (at Mgoblog) point, the possibility of Les Miles becoming the next Michigan head coach has taken a big hit.

The NCAA needs to start getting involved at stopping this practice.  This isn't professional sports.

• Ed Davis has eyes for the Green and White.  The Detroit LB picked MSU yesterday.   Ed attended Michigan's camp and got an offer, then Iowa followed and then MSU jumped on the train late.  Ed has former coaches and friends on the Spartans.  The rumor mill was saying there was a lot of negative recruiting going on regarding Michigan and it wasn't coming from East Lansing.

• Michigan WR Valdez Showers didn't make a decision but cut his list to 6 schools:  Michigan, Auburn, Florida, Northwestern, and Michigan State.    He is planning to make his decision in the next 3-4 weeks.

• Demar Dorsey is still not cleared to play of U of L.  Maybe the academic situation was a bit different then we were lead to believe?  We will see and I hope for DD that this gets resolved soon.

• It was important to get Jack Tabb a DE/TE prospect from NJ in Ann Arbor earlier this week.  Coach Rod was in Chicago for the Big Ten Media festivities, but the other coaches showed Jack and his family around the campus.   It seems Jack enjoyed his visit and is planning to make a decision in September.

• OH LB Austin Traylor tells TomVH from Mgoblog that he is making his first cuts on Saturday.  He is rated 4 sars by Rivals and has an offer list of: Arizona, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, BC, Duke, MSU, Cincinnati, and many more.