Ibi Watson.....sounds like our 1st commit
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I believe spar#2 meant in the state, not in the country. I agree with him that we are a top 5 team in the state of Indiana.
How? Maybe because we had been on the kid for a while, it was presumed he was ready to pull the trigger for us and Michigan makes an offer had has his commitment within a day.
The presumption wasn't that he was going to commit to IU, but that he was going to wait and see if Michigan offered before he "pulled the trigger". UM was always his favorite school. They just waited to offer him and when they did, he was their's.
The presumption was that he was going to be committing at the end of July / beginning of August and that IU was in the best position to receive that commitment. It wasn't necessarily presumed that if UM offered he would pick them, especially since they had taken as long as they had to make an offer.
Do you know who you are talking to? Spa personally Talks to IU recruits and knows details about them that they don't tell their own families
He made it clear he wanted a UM offer and it was always presumed that he would take it if offered. He was only presumed headed to IU if Michigan passed. Once they offered, it was hardly a surprise that he took it, since that's what was widely known he would do.
Fortunately he didn't choose us. Michigan, as usual, gets another guy from out of state. Lets face it if Michigan and Michigan State had to pick talent from their own state they couldn't be competitive in basketball or football.
I don't consider this a huge loss. A zero star that would only take IU if he didn't get an offer from the school he really wanted to play for. I would rather have a young man who actually wants to play for IU. If he was a 5 star I might feel a little different, but not much.
You were all over that one. And people calling him a "zero star" look dumber than rivals for dropping the ball on his scouting report. 0 stars dont average 13 and 4 in eybl
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Yes...he goes from "the next Dipo" to somebody we didn't want b/c he's only a 3 star.
The state of Michigan produces a good amount of talent, but not all of it is recruitable by schools that play within the rules. Plenty of elite kids have gone out of state from Michigan and plenty have left Michigan HS's to transfer to a prep school elsewhere. Rivals #1 recruit in the 2016 class Josh Jackson is a Detroit kid but he now plays at a recently invented prep school in California. It's somewhere between criminal and merely unethical with how it's run and how he ended up there but needless to say he's not the kind of kid your average rule abiding coach will be able to sign.
Why would you say that? We are in really good with some very highly ranked players. Does the name Mr maker mean anything to you!
i'm hoping we start strong this winter and some good kids sign up quickly before Bryant gets tired. Another little part of me also wouldn't cry my eyes out of we start flat and end flat, forcing Fred's hand.
Actually the fall signing period would before we really started playing games so the kids won't have a chance to see how we start out if they want to sign in the fall.
No.
Michigan just got done being spurned by the decommitment of 5 star SG Tyus Battle who ended up at Syracuse. They needed a 2 guard. They had been watching Watson for some time and he performed very well at Michigan's camp this summer in Ann Arbor. Beilein is very stingy about handing out offers but recently decided that Watson would be his next shooting guard target with Battle out of the picture and extended the offer.
As for Watson, he apparently was hoping for Michigan all along after seeing the recent success of local under the radar 3 star recruits Trey Burke and Caris LeVert. I highly doubt he "forced" Beilein's hand in any way.
We need more kids with names like Bootsy, Ripel, Klassy, Worm, Hajunkin, MiDunk, and Torpedo.
I mean Nojel Eastern? If that doesn't scream all-time stat leader of some sort, I dont know what does. Matur Maker as well.
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