December 19th, 2012 at 3:26 PM ^
December 19th, 2012 at 3:54 PM ^
December 19th, 2012 at 3:35 PM ^
It is better take your time and think things through than doing what Jordan Payton did.
December 19th, 2012 at 3:36 PM ^
I obsess over this stuff as much as the next guy, but there comes a point when you just feel that enough is enough, the kid can decide whenever he wants to decide. If he picks M, great. If not, then another kid who wants to be here will get the chance he would have had. And we don't need his father tweeting about the process.
December 19th, 2012 at 7:58 PM ^
By the time Treadwell dropped us I was just glad it was over.
December 19th, 2012 at 3:36 PM ^
December 19th, 2012 at 3:39 PM ^
It was posted on GBW message board. Most of the services talk to his dad since L3 is pretty quiet about things.
December 19th, 2012 at 3:59 PM ^
And all these tweets get re-tweeted by Michigan sports people.
December 19th, 2012 at 3:45 PM ^
His dad sounds like a dick. Damn dude, let your kid decide where he wants to go to school without calling it "drama."
December 19th, 2012 at 4:05 PM ^
This dad is approaching Seantrel Henderson's dad status.
December 19th, 2012 at 4:06 PM ^
Lets just hope he's not approaching Cam Newton's dad status!!
December 19th, 2012 at 4:07 PM ^
IIRC, his dad got in a twitter argument vs Mike Farrell.
December 19th, 2012 at 7:40 PM ^
Now that, is just flat out funny.
December 19th, 2012 at 8:35 PM ^
An argument with Mike Farrell?
He might be our kind of guy after all.
December 19th, 2012 at 6:27 PM ^
I think you're reading way, way too much into this. First of all, just because he termed this new wrinkle 'drama,' that doesn't mean he's using it in a pejorative sense (i.e., 'my son's a drama queen.')
Regardless of interpretation though, it's hard to say someone's a dick based on one innocuous word in a tweet.
December 19th, 2012 at 7:31 PM ^
It could be quite counter-productive to call a recruit's father a "dick." I hope the thread gets deleted.
December 19th, 2012 at 9:01 PM ^
Maybe we should stop insulting McQuay's father, if we want McQuay to play for Michigan. I could be wrong, but it may not look good if his dad does end up reading this blog....or worse yet, a rival school who is also recruiting him, shows him what "the other schools" are saying about him and his dad.
December 19th, 2012 at 7:45 PM ^
That's a little harsh.
December 20th, 2012 at 9:11 AM ^
His dad has a Twitter...but you don't think there is any chance he reads blogs/message boards?
What an idiotic statement.
(wait for standard message board "hey Mr. McQuay...is that you?" comeback...)
December 19th, 2012 at 4:21 PM ^
Who are you to say what is wierd ? gtfo
December 20th, 2012 at 9:40 AM ^
I don't even follow my own dad.
December 19th, 2012 at 3:40 PM ^
December 19th, 2012 at 6:23 PM ^
have ruined any help the bowl may have offered.
December 19th, 2012 at 3:41 PM ^
teenagers are fickle.
December 19th, 2012 at 3:43 PM ^
Maybe it's not about being fickle and about him taking his time to make a major decision. We all want kids to decide on our time table, but this is a huge choice for them. Let them take their time; we're still months away from signing day.
December 19th, 2012 at 4:18 PM ^
I'm in no rush for him to decide either. More so my point was there are certain kids you get a feeling are not going to decide until they have too. I'll wait and click on the one that says he has decided. This twitter stuff gets silly in my opinion.
December 19th, 2012 at 4:30 PM ^
For what it's worth, I didn't neg/down mod you. I think you were getting at the same thing that I was, anyways (i.e., that these kids have the right to take as long as they need and teenagers aren't the best at decision making to begin with). But I'm with you that a lot of this 24 hour recruiting news is at best silly, often irritating. It's clearly not for me, and I should try and stay away, too.
December 20th, 2012 at 9:42 AM ^
Is who is your avatar picture of?
December 19th, 2012 at 3:46 PM ^
at a totally new school, not one that's been on his list so far. Meaning it won't be Michigan or Vanderbilt or USC. It wouldn't shock me if Nick Satan lured him to Tuscaloosa with promises of a custom-built music production program with tricked-out studio equipment conveniently donated by a wealthy Alabama grad who's suddenly interested in music.
December 19th, 2012 at 3:57 PM ^
Nick Satan? You are better than that Don.
December 19th, 2012 at 4:08 PM ^
that people who troll hell message boards refer to Satan as Saban. So maybe Nick Satan makes him less vicious.
December 19th, 2012 at 7:36 PM ^
December 19th, 2012 at 5:06 PM ^
Saban or Satan?
December 19th, 2012 at 5:35 PM ^
The English language.
December 19th, 2012 at 5:38 PM ^
December 19th, 2012 at 7:24 PM ^
You have sorely overestimated me. I only pretend that I'm 59—I'm actually 15.
December 19th, 2012 at 3:49 PM ^
I find it very odd that his dad is tweating out regarding his son's recruitment....someone really likes all the attention in a Honey Boo Boo kind of way.
December 19th, 2012 at 3:57 PM ^
the less interested I am. Yawhn, as stated below, wake me when it's over.
I will never be convinced that a recruitment that drags on is about "finding" the best school as much as it is a negotiation.
When parents start to get involved with the media, I thank my lucky stars that I don't have to follow recruiting for a living.
December 19th, 2012 at 4:23 PM ^
(This isn't directed at you necessarily, just putting it out there)
December 19th, 2012 at 5:41 PM ^
because they truly are searching for the right fit, but I agree that there does seem to be a growing trend of kids dragging things out in order to create a buzz, and more often than not those kids are not a good fit with Michigan which is why I have thought we would probably have a similar lack of success down the stretch with the few elites we are still in on (including Derek Green IMO).
December 19th, 2012 at 3:51 PM ^
December 19th, 2012 at 7:43 PM ^
I really like to follow recruiting (I don't know why. Call it a compulsion), but sometimes certain players' situations turn into soap operas. That's when I tune out. Like you say "wake me up when it's over".
December 19th, 2012 at 3:57 PM ^
not as good as Iverson's mom refering to her son as AI.
December 19th, 2012 at 4:00 PM ^
If so, I'd like to follow them too.
December 19th, 2012 at 4:15 PM ^
Would be awesome. We could finally get to ask him about the goal line fumble in the '72 Gray Cup.
December 19th, 2012 at 4:48 PM ^
He insists that he was down and wishes, in retrospect, that they'd just gone for the rouge.
December 19th, 2012 at 4:54 PM ^
December 19th, 2012 at 7:33 PM ^
December 19th, 2012 at 4:17 PM ^
"Harlan Huckelby's dad tweets regarding his son's recruitment"
Rick Leach's Facebook status: "Love you Blue, LOL"
What are things I didn't experience while as a youthful M fan?