4* DE Target Beau Atkinson Set to Decide
4* North Carolina native DE/EDGE target Beau Atkinson will be announcing his decision tomorrow at 4PM (presumably on his Twitter). Atkinson will be deciding among Michigan, North Carolina, and Miami. Atkinson officially visited Michigan this past weekend, where he was hosted by Braiden McGregor and Aidan Hutchinson (his comparables in the eyes of the Michigan staff).
Atkinson previously visited UNC and Miami unofficially and had officials to Cal and UVA scheduled. There are no crystal balls predictions in for Atkinson’s decision as of yet. I don’t have any inside info but I suspect UNC and Michigan are ahead.
Yep just saw there was a prediction just put in for UNC
But we're told Harbaugh is re-energized. We're told the old Harbaugh is back. We have this great young staff that is going to really connect with the recruits. How could this be?
Michigan will be lucky to have a Top 15 class this year.
I'm sure the fanboys will come out and say that Harbaugh and new Co.just need a year to build relationships, prove themselves, and that next year's class will be the great recruiting class.
Rinse and repeat the same garbage every year.
-1 for "fanboys"
If you get this upset about potentially losing the #360 recruit to the in-state favorite, I'd hate to see how you deal with adversity in important areas of your life.
Here's the good news. If he manages to turn things around on the field this year and rebound from the 2-4 debacle I'm sure all the things you sarcastically claimed will actually start to happen in our recruiting.
And if he doesnt turn it around and we suffer through another crappy year record-wise my guess is he'll resign so it will be the new guy's problem to solve.
In other words I dont see this as being a long-term problem either way.
Everything went awry, albeit slowly, when Brown was hired...slowly Hoke's defensive recruits graduated, and replaced by the smallish players for a defense that won't work in the Big Ten. Kemp is the perfect example...he should have bulked DOWN and played LB, instead of bulked up to try to play DT. So Harbaugh finally acknowledged the big error...and that was big. It was program shifting. He was right there his second year where we wanted to be, and the OSU ref stole it from us. So you can say he is re-energized.
Ur Not Certain about his choice?
The Miami helmet...lol wut?
How would you benefit from name and likeness as a faceless helmet like that?
Sun shade was activated. That Miami sun can be blinding.
Who is advising him?
Mack Brown
Hey Mack Brown, thanks for pissing in my Cheerios again. Haven't had this happen since the 05 rose bowl.
Does Braiden McGregor know something we don't??
https://mobile.twitter.com/BraidenMcgregor/status/1404995346678358018
Nah he’s just at the UGLi studying
Maybe Hatcher, the Ugli loud af
He is welcome to. The more the merrier.
Studying spiders?
Yeah, that Wiltfong CBed Atkinson with an 8, to UNC.
I was so optimistic after the first paragraph.
why UNC... they have had one DE go in the draft in like ten years
He likes McDonald's Happy Meals.
Because Mack Brown has turned that program around, and because he lives just down the road? I mean I hope he goes Blue, but using that metric against UNC is dumb.
UNC has a better team than Michigan right now and is also a great place to go the school.
"Why UNC?," he wonders, about a recruit who is from North Carolina
Who to believe, the (potentially) future teammate or a recruiting insider? I’m going with McGregor.
5 Crystal Balls have come in for UNC now, most high level confidence.
I mean imagine this kid showing up and getting hosted with Aiden and Aiden 2.0 and thinking about going elsewhere.
He makes Hutchinson and McGregor look small. He's only 16 in this pic.
This was my point in another thread. We keep missing on these type of recruits. our class is going to look like an msu class and fall outside the top 25. And we don’t have the coaches to win with those type of recruits. Might be time for a coaching change after all.
You are pretty chipper. Bet you are a lot of fun at parties.
I'll just quote myself from the last time you made this dramatic/concern troll post:
"I went through the last three recruiting cycles and averaged classes 26-30. They average 4.5 four star prospects and an average rating of 86.5. The only class that included a single 5 star in that range was a Wisconsin class but they only had 2 four stars that cycle. We already have a Five star and 3 Four stars."
So it is almost impossible to finish outside the top 25 unless we lose current recruits and pick up no additional 4 star talents which is extremely unlikely. The worst recruiting class in Jim's tenure was still ranked 22.
LOL. Atkinson is the #360 overall recruit in the class, which is barely a 4-star.
These are the recruits visiting this weekend:
#2
#12 (commit)
#84 (commit)
#97
#127
#129
#290
#320 (commit)
#338
#360 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Atkinson
$519 (commit)
#533
#543
#546
#696
#756
#850
#1076
Atkinson is halfway down the list if we compare him to who's visiting this weekend, and Michigan "keeps missing"...but they have three commits visiting who are higher than him. Michigan has also offered about 333 people in the class, and they can only sign about 25. They're going to "miss" on roughly 12 out of every 13 kids they offer.
You are saying the bag man was involved in the commitment of number 519?
Great. Just wait now for the NCAA investigation. Thanks, Magnus.
This kid's ranking would put him in the bottom half of our recruiting class every year.
You always lose more recruitments than you win, that's the nature of recruiting.
Mack Brown has a recruiting machine running again. And his facilities/stadium are 100% improved since his last stint at UNC. If he can establish a better football culture (basketball and country-club sports are huge there) they're capable of regular top-12 finishes.
UNC has 1 double digit win season since 1997, Mack Brown is not going to bring them to a top 12 team on the regular. They will hover around 20-25 is my guess.
It looks like you probably know this, but the UNC campus and Chapel Hill are also pretty great. You get the classic college town experience, but--and sorry AA--it's not freezing and dark in the winter.
I lived there for nine years. My daughter did her undergrad in CH and is finishing her graduate work. As much as I loved the town/campus, A2 has it beat. But yeah, January is a different story.
Prediction on who the next football commit will be?
From me ? I hope its that kid Schwartz.
North Carolina kid looks likely to commit to North Carolina. Film at 11.
At least, we can be enthused, that the program recognizes the crucial error in going small... dumping Brown, and now going big again. I've noticed an uptick in size across the DL.
Atkinson tweeted earlier today that he'll now make his announcement at 6pm, rather than 4.
https://twitter.com/Beauatkinson9/status/1405169551327870979?s=19
Oh well...interesting to hear why he chose UNC with Mack Brown vs a guy who just came from the NFL to handle the D.
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— Rivals (@Rivals) June 16, 2021
Four-star DE Beau Atkinson (@Beauatkinson9) has committed to North Carolina. He breaks down his decision with @RivalsFriedman exclusively with @Rivals ? pic.twitter.com/OWx1Eueezo