New in-state offer: 2026 OT Khalief Canty, Jr.
Michigan offered 2026 Detroit (MI) Cass Tech offensive lineman Khalief Canty, Jr. Kentucky and Michigan State had previously offered.
Michigan has already offered Detroit (MI) King WR Jaquan Stennis and Cass Tech WR/DB C.J. Sadler in the 2026 class.
January 17th, 2023 at 5:10 PM ^
Dang, that kid had a family
January 17th, 2023 at 5:13 PM ^
Kentucky is seemingly in on every single Detroit (and honestly MI/OH) area prospect these days. I understand the strategy from an institutional standpoint of not wanting to waste resources on recruiting battles between them and UGA/Auburn/Tennessee etc, but I was wondering, is there a specific assistant(s) that is leading this, or that their hiring has coincided with this push north?
January 17th, 2023 at 5:23 PM ^
...is there a specific assistant(s) that is leading this...
247 lists Clinkscale as Underwood's (2025 Belleville QB) primary recruiter for Kentucky.
January 17th, 2023 at 5:25 PM ^
Their recruiting director is Vince Marrow who seems to have strong ties in Ohio/Midwest. I know Mel Tucker tried to hire him away (maybe Harbaugh has too, can't remember).
January 17th, 2023 at 6:34 PM ^
Harbaugh tried to hire Marrow in the early days. That turned into a new contract for Marrow.
January 17th, 2023 at 7:03 PM ^
Correct.
UPDATE: By the way, I happened to see a tweet earlier today from Marrow where he was talking about being a head coach. He said he wants to be a HC someday. Talk is that he's more of a recruiter/personality than an actual X's and O's or instructional guy, so it kinda makes sense that he wants to be a HC.
January 17th, 2023 at 5:13 PM ^
Somehow it's kinda incredible that offers are going out to 2026 kids. 2026 seems like it should be way in the future.
January 17th, 2023 at 5:22 PM ^
Sign of the times I guess. I'd imagine extremely early offers are conditional that the player develops as the coaches expect when they make the offer. I remember that OL from not many years ago who Michigan rescinded their offer to late in the cycle. Allegedly he hadn't really worked as hard to develop himself so Michigan said no thanks. I think he went to Oklahoma.
January 17th, 2023 at 8:22 PM ^
That was Erik Swenson ('16), OT prospect out of IL who initially committed under Hoke. Swenson was a 4*, so it was a bit surprising when his commitment wasn't honored.
January 17th, 2023 at 6:40 PM ^
I was 10 in 1976……
January 17th, 2023 at 7:07 PM ^
It seems kinda crazy, except Michigan has been offering 8th graders for a while. Michigan sent out a couple offers (to Stennis and Sadler) before they had even decided where to go to high school, and both Dante Moore (2023 QB) and Isaiah Marshall (2024 QB) were offered before they got to high school.
Marshall is one of those kids who never really hit a growth spurt, so now I don't think Michigan is really a legitimate option anymore. So that's one of the "risks" or drawbacks of being offered early. It kind of sets kids up for disappointment.
January 17th, 2023 at 7:18 PM ^
SEC teams are “all over” high level prospects in the 8th grade.
January 17th, 2023 at 7:19 PM ^
These ultra early offers are all just "offers" though, right?
I thought the rule was you couldn't officially offer a scholarship until sometime in/around junior year of high school.
Or maybe that changed?
January 17th, 2023 at 7:36 PM ^
Official offers can't come until September 1 of a player's senior year. So yes, they're all just "offers."
January 17th, 2023 at 6:46 PM ^
So this kid was born around Rich Rodriguez's first year coaching Michigan?
January 19th, 2023 at 11:31 AM ^
I feel like Kentucky offers a ton of kids from Michigan, why is that? Or is it no more than most other schools and I’m off?