Michigan favorite to add 4* 2023 athlete and former ND commit
Brandyn Hillman is a 2023 4* and the #214 player nationally. He is 6-foot-1, 191 pounds and projected to play safety. He was committed to ND and was recently granted a release.
Tom Loy claims Michigan is his likely destination.
Gimme
Love me some positive 'crootin' news.
This is an odd one but ... to hell with Notre Dame and come on down Brandyn!
Did Loy mention that ND had cooled on him and were in fact in on better prospects and that it’s not me; it’s you and how he’s not bitter at all?
I mean, pretty much yeah. Loy said there were some academic hurdles to get him enrolled but that Notre Dame 'didnt push hard to get him cleared.'
ND gonna ND.
As is tradition.
Anyone know the back story here? Dude was all over twitter yesterday posting his offers as they came in. I wonder what happened at ND.
The article says that there were “some hurdles” to getting him academically admitted but they were likely specific to Notre Dame.
That's always Notre Dame's excuse though. I would tend to have doubts about that being the reason given we immediately offered him lol
Virginia, Michigan, Vandy offers... don´t think academics are the real reason ...
Notre Dame probably has the most annoying fans/analysts when it comes to recruiting. They will brag nonstop and make fun of us when they beat us for a prospect, but as soon as we beat them for a prospect, all of the sudden there was "academic issues" or they cooled on them
To be fair I would like to note that this is the exact same claim I see others make about M-fans when we lose a recruit so while they may be "more annoying" we do live in a bit of a glass house here.
You're forgetting that we're good and they're bad. That's the major difference.
ND is sort of a mirror image of us except that they are, as noted, "bad" and we are great. Raghib Ismail wasn't/isn't Catholic and St. Mary's isn't a part of Notre Dame. I think I hate ND almost as much or more than OSU. South Bend is an armpit.
For some reason, if he can pass Vandy’s academic requirements, he shouldn’t have too much trouble in South Bend.
I'm always surprised by how great ND's academic reputation is. I've livedand work in a bunch of big cities and I've never seen top-level HS kids listing ND among their dream schools. It's always ranked so high but I honestly don't know anyone who's gone there or wants to. I'm sure it's a good school, but it's reputation seems inflated. Am I wrong?
I teach in the nyc metro and it’s the same here. Lots of kids apply to UM among Ivys, the top Cali schools, and the like. I’ve never heard of any of our kids applying to ND.
Did any of your students' parents attend ND? Their admissions policy favors legacies (it used to be that if your parent went there, you were almost automatically granted admission, may not be that way now). If you taught at a parochial school, I would guess that you would have more applicants to ND, even if their parents were not true alums, just wannabe alums. My nephew attended a prominent Jesuit HS in the midwest, and many of his peers applied to South Bend, whether or not they actually wanted to attend there, due to peer, parent, and teacher pressure.
As a Catholic kid growing up in the midwest, a lot of kids identified with the school in some way. My parents lapsed before I got to high school, so not sure how well that translated to 'dream college' for kids in the parish, but the school's status was more obviously elevated among Catholics than non-Catholics.
As a lapsed Catholic growing up in the 70's, I'll second this. There were many kids I knew who were raised to think that getting into Notre Dame (genuflect when you say that) was the ultimate goal. One actually did.
I never saw the attraction. Going to a college that was basically an extension of church? Hard pass.
It's don't think it's big city liberal kids that typically want to go ND.
I worked with a few ND grads when I started my consulting career. One was my boss. Smart people.
And one of my best friends in CA went to ND. Really smart engineer.
Small sample but they were all white suburban kids, and I think all Catholic. My assumption is that's mostly the pool from which ND students come.
My brothers kids go to Grand Rapids Catholic Central and he makes it sound like going to ND is the dream for a lot of those kids, moreso than going to UofM (albeit slightly and it's family dependent).
Lol at throwing shade at blaming admissions on this blog and getting upvoted. The cognitive dissonance is fucking incredible
Admissions for high school kids and transfer admissions are not same. We have a pain in the ass transfer admissions department
Uh...have you heard of the UM admissions department? They aren't known for going easy on athletes.
I am not sure what hurdles would exist at ND that wouldn't also be an issue here.
Michigan has been pretty good about admitting high school kids even without the best academic history (besides those times the recruiting director doesn't submit transcripts in time and we lose a top 100 reciever - Damn you Dudek!).
It's been accepting undergraduate transfer credits that has been the issue.
It could be something benign like not having 2 years of a foreign language (I don't know if that's a requirement), or enough high school science or art credits.
I recall a recruit at Wisconsin having a similar issue that was a "Wisconsin specific" issue, and the kid went someplace like Northwestern or Stanford.
Hell, I think Notre Dame still makes you pass a swim test to graduate.
Actually they make you film football practice in a scissors lift on a windy day to graduate. Fuck Brian Kelly!!!
/RIP Declan Sullivan
UM admissions is super easy on athletes. Just like every other school. Where UM admissions IS a real stickler, is transfer credits.
I heard via the rumor mill that he thinks the Pope's hat is "silly looking."
I thought it was because he shits in the woods... which is still better than a cooler.
Welp that will do it.
Damn, Partridge works fast! Just one month on the job and he's already raiding our rivals' classes.
/s, unless it's true, then not /s.
FWIW, Jay Harbaugh was his recruiter.
#ThePartridgeEffect
Correction, #ThePartridgeFamily
C'mon get happy!
You have like a 3 gif rotation, and I like it.
My file is full, so I can't add new ones. The file will not let me delete any--it says they're all in use. Gotta roll with what I got...
March 13th, 2023 at 10:06 PM ^
I have this problem too. Seems like there should be a work around / solution?
File storage fills up super quick but can't delete anything cuz it's used in a post from like 5 years ago.
This pleases me.
The hell with Notre Dame!
Notre Dame has an unwritten policy against admitting kids whose names use a "y" instead of an "o" or other sensible vowel.
OK, we get it Dyn.
Nice try Eyst Qyad
That sounds like an awesome middle eastern holiday I'd like to celebrate.
... wrote Wyndiscyti Bloehe
Yes - its the holiday to celebrate a bunch of alternative weirdos with terrible food in the building, but fantastic proximity to good food on south u.
unrelated - when i visited last fall for the Co State game.. my.. god... South U is a giant mess for the construction, and on top of that everything is a giant douchey chain. nothing like i remember at all. yeah, im a little old, but wtf...
March 13th, 2023 at 10:35 PM ^
Not sure why this is getting downvoted. I am not a fan of south u other than Joe’s pizza. It just feels really different than it even was in the mid to late 2000s. It feels like an upscale suburban downtown than AA. There’s a soul cycle for crying out loud.