3.5* DE/DT Owen Wafle decommits from Notre Dame and immediately gets multiple crystal balls to Michigan
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Wafle is 6'3" 290 pound DE/DL from NJ, so I assume he'll end up at DT. He was committed to Notre Dame, but just decommited and maybe seems to have been processed. He then immediately received 5 crystal balls to Michigan from the likes of Sam Webb, Brian Dohn, and Steve Wiltfong. If you have never heard of this kid, no problem, because neither have I. Seems like we have picked up steam as of late with interior DL recruiting with the likes of Wafle and Deyvid Palepale trending towards the good guys
For the record, it's Notre Dame fans and analysts saying he got processed. They say that everytime a recruit decommits so take that with a grain of salt, especially since his Michigan offer was reported the same day he decommited
Yeah, the immediate flood of CBs signals that he changed his mind, not ND.
Elston reminding Marcus Freeman that Freeman passed him over for DC.
My understanding is Marcus Freeman has adopted the Brady Hoke rule, namely that once a prospect commits to ND he can no longer visit any other schools. Owen Wafle recently told ND he wants to visit Michigan and ND told him if he does he will no longer be considered a ND commit.
Apparently Marcus doesn't understand how recruiting works - LOL!
Apparently Marcus doesn't understand how recruiting works - LOL!
And apparently the recruit doesn’t understand what a “commitment” means? When you make a commitment to something or someone, you follow through with it. That’s why I hate calling these players “commitments”.
Really? Adults do this quite a bit in the form of divorce. What is your point exactly?
You’d never leave a job for a better opportunity, then get an even better opportunity but you’d settle for the old job? I highly doubt it.
It’s so weird that this notion still exists in 2023 that somehow a student athlete is supposed to live up to a higher standard than the fans, their coaches, and every single adult in the job market, including people in government. And why? Because of your feelings about dreaming of them on your team? so you can then lambast them when they don’t play well in the first quarter of their first time on a college field? Grow tf up.
I've been reading a book about Fielding Yost and discovered that this was very common for players in the early part of his era. Even he did it while playing fb! Enrolled at West Virginia, decided that law wasn't what he wanted, transferred to Lafayette for engineering and became disenchanted, then transferred back to WVU! He also moved from coaching single years at Nebraska, Kansas, and Stanford before coming to M. He commented that each school had lousy records before his year, then had a winning season when he was there.
I agree, that is why I keep my spouse locked in the basement...
I'm gonna tell Joe Biden on you
If you mean this in the context of Hoke's (and apparently Freeman's) rule, I agree with you. I think they're correct in that players who visit other schools aren't "committed" to any university.
People break commitments all the time, there's no reasons these kids can't do the same. But it's perfectly fine to no longer consider then "committed" at that point. With the analogy someone else used, yes, adults do get divorced all the time... and we no longer consider them married.
Hello Brady Hoke, been a while!!!
Logged in just to down vote this, wow what a wrong take and comment on this.
Bryan Driskell is saying that they wanted to move on yet didn't know how to tell him. When Owen said he was taking a visit to Michigan they apparently used that as their way out but Driskell said he had no clue whether OW was aware of any of the above.
Driskell says this about everyone though.
Driskell personal ranking, top 50 overall.
Also, its not a shock to him that he was looking at a school, in Michigan, thats been to CFP last 2 years....with a great dline coach.
Rivals has him as the #15 ranked DT and a 4*.
ND now has zero DTs in their class.
They wanted him.
Well if those are the people putting crystal balls in, I assume that he's coming to Michigan.
Sounds like he's... Waffling a bit.
Excellent. Take my upvote.
I only clicked the thread to see how many posts it took to get to the waffling joke. Well done.
Yeah me too.
Thirded. It was almost a duty, scrolling down to see that this had been done properly.
Fourtheded.
I may get negged for taking the bit this far, but I too immediately saw and expected the joke.
That was the only reason I even clicked on the thread.
Never mind…
only came here for this comment. Bravo.
too obvious. I mean, you hit the bullseye but the one that's the size of a house. But I digress
I certianly hope he can avoid getting pancaked....
Size of a Waffle House, I believe you meant.
Pass me the maple syrup.
I wonder if, as he decommitted, he thought to himself, "man, now people are going to make that waffling joke."
So long as he doesn't get pancaked!
He'll commit in the morning.
Unless he commits to the Wolverines, but then flips away from Michigan, young Mr. Wafle will have a song to welcome him to The Big House.
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njvictor: do you have the MGoBlog Enhancer extension running (on Chrome)? If so, that screws up the media embed button. I have to disable the enhancer extension if I want to use the media embed function here.
I have an enhancer extension, but I guess you weren't asking me, and it is pretty useless as it involves internet stuff.
“I have an enhancer extension”
Do you need a prescription for that or do you get it at Ace Hardware?
The helpful hardware man really went above and beyond.
do you have the MGoBlog Enhancer extension running (on Chrome)?
I have no clue what this is so I assume not
I could sure use an enhancer extension.
Yeah, I was wondering why such personal confessions were showing up here on the Internet. I had to look away.
Looks like the UM offer had him walfeing before he decided to break fast for Ann Arbor
Hopefully he didn't have to scramble too long though.
Once the UM offer came, ND knew they were toast.
I was thinking that chicken and waffles sounds good right about now.
Yum
Nervous bird. Not sure this combo works.
I think even Harbaugh would make an exception in this application.
Something about ND and Waf(f)les not working out as intended.
It is nice having Chris Partridge back!