Solomon trending to Bama?
January 27th, 2017 at 9:54 AM ^
As long as he doesn't tend to their football needs.
January 27th, 2017 at 9:57 AM ^
The OP should tend to his own business
January 27th, 2017 at 11:15 AM ^
Maybe Michigan should stop recruiting Moms so hard and focus on the kid more.
I swear we would be #1 year after year in recruiting parents. Smh.
January 27th, 2017 at 12:38 PM ^
have so much power here on Mgoblog to delete a board topic.
January 27th, 2017 at 3:41 PM ^
He is announcing on ESPN several hours before the Signing of the Stars. I'm sure that's so they can skype the whole family in!
January 27th, 2017 at 9:55 AM ^
Shocking. Who could have seen this coming?
January 27th, 2017 at 10:16 AM ^
Maybe we should have seen this coming when he said "Alabama still leads big" one week ago. Then again, he also said "fuck Michigan," so anything could happen.
January 27th, 2017 at 10:41 AM ^
I know I speak tor the entire board when I say I am shocked beyond measure that a highly rated recruit, who had us once as his favorite and even committed to us at one time, ends up at an SEC school instead.
I mean that NEVER happens does it?
January 27th, 2017 at 10:48 AM ^
Any top 25 team is probably going to prepare you adequately for the NFL (at least in these kids eyes).
We havent won the big10 in 15 yrs, and have'nt made the playoffs yet.
Either of those things WOULD probably help with closing on a couple guys.
January 27th, 2017 at 11:04 AM ^
With all your facts, logic and whatnot.
#gottabebagman
January 27th, 2017 at 11:22 AM ^
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January 27th, 2017 at 11:12 AM ^
I am apparently still not over it.
January 27th, 2017 at 12:09 PM ^
Carzy thought here but maybe these kids commit to Michigan and we start winning again, just a wild idea.
January 27th, 2017 at 1:40 PM ^
January 27th, 2017 at 12:07 PM ^
Not just any SEC school, too, but Bama at that.
If Michigan is going head to head with Alabama for a recruit, it probably won't end well for us (unless the kid is a Michigan native or U-M legacy). Saban gets who he wants.
January 27th, 2017 at 3:49 PM ^
If we are chasing 4/5-star kids from the deep south and we don't have them locked up by December . . . it probably ain't happening.
Getting a kid from the south to commit to Michigan in January, the week before NSD, is a tall order.
Solomon, Gay, Collins . . . these are long shots right now. The top of the SEC is chasing them hard, with all that implies.
This is not the same thing as flipping kids from Iowa and BC.
January 27th, 2017 at 10:42 AM ^
Whether we get him or not, I'm glad that Harbaugh is still putting the full court press on him despite his disaparaging remarks about the Mitten. If this were a Beilein recruitment, that would have been the end of it.
January 27th, 2017 at 12:52 PM ^
Funny thing is that's probably what you actually look like.
January 27th, 2017 at 12:48 PM ^
How people thought UM still had a shot here. If you pull out all the stops at his in-home visit (which Harbaugh did) & he comes out & says that Bama still leads then it's not going to happen. What was going to change his mind if the visit didn't?
There was so much optimism over the past week that I thought I must've missed some report debunking the "bama still leads" comment.
January 27th, 2017 at 10:00 AM ^
Suffice it to say that the article ends with a quote from Solomon himself that, if you read between the lines, points very strongly in Alabama's direction. Sounds like a done deal to 'Bama.
January 27th, 2017 at 10:00 AM ^
This is the key here in my mind.
$EC Bagmen Cometh.
January 27th, 2017 at 10:08 AM ^
Jesus Christ.
January 27th, 2017 at 10:30 AM ^
January 27th, 2017 at 10:15 AM ^
It has nothing to do with being in the national championsip four out of the past eight seasons, or almost their entire defense being drafted every single year.
If you are a top player in the country, why would you not want to go to Alabama? There is a good chance that you will win at least a national title as well as achieve your dream of making it to the NFL (especially as a defensive player)
January 27th, 2017 at 10:53 AM ^
Is this hypothetical person black? Because I can think of a few reasons if he is.
January 27th, 2017 at 11:05 AM ^
They have the most players in the NFL (43), and if you took the time to look at it, I would bet 80% of them are black. These kids care about getting to the NFL, and Alabama is currently the best chance at getting there. The racial climate of the state clearly doesn't weigh into their opinion very much, if it all.
January 27th, 2017 at 7:47 PM ^
January 27th, 2017 at 12:09 PM ^
The football players on campus are worshiped as long as the team is winning. Now if they a black QB who threw 4 INTs against Auburn and cost them the game that might not be a great environment. But otherwise I'm sure their players have a great time on campus.
January 27th, 2017 at 12:22 PM ^
You just painted millions of people you don't even know with a single brush-stroke...in a comment where you're calling THEM racist.
January 27th, 2017 at 1:05 PM ^
When people say Alabama is a racist state, they don't literally mean every person.
January 27th, 2017 at 3:16 PM ^
Love comments like this - over reacting to a post and generalizing a defense about a whole state ..
How many years have you spent in Alabama? The South, at least.... I mean, have you ever listened to the Paul Finebaum show or stopped on the road, alongside a cotton field and picked a little bit of cotton for a keepsake?
January 27th, 2017 at 11:37 PM ^
Not only does ND suck, but so does ignorance. On the other hand the north and Michigan are far worse than very many admit or know, and in many ways just as bad or worse.
January 27th, 2017 at 12:31 PM ^
January 27th, 2017 at 10:22 AM ^
January 27th, 2017 at 11:03 AM ^
...Solomon recently said, "Academics matters more to me than football," he said. "Football has created academic opportunities for me and has created opportunities that will carry me financially after I'm done playing football. That's really important to me."
If he really believes that and acts accordingly, Ann Arbor is the clear winner.
January 27th, 2017 at 11:40 AM ^
I say this with no snark but when a Top 50 player says that they are just "coach speaking" their way out of a question and giving the reporter a good sound bite. If it were true than Stanford would be pulling in Alabama-type classes year in/year out.
January 27th, 2017 at 1:38 PM ^
Actually has a pretty filthy class this year
January 27th, 2017 at 1:45 PM ^
January 27th, 2017 at 12:22 PM ^
Welp, Alabama it is then.
January 27th, 2017 at 12:38 PM ^
January 27th, 2017 at 11:44 PM ^
Um, I think you got on first base via an error this time. Number one he said player graduation rate, not academics, and the latest released results actually favor Bama from what I read, but I doubt it over several years.
But also, academics and graduating don't just mean who has the most prestige, pull, or connections attached for everybody. It can mean a place with easier academics that a person thinks they can handle. It can mean a place with smaller classes or other factors they feel would be more conducive to their learning style or prospects, or a place with particular programs they like better, academic advisers or counselors they like better, etc. etc.
January 27th, 2017 at 9:58 AM ^
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January 27th, 2017 at 10:08 AM ^
Same goes for Gay and LSU.
January 27th, 2017 at 10:24 AM ^
January 27th, 2017 at 10:33 AM ^