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PWO Hello: Michael Shuster
Jim Harbaugh will stockpile quarterbacks in whatever way he can; this week he went the preferred walk-on route, adding prolific PA QB Michael Shuster to the 2016 class, per The Wolverine's Brandon Brown ($):
"I want to compete at the highest level," he said. "I've been a starter since my freshmen year and I played three sports, football, basketball, and baseball, so competition has always been a part of my life. Being able to compete at a place like Michigan is something that really interested me. The fact that the academics are just as good as the Ivy League is just an added bonus."
Shuster, an unranked prospect, chose walking on at Michigan over Ivy League offers. He's put up really impressive numbers at the high school level; after throwing for over 3500 yards and 42 touchdowns as a junior, he's passed for 26 TDs against only three interceptions while averaging 10.2 yards per attempt so far during his senior season, per MaxPreps.
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Class Outlook: Good
We don't really stump for recruiting sites here, but allow me this: Wolverine247 is free until the end of the year, Steve Lorenz is a great source of info (and, of course, a friend of the blog and an MGoRadio regular), and that price of literally nothing is more than worth it for content like Steve's outlook on how the 2016 class will finish up ($). Steve breaks down how the coaches see the current commits position-wise and Michigan's odds with their current targets; the overall outlook is very bright. A small sampling:
Michigan already has two commitments at cornerback, and we see two more in their future, with Top100 prospects David Long (Stanford) and Lavert Hill (Penn State) a pair of players the staff currently feels great about eventually reeling in. It's also not a spot we anticipate many (if any) more targets to emerge, as a mix of current commitments and athlete-types that are being pursued could fit the bill.
Two top-100 corners would be quite nice.
Elsewhere on the site, Steve caught up with three-star FL WR Pie Young, who still has the Wolverines out in front ($):
"I want to decide before Christmas and still take some officials afterwards to Alabama, Tennessee and Georgia," he noted. "Michigan is my top right now and I still am talking to Alabama quite a bit. I talk to Coach Cristobal and he's a cool guy. I like his style."
Young would not dimiss the possibility he could commit when taking his official visit for The Game; that's currently the only official he has set up.
Another top prospect with an official set for Ohio State is four-star MD OG Terrance Davis, who told Scout's Brian Dohn that Michigan still leads for him, too ($). He also has officials planned for Alabama, Georgia, and UCLA, and is deciding between Florida and Maryland for his final visit.
Four-star CO WDE Carlo Kemp is making his decision soon:
Four-star DE Carlo Kemp is deciding next week. He's down to Colorado, Michigan and Notre Dame.
— Tom VanHaaren (@TomVH) October 29, 2015
This is almost certainly a Michigan-ND battle, but it's tough to get a read on which one it'll be.
MCDOOM
While Michigan has mostly narrowed their 2016 recruiting focus to a handful of top targets, they continue to evaluate prospects as they progress through their senior seasons, and this week the coaches decided to put forth an offer to three-star FL WR Eddie McDoom. I repeat: EDDIE MCDOOM. His coach gave the current recruiting outlook to The Wolverine's Brandon Brown ($):
"Right now Eddie wants to get up to Michigan and see it," Head said. "He's been to Alabama, Auburn, Florida, and Kentucky. He has a trip scheduled to Oregon but he's very interested in Michigan. His conversation with the coaches and the way they said they'd like to use him as a big play guy really got his attention. They told him that he could really help them in the kicking game and be a dynamic player for them and he likes that. He's very interested."
If McDoom sets up a trip, Michigan should have a puncher's chance.
Etc.
Rashan Gary is writing about his recruitment for USA Today. He is a big fan of food.
Gary's 2017 teammate, four-star linebacker Drew Singleton, told Sam Webb his close bond with Jabrill Peppers makes Michigan feel "home-like" after taking a couple visits ($).
Four-star Detroit King WR Donnie Corley will announce his decision on December 8th.
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October 30th, 2015 at 2:02 PM ^
the endorsements that kid will get if he makes his way to the pros?
October 30th, 2015 at 3:09 PM ^
October 30th, 2015 at 3:47 PM ^
I'm sorry. I may be the only one who thinks this, but I HATE names like Butt and McDoom. I mean, they're funny, yeah. Great. But I will now have to suffer through 4 years of some stupid old white man color commentator say -
"I guess that corner back was... McDoomed!!!"
It's like Nick Toon from a few years ago. I just knew some idiot was going to make a joke, and I always cringed when they did. Attention MGoBlog - butt jokes and bad puns are THE LOWEST COMMON DENOMINATOR of humor. Please don't.
Hey! Peppers' last name - it's peppers! Like as in ACTUAL peppers!!! OMG let's blog about it!!!
October 30th, 2015 at 4:29 PM ^
The fact that your post ragging on people making name jokes is ended with a play on a player's name is just some next level stuff man, well done.
October 30th, 2015 at 10:14 PM ^
October 30th, 2015 at 1:04 PM ^
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October 30th, 2015 at 1:16 PM ^
...he doesn't have a big arm. There are a lot of looping throws in the first 1:30. I'm happy to have him, though. Don't get me wrong.
October 30th, 2015 at 1:22 PM ^
Your scouting breakdown explains why he doesn't have big time offers, but what are lower tier schools doing? He's a kid you want in your program.
October 30th, 2015 at 2:23 PM ^
October 30th, 2015 at 2:32 PM ^
I'm guessing he means MAC type offers.
October 30th, 2015 at 2:56 PM ^
I think he means FBS scholarship offers. Ivy League is not FBS and they don't offer athletic scholarships.
October 30th, 2015 at 1:25 PM ^
Don't most HS QB tapes look like looping throws? Kids got a quick release though, just watch that first through. Doesn't take long to get out of his hand from the time he decides where it's going.
October 30th, 2015 at 1:26 PM ^
I'm sure based on tape and scouting, and his school plays in the small school division (lowest enrollments of the four classes) so there's probably some competition issues at play in the stats.
October 30th, 2015 at 1:33 PM ^
He's very accurate - but he has an awful throwing motion, and a super weak arm.
October 30th, 2015 at 1:52 PM ^
Some guy from his school (or city?) posted in the original commit thread he goes to a tiny school which has 25-50 kids per class. So imagine a HS with 150 people in it. And then imagine their competition. Just difficult to project things. Guy like that needs to go camp for 3+ yrs to get his name out. Sounds like he was getting Ivy offers which is fine for that sort of prospect.
November 1st, 2015 at 10:26 PM ^
camp hill is a little bigger than that per class size. my high school plays a lot of the same schools they do and play in the same level as them which means their class is close to 100 kids or so. the one thing that i have heard about him is that there the team throws the ball a ton and he has a ton of yards just because of the sheer fact that he averages about 40 pass attempts per game.
October 30th, 2015 at 1:04 PM ^
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MSU probably leads, ND and OSU and Tennessee are in the mix, Michigan has an outside shot.
October 30th, 2015 at 1:16 PM ^
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I would say he is 85% MSU at this point. We've offered other WR even since he has "opened up to Michigan" to let you know how much confidence the coaching staff he'll be blue.
I would say we may be in second but it's a distant second. Don't count on it.
October 30th, 2015 at 2:26 PM ^
Michigan has so many irons in the fire at the WR position: Crawford, Young, McDoom, et al. They're just hedging their bets. So, it's good that Corley will be announcing Nov. 8th. At least then, Michigan will know whether he's going to or not going to be a member of this class.
October 30th, 2015 at 2:29 PM ^
Dec. 8 for Corley.
October 30th, 2015 at 1:07 PM ^
ANY tea leaves out there for which way Carlo Kemp is leaning?
October 30th, 2015 at 2:38 PM ^
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October 30th, 2015 at 3:27 PM ^
Sam said this morning that he likes our chances with Kemp. He said he doesn't have the "gut feeling" but that Michigan leads at this point.
October 30th, 2015 at 1:18 PM ^
waiting on that list of linebackers that are considering Michigan. Still waiting.....
October 30th, 2015 at 1:23 PM ^
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October 30th, 2015 at 1:28 PM ^
October 30th, 2015 at 1:29 PM ^
Why come to Michigan as a LB? Get called slow, not have a chance to make many plays and then get ejected for targeting /s
October 30th, 2015 at 1:29 PM ^
Caleb, Kelly, Devin Bush, Jonathan Jones
October 30th, 2015 at 1:53 PM ^
That they only go by a single name, a la Prince.
October 30th, 2015 at 2:31 PM ^
Caleb Kelly is so good he counted as two
October 30th, 2015 at 1:48 PM ^
October 30th, 2015 at 1:23 PM ^
If you have to put money down in order to get past the paywall, it ain't free, even if said money is refundable.
October 30th, 2015 at 1:30 PM ^
Put your $$$$ down first......Recruiting Multi Level Marketing!
October 31st, 2015 at 11:21 AM ^
October 30th, 2015 at 1:39 PM ^
Gary loves to talk about his love of food. He also consistently cites the great food in Alabama. I don't like that combination.
October 30th, 2015 at 1:50 PM ^
Halloween menu, there had better be a sandwich called "McDOOM."
October 30th, 2015 at 1:58 PM ^
Unfort since the Oregon offer (which just came and was his 'dream offer') , there has been some Oregon activity for Crawford after a nice run of predictions to UM. Seems strange Oregon would not offer a top 100 player who WANTED an offer until that late in the cycle. They must be spinning in Wrs who want to play for them.
Pie is getting a lot of UM crystal balls of late (5 in last week)
McDoom offer might be an offset to the Crawford attention from Oregon and getting the word on Corley who has seemingly been a MSU silent for monthhs on end.
October 30th, 2015 at 3:17 PM ^
ive noticed oregon not offering certain local athletes or elite talents from cali or whatever but they have their process and its tough to dispute the recent results on the field. oregon appears to approach evaluating and recruiting players slightly differently than many other major programs, at least from what ive seen and heard. they seem to place fairly specific target criteria on each position in terms of size, length, speed, culture, football IQ, etc (which all teams obviously do, just seems oregon follows more rigid guidelines).
they might not offer the consensus best S in cali bc they dont envision a perfect culture fit or they wont offer a certain beast DL every schools fighting over due to lack of the 6'6" frame or long arms they prefer to target or whatever.
i guess they know what theyre looking for and dont deviate as much as other programs might, regardless of prospects supposed talent level or ranking or proximity.
after watching some of their games this year though hopefully oregon is recruiting plenty of guys that know how to tackle. their D has been awful
October 30th, 2015 at 6:26 PM ^
Sounds like Beilein's approach. He knows what he wants, and has the patience to wait for it.
And he's seldom wrong.
October 30th, 2015 at 2:09 PM ^
October 30th, 2015 at 4:08 PM ^
He was a Michigan lean after the visit but always wanted the Oregon offer and it finally came a few days ago.
October 30th, 2015 at 4:39 PM ^
Think the "Michigan-Lock" was under the assumption that Oregon wouldn't offer. Once they did the picture was bound to become murkier. It's a common issue in California recruiting for a lot of schools. Oregon hangs around, but doesn't offer, kid either commits to other PAC-12 school or gets close to it, Oregon finally offers and kid is gone.
It's especially hilarious when the Oregon offer causes the decommit and then the kid doesn;t even go to Oregon in the end but picks a completely different school, see: Jordan Parker(an OU commit), committed to UCLA, gets Oregon interest and then ends up committing to OU.
October 30th, 2015 at 2:28 PM ^
McDoom can fly. He'd be a great pick-up.
October 30th, 2015 at 9:58 PM ^
October 30th, 2015 at 2:32 PM ^
from a local perspective...
http://highschoolsports.pennlive.com/news/article/8294525947708277458/c…
October 30th, 2015 at 4:16 PM ^
So, if Harbaugh can't make him a pro in football, maybe Beilein can work some magic with him in basketball if someone gets hurt?
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