Dallas Gant is a Buckeye because Michigan started recruiting him too late. Dad is a Michigan fan
TOLEDO, Ohio -- James Gant stood up on the stage at Toledo (Ohio) St. John's Jesuit's assembly room proudly wearing his new bright red Ohio State hat.
His son, Dallas, had just announced his commitment to Ohio State and the two were posing for pictures and doing the Buckeyes "OH-IO" pose as the hot lights from above the stage beamed down.
James was smiling bigger than he's ever smiled in his life. He was so proud to be a Buckeye.
That's weird because James is a Michigan fan.
"I was a Michigan fan," James said, letting out deep breath while hesitating to admit it. "I was a Michigan fan, no doubt about it. I'll tell you man, this is Toledo. This is a half and half city."
"I'm excited to be a part of the Ann Arbor and Columbus battle," Gant said. "Michigan made their appearance pretty late, but it was cool. I went down to visit ad loved it. I loved Coach Harbaugh. It was a great time down there, but they just kind of game in late. Overall, I just felt more comfortable at Ohio State."
Had Michigan started recruiting Gant a year earlier, maybe this battle would have been different. James, who was admittedly excited (from a fan's perspective) when Michigan brought in Harbaugh, said it may have been a tight race.
But this is just another example of Meyer and his staff identifying an elite Ohio prospect early, recruiting him hard and, like always, closing the deal.
"All you're really concerned about is your kid, right?" James said. "When you get an organization like Ohio State interested in your kid and showing all the things they offer, you just want what's best for your kid. Of course I'm a Michigan fan, shoot, I may be a Michigan fan in four years. Who knows? Right now, I'm a Dallas Gant fan and the best program for him is this. ... I hope he kills Michigan."
"Michigan got me to think a little bit," Gant said. "Coach (Don) Brown is great, we built a great relationship and coach Harbaugh is obviously a unique guy with a great coaching staff.
http://www.cleveland.com/osu/2017/05/dallas_gants_commitment_to_ohi.html
Look, if being first was all that mattered in recruiting, Gareon Conley would've been a Wolverine.
truly wasn't a michigan fan.If Michigan offered me late, I was a fan, I'd still go to Michigan. Glad he wants to play for a school that has OSU fans ref games to win.
A bullet dodged. And that's not sour grapes. But for now I'll grant Dallas Grant a funny, "game over man, game over! ...."
Not really. Hey hah hah hah ... we're gonna nuke you from orbit, just to be sure.
You don't know because you couldn't review his upper school records. Dallas chose the weakest academic school amongst his suitors. That says a lot. And so now we're done here.
hilarious
thank god this is a thread about football then!
That's it! Fire Harbaugh!!!
/s
I typed it, I sent it, I read it... even joking around, it's all sorts of wrong... sorry guys
Jim Harbaugh has a much higher hit rate than urban meyer.
His dad is a Michigan fan. Thought that was clear from the title and the snippits posted.
Its says in your OP that he was a Michigan fan. Hold another neg
No it doesn't. James is the father. It's amazing how many people need everything spelled out for them here. Good grief.
Sorry I misread your OP. However, hold another neg for your awful posting in this thread.
Says the idiot who can't even read.
Well to bad he is not like Speiman's dad and threaten to disown his son. Ohio is a state that takes imagenary state lines to a new level. The bottom line is Harbaugh will be wasting his time with most of these kids. I am in a kind of wait and see mode. If we can get Rumler as he grew up a Michigan fan and some others will see. They just offered rumler and they think they allready swayed him, that is how confident they have become. They lost 31-0 and still think meyer is invinsible. I do agree that if every cycle we can win a battle or two for a ohio kid it will go a long way psychlogically. This frustration we all feel can change on a dime with a win and some recruiting battle wins. I feel very confident there will be a changing of the guard at some point and it will be all the sweeter especially with what happened in last years game. We have some really big recruiting battles coming for the likes of Rumler and Dobbs who Michigan better start getting after. These guys are much bigger gets than gant for sure. Dobbs is from Bellville and he should be hanging out at UM not on OSU campus. Jordan grew up a osu fan and there was no chance with him but if we do not get Dobbs and Rumler then I will concede that Michigan's staff flat out cant compete with osu's. Of course if we get them well then everything is good. Like I said, wait and see who wins for the big fish who we are currently favored for. This gant kid is not a major loss in any way. We are bringing in kids better than him in my opinion. Devin Bush is the best linebacker on either squad and should be here three more years hopefully. I realize if we won the game last year the frustration level would be just a little bit lower.
Yes, let's draw broad conclusions from one 17 year olds decision....
sudden?
It seems to me that Coach Harbaugh is getting whom he wishes, or someone that turns out to be a more than serviceable replacement, while focusing both upon recruiting his system and upon recruiting a certain type of athlete and certain type of young man.
It's not about competing hard for every single student that other schools also prioritize.
As long as our classes are turning out like the last couple, I see no reason to grab a couple lines from one high school kid's subjective opinion ("late" is not a precise quantity), and press it to fit a generalized critique of how we are recruiting.
Kid picked osu. There were probably a lot of reasons. Michigan recruited him later. If he loved Michigan he would have come to Michigan. Move on. No damage done.
GO BLUE!
He gave a decent nod to Michigan there, complimenting the staff, and clearly he seems to have reasoned this one out and made a decision which, in Gan't sview, is maximally beneficial. I guess where I am having trouble is that - and I could be wrong about this - on a per capita talent basis, Ohio isn't what it was back in the day, so I get the staff perhaps not making it a priority and instead trying to compete in more talent-dense places. That's what you should do anyway.
I don't know that the OP is upset, but I don't understand why Ohio necessarily has to be at the top of an effective recruiting strategy.
hilarious
Some recruit didn't pick Michigan? Well, he's probably just a moron thug.
So is it now pretty obivous that maizen is the worst poster on this site? asking for a friend.
Do you ever say anything positive? I'm sincerely curious, because all I've ever seen you do on here is bitch.
I'll answer for him as he just downvoted you instead of responding to you. Nope, he's the worst type of fan. I'm embarrassed to belong to the same fanbase as this loser.
Sometimes it's hard to tell... but I think I agree with you. No one could be a true fan of the team and never have anything positive to say about it.
You don't, you're a a North carolina shit heel, loser.
Hey Maizen - remember when you had well over 10,000 MGoPoints at the start of this thread?
lol
...someone we should flip.
Flip ya for real.