Did Don Brown Poach Treshaun Howard?
Treshaun Howard, the transfer portal LB from Western Michigan, has a picture of him in an Arizona uniform, and "The University of Arizona" in his bio on twitter and instagram.
I'm surprised by the lack of information and discussion around this. It appears he's committed to Arizona.
https://twitter.com/_Tre_23/with_replies?lang=en
January 25th, 2021 at 1:16 PM ^
Howard?
January 25th, 2021 at 1:19 PM ^
Hayward***
January 25th, 2021 at 2:54 PM ^
Brown needs dudes. You can poach an egg on the sidewalk in AZ in the summer. So, maybe yes. And he should be commended?
January 25th, 2021 at 5:14 PM ^
poach an egg on the sidewalk? Where do you get the water?
January 25th, 2021 at 7:01 PM ^
D'oh!
January 25th, 2021 at 1:21 PM ^
Uhh... what?
January 25th, 2021 at 3:08 PM ^
I'll help clarify.... So?
January 25th, 2021 at 4:39 PM ^
Should he declare his undying loyalty to Michigan after getting fired, after having some of the best defenses we've seen here ever?
January 25th, 2021 at 11:57 PM ^
I don’t think any of his Defenses were better than the 2006 defense to be honest. He could still have a job here if he put in some zone concepts for crossing routes and recruited the correct players for his system.
January 26th, 2021 at 11:21 AM ^
Key words: "some of"
Also, the '06 defense had its issues with mobile quarterbacks.
January 25th, 2021 at 1:21 PM ^
Well that's disappointing. Really thought Michigan had him in the fold and was just waiting on the staff to finalize. Hopefully Michigan goes hard after Dixon (if he jumps to the portal), To'o To'o, and Crouch and lands one of them
January 25th, 2021 at 1:21 PM ^
Perhaps we already got the transfer LB we were looking for?
https://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/lance-dixon-potentially-transferring-penn-state-um
January 25th, 2021 at 4:29 PM ^
Perhaps: This is the linebacker we are looking for.
Instead of Howard being: This is not the linebacker we are looking for.
January 25th, 2021 at 4:49 PM ^
The only think I can say for sure is these aren’t the droids you’re looking for.
January 25th, 2021 at 5:42 PM ^
You know, it's funny, I really thought they were...but, no, guess not.
January 25th, 2021 at 1:22 PM ^
He is a LB? Maybe he wants to cover the inside receiver in a trips formation vertically. If so, then he chose the right DC to play for. He also won't have to observe gap integrity as he will blitz every play
January 25th, 2021 at 5:16 PM ^
So, he's a linebacker that doesn't want to play linebacker? Things are starting to make sense now
January 25th, 2021 at 1:22 PM ^
Don Brown is a poacher? I'm about to call PETA!
January 25th, 2021 at 1:26 PM ^
Maybe he just likes pelt?
Great now I feel the need to watch SLC Punk again...
January 25th, 2021 at 1:44 PM ^
People Eating Tasty Animals? Poached eggs are delicious!
Sorry, not sorry. I refuse to be vegan, although I'll still defend the right for someone else to be... Nonetheless, Brown didn't 'poach' anyone. The kid was in the portal and fair game to anyone taking a potshot. Can't blame Brown for hitting his target when Michigan misfires...
January 25th, 2021 at 1:23 PM ^
Maybe he wants to live where it's warm
January 25th, 2021 at 1:32 PM ^
Fair point. But warm doesn't begin to describe Tempe, which is an infernal hell most of the year.
January 25th, 2021 at 1:34 PM ^
Arizona is in Tucson. My brother lives there and he thinks it's a paradise and he'll never move back to the Midwest.
January 25th, 2021 at 1:43 PM ^
I lived in some similar climates in SW Texas and my wife is from NV. I like the winters and the summer nights are beautiful. It's great to be able to be outside in the evenings in the summer with low humidity and no bugs. But, the summer days are scorching and uncomfortable to do anything outside. The one nice thing about those climates that is different from where I live in the NE is everyone has central air. Unless you've got a new home, houses in the NE don't have central air. The 6 weeks from mid June to mid August where it is hot and humid without central air is miserable...especially sleeping at night. Window AC units are better than nothing, but not the same. I do miss sitting out the patio at night in the desert with the clear sky. I found that very calming.
January 25th, 2021 at 1:50 PM ^
I lived there for five years. This time of year is great, of course. But after a while, you start to miss simple things like trees, grass, and rivers that actually contain water for more than 4 weeks a year.
January 25th, 2021 at 2:29 PM ^
Arizona in the dead of summer: bearable
Florida in the dead of summer: absolutely unbearable
January 25th, 2021 at 11:59 PM ^
It really is I lived in Tucson for 5 years very peaceful place with nice weather and nice women.
January 25th, 2021 at 3:54 PM ^
I used to have to travel to Phoenix on occasion. All I ever heard was - even though its 110 - its a dry heat - LOL.
Had the back window in my rental car explode from heart, would get up in the morning and run out to the car and start it and turn the air on and then go back into the room and wait 15 minutes until the car cooled down. Had the imprint from the key area on the steering column burned into my hand. My sister lived in southern Arizona for a couple of years and in July they would come and dump ice in the pool so the residents could swim.
Don't care if I ever go back again.
January 25th, 2021 at 4:29 PM ^
How much ice is needed to cool down a pool in AZ? Legit serious question.
January 25th, 2021 at 9:48 PM ^
My sister told me that a couple of times a week, they would back up a dump truck with one of those cement truck like carriers, only wider, that would get the ice the 15 feet or so feet into the pool from the parking lot. I don't know how big the pool was, but it was for an apartment complex. She said you could swim right away for 3-4 hours then it just got to warm. She lived just south of Yuma right on the border. This was about 40 years ago.
January 25th, 2021 at 8:39 PM ^
I went to Vegas in the summer. Going outside felt exactly like when you open your car door on a hot day after it's been sitting in the sun. Just blasted with super hot, dry air. It was not enjoyable, and it did not cool off at night. If you're outside of the city it's probably different, but when you're walking around at night in Vegas all that concrete and blacktop is letting off a lot of heat still.
Other random notes that were interesting since it was my first extended time in a desert. Elevation makes such a difference, even small changes. Vegas is a barren wasteland. There's not even scrub brush. It should not be a city. You can see how it started as an outlaw outpost where no one would actually want to live. But then you drive away and just noticing you're climbing a bit and some scrub appears. You actually drive through a forest with deer to get to the Grand Canyon. I also thought I saw tornadoes in the distance but it turns out it was rain. Summer is the "rainy" season there, but where it was raining was so confined there was just a thin darkened column. I really wish we had more of a plan and could have seen more of the Grand Canyon.
January 25th, 2021 at 1:25 PM ^
Brown was the only coach who was willing to let Hayward play DT
January 25th, 2021 at 1:57 PM ^
Rats. I wanted him. But if we get Dixon we are better off.
January 25th, 2021 at 2:26 PM ^
Oh so NOW Don Brown gets serious about recruiting lmao
January 25th, 2021 at 3:17 PM ^
No. Mr. Hayward is not from Connecticut.
January 25th, 2021 at 3:24 PM ^
Was he supposed to be coming to Michigan?
January 25th, 2021 at 3:46 PM ^
Ghost of Jermaine Gonzalez had said yes, pending admissions.
January 25th, 2021 at 3:47 PM ^
He has now posted a commitment to Arizona. Onto the next one
January 25th, 2021 at 3:59 PM ^
No, he didn't "poach" him. The player wanted to leave WMU, entered the transfer portal, and chose Arizona.
Hell, we don't even know if Michigan was pursuing him nor do we know if he had any interest in Michigan. Even if Michigan was in the running, it's insulting to Mr. Hayward to insinuate that Michigan owned the rights to him should they so choose and big bad Don Brown came by and stole him from us because Hayward doesn't have free will.
January 25th, 2021 at 9:05 PM ^
“Insulting to Mr. Hayward”? ????
January 25th, 2021 at 6:05 PM ^
How does Don Brown poach something we didn't have to begin with?
January 25th, 2021 at 8:34 PM ^
And in not so surprising news, Don Brown continues to kill it on the recruiting trail in the “low 3-star, under the radar” demographic.