Excellent long-form article on '24 WR target Gatlin Bair
Phenomenal athlete from a family of great athletes. And he sounds like a mature and thoughtful young man. I hope we can land him. He is expected to OV to Michigan in late June.
Go Blue!!
Wow, this is an excellent long-form article!
TWO excellent long-form articles regarding Michigan football in one day? Is this Christmas?
Who are the judges here and what are the qualifications for being excellent? I mean I read both articles and while they were both long (that was true) I found the long form article on McCarthy to be very, very good and the long form article on Bair to be awesome, not excellent.
There needs to be some sort of official criteria posted to keep this type of blatant misrepresentation of long form articles from repeating itself.
Kudos to you sir.
I’m more of a short form guy. Anything on that front?
Paging EC ...
Really fast kid from a really fast family.
It's a long article that finishes really fast. I sacrificed the time and gained a chill.
Keep that Idaho pipeline flowing.
I had a baked potato for dinner last night.
From the article:
His parents were star track athletes at Utah State — his mom an All-American pole vaulter, his father a conference decathlon champion.
Hot take I can't support with data at the moment: This (recruits with parents who played sports at a high level) is happening more than it did 20+ years ago. I think women's sports were ramped up by the early '80s. If the couples had kids around thirty, you'd start to see their kids on recruit lists by the 2010s.
To the question of why athletes get together, they're somewhat likely to meet because they live in the same area of town, have similar lifestyles, and see each other at places like "study table."
Every four years during the Olympics, I hear some story about the "abundant" condom distribution plan they have each time in the Olympic Village. Because these elite athletes are so full of hormones and such due to their incredible training, they are also really "frisky" and have lots of sex. I've always assumed that, even with all those condoms, there must be some "oopsies" during the Olympics resulting in super-human babies afterwards!
You might say the Olympic route is short-form, compared to the long-form route at universities. :)
I always thought the birth control measures were counterintuitive. Don't we want more athletic prodigies?
For those of you who don't know what long-form articles are, here is an excellent long-form article on long-form articles:
https://www.wordstream.com/blog/ws/2014/05/05/longform-content
Yea but what about those of us who prefer terrible long-form articles? I've had enough excellence!
Reminds me of that line from Frasier "a lecture on the history of the modern lecture series"
Between Colston Loveland and Andrew Gentry, Michigan has the mormon-mission and Idaho connections covered.
As good of a shot as you'll get outside of a religiously affiliated school (which are not in his top 5) or local school (Boise State is in his top 5 as is Oregon which isn't across the country).
Also for anyone wondering: Gatlin apparently has no desire to run track in college and is all in on football
And he just beat Nyck Harbor in a track meet.
I don't follow track all that closely, but that's a little surprising. His 100m time is faster than Harbor's who everyone is projecting as a potential Olympian.
Harbor is huge and maybe has a higher ceiling or something. Maybe Bair is just closer to reaching his absolute peak.
I just don't think he's interested in pursuing it further. This was all discussed on the Michigan Recruiting Insider podcast a few weeks back
Ah, fair enough. Plenty of top tier athletes don't find certain sports to be their best/most exciting.
People who know track are not projecting Harbor as an Olympian. 240 lb high school kids don't make the Olympic track and field teams. Bair would have a much better chance if he wanted to go that route.
Davis/Underwood to Gatlin has a nice ring to it.
Also, why the sudden emphasis on "long-form" articles. Is this backlash against the stream of Brett MGoMcMurphy?
I'd be happy to take ownership of the trend, but in doing so I'd be delusional about my own importance. :)
I'll say that I get mildly annoyed when someone posts a Tweet referencing an article. Just post the ****ing article. I'm not interesting in pumping up someone's Twitter numbers.
EC's posts are another category. At least his chosen topics tend to be interesting.
Probably more of Underwood to Gatlin. I believe he plans to serve a 2 year mission following high school, so first year wouldn't be until 2026? Give him a year to move up the depth chart and we get to 2027. To be honest, I hope it is Underwood in 27. Would hopefully mean Davis goes to the NFL after 3 years.
Why are there so few medium-form articles? FIRE SULZBERGER!
I go to Gatlinburg every year and I've seen many Bairs. Its awesome every time. I hope to see one in A2 in a few years.
It's become one of the Necessities of Life to land Bair.
It will allow me to forget about my worries and strife.
Didn't know that he is an elite sprinter.
This is the type of long form recruiting that I approve of.
Sam’s episode a few weeks back went into more detail about this kid. Seemed like a good chance he ends up a 5* on 247 and he’ll end up on campus as an early enrollee for the 26 class. As a result they think that this along with his natural athleticism will give him a much bette chance at seeing the field immediately compared to a OL like Gentry.
Got my michigan flag up in Idaho every day. My doctors office secretary is friends with Colston Lovelands family. Winters are long and below freezing for 3-4 months every single stinking day so a winter in Ann Arbor is cake to Idaho kids and a step up.
It says he ran the 100m in 10.25. To put that in perspective, Denards personal best was 10.44.