Jabri Abdur-Rahim Decision Tomorrow
Jabri Abdur-Rahim just announced he'll be committing tomorrow (no time according to his tweet). Seems like a two horse race with us and UVA but most of the ballz are in for UVA as of today. Here's hoping that Juwan can run with the recruiting momentum from Franz!
Any intel from Sam Webb's gut?
Perhaps one of the few guts I am willing to listen to in the MGoWorld.
Anyone else, and the typical prediction from their gut is "a horrific wind is brewing, possibly due to Chipotle".
He just came off a weekend visit of Virginia. Seems pretty easy which one he is gonna pick.
Common Sense will answer this one. Surprise or Unexpected commitment, coming off a weekend visit and has never been to Michigan. Virginia it is for the lamen person.
But Yoder thinks Sam is a fraud :O
Edit: /s just in case
Why does everybody hate Yoder so much? In all seriousness..
In all seriousness, how many burner accounts does Yoder have? Yoder, you still owe Grant Newsome an apology, you hack. That and people have a general dislike for what my daughter refers to as “bitch assness”.
He has absolutely zero inside sources. He just steals from other reporters and claims the scoop as his own. OR he makes up really shitty unfounded rumors and guesses at things, then deletes the tweets when he gets it wrong.
He's a troll who says shitty things to get the fan base riled up. He attacks other reporters and hurls childish insults at them all the time.
He's also pretty much been banned from Michigan's campus and outed as a fraud by the AD.
He's a tool. He's the biggest tool.
When yahoo finance has an article about someone titled “A Cautionary Tale About Fraud in Sports Media,” that’s probably an indicator that they are a con artist. That doesn’t even include all the Michigan-related scams. The guy has zero integrity and zero inside information.
Yoder = Fraud
Basically, his influence is click-bait negative full of made-up bullshit. Why YouTube gives that fraud a medium to spout his shit is yet another reason to unplug yourself from social media.
Free yourself - kill your Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Instagram accounts !
As someone mentioned below, the guy has a casual relationship with the truth. Here's the article on it: Exclusive: Inside the ugly breakup of Sports Illustrated, The Cauldron, and Chat Sports
As the other comments have mentioned, he routinely takes what is a rumor (which, by the way others - including Brian and some of the paywalled sites also usually get) and publishes them as fact. People don't got to publication with it because it's not verified, it's a fluid situation, etc. He doesn't care. He writes it up so that way if right he can say he's first. If wrong he deletes or said something changed, and because of social media and the way this works people give him passes for the latter while claiming he "got" the stories right even when others had it as well, but was not credible to publish.
Just take the most recent example of the "Shea tweet" - which he (and his followers) gleefully retweeted until realizing they were conned by someone with a fake account. Then he deleted it.
https://twitter.com/ItsAntWright/status/1147992622495125509
https://twitter.com/jamesyoder/status/1147990553063243778
Sam Webb, and everyone else put in CBs for Virginia tonight.
Who is the Wiltfong of b-ball recruiting and where are his balls? And no we don’t do phrasing in Canada.
but when you cross the border into northern michigan there is an exception.
missed out on that beer.
I snuck some 2 hearted and KBS back across. Did Seth send you my cell #?
Hmmm, a smuggling operation. Daddy like...
goblue, got nothing or else i'd have called. hope you had a great time. did you have to pay the duty on those smuggled beers?
24 limit per person, so between me and the missus we had 24 2hearted, 6 KBS, 6 oberon and a couple ruinations.
All signs pointing to UVA... sad. This kid is definitely gonna be a 5 star when all is said and done. He’s a dynamic scorer
Sad? That wouldn't be my first choice of adjective. Unless I missed something, Michigan just had a coaching change. UVa just won a championship. Their coach seems like a good guy.
How 'bout "too bad?"
Ummmmm because Matt d said he would’ve committed to Michigan if Beilein was still the head coach. That’s why it’s sad
Eh. I saw Matt's post earlier.
Splitting hairs a bit here, but I'd reserve sad for something tragic. Tomorrow's decision isn't going to sink Juwan, though we can expect some idiotic "Howard loses key recruit" tweets.
He hasn't visited Michigan, yet, has he? I don't think so... And suspecting no visit, congrats to UVA and good luck for an excellent career to the kid.
Kinda weak he hasn't visited. Go to UVA. We need players that get into the details and can make an informed decision ... and stick by a commit.
You sure didn’t seem to mind that Franz only truly considered Michigan as an alternative to Euro ball.
Stanford offered him so I imagine he considered them for a split second or so.
Jabri never committed to Michigan. Yes, Matt D said that he was going to before Beilein left but obviously that changed things for him. You trashing him is just lame. Get over it.
I posted this in the Franz thread:
"I tried to drop hints a few weeks back in my 'Notes from St. Louis' post.......buried in the middle of a few NBA tidbits to be subtle. JAR has wanted to be done with the process for a while, hence him likely sitting out July. Unfortunately, we're going to fall victim to Coach Beilein's untimely departure. Barring that, JAR would be at Michigan right now and he would've made that public during his originally planned OV from 6/26-6/28"
Well that’s depressing
Is that better than sad?
I dont want to start a whole thread on this unless I need to but I have some questions on hoops recruiting. Football seems to recruit by committee and has a whole network set up. The class always seem to follow each other on social media and have class nicknames. They help recruit others in their class and other classes. Dudek is big into coordinating and is huge on social media. When the Fab 5 was recruited, one or two committed and then recruited the others to come. Why doesnt basketball have this type of flow to it like football does? Seems like if a big time prospect would sign and then recruit others like that, it might have a domino effect. Thoughts?
Smaller classes, smaller amounts of time on campus, less downtime. Basketball world is much more regional imo than football. I'm more in tune with the football side of things than basketball, but I know dudes in basketball will hoop in open gyms with the other dudes from their city/section of the state. You'll know your friends from AAU and all that, whereas football it's HS ball focused and then heavy camp circuits.
And also, if you're an elite prospect considering 1 and done, you don't really care about who else is there. Your goal is to be there for 6 months, and get the bag. It's not really as big of a deal, where if things go well in football, you'll be there a minimum of 3 years.
Let's take Zeb Jackson for example, are there not kids he has played with and against that he could recruit to come in the 2020 class? This class may be 5 or 6 deep, seems like you would want him networking and recruiting for you some. Does bball not have a recruiting coordinator like Dudek? I can see where your 1 and dones may not care but the others will. Who wouldn't want to win a title before going to the NBA after 2 one years? I keep hearing about Howard's recruiting chops but what about the other assistants besides Saddi?
Well heck. I suppose there are always recruiting losses with coaching changes, though.
I mean whatever, it was clearly beilein not Michigan he was interested in and that’s fine. Easy to move on from this one
Hey guys sorry to thread jack but I can't create a post. I'm a former football student manager who recently graduated so I no longer work for the team. I could use some extra cash so I'm looking to sell some of my team-issued Jordan shoes which include a couple models that were not released to the public as well as a pair of cleats. Do any of you have any advice on where the best place for me to sell these shoes would be?
Edit: Email [email protected] if you are interested
Stock X.
Yeah I looked there and they don't have most of the player exclusive models on their site so it won't let me post them
What size?
Most of them are size 12. I think one pair is 11.5 and one pair is 12.5.
I have a friend in Toledo that's really into the shoe market. I already sent him a screenshot of this.
Thanks!
Any size 12s? Time to create an mgomarketplace
Most of them are size 12. I think one pair is 11.5 and one pair is 12.5.
*was going to ask for an e-mail, but the significant other would kill me if I got another pair of shoes*
Yes let me make a scrap gmail quick and i'll post it. I'd rather not give out my umich.edu or work addresses.
Sent that email to my buddy. Says he will reach out.
Is this WD? Are you trying to set up a recruiting violation to take down the program?