Josh Conerly Announcement April 8
Josh Conerly will finally announce Friday April 8th at 9PM ET ON CBS Sports HQ. He's been spending the winter using his official visits elsewhere with the last one this weekend at USC.
The Crystal Balls of Sam Webb and Steve Lorenz are telling them UM. It won't be until after the Spring game, but we'll know soon.
I think it's been trending towards USC for some time now.
Sam Webb said this morning that we are still very much in the race for him and that if Joshua was not to pick Michigan, it would be USC.
"Sam Webb said this morning that we are still very much in the race for him ..."
Seems that I've heard this before. Can't remember where, exactly.
Translation of the quote: He's going to USC. (Also, Sam needs more clicks.)
This is such a lazy take.
Lazy take does not always equal wrong take
Da'Shawn Hand says "Hi"
Or here me out: We ARE still in the race for him and just because a player commits elsewhere doesn't mean Sam is/was wrong. People really need to work on their listening comprehension
March 23rd, 2022 at 10:47 AM ^
He's NOT committing to Michigan.
Sam Webb is the epitome of the proverbial Snake Oil Salesman, EVERYTHING that comes from him is contrived and premeditated to drive traffic to his site. He's rarely accurate and in this case he's consistent in that. By promoting this particular "con" he keeps readers believing there is chance so they continue going to his sites, clicking on his social media, lining his pockets. Its they way of the world today, and he's far from the worst, I'm still trying to find a single time Bruce Feldman has been accurate in one of his many prognostications, can't find a one.
Being in the race for someone doesn’t mean you’re leading or will end up getting him. You realize this right?
Sam says we’re still in it and have a punchers chance, it’s not his fault you want it misinterpret what he’s saying.
I always thought the term was "punters chance". Someone let me know please.
Nothing to know. You uh, thought wrong.
Tune in to watch him reach for the Michigan hat only to switch to USC at the last moment as his family rejoices in the background.
Maybe a kid has done this already but if it were me I'd get a whole bunch of hats made, each one smaller than the rest and would slowly take them off one at a time.
"It's Michigan!"
"No wait, Oklahoma"
"Guess not, looks like it's USC!"
"Michigan again."
"Spoke to soon - looks to be Oregon"
"Wait is that another Oregon hat?"
"And Miichigan again for 3rd time."
Maybe put some on backwards, some with a random school logo that wasnt in his "Top 10" maybe even some of a school that didnt actually exist.
Tthat would be fun.
Throw in a few NFL teams. Maybe a couple of NBA teams. A NASCAR sponsor hat.
And at the end, it's a tiny little hat on a ring, and the camera zooms in as he puts it on his finger?
And one that says "WHO FARTED?"
There should be an NIL opportunity in there somewhere.
The Russian Nesting Doll Announcement
....you mean Ukrainian.
"The largest set of matryoshka dolls in the world is a 51-piece set hand-painted by Youlia Bereznitskaia of Russia, completed in 2003. The tallest doll in the set measures 53.97 centimetres (21.25 in); the smallest, 0.31 centimetres (0.12 in). Arranged side-by-side, the dolls span 3.41 metres (11 ft 2.25 in).[13]"
His last visit is USC? Okay.
Those crystal balls will be flipping next week to somewhere else. I think UM has done everything they can and stayed in it but this has been trending elsewhere for a while. It’s be a huge surprise if he picks Michigan.
It would be one heckuva surprise if it's M. Dunno who, if anyone, is feeding Sam info, but when was the last positive development we know about? When he visited way back when? Everything since then has made it seem like he's going to stay out west.
Not opposed to surprises, just not worth getting hopes up.
Would love to be pleasantly surprised, but it seems like this has been trending away from Michigan for a while. USC just seems like the sexy pick now with all the Lincoln Riley hysteria going on.
In any case, its his choice and his life. Hope he comes here, but if he doesn't, I'll wish him luck in any game that does not involve him lining up opposite a Michigan defense.
Man I hope Riley falls on his face the next couple of years so this hope of a shiny new thing in Pasadena can be less of a lure with these West coast kids.
I know M has occasionally lost a kid to USC but I still feel that a good USC hurts the SEC powers and OSU (and ND) much more in the big picture than Michigan.
March 23rd, 2022 at 11:08 AM ^
USC can be good, just not right away. I'd prefer Riley build buzz gradually.
I either want him top pick Michigan, or go full "Scanners" during the ceremony...
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Would suck to miss out on him. His tape is amazing
Must have ran out of official visits
Yaaawwwwwnnnnn
if he DOESN'T pick USC I'd be surprised, and I don't even follow recruiting that closely.
I’m hearing Oregon might be a sleeper
Congratulations USC!!
He's USC bound. Even with the drought, the never ending wildfire season and oppressive Covid restrictions, SoCal is still SoCal
If he picks USC, I can't be mad. West coast kid picking a program that's probably going to get good in a hurry makes sense. He shouldn't pick them, but I get it
Webb spoke about Conerly again this morning and said a west coast dark horse rising to compete with USC is Oregon, who has a new OL coach who is supposed to be a dynamic recruiter.
As he's said many times before, Sam said the question of how important proximity is to his home region will be a major influence on where he goes.
Courtney Morgan moving to Washington's staff doesn't seem to have tilted the field toward Seattle.
Webb reiterated that Michigan is definitely in play, but listening between the lines, I don't get the sense that he feels Michigan is leading. That's my interpretation, not his statement.
It's interesting that OK, USC, OR, and Miami are among his choices. Riley used to be at OK and is now at USC. Cristobal used to be at OR, now he's at Miami. I suspect that if Riley was still at OK and Cristobal was still at OR that USC and Miami wouldn't be in the mix.
I think he stays on the west coast.
March 23rd, 2022 at 12:09 PM ^
Hes going to USC. Bummer, cause I hate when smaller state 5 stars just go to the hottest name school. I'd rather lose out on him to UW.