Losing an instate guard to UK is mind blowing. Last year McCall and now this. Big props to Stoops and Marrow.
Better Kentucky than Columbus....if he ends up at Kentucky.
I don’t know it’s a much that he was lost to KY as it is that he wasn’t being recruited as hard as some others. UM, OSU and others seemed to cool on him throughout his recruitment. If UM wants him they should be able to flip him, I just don’t know if they want him that bad at this time. This is actually a pretty good article about the family’s perspective and reads like their feelings were hurt about Justin not being a higher priority to UM
SEC schools sure seem to love throwing hookers at underage boys
Just wait until one of these times a dirty callgirl gives a recruit HIV and it becomes a scandal
Those girls don't look like disease-ridden hookers. They look like hot ass sorority chicks. They would be all over a 5* recruit just like hookers anyway
Just Google Kendra Shaw (who future husband Julius Randle said he first met on his recruiting trip to UK)...there is some serious talent they roll out for basketball and football recruits, and even some they marry apparently .
I'm sure it goes great on their resume for when they graduate.
Experience in sales, customer service, talent acquisition, and asset procurement.
Probably based his decision on playing time. Oak Park football where he plays is about middle school level in Georgia and Louisiana so he would probably be sitting for a while. Michigan recruits well so he would have been competing against players from states where high school ball is good. The level of competition a kid plays against really matters when they go to D1 to play and quite frankly, high school football in Michigan is not very good. Brandon Peters is a great example having played in Indiana which is horrible
wtf did I just read.
Haha... Lol. Yeah, what he said, except it's a bunch of jibberish.
He said that 12th grade kids in Oak Park play at a level of 8th graders in Georgia & Louisiana. He also said that Indiana sucks.
I’ve been to Indiana, can confirm
Huh?
Pretty sure playing time isn't a consideration for the #1 player in the country at his particular position.
Except his position is OG and he wants to start at OT. He isn't the #1 OT in the country.
Went over to get the reaction from one of the Buckeye boards and they seem to think that one of the reasons for his commitment to UK is that he wants to play DT and most of the big boys that were recruiting him wanted him as an OL. Maybe we were taking the same stance ?
He seems to have so much potential that almost everyone would take him and hope he gets his head screwed on straight. MLive has an article about him that mentions his interest in playing DL. It also says that's where Marquan McCall played for Kentucky last year.
I think that's selection bias and you're not doing statistics right.
Look at Dylan McCaffrey. Colorado is absolutely NOT a high school football hotbed. In terms of blue chip talent, Michigan, Indiana, Minnesota, Iowa, and Illinois are all well ahead of CO. If they're so bad at football, why is Dylan McCaffrey expected to be so good? Why did we have so many players from Florida and Georgia not pan out? What about all these star players from Michigan who DID pan out?
In another set of rankings, Colorado ranks 26 out of 38 states which produced 5 star talent from 2010 to 2016. Behind #20 Michigan and #17 Indiana.
Finally, some dude on reddit did a ranking of states by talent per capita.
#13 Michigan
#16 Iowa
#26 Indiana
#28 Illinois
#32 Colorado
https://www.reddit.com/r/CFB/comments/8iqbk1/oc_which_states_have_the_top_high_school_football/
Rogers is the #1 guard in the country right now.
You know these elite recruits compete in camps against other elite recruits around the country. Scouts get to watch and then rank them
Shocking no one.
Looks like Kentucky opened up the bag program to the football team
Weak take. Vince Marrow is one of the best recruiters in CFB. Fucking hate it when people accuse others of cheating just because they’re having success
Come on man. Are you speaking relative to how they used to recruit, or what? In the past 5 years they haven't had a class ranked higher than 30 in the country. If he is one of the best, they definitely paid a little something to get Rogers. After everything that has gone on in college sports lately, you think that's a weak take?
Did you see UK de-pants Penn State in the bowl game? They’re much improved and well coached
De-pants? They won by 3 pts. Yes they got up big in the 3rd quarter, but PSU came back quickly in the 4th. It was a 6 pt game with 9 minutes left, and a 3 pt game with 4 minutes left. PSU outgained UK 407 to 297, but had 2 turnovers. They also had a FG blocked. And UK had a 58 yard punt return TD.
They also had a massive, massive edge in motivation - that was UK's best season in 40 years. 10 wins and a New Year's Day win against Penn State was the uber Super Bowl for them. PSU not so much. I've come to believe motivation for bowl games does play a large role.
A lot of the people at Bama, OSU, Clemson, or Oklahoma I'm sure are receiving extra benefits.
But if a kid chooses them over Michigan, it's not shocking based on a success level. All those schools could offer no money to the kid and you could easily argue how it is a better option than Michigan.
But Kentucky? Most schools in the SEC are running wild with bags. It's really not a ridiculous assumption
Do you think he's good at recruiting because Mom's like his smile? He has a firm handshake?
Wait I thought Saban called him and he was gonna have them in his final six. Alabama bag can’t compete with Kentucky now?
He can sense that Harbaugh is overrated.
No championships. Owned by Meyer. He got lucky twice against Dantonio. His success at Stanford and SF was extremely flukish.
And I'm sure he doesn't want to be committed to a team that will be lucky if they make a bowl this year.
knowing that negging brings on an actual neg makes this neg feel wonderful.
U just hatin' cuz I speak da truth
No championships - True
Owned by Meyer - True
Lucky twice against Dantonio - You got that backwards. Dantonio got lucky twice.
Fluke at Stanford and SF - Not true, can’t be a fluke at multiple stops.
Lmao lucky to make a bowl. He isn’t RichRod.
You're right. He isn't Rodriguez. He's Brady Hoke 2.0. Can't develop a QB, no offensive creativity. He only won at Stanford because of David Shaw and he only won at SF because of Kaepernick.
He's probably a round earther too.
Is this a Maizen impersonation?
He's going all in on BPONE so that if Michigan wins it's a pleasant surprise.
Those round earthers... There seems to be a crazy amount of 'em.
You guys can't sense the sarcasm here? I mean he even called Harbs a "round earther". lol
He's not being serious.
He's been doing this for a while now, either since the OSU game or the Peach Bowl. I think he's being serious, at least to some degree, but regardless it's a tired routine.
Your mom is a tired routine
Hmmm.... is she round or flat chested?
Can’t develop a QB?
Well he did take IA’s back up QB and put him in the NFL...so there’s that.
I'm not really sure how he got "lucky twice against Dantonio." Michigan was in pretty good control of both of its wins in each 2016 and 2018. Probably should've won by more, especially in 2016.
I think the bit is is that he is pretending to be an SEC fan, likely a UK supporter? He is using their tone, voice and likely go-to Harbaugh hatred.
Will this work?
This is sarcasm, right?
Brutus has lowered his expectations this year so the season results can’t possibly hurt him.
Put down the pipe, brutus!
Summers Eve......
Not surprising. It does feel a bit random; he didn't just shun UM but also MSU and OSU, who apparently made strong plays for him. Weird recruitment.