The Opening begins today

Submitted by jethro34 on

So the Opening, which recruits busted their butt to get invitations to, begins today and runs through Sunday.

We have 7 commits on the roster (Morris, Dawson, Lewis, McCray, Charlton, Bosch, and Butt) and several other targets there as well (Treadwell, Green, McQuay, Bailey, Fuller, Mathis).

I remember stories from last year's event about people not only getting the great work at the event and exposure to Hall of Fame players as coaches and mentors, but there was a lot of recruiting going on among the players as well.

I figured since I didn't see a thread for it, this would be good to keep all of the material related to The Opening in one place.

EDIT: While a search reveals multiple threads related to each participant getting their invitations, I did not see anything for the event itself.

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July 5th, 2012 at 9:51 AM ^

Laquon just tweeted earlier this morning that his decision was coming soon. Albeit that was after he said this was the worst morning of his life.

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ken725

July 5th, 2012 at 5:10 PM ^

I remember last year the Michigan players were not allowed to participate in the padded drills because of some dumb MHSSA rule. 

Will the players run into this same situation this year?

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Smitdog6767

July 5th, 2012 at 9:27 PM ^

Dawson doesn't sound very happy right now, the coaches and his fellow recruits really need to sit him down and work this out because if things keep trending the way they are, I'm not so sure he's going to be wearing the greatest uniform in the history of sports and that will be a damn shame because he is going to be a special player.

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Smitdog6767

July 5th, 2012 at 11:34 PM ^

How exactly is it just "some twitter bullshit"? If he declared he was decomitting over twitter would you still write it off? He is saying that his teamates ditched him and he's hanging out with Brantley and the rest of the UF group, just because it's on twitter it doesn't worry you? If it was on Facebook would it be different? Myspace? Google+? Where is the line?

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Woodson2daHouse

July 5th, 2012 at 11:50 PM ^

I think he's just trying to say that nothing usually comes from subtle tweets like this.  He is still committed to us and I doubt a couple days will change that fact.  He is getting to know other football players in the state, is there anything wrong with that?  You don't have to have just one set of friends you know.

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RakeFight

July 6th, 2012 at 12:08 PM ^

Don't be silly.  If he said that he was decommiting in any forum, I would take it seriously, although less seriously in any social media forum than if it were an interview with him or an article on an actual website.  But my point is that he didn't say anything anywhere near decommiting, yet you continue to push your inference that if you read between the lines of some random tweet, that's where this is headed.  I would be really disappointed if he decommited... maybe even upset.  Yet, I refuse to play this popular game of letting my emotions live or die by obsessively interpreting some random tweet from a teenager.

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