OT? - Michigan has been using former OSU LB Ryan Shazier in recruiting ad

Submitted by BoFlex on

https://twitter.com/RyanShazier/status/766788363747602432

The re-tweet by the new Michigan Recruiting twitter account has since been deleted, but Shazier was referencing this ad that was tweeted out by Coach Partridge:

Everyone will have an opportunity to fulfill their dream! #CoachingMatters pic.twitter.com/VGALSAUY11

— Chris Partridge (@CoachCPartridge) November 6, 2015

Whoops...

My apologies @RyanShazier. I confused this photo with former Steelers S Devon Carrington. Will fix ASAP. #GoSteelers pic.twitter.com/DzvySTkhGf

— Aaron Bills (@AaronBDesigns) August 20, 2016

Edit: If you want to enter the cesspool: http://www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio-state-football/2016/08/73153/ryan-sh…

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ak47

August 20th, 2016 at 1:20 PM ^

The math doesn't make any sense.  He has been in college for 6 years? At an avg of 25 per year that would be 150 scholarships.  Plus he has guys in that graphic that were there when he got to the spots, not people he necessarily recruited which would increase the number as well.

Just seems like a bad graphic even if they weren't using the wrong picture of a former osu player.

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Heywood_Jablome

August 20th, 2016 at 2:06 PM ^

Exactly. Actually 8 years if you count San Diego.  It's a case of double counting what you want to (players he inherited that made it to the NFL) and discounting the number of scholarships offered.  Graphic is trying to make it sound like 57% of the kids he offered a scholarship to played in the NFL, which is laughable.

Whoever made this graphic may have a career ahead of him in sales...

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Pepto Bismol

August 20th, 2016 at 11:25 AM ^

But why is the first "t" lower case in his acronym for Michigan? "tTUN"? Just like "tOSU". Why is the first letter not capitalized? Is this like some AP Style Guide exception for simple Ohio people or something?

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DealerCamel

August 20th, 2016 at 11:34 AM ^

For those of you confused, Michigan's recruiting department tweeted out a picture of a bunch of players Harbaugh has coached who made it into the NFL.  Inspiring, right?  Unfortunately, Ryan Shazier, who played for Ohio State, was also accidentally included in the graphic. 

Rather amusing.

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A Fan In Fargo

August 20th, 2016 at 11:50 AM ^

I believe it. Shazier always reminded me of one of those guys you know growing up but is just a spoon no matter what happens with him. He's always the type of guy that'll be remembered by me as the one who would keep running around the kindergarten classroom in a circle as the teacher keeps saying to sit down. All the other kids are already sitting and wondering what is going on. When the teacher tells all the kids to color the beachballs, sailboats, etc and to not go outside of the lines but Shazier colors the whole paper in black and brown. LMFAO.

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beangoblue

August 20th, 2016 at 11:44 AM ^

I'm impressed he was able to even find himself in that pic. I had to look 3 times and that was knowing he was there and what his picture looked like. Anyway, honest mistake I'm sure. Bills is a great designer.

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Losher

August 20th, 2016 at 12:12 PM ^

If you do a google search for devon carrington  one of the suggested searches is "devon carrington is ryan shazier" and they do look very similar in just their head shots. plus just googling devon carrington pictures of ryan shazier come up in the image search so im sure it was just a simple yet funny mistake

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BoFlex

August 20th, 2016 at 10:24 PM ^

I'm thinking that whoever made the ad originally had to substitute an image of Carrington with Shazier because Carrington never actually photographed in a Steelers uniform. Unless I'm mistaken, it looks like Carrington was never actually signed to a contract and was cut a few days into a Rookie Mini-Camp Tryout for the Steelers as an undrafted free agent.

As you said, they are very similar in appearance especially when minimized and placed in the background. I just have a hard time seeing how someone can mistakenly use the originial source image since it clearly says #50 for Shazier.

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