New Jersey DE Aeneas DiCosmo: Prospect we should all want at UM
I was just looking at the profiles of some of the football recruits we are most heavily in on in the '19 class. New Jersey 6-3 220lb DE Aeneas DiCosma (he's got a cool name too) is one that I came away very impressed by. His film looks great (much better than his mid-3 star ranking) and he's got an offer sheet that is extremely impressive from both an athletic and academic perspective. He has offers from prestigious institutions such as West Point, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Duke, Harvard, Northwestern, Princeton, Vanderbilt, Virginia, and Yale....Plus offers from academic/football powers Notre Dame, Stanford, and Wisconsin. He also sports offers from powers Clemson and Nebraska. In all, he's got 29 offers. DiCosmo seems like a prospect we should all really hope to get as he's an extremely impressive young man. The ratings be damned....this kid can flat out play and he's a scholar. Yes please. And the vast majority of ballz have him going to the good guys.
Here's his 247 profile: https://247sports.com/Player/Aeneas-DiCosmo-46040164
Cheers!
Harold Landry 2.0. Michigan, Notre Dame, Clemson, Wisconsin, Stanford offers as an edge rusher says it all.
high IQ guy
Not saying I agree or disagree in this particular instance, but UM fans think every 3 star is under ranked and has great film. That he plays at a heavily scouted high school in New Jersey means he's probably ranked appropriately. It's awesome that he values academics and is purportedly a good student, and I agree UM should be targeting those kids, but at some point you can't keep taking kids ranked in the 700's if you want to compete with the Alabama's and Ohio State's of the world.
He watchin stars.
I don't know that it is that simple for Maizen.
I think he understands stars, but demands absolute perfection in every single aspect from the coaches, players and even the administrative staff in the athletic department. Anything less is an inexcusable failure.
April 24th, 2018 at 11:53 AM ^
Excellence will be tolerated
So you're just going to post this stuff everytime a 3 star is mentioned then? Great.
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April 24th, 2018 at 12:27 AM ^
I will never pass by an opportunity to say osu '16 is NOT a L in my mind and never will be.
Whereas msu '15 we did everything but win the game due to punt-zaster, it was a self-inflicted wound.
osu '16 was an all-time, epic screw job by refs who'd been ruled inelgible to work osu games due to obvious bias - yet there they were! Not just talking about JT's spot, moreso the 2 penalties for 6 total yds in a 2 OT game called on osu. JH got three times as many yds for tossing a clipboard!
And of course I realize there was self-inflicted damage in that game as well.
Ohio State was a loss in 2016. We did not win. Sure the refs weren't too kind to us, but the offensive line got dominated all game. Michigan literally could not run the ball late in the 4th. Cool, the refs sucked. We lost. I'll never understand when fans claim we didn't actually lose a certain game. No we did, there are no moral victories.
Agreed, loss is a loss.
April 23rd, 2018 at 11:37 PM ^
April 24th, 2018 at 12:15 AM ^
Please for the love of God, stop fricking putting Ohio State in the same category as Alabama. They're not okay? Enough said. Shut your stupid face. Michigan just needs their key players to stop being candy asses in big games and quit fucking choking. Ohio State has 5 stars on their roster up the wazoo and who just about ran away with the game the last two years? Michigan did. Don't believe that? Then go punch yourself in the nuts cuz you're a fucking dipshit that don't know jack. Don't want to make excuses huh? I'm sick of you yellow belly candy cane nutjobs on here with Michigan degrees who think you know shit about anything. The refs let Ohio State back in the game the last two years and the Wolverines shot themselves in the foot. MICHIGAN HAD THE BETTER TEAM. They folded under the pressure and bullshit.
April 24th, 2018 at 12:16 AM ^
What 2 star slackers are you talking about? Mo Hurst was a 4 star recruit, as was Chase Winovich, Bryan Mone, Chris Wormley, and Taco Charlton. Rashan Gary and Aubrey Solomon were 5 stars. There's always going to be a guy like Willie Henry or Frank Clark who plays way above his recruiting ranking in every class, and Mike Dwumfour appears poised to be that guy from the 2016 class, but by and large the strength of UM's great DL's have been because they've landed 4 and 5 star recruits.
just for the name. He sounds like a Greek superhero. And imagine the possibilities with the broadcasters messing up his first name...
seems like a smashing young man
Name alone puts him on my take list.
Maybe we could get Dido to perform at halftime with the band.
Well the Boston College insider just crystal balled him to Michigan....
The execution of Big Pussy is a scene I will never forget. "Please, not in the face."
April 24th, 2018 at 12:24 PM ^
I'll never forget the look on the poor WASP-y kid's face--like what the fuck do you think you're doing dating Meadow Soprana, son????--when he realizes that Pussy knows he saw him getting a hummer from another guy at that construction site. Now there's nowhere to hide.
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April 23rd, 2018 at 10:59 PM ^
Maybe this guy is great. But it is time we start recruiting well again. This year is probably the most important since Brady Hoke's third season. Last time it didn't go so well. I think this wil be different.
with recruiting this year? Wasn't 2019 supposed to be a massive year for recruiting? Is a lot of this a windfall of the Drevno-Frey shitshow on the recruiting trail from last year? I feel like a bunch of the guys we were in it with committed to our rivals. Litchfield Ajavon is going to Notre Dame, Steele Chambers is going to Ohio State, Jacob Lacey is also going to Notre Dame, Harry Miller is probably going to Ohio State, Isaiah Williams committed to Illinois, Logan Brown is going to Wisconsin, Lewis Cine is trending away. Last year made sense. Smaller class, transition year, no immediate playing time to be had.
I'm not trying to make it seem like the sky is falling. Michigan has a very good class already, and will probably make a surprise move with a couple top guys if they perform well. But if Michigan wants to compete at the highest level, it has to recruit better.
We can't survive by constantly trying to turn lemons into lemonade, when 'Bama and OSU are drinking Cristal.
April 24th, 2018 at 12:29 PM ^
Holy shit calm down Michigan has a top-5 class thus far and are in on a bunch of quality players. You can't get 'em all. And don't forget Michigan is playing on an un-level playing field. Sure, Alabama and OSU and Clemson, etc. are putting better teams on the field I'll concede. But Michigan also has scruples, no bagmen, and is actually looking for STUDENT/athletes. Which will make it that much sweeter when we finally kick all their asses.
is fucking stupid. Who cares if we pay an 18 year old to play football? And Michigan's class is 8th and will probably finish around 10-12. Like I said, it's a fine class, but it's not elite. And your last comment about STUDENT/athletes would make a lot more sense if Michigan wasn't straight losing guys to Alabama and Ohio State. Weird that the dudes with offers from Michigan, Alabama, and Ohio State aren't STUDENT/athletes when they decide to go somewhere else, but the dudes that do decide to come here are.
did you say Powers and include Nebraska???? Not sure those two things go together.