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Dallas Crawford Goes Blue

As covered on Friday, FL CB Dallas Crawford is the newest member of the Michigan Class of 2011. Also when he's wearing a ridiculous hat, you can throw some 8-bit sunglasses on him and he looks like T-Pain (gif credit to chunkums). Local paper coverage of his commitment:

The 5-foot-10, 186-pound Crawford called Michigan coach Rich Rodriguez around 9:30 Friday morning to deliver the news. “He said he was happy, he was ecstatic,” Crawford said. “He said it made his day.”

You can see his full season stats in detail in yesterday's Friday Night Lights post.

MGoUser SWFlaBlue has a son at South Fort Myers, and gave a bit of info about Dallas:

This kid is a tremendous leader and high character student in addition to being a flat phenomenal athlete. He never takes plays off and rarely leaves the field. On defense, his burst and quickness to the ball is outstanding. He breaks on the ball really well and can absolutely bring the wood, too.

There's a bit more there, including an interesting comparison to his teammate Sammy Watkins.

Speaking of Watkins, might Crawford's commitment help convince Sammy to commit to the Wolverines? It certainly can't hurt, and he would be an enormous bonus to the commitment of a highly-rated (yet still underrated) defensive back. Watkins says academics will be the main factor, and considering Michigan is by far the best school in his top three (Clemson and MIami are the other two), coming to school with his teammate and friend could be what takes Rich Rodriguez and co. over the top.

Sammy plans to announce a commitment at the Army All-American Game in January.

Rankings redux

Rivals updated their rankings, and Michigan recruits were affected like so:

• Dee Hart remains a 6.0 4-star, but he is now the top 4-star on that site. Rivals ranking guru Barry Every says Hart is "the best running back I saw this year..." then proceeds to put four RBs ahead of Demetrius. The dude is breaking records against the best competition in the country, so I'd say he's earned that fifth star, but whatever.
• Chris Rock, Greg Brown, and Tony Posada are predictable fallers, all dropping from 5.7, with Rock going to 5.6 and the others to 5.5.
• Everyone else remains static, including Jack Miller, who is criminally underrated at 5.5. Questions about what position he'll be playing at the next level may limit his rankings, but there's no way dude is less than a 4-star, either as a defensive end or offensive lineman.

A few Michigan targets also saw their rankings change, but I'll leave the breakdown to those who are committed.

Upcoming Visits

With the last home game of the year comes the last in-season visit weekend (except for bowl(!) practices), and The Wolverines will yet again welcome just a few recruits to the Big House:

• NC TE Jack Tabb will take his official as long as it doesn't interfere with his high school playoff game. Since his high school season has ended, he'll be in town.
• Tom also says NC LB Kris Frost is likely to visit, but the remainder of visits will likely be unofficials.
• IL OL Chris Bryant and his junior teammate Jordan Diamond might be in the house.

For this week's full list, check out Tom's updated diary. After a week off for Thanksgiving and the game at Ohio State, Michigan's coaches will have two consecutive weekends with plenty of visitors. December 3:

• FL S Wayne Lyons announced his final three visits on Twitter, including to Michigan on 12/3.
• MD CB Blake Countess will be in Ann Arbor on the third.

Further into the future:

• CA WR Devin Lucien is talking with Michigan's coaches about a possible visit and offer ($, info in header).
• NJ Slot Miles Shuler's on-again/off-again relationship with Michigan appears to be on-again, as he's trying to set up a December visit to Ann Arbor:
  

  Shuler visited Northwestern in late October and is trying to schedule visits to Michigan and Rutgers sometime in December, [Long Branch HS Coach Dan] George said.

  He's visiting Stanford for the weekend of the 3rd, so maybe a Big Chill visit is in the works.
• The Dr. Philips contingent won't visit until after their season.

As always with visits, this information is liable to change at any time.

Etc.

Rivals' Mike Farrell answers a mailbag question about Michigan's defensive recruiting. He's high on most of the defensive class (except Chris Rock), and thinks Michigan can finish strong now that Rich Rodriguez's job is secure.

Different sources can't agree about whether NC QB Marquise Williams will consider decommitting from North Carolina. The latest says yes.

AZ OL Cyrus Hobbi has committed to play in the Under Armour All-American game.

IL DT Mason Fuller hopes his senior film will net an offer from Michigan.

Michigan may have slipped into fourth place for FL DT Timmy Jernigan, though he tells Edward Aschoff that his top four remains even.

NC S Mark Bridges is starting to hear from Michigan:

“Michigan is starting to be heavily interested. That’s a school I’m really waiting on as well. Michigan has talked a lot about coming up on a visit.”

It's likely the Wolverines' interest is due to Bridges's teammate, NC LB Kris Frost.

Though he visited Ann Arbor for the Illinois game, CA K Matt Goudis has no intention of decommitting from Boise State ($, info in header).

2012

KY QB Zeke Pike has mostly shown interest in SEC programs, but Michigan's coaches will visit him in December.

ESPN fluff on Cass Tech juniors LB Royce Jenkins-Stone and CB Terry Richardson. Both are hearing from Michigan, and Jenkins-Stone claims an offer from the Wolverines, who lead for his services.

IL DT Tommy Schutt has added a Notre Dame offer to his list that includes Michigan and several other schools.