Gatlin Bair Commitment Date
August 5th at 7pm EDT. No Crystal Balls but M had his last visit and reportedly glowing reviews. Outrageous sprinter speed (laser 4.2x!!!). Essentially class of '26 with mission upcoming.
I just read Gatlin Bair commitment and my heart started beating really fast. Dang.
Sorry about that!
Meh. Potato, Pahtahto...
Well, it was Gatlin Bair in mid-July
And I just hit town and my throat was dry
Thought I'd stop and have myself a brew
At an old saloon on a street of mud
There at a table, dealing stud
Sat the dirty, mangy dog that named me Sue
Does Gatlin have any brothers?
You be like dang? I be like dang too!
With that kind of speed I foresee a formation with him taking a direct snap and breaking right or left behind an army of blockers. I call it the Gatlin Gun.
Idaho all your commitments are belong to us!
We need a Gatlin to mow down our despised rivals....
While getting a commitment would be great, it's still a long way from when he would be on campus and we'll have to continue to recruit him. The chances our staff is remotely the same by the time he steps on campus are slim. We were able to grab Andrew Gentry while he was on his mission and other teams will be able to do the same
Famously, Harbaugh had Taysom Hill committed at Stanford pre-mission, but he switched to BYU afterwards.
BYU was tampering
It would seem the Cougars and their faithful have been practicing conversion for a very long time.
That's not really how their missions work. They're really hard to get ahold of during missions as they only really get to communicate with family infrequently. If I remember correctly it took Michigan some effort to get in touch with Gentry and they were lucky because his mission was stateside due to Covid.
BYU is a different deal but I don't think one needs to worry much about him taking many recruiting pitches while he's on his mission.
This. They have access to email once a week. Anything urgent has to go through their leaders. If they've got phones then they're church-issued and essentially only for church use.
I remember correctly it took Michigan some effort to get in touch with Gentry
Yep, not like any teams will put in effort to flip a borderline 5* WR and probably the fastest player in the class /s
It's ok that you don't understand how difficult it would actually be for this to happen. BYU has easier access as it's basically an arm of the church but everyone else is going to have roughly 0 access to him. Gentry was a once in a lifetime thing that only happened because the family helped and there was a global pandemic happening.
I only barely understand it because I lived in SLC and asked former/current members of the church what it was like. They're more than happy to talk about it as long as you don't treat them like weirdos. It's pretty intensive stuff.
Composite #40, highest ranked player ever from Idaho?
Looks like he is deceptively fast.
Looks like he brings his lunchpail to practice and really loves the game.
Coaches son, gym rat, very cerebral, heady player. Coach on the field. Loves studying film.
Has three wives!
Wait, what are we stereotyping again?
He really knows how to be wrong.
Jibbroni took like, every good one. But I bet he's a crafty route runner, hard-nosed, first one in the building, and gives 110% every play.
AND is the kind of guy you'd like your daughter(s)?? to date.
I mean, kinda, actually. Maybe it's the stationary camera and the level of competition I saw (national track meet), combined with his running style, but he just doesn't look like he's going as fast as he is to beat his competition as badly as he does.
Very fast indeed!
10.15 100 meters
20.47 200 meters
God speed Gatlin.
Yes he has.
Slight correction, Boise State has his last visit (which hasn’t happened yet). Still decent to good odds to land him.
Be careful. If this cycle has shown us anything, it’s that last visits to opposing schools haven’t gone well for Michigan recently.
The location of his mission has a lot to do with his access to proper facilities to continue his training/conditioning. I wonder when he finds out the location.
IIRC (ex-Mormon, brother went on mission), since he's already notified the church he's interested in going on one, he'll get a letter sometime this summer saying where with the dates to report to the MTC.
Dear church of LDS…please send him on a 4 year mission to Ann Arbor with the goal of converting the entire B10 to Wolverines.
I have no doubt Mr. Bair will not lose much while on his mission. Sounds like this young man is DRIVEN - he pushed himself on the track this year to see what he could do because his plan is to drop track and focus purely on football from this point forward.
Sure, the location matters. But my understanding is no matter the location, there is a time limit to exercise like 30 minutes per day. The purpose is to sacrifice and be a missionary.
Gatlin Bair from Burley, an all time name. LFG!
Hey, if Bill Belichick is willing to wait 5 years to get him on his team then we can wait 3 years easily.
underrated comment.
Can't we just convert him to lapsed Catholicism? We need a theological equivalent to Coach Herb.
Getting him is better than not, but in two years, what about a commitment now keeps him with UM? I know schools are offering to help pay for the mission, but that doesn't lock anyone in. Would be cool to get him, but...2 years can change a lot. Underwood will be dropping dimes all over the field by the time he's here
Yes, there is a chance that he doesn't keep his commitment, just like there is always a chance for a de-commit or a transfer (granted, a higher probability). Still, I would rather have him commit than not.
I’m going to wait until he’s on campus and practicing with the team before I get excited about him playing for Michigan. In football terms 2026 is a lifetime away.
My brother is a Mormon (and a UM grad / lurking stalker on this site) and yes anyone outside of direct family will be nearly impossible to make any contact during the 2 year mission.
Because? Why is isolation important to the mission effort?
The idea behind a mission is that they're there to work. It's like being in the Army for two years.
Remember that the most important thing in Mormonism is converting new people. That's why they "baptize" dead people. The more of them there are, the more power the leadership wields both monetarily (10% tithing is expected from everyone including children) and culturally.
There's a very, very, very strong internal culture of trying to convert as many new people as possible, taught from a very young age. Some of my first memories are my parents at a checkout aisle in a supermarket trying to convert random strangers with the misfortune of sharing proximity to them. I picked up the love of arguing, but not their arguments.
That's the whole point of a mission- to gain new converts. Which means that all of the time they spend talking to someone back home or anything else that's not focused on their mission is time that could be "more productively" spent finding new members or rehearsing their arguments as to why their version of truth is the truthiest.
Essentially, they're there to create new revenue sources for the church, which for many reasons is much more easily done in isolation from anyone who's not doing that.