Michigan Tuesday: Recruiting Blitz

The Dee Hart decision is close and is expected next week.  Dee will be enrolling early and wants to get his official decision made so he can focus on football and school and not on recruiting. 

Dee visited Arkansas last weekend (who played Alabama) and the weekend before was at Auburn.  This weekend  he is visiting Alabama and will make his decision know next week.  

When he visited Auburn there were reports he was close to committing on the spot.  We know he isn't that interested in Arkansas because he Mom said so.  With that said, I think it's down to Alabama and Michigan.  Saban vs Rodriguez.  A man that turned down the job vs the man that took it.  A possible match up between two teams in Dallas in 2012. 

Dee has visited Michigan three times and still has to be seen as the leader, but Saban can recruit and I'm sure will pull out all the stops this weekend as they host Florida.   Dee is still expected to be up in Ann Arbor for the Iowa or MSU game which has to be seen as a good sign for the Wolverines.

• Michigan is almost a two touchdown favorite at IU on Saturday.  -13.5

• Michigan has offered junior QB from Tampa Bay Plant City High Bennie Coney

• Michigan 2011 recruit from the same school in Tampa, Tony Posada has a sprained MCL and is listed as day-to-day.  He suffered the injury on 9/21 and didn't play last weekend.

• NJ TE Jack Tabb will visit Iowa this weekend.  Michigan is recruiting Jack for the 2011 class as well.

• Three updates below from TomVH at Mgoblog: 2011 CB recruit Avery Walls was named to the Army All American game.  Avery will visit Oregon and CAL and then make his offical decision known after that.  He plans on enrolling early and wants to make sure he is accepted before he announces his decision.

 

• 2012 recruit Alan Grant is the son of former Wolverine Tony Gant visited Ann Arbor last weekend for the BGSU game:  "The visit was good, and I got a chance to talk with the coaches too. We mainly talked about how the season was going, how I was doing, and we talked a little about school and the recruiting process too."   Tony is an OSU fan, so Michigan has some catching up to do. 

• Danny O'Brein is a 6'3 278 pound DT from Flint.  He is a 2012 recruit and visited Michigan this weekend as well:  "I was at the game with my Mom and Dad, and Coach Rodriguez came and talked to us right after his press conference. He said that he can't give me anything in writing until next August, but that I have a verbal offer from the University of Michigan. My Dad is a Michigan fan, so he was excited, me and my Mom were really excited too. It's a relief to know that I have that offer in hand now."

Michigan - Bama is Happening

Nick Saban let the "cat" out of the bag and announced the Michigan - Alabama game at Jerry World last night on his radio show.  It hasn't been officially announced but it seems like it's a done deal. 

I don't have any problem with this game and pretty excited to get a chance to go to "Jerry World" and see the Wolverines during Denard's senior year. 

What I do have a problem is which year they are playing the game.  In 2012, Michigan plays on the road:
Notre Dame, Nebraska, Ohio State and now Alabama at a neutral field.  Those are tough road games in one year.  

  

Michigan Thursday: Denard Version 1.0 Speaks About Denard 2.0

Pat White who is now a member of the Kansas City Royals organization spoke about Denard Robinson:

"He's a beast, that's all you can say," White said Wednesday in a teleconference announcing his shift from pro football to a baseball career with the Kansas City Royals. "He's just doing amazing things out there."

"He obviously knows the position and looks like a hard runner and a good leader," White said. "He doesn't look afraid to run the ball or stick his nose in there."

"I do think he's durable and will hold up," White said. "It's more than just being the right kind of quarterback, though. It's the right 11 guys doing the right things most of the time.

"He just needs to show up for work every day and be who you are. That's what he's doing now."

BG will be back in town to play his home town Detroit Lions this weekend.  Here is what he had to say about RR and Denard:  (freep link):  “I know he’s going to be there,” Graham said. “I know he’s staying there. He ain’t going nowhere, you can say that. I can see that, already within the team, that those guys, very strong. A lot of linemen that was light last year gained a lot of pounds to get ready, got stronger and got faster. “I don’t see Coach Rod leaving now. I just think them boys going to take it one game at a time, and a lot of people are going to have a different perspective when they talk about Michigan.”   On DRob:  "just one move, and he was gone,” Graham said. “That’s what I see that he gained a lot from last year. Last year, he was trying to do too many juke moves. Now I see him just making one cut, and he’s gone. “That was the biggest thing that we had to get him to do, to know his own speed. And to see him out there really killing it right now, I’m very happy for him, because I know he worked hard.”

• U of M to honor Ron Kramer #87 before the kickoff of the UMass game

• 3 Keys to an UMass Upset on Saturday.  Stop Denard, Stop Denard, Score points 

• Mike Marrow a former Alabama running back has decided to transfer closer to home and picked Eastern Michigan, over Wisconsin and Michigan?  That U of M offer doesn't pass the sniff test in my book.  Maybe there was a walk on offer.  Mike is from Toledo. 

• We will see how good UConn is this week as the take on a quality Temple team that is expected to compete for a MAC Championship and already has a win over Central Michigan.

Top 10 Questions That Need to Be Answered in College Football

10.  Will anyone introduce Nick Saban to a "baseball style" hat that he can wear in practice? 

9. Is it possible for ESPN to get a translator for Lou Holtz?  Will the SAP button work?

8. Is it me or is every program under NCAA investigation right now? 

7. Why do coaches wear wind shirts in practice when it's above 90 degrees? 

6.  If the injury bug hits UNC and USC, will their players have to play both ways?

5. Why is it every time I see Chris Peterson from Boise State, I get hungry for Domino's Pizza? 

 

4.  Will Les Miles ever clap with his fingers together?

 3.  Does USC and Reggie Bush need a receipt to return their Heisman's?  Or will they just get store credit for the next time USC wins one?  They must have a nice credit built up with OJ and now Bush.   We would like to returns these 2 Heisman's for a Walter Camp in 2012?  I'm going to need to talk to my manager.

2. I know Derek Dooley as a new coach wants to have a close team.  But does he really need to be in the shower with them?  That can't be good for recruiting. 

1. Will Denard Robinson break the sound barrier this year?