The Blue Board

Oooh. Yeah. Add him to the list. Just hard to keep track there are so many.

I couldn't bring myself to watch that game. I watched Modern Marvels instead. Fascinating episode on tunnels.

Well I see no reason to play out the remainder of the season.

There really isn't.

RIP Izzo

I hear Gholston is also going to declare for the Michigan draft. He's a lucky kid to get this opportunity. He should definitely take it.

Sad news...
It's being reported that a 15 year old student-athlete at Novi Detroit Catholic Central died in his sleep. The kid was a football player and based on WDIV, he played in the state championship game.

What a tragedy. I can't imagine what the parents are going through.

Yeah, that was a heart breaking article. Some of his former teachers are posting over on the RCMB. What a loss.

That is horrible. As you said, I can't imagine going through something like that as parent.

Agree with this. No idea. First reaction was that we wouldn't have reoffered without feeling confident Dawson was coming back, but then we offered Reschke and Finley. Neither of those is likely to flip, which suggests that Hoke isn't worried about the optics of whiffing. He is just going to offer who he wants in the order he wants them and if they end up elsewhere so be it. The other odd thing is we now have 3-4 highly ranked OL showing up on the same weekend for possibly one spot. It's going to be interesting to say the least.

If Dawson doesn't commit to us on the weekend of the 14th, I would take that as a very good sign. I will be very surprised if we don't accept at least one OL commitment that weekend. It's possible we will take two more OL (especially if Lewan is not coming back), but it will depend on how things play out with Derrick Green (RB) and all the DBs we are still chasing. I think we will land Green (and I think the coaches might even know his answer by now). It also seems likely we will land at least one of Conley/McQuay/Crawford at CB. And we have suddenly started hunting for another LB (rumors are one is leaving the team). We have 22 current commits. 22 + 1 OL + 1 RB + 1 CB + 1 LB = 26, which is probably the max we can take until Lewan decides for sure he's not going to return.

I feel like Hoke wouldn't have given Dawson an offer if he wasn't pretty sure where he wanted to end up. That being said, he still might lose his spot if one of the other OL Michigan offered decides to commit first.

+1. Was ready for that to flop and didn't feel bad about it. Forever Young is a great song.

Massington just decommitted from USC. That's #2 and WOTS is LaRue and Isaac also are looking around. Wheels starting to come off for Coach Kiffin.