Yesterday, if you follow recruiting, you know Brady Hoke picked up six(6)! Rivals top 250 commitments. Getting six commitments in one day is the stuff of walking down the street and finding an unattended four pack of 120 Minute Dogfish Head. Getting six top 250 commitments is like having a stranger bump into you with a case of it and say "I don't like beer and I hate myself even more. Have this." It's a Champaign and Zookers kind of day.
If you're a Spartan recruiting fan, days like yesterday probably bring out your inner Kevin Bacon. Days like yesterday are tough because then every Michigan honk who just knows recruiting and has a selective memory will find you in the office and say ridiculous things. You can look at them and retort "Scoreboard", after all they had no problem doing it to you when UM basketball swept Izzo last year.
As fans of MSU, it would be stupid to pretend like these things don't matter. They do. Is it worth acting like Hoke has already won the recruiting season? No, absolutely not. Of the six commits, only Wyatt Shallman and Kyle Bosch reported Spartan offers. As an offensive tackle, Bosch was a big miss at a position of great need. He was reported to have visited MSU seven times and when that happens, closing is a must. Shallman was a DE/TE type from Detroit Catholic Central which is a pretty MSU/UM neutral school, we need those too.
Of the remaining four, two, Jourdan Lewis and David Dawson go to Cass Tech which means two things. 1.) They are not coming to MSU, they will go out of state before MSU. 2.) Their odds of contributing to a team in any meaningful fashion are low. Of the other two, Chris Fox lives in Colorado. I don't know if MSU even recruits Colorado . Taco Charlton is another TE/DE type out of Ohio. I think he'd have gotten an MSU offer as the year wore on, that's just me though.
I said several weeks ago that 2013 is the year I expect to see two eleven win seasons start to translate into recruiting success. The evidence of that success showed itself in the closing days of 2012 with the signing week commitments of Demetrious Cox and Monty Madaris. The early commitments of 2013 include a bruising running back in Gerald Holmes and our Middle Linebacker of the Future in Jonny Reschke. Both are players at a position of need who play Dantonio-style football.
The recruiting season is far from over, in fact, with 350 days left until Signing Day, it's just beginning. If you're jumping off the ledges now, you should stop following recruiting and just start watching games only. After all, that's where MSU has been winning lately.
Isn't that all that matters?
Bonus Bits
Munn Minute has your Nanook Saturday Night Recap in which all things come up Milhouse. Green Thoughts has light speculation on MSU Hockey's NCAA tourney chances. The Only Colors has an Ode to the Spartan Defense.
As fans of MSU, it would be stupid to pretend like these things don't matter. They do. Is it worth acting like Hoke has already won the recruiting season? No, absolutely not. Of the six commits, only Wyatt Shallman and Kyle Bosch reported Spartan offers. As an offensive tackle, Bosch was a big miss at a position of great need. He was reported to have visited MSU seven times and when that happens, closing is a must. Shallman was a DE/TE type from Detroit Catholic Central which is a pretty MSU/UM neutral school, we need those too.
Of the remaining four, two, Jourdan Lewis and David Dawson go to Cass Tech which means two things. 1.) They are not coming to MSU, they will go out of state before MSU. 2.) Their odds of contributing to a team in any meaningful fashion are low. Of the other two, Chris Fox lives in Colorado. I don't know if MSU even recruits Colorado . Taco Charlton is another TE/DE type out of Ohio. I think he'd have gotten an MSU offer as the year wore on, that's just me though.
I said several weeks ago that 2013 is the year I expect to see two eleven win seasons start to translate into recruiting success. The evidence of that success showed itself in the closing days of 2012 with the signing week commitments of Demetrious Cox and Monty Madaris. The early commitments of 2013 include a bruising running back in Gerald Holmes and our Middle Linebacker of the Future in Jonny Reschke. Both are players at a position of need who play Dantonio-style football.
The recruiting season is far from over, in fact, with 350 days left until Signing Day, it's just beginning. If you're jumping off the ledges now, you should stop following recruiting and just start watching games only. After all, that's where MSU has been winning lately.
Isn't that all that matters?
Bonus Bits
Munn Minute has your Nanook Saturday Night Recap in which all things come up Milhouse. Green Thoughts has light speculation on MSU Hockey's NCAA tourney chances. The Only Colors has an Ode to the Spartan Defense.
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