Flipping from OSU->UM or UM->OSU (split from Dunn thread)

[jwinslow]

No recruit deserves venom for picking the school where he thinks he can best thrive - and that includes Ohio kids who choose Michigan.

Pryor caught huge flak from UM, PSU trolls on facebook, just like he would've had he chosen differently.

There are tons of other examples. Ohio fans are more rabid, in part because HS football is a much bigger deal than Michigan football.

Those sites are a cesspool of immature fanboys, groupies and trolls. It's even worse on twitter, where they get inundated with pathetic attention "hogs" who say "can I get a retweet for a true buckeye!" (or number one fan, or for my sister who is having her tonsils out)

 

[MisterBlack]

Please stop. RJS had 60+ yards on 20+ carries against that "no talent" prep school, as you put it. Apparently, the "no talent" team was just as swarming as that "stacked" team...again, your words. Bottom line, Morris played one team all year worthy of judging his talent, and he fell flat on his face.

LOL. Silly buckeye.

It so clearly obvious you have no idea as to what the (town in Michigan) you are talking about. Cass Tech is the best team in the state of Michigan first of all, you do realize that, right? They have hands down the most talent across the board on their team in the entire state of Michigan- and it's not even remotely close, and they just won a state championship a couple days ago by throttling Detroit CC in the title game.

Royce Jenkins Stone scored the only points of the entire game with about a min and 35 seconds left by running for a score FYI, idgit.

And yes, that no talent prep-team held Cass Tech down by stacking the line of scrimmage. Cass Tech's best receiver by the way- a kid going to Iowa that was their leading receiver on the year- got hurt and knocked out of the game halfway into the 2nd QTR- which might explain why the passing game took a dive and why Warren De La Salle stacked the box against a freshman QB and dared him to beat him with his arm- and he didn't. It was Royce Jenkins Stone running between the tackles and getting tough yards and then the Cass Tech defense taking over that allowed them to win that game.

And FYI, Morris has played FHH, Brother Rice, Detroit CC, and Detroit King in the past and played very well. He is a good HS player that projects as an elite college prospect.

I'll take your word though, and not Scout.com- which has ranked Morris as one of the Top 10 players in the country for the class of 2013, or 247Sports who has ranked Morris as one of the Top 15 players in the country for the class of 2013, or Rivals which has all but declared Morris a lock as a future 5* in their class of 2013 according to the scouts on their message board.

But yeah...you're right. Not the 7 D-1 college coaching staffs that offered him before his JR year of HS football even began or the recruiting sites that seem to be unison and think the kid is a Top 25 recruit in the nation.

 

[Muck]

22 losses in 3 seasons indicate that Nostradamus Boren knew what he was doing.

Exactly.

 

[BrowardBuck]

Completely different set of circumstances, but whatever.

Kalis was a 17 year old kid that committed to Jim Tressel. Tressel was forced to leave, he wanted to look at his other options...he did that. He didn't publicly trash Ohio State through the press and then act like a sore ex-girlfriend 6 months later by posting mocking pictures of himself wearing a sweater-vest on his social networking profile now, did he?

No.. he didn't trash Ohio State. Instead, he committed to Tressel, recommitted to Fickell, told everyone that he was going to recruit other prospects hard to OSU and then less than a week later, decommits, turning up several days later committing to Hoke. No, I guess he isn't much like Boren, who saw RR come in with his trashing UM traditions, running around like a tyrant, foul-mouthing it up and decided he didn't want any part of that (lets not even mention several other players that left and several alums that were at odds with RRs antics as well). And his dad, one of UMs great heros, allowed it to happen. And not only that, but has allowed his other two sons to blow UM and their legacy to UM away to go to OSU.

 

[BrowardBuck]

Actually, you're right. I do think I went a little too far.

I don't think Boren or his family deserved the venom they got from the Michigan fan-base, but seriously...it's like...what do you expect? He pretty much trashed the school, it's coach, and the football program on his way out.

If he would have just kept his mouth shut and transferred I think this would be a non-issue and we wouldn't even be talking about this. He didn't though. He very publicly slammed Rodriguez, the school, and the program. His posting of pictures dressed as Rodriguez for Halloween months later didn't help maters either. Neither did his brother taunting the Michigan crowd in 2009.

How did he trash the university or the football program? He trashed a coach that he felt wasn't upholding the standards of the previous UM coaches. You know...Bo, Carr, etc. I never heard him say one bad word about UM the university or the football program. His inference about the lack of values was a direct jab at RR and what he was doing to the football team.