2018 Recruiting Thread

[847badgerfan]

"We just had regular conversations," said Cruickshank. "We just caught up, talking about what to expect when I get down there.

"They know I can ball. As long as I bring what I have to the table and a winning attitude, I should be fine."

Cruickshank said Georgia and Michigan both came after him during the season. However, the nation's No. 45 ranked athlete will sign with Wisconsin in December and enroll early.

"I'm standing by my commitment," he said. "I'm 100 percent committed. I'm done."

https://247sports.com/Recruitment/Aron-Cruickshank-100025/RecruitInterests


This last weekend's visit went very well.

[Mdot21]

Michigan 2018 4* QB commit Joe Milton (6'5, 225 pounds) of Florida releases his senior "highlight" tape. LINK. He's from the same Florida HS as starting but injured FSU QB Deondre Francois.

Huge kid, huge arm. Some of those throws he makes on that tape just make you go whoa. Impressive specimen physically. Even bigger body wise and maybe even has more arm strength than Shane Morris- and he's got about 2 inches and 35 pounds on Morris at the same stage.

Hopefully he develops, unlike Morris who was a bust. Morris had way more hype and expectation, whereas this kid is walking into a nice situation with no pressure. And a much better QB coach. Peters and McCaffrey are going to be ahead of him so he's an obvious redshirt and they are also bringing in another QB in 2018 in 3* Kevin Doyle. That is how you're suppose to recruit QB's. Never put all of your eggs into one basket- just keep recruiting talent and redshirt them. Biggest mistake Hoke made when he went after Morris- didn't recruit a QB in the class before or in the same class to give him a push and provide competition and also provide depth and he didn't redshirt him.

[Mdot21]

3* DE Taylor Upshaw (6'5, 240) of Brandenton, FL flips his commitment from the Florida Gators to Michigan. Football runs in his genes, as Upshaw's father is Reagan Upshaw, who was a star defensive linemen in the 1990's for Cal and was drafted with in the 1st round of the 1996 NFL Draft with the 12th overall pick by the Tampa Bay Bucs and went on to play 9 seasons in the NFL.

[ELA]

Weird one, as MSU was early on the favorite for 4* CB Kalon Gervin, then he committed early out of the blue to ND.  Decommitted, but seemed enamored with VT.  Then MSU started picking up momentum, and his OV to MSU was lined up with the day he said he was going to announce.

Now it sounds like MSU stopped recruiting him, and said their DB class is full.  

Either this report is false, or nobody told him.
He's announcing this week, says it's either MSU or Oregon.

[ELA]

3* ATH La'Darius Jefferson from Muskegon, MI, who had been a UCF verbal, reopened his recruitment after getting an MSU offer.

Seems like he wanted to play QB, and thus UCF and Navy were his best offers, but he has since come around on coming in as an athlete, with a chance to play QB, but probably not.

Sounds like only a matter of time before he commits to MSU.

Sounds like he really wants to play QB, and now Indiana is his first P5 QB offer.

I guess credit to MSU for not lying to the kid, but seems like that's not the way the game is played anymore.  Tell em what you want to get him signed, then play him where he fits.  He's not a terrible QB.  If MSU was in a year where they were taking 2 QBs, I wouldn't mind him being the 2nd one, but they've taken a QB in every class for the past three, and have verbals from their 2018 and 2019 QBs, so there's really not room or need to take 2 in this class, particularly with it being smaller, and resulting in having 6 scholarship QBs on roster.

[Mdot21]

flood of CRYSTAL BALLZ coming in for Michigan for 4* DT Tyler Friday (6'3, 265 lbs) of New Jersey - #64 player overall and #3 DT in the 247Composite and for 3* TE Tommy Tremble (6'4, 225 lbs) of Georgia - #501 player overall and #22 TE in the 247Composite.

Both just visited Michigan for THE GAME, Friday has been considered a long time Michigan lean and Tremble had been considered a Notre Dame lean. DL is absolutely a need- always is every class IMO. TE? Already have one of the top ones committed in Mustapha Muhammad (top 100 player in 247Composite and #5 TE) and have a crap ton of young Frosh/Soph. TE's already playing/producing on the roster. Harbaugh sure loves TE's. Almost getting to the point where he is over-recruiting the position IMO.

[847badgerfan]

Nittany Lions commit Isheem Young charged with robbing convenience store


I can't imagine PSU's takes him after this. Maybe State Penn but not Penn State.

http://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/21642626/penn-state-nittany-lions-commit-isheem-young-charged-robbing-convenience-store

[ELA]

Nittany Lions commit Isheem Young charged with robbing convenience store


I can't imagine PSU's takes him after this. Maybe State Penn but not Penn State.

http://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/21642626/penn-state-nittany-lions-commit-isheem-young-charged-robbing-convenience-store

I can't imagine he'd be in a situation where any school could take him if they wanted.

[847badgerfan]

I can't imagine he'd be in a situation where any school could take him if they wanted.

Lane would take him at FAU. Lots of mug shots on that roster right now.

[ELA]

4* CB Kalon Gervin, composite #2 player in MI commits to MSU

[Mdot21]

4* CB Kalon Gervin, composite #2 player in MI commits to MSU

yeah, just saw that. Really nice pick-up for MSU and he's from Cass Tech. #194 player in the composite and #20 CB.
Michigan offered early, but he committed to Notre Dame super early in like March I think, then Michigan got 3 CB commits pretty shortly after in April and another who can play S or CB a few months after that.
He de-committed from Notre Dame a few months ago and after that I was hoping Michigan would get back in there, but it never materialized.

[ELA]

He was all green early, and surprised a lot of people with that ND commitment.  Then after he initially decommitted seemed to be looking more at VT, Oregon and Oklahoma than MSU.  Eventually circled back around I guess.  There were long stretches of silence

[Mdot21]

VT, Oregon, Oklahoma never made sense to me.

I really thought he was going to MSU the minute he de-committed from ND to be honest.

Detroit has been on a run of producing high quality DB's. These guys aren't 5'7" like Boubacar Cissoko or 160 pounds like Dior Mathis and Terry Richardson either. Been a really nice run of DB's from the city that are legit 5'10+, 175+ with speed.

[FearlessF]

Quarterback recruit Adrian Martinez, a 4-star prospect on the 247Sports composite, received an offer from Nebraska on Saturday.

The 247Sports Composite ranks the California native as the No. 7 dual-threat quarterback and No. 17 California prospect in the Class of 2018. He’s still verbally committed to Tennessee, but the Vols’ coaching situation is increasingly unclear. 

According to the Omaha World-Herald’s Sam McKewon, the offer came from quarterbacks coach Mario Verduzco, who is following Frost from UCF to Nebraska.