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well..........., we're waiting............

MSU picked up a Signing Day commitment from 3* S Phillip Davis, who MSU just offered 3 weeks ago, and had no other P5 offers

And there it is.

Chicago Marist defensive tackle Jamel Howard announced his commitment to Wisconsin on Tuesday. That announcement took place on the 247Sports YouTube Channel.


Howard was verbally committed to the Badgers during Paul Chryst's tenue and Jim Leonhard's time as interim coach, but re-opened the process late in the fall. He considered Michigan, Illinois, Miami and LSU down the stretch and took official visits with all four in December and January.


He also was allowed to take a second official to Wisconsin (his first was in June) and that along with home visits and other conversations with Luke Fickell and the new staff in Madison led him back into the Badger class.

I was doing some research as to how this thing came down.

Illinois, Wisconsin (2), Michigan, LSU and Miami for the official visits. Miami was just this past weekend.

Illinois was not really in it, and the kid got a free trip to Miami (good time in the year to do it).

It came down to LSU, Michigan and Wisconsin. 

Michigan flipped a Stanford commit on the DL and was probably out of it just before that happened - yesterday. Howard was a definite take for M until he told them he was not coming, the day before yesterday.

Now it's LSU and UW. UW went at him hard this past week, and the new DL coach in Madison (Greg Scruggs) made a huge difference with this one.

This resonated:

I glanced over some youtube summary last night of all this and the message was "The rich get richer", I turned to something else at that point.  I think it sums it up.

At least TCU crashed the party last season, that could be considered one good sign, in a sense (the denoument was not great).  But if asked how some "second tier" team can make the CFP, one can point to that one at least (and Cincy).  With 12 teams, ...

What does it all mean?  Will there be some point when I personally eschew CFB as being the NFL Minor Leagues and not worth watching?  Is it better now than in 1965 when The Bear would sign players just to keep them away from opponents?  Bag men?  "Escorts" on day visits who did more than escort?

South Carolina makes no sense. They aren't the home town school. They suck at football and track. BUT....apparently his GF goes there. The power of the p*ssy remains undefeated.

They looked pretty good down the stretch last year.  Better than Oregon for sure