Eleven Warriors

Shallman? Big deal. OSU doesn't need State of Michigan kids as much as you need Ohio kids.

Great article... Michigan coach, Chris Christie, I mean Fat Fatty, has to be stress eatting like mad over this. I can picture him reading these articles wearing an all blue shirt and munching on Cheetos, then wiping his grubby Cheeto/maize stained fingers on his shirt in an attempt to mimic the winged helmet look.

Michigan University fans are all excited about their "best recruiting day ever."  Haven't looked into but they say they got 4 commits today or something.

Heres the guys that end it all for Urban Meyer

Wyatt Shallman No. 160 overall

Jourdan Lewis (No. 167) 

 David Dawson (No. 199.)

LOL      is Urban even looking that far down the list

Urban will own Hoke!

Alex I love your optimism about our class at 9. We have four now so who do you think the next 5 are? Or are you just saying that because that's what scUM's class is at right now?

According to TOS....two of them that committed to michigan today had offers from Ohio State...and as Alex stated Taco was not one of them.

@Alex- I knew Taco hadn't been offered but I've heard him mentioned more than several times and at least thought he was somewhere on Meyer's radar...maybe not though and you definitely know more than me, no doubt. I also have no doubt that, when all is said and done, Meyer definitely will dominate Hoke in 2013, one bad day is a nothing.

A bad day as a Buckeye is better than a good day as a scUM fan.

I would say Meyer's getting his ass kicked on the recruiting trail..

Didn't this same thing happen last year? Michigan got a lot of solid guys all in the beginning but then trailed off toward the end.

FWIW, I still think we end up having a better class than them. Remember we have the best recruiter in the country at the helm.

You guys should read some of the stuff they are saying on mgoblog, they talk wayyyyy more *hit then we do. Especially after yesterday they are reallllyyy running their mouths lol, just wait till we are at 9 recruits, it'll make their class look like a MAC class lol

Everyone had to know that Hoke was going to lay it all on the line to land a guy named TACO

Alright, let's try to make some sense here.

Michigan had a really great day on Saturday by almost any standards.

ESPN Game Day (plus Erin Andrews) comes to Ann Arbor; with Erin asking by standers to get a picture on her iPhone of her with Denard.  The basketball game is fun, and a winner.  The hockey team wins a chippy, fight-filled series with Northern Michigan; the softball and baseball teams win down south.  Then, the football recruiting:

Kyle Bosch (4-star OL from Wheaton IL with 21 other offers including Alabama, Michigan State, Nebraska and Notre Dame.)

Wyatt Shallman (4-star ATH from Detroit/Novi Catholic Central with a flock of other offers including Michigan State, Cincinnati, Syracuse and Ohio State.)

Jourdan Lewis (4-star CB from Detroit Cass Tech who had offers from Michigan and Toledo)

David Dawson (4-star OL from Detroit Cass Tech whose junior year was spent in Houston with a tone of offers from Alabama, Baylor, Arkansas, Florida State, Oklahoma State, Texas Tech, Texas A&M, Missouri and UCLA.)

Chris Fox (4-star OL from Colorado who may be a 5-star and is almost certainly a top-100 national recruit.)

Taco Charlton (4-star from Pickerington Central with offers from Nebraska, North Carolina, Notre Dame, Pitt, Purdue and Cincinnati)

By any measure, this is a huge recruiting haul; six guys who comprise more than a quarter of the class of 2013.  With the three instate kids, it continues the dominance over MSU within the state.  And it is a very big day for Michigan recruiting over Notre Dame recruiting.

I agree with those who posted above that this day was a lot less significant in Meyer-versus-Hoke recruiting.  I think only Chris Fox was regarded as a serious priority for Ohio State.  Catholic Central (Novi) is a Michigan feeder school; Taco Charlton did not have an OSU offer (although I am confident he'd have gotten one if he had shown interest).  While it was a very good day for Brady Hoke, none of it represents any personal recruiting victory over Ohio State.

All of what M Man said is true and can end the discussion about yesterday.  They had a great recruiting day, no two ways about it.  I think we can all agree, though, that we are situated to have a great class as well.  Talking ish in February about recruiting classes is only slightly less dumb than talking ish about the 2012 season itself.  

At the end of the day it is unlikely that either OSU or ttun will be outside of the top 10 (maybe top 5) in recruiting next year, but getting too high or low in February is not worth the effort...

M man, agree with you (except for the Taco offer). It's just amazing to me that we (11W members) show you so much respect but I would almost guarantee if (and I'm sure we will) if tOSU had the same type of recruiting day and this type of summary was placed on the mgoblog website , we (whoever posted it) would probably get banned from the site. I would like too think that says something about the difference between the two fan bases. Excluding what I said, it's amazing the difference in tone of both fan bases when you read each sites comments. I appreciate the perspective from a rival fan, and I feel like that's what make us better than scUM.

Brady Hoke still has no idea they recruited Charlton. What happened, an assistant asked "Do you want Taco?" (because that's how you have to talk to the philosopher king) and he responded with an emphatic "Yes". Brady Hoke is still waiting on his mexican food. 

hahaha

@ m man    I was just wondering where you got the rankings for those players hokey just recruited. I couldnt find a ranking for most of them , just the few that i post from scout.com ( i didnt look real hard tho) just wanted to know who did the rankings?

Not gonna lie, I am jealous at the success that scUM is having, I hate to see it, but I am accepting because I know The Game is gonna be exponentially better than years past in the future.

And then I also realize, we have very high caliber prospects committed, and more expected, and UFM at the helm, and its not even March 2012 yet. Plenty of time, and I am excited to see this whole thing shape up.

Go BUCKS!!!!

@RickB25- The notion that this '13 class is going to be a lot smaller than '12 isn't accurate. Going to be room for 20-22 kids by the time all is said and done. 

I think Dymonte a long way from switching back at this point, its just the matter of there still being a year of his cousin Brionte being in his ear.

I think part of the reason Buckeye fans think theres a chance he flips is that he didn't want people to know he was still allowing coaches to visit him at his high school. Couple that with having family go to OSU along with being an OSU fan gives us as good a chance as any.

Nothing would bring me more joy than nabbing Dymonte from Michigan. M Man, you say that he could go to Michigan for early playing time but I imagine he would have the same opportunity at Ohio State. 

He goes to the same high school as one of my childhood friends. Big time Ohio State country out in Marlington.

Coach Meyer has shown himself to be a tremendous recruiter at Ohio State. 

For his part, Coach Meyer (in his Florida days) said that Greg Mattison was “the best recruiter in the country.”  Rivals later named Mattison "the best recruiter in the conference."

Yes, watching Dymonte Thomas's senior year of high school, up to next February's signing day, will be interesting.

All those guys and no five stars?

Same old, same old from that school up north.

What will they do if and when Dymonte backs out?

LCB

I didn't mean to ignore this question earlier; I just didn't see it.  Sorry.

@ m man    I was just wondering where you got the rankings for those players hokey just recruited. I couldnt find a ranking for most of them , just the few that i post from scout.com ( i didnt look real hard tho) just wanted to know who did the rankings?

I think that all eight (now add Logan Tuley-Tillman) are 4-stars on Rivals.  A lot of kids are not yet rated on ESPN.  Some are not rated on Scout.

I think it is a fair question that you ask, and somebody else wondered about whether any of these guys are true studs and potential five-stars.  As I say, Rivals has all of them as 4's.  I don't think anybody who has rated any of them has any at 3 stars.  My guess is that Michigan's 2013 class, when all is said and done, may have four 5-stars.  Specifically: QB commit Shane Morris (currently a four-star bordering on five); OL commit Chris Fox (currently a four-star bordering on five), possibly S commit Dymonte Thomas and two prospective recruits, Ty Isaac (future fiver?) and Su'A Cravens.  Maybe more;  but I am admittedly guessing about prognisticating about ratings.  On the internet.  A wholly responsibility-free exercise. 

4 stars are good tho Lakecobuck, Tressell didn't get that many 5 star guys either, only a few every class, he mostly turned a lot of 3-4 star guys into superstars, Hawk,Lauranitis,Jenkins etc. I know most people don't want Michigan to do well but I think it brings the rivarly back a bit, it seems like the past 5-6 years as it used to be. I just hope Michigan doesn't get recruits we want. other then that they can get who ever I don't really care. And M Man I think you are the first TSUN fan that is not baised as all can be and gives legit arguements and see's the other side of things. I know I am not always like that!