re: Christine Michael - myth or mistake?

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Maybe the coaches thought that Pratt was a batter fit than Michael. Obviously if they had known what was going to happen, Michael would've gotten the offer over Pratt.

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if we wanted michael, we would have at least offered him post-pratt. we didn't

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Did Texas even off this young man?

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no, and neither did OU

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no, but he wasn't a "texas guy,"

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Wrong!

Texas and LSU are like my favorites so far," Michael said. "The reason for that, I know when it comes down to pick colleges, it's going to be hard, but I don't want to be too far from home. I want to be within driving distance.

"I like Texas because for the past couple of years, they've been producing good running backs like Priest Holmes, Ricky Williams, (Cedric) Benson and Jamaal Charles. I'd like to follow in that history. And LSU, I just like them because they're a big name."



"It's just A&M, Texas and LSU," he said. "I want to stay close to home and those are the three schools that really fit everything I'm looking for. Mississippi State came down for me and Miami too but those schools I'm not really interested in."



"It's still open. I still like UT. That's my number one school but after I got more letters I've started to think about others," Michael said. "But right now, UT is still my number one school. LSU is probably number two, and then I'd probably say Texas A&M."




He wanted to go to Texas we wanted Whaley more. Whaley had Gilbert and Whaley 1A and 1B We were only taking 1 back.

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I think it was probably about Trent Richardson more than Seastrunk.

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I think it was more about Michael than either of those guys.

I think it was just a strong running back year and Michael was overrated by the recruiting services. Simple as that. If he was as good as they said he was, UT, LSU, and OU would have been all over him.

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So that means Mack/UT wasn't that impressed with his running ability?

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i think he just didn't jump when mack said jump early in the process

stoops not offering is a question mark. he offers a bunch of good/solid (not great) RBs to bump his stars

I get the whole UT pressure its recruits into early commitments philosophy, but I still find it hard to believe they would pass on a 5* guy just bc they didn't want to engage in a recruiting battle. I can see that philosophy on 4/3* guys but not 5* unless said 5* was overrated by the recruiting services.

Plus its pretty clear that Miles prefers "physical" RBs over pure finesse/speed guys so that would definitely support the theory of Pratt/TR/Ford over CM.

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how can it be a mistake whenever the kid hasn't even stepped foot on a college field yet?

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IF we held out his schollie for richardson and/or lache, and we get neither, it would be a mistake

that's what "mistake" means

"myth" means that this situation never existed and we never wanted him at all

Michael sounds like a mama's boy. He wanted to stay close to home. So it was always LSU, UT, or Aggy. I think OU maybe even was too far from him.

So SFP is right. If we don't get Lache, LSU screwed up here.