Mike Williams decommits?
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Too bad. Recruit retention, especially when they commit so far in advance is tough, especially now in the NIL era.
If money has any influence on these recruits, and we know it does, it would be hard not to consider greener pastures. I'm guessing $$'s influenced him.
Just gotta keep an eye on his teammate, Braydon Lee.
Not to minimize it, but if I HAD to choose one of our commits to cut, it probably would have been Williams.
Not to minimize it, but if I HAD to choose one of our commits to cut, it probably would have been Williams.
Maybe he felt the other OL commits made competition for playing time too stiff
Interesting thought, but we also needs lots of help in the OL.
It'd be interesting to see where he ends up.
Yes, I wondered if he saw himself as the odd man out.
I'm more worried about losing his teammate, though.
Again, not dismissing the decommit, but he was by far the lowest rated recruit in the class, so if we HAD to drop one, he was it. His decommit didn't affect our class ranking at all.
He was the most expendable of our OL recruits, but yeah, we need bodies there. I wouldn't think it would be too hard for the staff to find a comparable recruit.
247 has him warm on Mich St. now.
Don't know enough about MSU to know if that's running away from competition or money or something ekse.
Hopefully his teammate is the truly committed one and Williams was just tagging along!
Just reading a couple of different sites, seems like this was a non regrettable. I'm just wondering if he got caught up on the excitement with Lee and jumped on board. Then started looking around at the depth chart and current commits and decided it's going to be a climb. Also think he's dead set on being a OT. Maybe that was a sticking point as well?
He was our lowest rated recruit, so no sweat. I'm waiting for a big time running back to commit and a couple of EDGE prospects.
Ratings for OL recruits is supposed to be the most difficult position for predicting how they will do in the future. Plenty of unheralded names playing in the pros. Because he may be ranked below the others may not mean a lot. If he was good enough to get an offer then our staff thought he could play for us.
Or maybe we stopped recruiting him as hard after all three of the guys we wanted committed....
Sure. But, if you had to look our class and pick one player to cut, it would have been him. I'm not saying he's not good or that we didn't want him or are better off without him. I wish he'd recommit. But I'd have been more disappointed to lose any other player in the class.
