So exactly how excited should I be about this year’s football recruiting class? Links: Mark Dantonio Introduces 2009 Recruiting Class From official MSU site. MSU recruits: Meet the class of 2009 Photos. Impact players: Baker, Caper, Fowler, Norman, Sims Edwin Baker is Emmitt Smith, but with LaDainian Tomlinson’s speed! High school football stars talk about [...]
Posts Tagged ‘recruiting’
Educate the Blogger
Posted in football discussion, tagged dion sims, edwin baker, football, recruiting on February 4, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Dion Sims is a Spartan
Posted in news, tagged dion sims, recruiting on January 13, 2009 | 3 Comments »
This is technically a football commitment, which I don’t typically cover. But Dion Sims clearly wants to be a Division 1 college basketball player: In the end, the difference was the joint effort of Coaches Dantonio and Izzo, and their willingness to work with the Sims family to allow Dion his dream of attempting to [...]
Jamil Wilson is down to three
Posted in news, tagged jamil wilson, recruiting on November 27, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Jamil Wilson is down to MSU, Oregon, and Texas. Marquette is out of the picture. Wilson says he didn’t like them “playing head games” with him. Meanwhile, his head coach is hoping he’ll enjoy playing basketball more this season: “But Jamil needs to just relax sometimes and not get too worked up over things. Sometimes [...]
Jamil Wilson Update
Posted in news, tagged jamil wilson, recruiting on November 13, 2008 | Comments Off
Obviously, Jamil Wilson didn’t sign with anybody yesterday. Here’s what his high school basketball coach said: “He is still looking into his final four schools, which are Michigan State, Marquette, Texas and Oregon,” said Jason Treutelaar, Wilson’s high school coach. “He is thinking about signing early, but that is not 100 percent. He still has [...]
Signing Day
Posted in news, tagged derrick nix, garrick sherman, jamil wilson, recruiting on November 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Today is the start of the early signing period for 2009 basketball recruits. Presumably, Garrick Sherman and Derrick Nix will sign the dotted line to come play for Tom Izzo today. The bigger question is what happens with Jamil Wilson. Scout.com reports the following: First topic of discussion is Jamil Wilson. There’s a lot of [...]
Russell Byrd chooses the Green and White
Posted in news, tagged recruiting, russell byrd on October 24, 2008 | Comments Off
Some good news for a rivalry week Friday: Russell Byrd has chosen Michigan State over Kentucky and Michigan. What we know about Mr. Byrd: Junior out of Fort Wayne. Becomes MSU’s second commitment of the 2010 class, joining Keith Appling. 6’7″, 190-pound forward known for his perimeter shooting ability. Ranked as a 4-star recruit by [...]
Russell Byrd to announce decision on Friday
Posted in news, tagged recruiting, russell byrd on October 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Per Jerry Tipton of the Lexington Herald, Russell Byrd will choose between Kentucky, Michigan State, and Michigan on Friday: “He felt he had enough information,” Kelly Byrd said about his son. “He’d seen enough, heard enough. He wanted to take this week to pray and discuss this with his mother and father.” Is this a [...]
Monday Night Links
Posted in links, tagged big ten, mike respert, recruiting, russell byrd on October 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Here’s a blow-by-blow account of the practice session for MSU media members held last week. Do you think they’d let a loyal Spartan blogger in next year? (I will now use this lame segueway to talk about my Breslin Center glories of days gone by: As a sophomore, I attended walk-on tryouts just for the [...]
Thursday Links: Dispatches from Fantasy Camp
Posted in links, tagged delvon roe, draymond green, jamil wilson, recruiting, russell byrd, tom herzog on October 9, 2008 | Comments Off
The MSU beat guys all participated in Tom Izzo’s second annual practice day for media types yesterday: Steve Grinzcel wants to know why anyone would need to learn how to dribble two basketballs at once. Eric Lacy reports that Delvon Roe is “ahead of schedule” in recovering from his two knee surgeries. Also, he’s definitely [...]
Around the Big Ten (quickly)
Posted in links, tagged big ten, recruiting on September 23, 2008 | Comments Off
Nifty graph from the Big Ten Geeks: efficiency margin vs. percentage of returning minutes. The data indicate Purdue, MIchigan State, and Wisconsin are in good shape. Indiana, not so much. In two years, the talent level in the conference looks like it may jump a notch. UMHoops notes that 12 of the 38 top-150 recruits [...]
