Michigan Recruiting Insider (LIVE EDITION) - Featuring McHale Blade's commitment to Michigan!

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🗓️ 10 June 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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On this week's special edition of The Michigan Recruiting Insider, Chicago (Ill.) Simeon Top247 edge McHale Blade joined the show to announce his commitment to the Wolverines with Sam Webb and Brice Marich. Blade highlighted the impact of his long-standing relationship with Coach Lou Esposito and Michigan's combination of strong academics and player development on his decision. 247Sports national recruiting analyst Allen Trieu also joined the broadcast to offer in-depth analysis on Blade's talents on and off the field, and did Simeon head coach Sinque Turner. TMI's Steve Lorenz later joined the show to discuss the impact of the recent House settlement on Michigan's approach to NIL and recruiting across the country. The focus then shifted to other hot recruiting races the Wolverines are involved in. The crew handicapped the flip odds for Auburn commit Shadarius Toodle, and discussed how the Wolverines are trending in races for Khary Adams (who made his way to the TMI studio for an interview), Nick Abrams, Alister Valejo, Dorian Barney, Andre Clark, and more. Don't miss the 247Sports June official visit subscription special - Get an annual subscription to The Michigan Insider for an amazing 60% off!!! Real insider intel, from REAL insiders! - https://247sports.com/college/michigan/join/?Subscription=2661 To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:01.0	But at any rate, a special live edition of the Michigan Recruiting Insider.
1:08.3	It's been a long and widening road where we had so many guys make their way
1:15.6	to the studio. It was an unexpected detour. He muted. Who muted me? I'm muted. Your mic is
1:25.6	on your... Oh, okay. Okay, Here we go. Let's do this.
1:31.2	Now I'm on mute it. There we go. All right. Long and winding road. Long and winding road
1:36.8	to the studio. We had an interesting time this spring as a lot of guys made it made their way to the michigan insider
1:45.2	studio uh this spring we did not expect to have guys make their way to the studio like they did
1:52.3	it was a an unexpected journey what do we have 40 guys make their way by um we had long dreamed of having an opportunity to enter guys coming off of interview guys coming
2:06.1	off of visits and it was an interesting aside it changed the way we cover recruiting because
2:15.2	before as we followed recruiting it was kind of an interesting task
2:20.3	to try to determine who do we go see on the road. Well, this kind of focused us in the way
2:26.3	that we hadn't focused before. It allowed us to really understand who was really most serious
2:32.3	about Michigan, who was Michigan most serious about in ways that we
2:36.6	didn't really understand before, right? Really get some more insight in ways that we didn't have
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