Recapping Strong Close to 2021 Early Signing Period - Michigan Recruiting Insider
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🗓️ 17 December 2020
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Jaydon Hood joins Sam Webb at the beginning of the show with a surprise late signing. Brice Marich and Steve Lorenz join the show later to discuss Michigan hanging onto Xavier Worthy and Ja'Den McBurrows. The crew also discusses the significance of landing Donovan Edwards and highlight the strong finish to class despite rampant speculation about the future of the coaching staff. The crew fields listener questions on late signing period targets with an emphasis on Rayshaun Benny. They also discuss potential portal targets, top 2022 targets, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | No home. No address. No address. No bank account. No bank account. No job. No job. No home. No address. No bank account. No job. No bank account. No job. No home. It's time to break the vicious circle. We're working with charities like |
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| 0:30.1 | Welcome to the special wrap-up edition of the Michigan Insider podcast. We are trying a little |
| 0:35.8 | something different as we are bringing the podcast |
| 0:38.0 | to the video stream tonight with a couple of special guests in a breakdown with Steve Lorenz, |
| 0:44.1 | Bryce Merritt, and I breaking down the Michigan signing class of 2021 as the Wolverines had a big day. |
| 0:52.1 | They were able to hold on to the commitment of what Mr. Xavier worthy. |
| 0:56.0 | They were able to go ahead and add to the fold, the top running back in recent memory, |
| 1:02.9 | to commit to the University of Michigan, an elite prospect, and arguably the top target on |
| 1:08.8 | the board from start to finish. |
| 1:09.8 | I mean, when you put Donovan Edwards on the board and add him to J.J. McCarthy, the centerpiece of the class, |
| 1:16.5 | who we talked to earlier in the day, a guy who was a mainstay, a stadium force and presence for the University of Michigan in this obviously uncertain time. |
| 1:26.3 | The coaching staff, yeoman's effort to stave off a lot of |
| 1:31.2 | the negative recruiting that understandably comes anyway, but comes even more when you consider |
| 1:36.6 | that there is, you know, there's an extension to be signed. And that was a frank discussion that was |
| 1:42.0 | had with most of the recruits. Some were affected by it. |
| 1:45.4 | As the Wolverines had a couple of casualties in this year's recruiting class, they wound |
| 1:49.5 | up losing a guy in Quentin Somerville that had been committed for quite some time. |
| 1:53.5 | You know, he was a guy that was a Sean Neua special, a guy who was really, really tied |
| 1:59.7 | to the coaching staff and the coaches as much as he |
| 2:02.8 | was Michigan. |
| 2:03.4 | I think they made it a bridge too far in order to stay committed. |
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