As you all probably know by now, Detroit Southeastern wide receiver Fred Smith picked Michigan State over Michigan yesterday. The news of this stings really for various reasons. First, Smith is a great player and Michigan went after him hard. Second, he ended up at Michigan State, meaning the Wolverines lost a recruiting battle to their rivals. Finally, Smith was a U-M lean all week until things drastically changed over the weekend, leading to this eventual bad news for the Maize and Blue.
I won't get into the details of everything that happened, but here's the basics. Smith took one more visit to Michigan State on what I want to say was Saturday (not completely positive) and things began to change. Despite his family being decided on Michigan at a Saturday dinner, Smith went from being a heavy lean for Michigan to being 50-50. After calling around, the wide receiver was also told that he could play basketball if he wanted at Michigan State, meaning Tom Izzo was in contact with Smith one way or another. At this point, the 50-50 mindset started to switch to an MSU lean, but Smith still wasn't positive it appeared.
When Sunday rolled around, the 6 p.m. announcement was actually off at one point I believe. Just as they had before though, things changed again and it was put back on. By then, Smith was set on MSU and made it official by publicly making the decision. As I said, losing Smith to the Spartans stings. He luckily isn't a make or break recruit since Michigan has pretty good depth at wide receiver, but you never want to lose a great player either.
Monday, August 6, 2007
What Happened with Fred Smith
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6 comments:
When Smith realizes he was bamboozled and that he really won't be able to play basketball, he'll fell like the jerk that he is by going to a team where his talent will be wasted. At least he'll have pretty girls to look at.
Just shows that Izzo can recruit football talent too. Tom Izzo is Michigan State. Not only does he dominate the in state basketball recruiting, now he's stealing football talent away from "our" sport. And I TOTALLY agree that Smith will have "pretty girls" to look at in East Lansing.
Name one two sport athlete that was able to make it to the next level, and ask yourself does Mr. Smith have the same level of talent. Answ. No.
Conclusion Mr Smith is either a fool or a buffoon. Either way he ended up at the correct school and would never have made it as a maze and blue man.
anon,
Only one name comes to mind. Charlie Ward who played basketball and football and ended up playing basketball when he wasn't drafted in the first round of the NFL draft.
He was also that year's Heisman trophy winner.
Btw, Smith can always change his mind and go with UM.
That's OK, Carr still may be able to reel in better talented wideouts like Floyd and Walker.
GO BLUE!!!
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