Will be visiting Brady Smigiel in-home tomorrow, per his father. He will be on campus this weekend for a visit.

Michigan very much in the mix here.

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Hey guys! My name is Aidan and I am an Aussie Michigan fan who has been reporting insider recruiting intel for the last few months over on X, but am super excited to be joining the team here at the Maize&Blue Review. Big shoutout to fellow-Aussie Josh Henschke for the support and time he has taken to help me settle in, and I can't wait to get to work and begin interacting with you guys.

Hit me up below if you have any questions!

The latest in this big Recruiting Rumor Mill:

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Not exactly sure how I feel about this. Could potentially punish player/team for actually being injured. The key here is after the ball has been spotted. So, you can’t go down when the other team is already lined up. Coaches are probably going to start instructing players that if they’re hurt, even if not entirely sure, go down right away.

The MAIN issue I have is that you can still fake injuries this way. Opponent gets a big play? Fake an injury right after the whistle. Can’t hurry up, still get your free timeout.

• 4 ⭐️ EDGE Ja'bios Smith out of Swainsboro, GA (spoke about him in a thread posted earlier today)
• 4 ⭐️ EDGE Ba'Roc Willis out of Moody, AL
• 4 ⭐️ LB Max Brown out of Jefferson, GA
• 4 ⭐️ LB Isaiah Phelps out of Oxnard, CA
• 4 ⭐️ LB Braylon Williams out of Arlington, TX
• 3 ⭐️ LB Ausar Heard out of Atco, NJ
• 3 ⭐️ LB Brandon Lockley Jr. out of Philadelphia, PA
• 3 ⭐️ LB Kobe Rhymes out of North Kansas City, MO
• LB Colton McKibben out of Carlsbad, NM
• S Gayron Hobbs out of Louisville, KY

Recruiting analyst Avery Bean has taken on an increased role in the recruiting department this Spring, offering all the 2027 prospects listed above.

Will have more intel out on all of these prospects and where they stand on Michigan following their recent offers later today in this thread, so stay tuned.

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Michigan offered 4 ⭐️ 2027 LB Ja'bios "Bigfoot" Smith today (or yesterday Detroit time?) out of Swainsboro, GA. Got a chance to speak to Ja'bios following the offer.

"Michigan is definitely a school that I’m interested in learning more about, and hopefully, at some point, I would love to visit. I’ve heard about the Big House, but being from Georgia, I haven’t had an opportunity to visit."

"Right now, I’m open to everyone who is interested in me. I would definitely say a program as successful as Michigan is one that definitely has my attention, and I look forward to getting to know the coaches and planning a trip, hopefully sooner rather than later."

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Nothing major here, and reading reports he's looking like a South Carolina lean, but just another name to take note of. 2027 is going to be a big-time class for Michigan: don't be surprised if it's even better than the 2025 class 👀

My Good News is spring ball appears to have been productive. I expect to fill some holes with portal, the Tigers are playing good baseball, and Dusty May is a workaholic.

It's Super Bowl week! Well, it's the Super Bowl for Christians. Happy Easter!

Easter is upon us, and it is the holiest of all holidays.
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What's your good news?

Go Blue!

https://michigan.rivals.com/news/mike-debord-former-michigan-assistant-coach-has-passed

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Now it really is the pros… With hold outs and everything.

https://michigan.rivals.com/news/michigan-rb-benjamin-hall-expected-to-enter-transfer-portal

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If you do, this is your guy.

Looking ahead to to Saturday's Michigan spring game.
Breakdown
Open 00:00-7:13
Spring notes 7:14-13:47
Portal 13:48-22:35
Top things to look for Saturday 22:36-31:00
Feedback 31:0101:09:10
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The big OL from Missouri. How the f...is OSU in his top 4?

Dead at 91

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Highlights:

1. Keene is getting healthy, has been throwing this week
2. Derrick Moore and DL have stood out, feels great about depth
3. Players love Chip, brings new twist/wrinkle to the Michigan offense with passing and personnel
4. Texts Brady often, thinks that Brady texts Bryce even more often
5. Bryce is a grinder almost to a fault, "sometimes you gotta go sleep man"
6. WR room feels deeper than it has in seasons past

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Of interest Andrew Babalola was the first overall pick. I’m assuming certain players were assigned to different teams before hand and were undraftable (Underwood on one team and Davis on another).

Aidan’s first story has Intel from over the weekend.

I don’t have much intel coming out of the visit. I could sit here and make an individual thread on each guy and say the “visit was good” and be accurate but why waste your time?

I don’t think Michigan is having recruiting troubles, not at all, I just think they’re not in a position where they’re going to land any guys right away. This summer is for gaining ground and the rest will take care of itself.

We’ll obviously get reactions when we get them but just wanted to let you all know what’s going on, we’re not forgetting about recruiting, it’s just been quiet.

Some exciting site news coming in the very near future. Stay tuned. I’m excited for it.

A lawyer representing some of the victims of Matt Weiss' computer hacking did a Reddit thread taking questions earlier today. Some interesting information came out of it, and you'd be shocked to learn MSU and OSU fans got involved trying to connect it to football....

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Any victim of Weiss' hacking was notified by the DOJ and FBI directly. Assuming it took them awhile to accumulate all those involved. Must have been a horrible feeling for them to find out their privacy had been invaded in such a horrific way.

The question to be answered is when Michigan knew Weiss was behind the hacks that were caught on Michigan systems. They know he accessed accounts between December 21, 2022 to December 23, 2022. They alerted police on Jan. 5. Obviously, he was suspended and then fired by Jan 21. Michigan's playoff game against TCU was on December 31. Now it's very likely Michigan knew about the improper access, but didn't know it was Weiss until days later. But this is a sticking point rival fans are now holding onto, the idea Michigan waited until after the playoff game to act. The lawyer says there is no evidence of that but they are trying to fill in the full timeline.

She states in the thread he was only looking for personal photos when someone suggests it's about football. Someone also asks why Michigan seems to keep having issues, she points out Michigan State, Penn State, Ohio State, USC, etc all have had issues.

Michigan's involvement as a defendant in the suits is for a failure to protect the systems the Weiss hacked into, not for anything regarding their behavior or actions with Weiss. Now, if timelines show they did not act soon enough, or ignored evidence, that will change, but the lawyer says there is no evidence of that at this time.

....long term is Chase Herbstreit.

I would guess he will stay until he graduates.

He will have 3 years to develop and could be a great gap guy until a big time QB is ready to start.