TJ attended the elementary school 200 yards from my house when he lived in A2 and was a classmate of my son for eight years. They played sports both with and against each other for years.
They were playing 7th grade BB together when Ty got the job at Syracuse and both said they wanted to return to A2; TJ to play at UM and Ty to replace Fred Jackson. If not for the Hoke implosion, TJ would have been a UM lock. But over the last five years things changed and he evolved into a top 100 recruit.
It might be too late to reel him in but I will say he and his family (esp dad) are very tight and they have a lot of family in SE MI. He has a bunch of younger siblings so it's not as though his parents will be able to jump on a plane to go see him play in LA, for example.
I'd say it's 60:40 in favor of UM at this point.
This post was edited on 1/29 8:23 AM by Aoichi