Quote Originally Posted by Bluedog View Post
Yep. Apparently, our DB coach, Derek Jones, recruited him. Looks like he had 30+ offers, including from the likes of Harvard, UPenn, Notre Dame, Vanderbilt, Michigan, Florida State.

http://rivals.yahoo.com/michigan/foo...ne-Lyons-94559

Not saying that your premise is necessarily wrong FDA. Just that it does look like Cutcliffe was on top of this one. That's just a heckuva lot of competition. Remember, rivals for football and scout for basketball.
Yes, should have checked the rivals offer list which is most often the more reliable. And, his grades apparently improved since the scout profile, 4.96, with 1230 two part SAT. That makes we offered 2 out of 9 of the 4 star kids who committed to Stanford. Lyons committed to Stanford after Harbaugh announced he was leaving. Its much more the school than many realize among this type of student athlete.

To the other poster, Patrick Bailey showed up as 2 star on rivals, but that was an inaccurate assessment, if in fact he was ever evaluted by that service. I'd have to put him in that category of elite recruit, very good student whom we have landed in the past (because we offered) notwithstanding the state of Duke Football. He picked Duke over http://rivals.yahoo.com/duke/footbal...1wQJmG.yyQrpB4 and had offers from Notre Dame, Arizona, Michigan State, Rice.

A useful tool for the staff, if they dont have their system in place to find among the elite recruits the better students, rivals recruit search facilitates a search by any interest level among schools, either or, such as Stanford, Rice, Northwestern, or Duke. What happens when you do this is that the highest ranked recruits are listed first. Chances are if recruits list Stanford, Northwestern as schools of interest, when you check the bio, these kids are good students, and the list starts with 5 star and descends from there. A lot of good student prospects - I would have to think would like to hear from Duke as well.