4-Star RB Mike Weber's high school coach had some very interesting things to say about Urban Meyer on Detroit Sports 105.1 Friday morning...and Michigan fans will fill find some of it very relevant to their own school's recruiting future.
Mike Weber attends Cass Tech, one of the top football schools in Detroit, and he picked the Buckeyes shortly after he de-committed from Michigan during last season's loss to Maryland. The coach who brought him to Columbus was Stan Drayton, but Drayton announced Thursday that he was leaving Ohio State for the Chicago Bears. Weber had no idea Drayton was leaving, and he and his high school coach Thomas Wilcher were understandably less than thrilled.
Weber has removed all mentions of Ohio State from his personal Twitter profile, and he's reportedly considering his options. His coach feels Weber was willfully deceived by Meyer and the OSU program, and here's what he had to say about it:
"I think Urban Meyer will have to step his game up; we're going to have to talk. He has come to my school and got the No. 1 athlete two years in a row. You cannot come over here, come up to the north and walk out of here with your pockets full and not give us respect. That's not gonna happen again, I can tell you that right now."
Wilcher isn't mad at Drayton for going after a bigger career opportunity, but he's furious about how that information was withheld from his star player.
"He wanted to stay committed, he wanted to show he understands about commitment. That's what he showed Ohio State in the end," Wilcher said. "They're at least supposed to show him the same type of courtesy. It's a black eye on the university. They're out there getting these young men under false pretenses. That's why Mike decommitted from Michigan, because he didn't know who the coach was gonna be. Now you've got that same type of uncertainty again."
If Weber does end up at Michigan after all, he'd first have to be cleared to transfer by OSU's athletic department, then sit out a year per NCAA regulations. While that option is no doubt on the table, it sounds like Weber and his family are still very much undecided about their next step.
The big takeaway here? It sounds like as long as Wilcher is head coach at Cass Tech, it'll be much harder for Ohio State to drop in and poach his best players. Since Tech routinely produces star college athletes on a yearly basis and they're right in Jim Harbaugh's new back yard, that's good news for the Wolverines.
Stay tuned to our Michigan Football page for more on this story as it develops.
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