WR/RB Drew Dileo - 2010 Michigan Commit

[Mike]

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Had offers from Tulane, Stanford, and Michigan. Sounds like a decent fit. I think Fred Jackson is a good guy. Hopefully their offense will be better tuned by the time Dileo gets there.

 

[StarWars]

He should go to Stanford, they know talent when they see it. They aren't afraid of the production a white runningback can give.

 

[ToughJ.Riggins]

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Had offers from Tulane, Stanford, and Michigan. Sounds like a decent fit. I think Fred Jackson is a good guy. Hopefully their offense will be better tuned by the time Dileo gets there.

Yeah Fred does seem like a great guy, b/c he stood up for McGuffie. He said Sam was their best back to the media at the beginning of the season. (McGuffie came on strong for 3 games mid-season, but then got 2 concussions). Brandon Minor then became a good replacement, because he just ran through people with virtually no good holes opening up.

Guff had trouble making yards sometimes when he got hit by the LOS with all the penetration into the backfield. I read on some message board that Fred apologized to some media outlet for saying Guff should have played when Guff was concerned about his own health after his first concussion (Guff went on to have a second concussion after sitting out one week). The team said the first concussion was a "LIKELY" concussion and very slight, but they may have been wrong. The latest is that Sam "possibly" had as many as 3 concussions. Sitting out a year could actually be good for him in that situation. RR shouldn't have put him on kickoff return at Ohio State two weeks later. Sam started to look less confident as a returner by that time.

I think if Dileo goes to Michigan he is likely to get switched to slot WR under Rich Rodriquez with all the backs they have brought in. I hope I'm wrong and he gets into the rotation at RB though.

 

[Mike]

TJ:

If you watch his highlights I think he could be a good return man at the college level. I also think he is a real solid blocker who should excel in that slot role. A lot of Michigan fans seem down on this commitment. I've seen people question why this team is taking a "lowly three star white guy" who only had offers from smaller schools.

Say what you want about coach Jackson, but for him to go after any kid (white or black) with those kinds of offers says that he thinks on his own when it comes to evaluating players. He's not just going to offer the "it" guys because he's at Michigan, and he's going to target kids who he thinks can help his team. I respect that in a coach, and that is why I think Dileo's commitment is a good one so long as Michigan gets their O-line in order.

 

[FootballDad]

It's nice to see that Michigan is looking forward to this outstanding player. Here is a recent article along with his HS highlights.....




Parkview (La.) Baptist coach Kenny Guillot pegged Drew Dileo as a game-changing return man the minute he stepped on campus four years ago.


"I've been coaching a long time and I remember an old pro scout told me many years ago, when a guy can make the first guy miss"Â￾ that's a dangerous weapon, Guillot said. "He does a great job of making the first guy miss."Â￾


And the second, and occasionally the whole team.


A slot back/receiver/return man who plans to sign with the Michigan football team on Wednesday, Dileo set a slew of offensive records for a Parkview program that routinely competes for state championships.


He caught 73 career passes for 1,193 yards and 14 touchdowns - all school records in Parkview's triple-option offense. He's the only Parkview player to ever top 1,000 yards rushing, receiving and on returns - his 5,067 total yards are another all-time mark. And the three-year starter finished his career with four kickoffs and three punts returned for touchdown.


So what's his primary position?


"All of the above,"Â￾ Guillot said. "We'd spread it out and throw it to him, we'd bring him in and let him run it. He was return man. Shoot, when it got late in the game, if we needed him at cornerback we'd throw him in at corner, too."Â￾
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Dileo, who projects as a slot receiver and return specialist at Michigan, led Parkview to one state championship, another state finals appearance and a 38-4 record in his three seasons on varsity.


He also won two state baseball titles, though he's giving up that sport this year to concentrate on track and get ready for college football.


That he left the Deep South is something of a coup, though it's not entirely surprising to those who know him.


Dileo, 5-foot-9 and 170 pounds, grew up a Michigan fan and committed almost on the spot when the Wolverines offered a scholarship after seeing his highlight tape last year.


"He wanted to commit right away, and I didn't know much about Drew's background with Michigan,"Â￾ Guillot said. "I saw his mom at a baseball game and she said, ‘Well, you know Coach, he loves Michigan, he always has.' I said, ‘Really?' He has a quilt on his bed with Michigan on it. He was always kidded by his friends because he was a big Michigan fan."Â￾


So big that Dileo barely even entertained interest from several Southeastern Conference schools that called during the season.


When Guillot told LSU coach Les Miles of Dileo's decision, Miles, a former Michigan player and assistant coach who wasn't recruiting Dileo, responded, "He's going to the second best school in the country."


"He's just a humble, humble kid,"Â￾ Guillot said. "When everyone's leaving, he's the one in the weight room putting up weights. We have guest speakers every Thursday and have pizza, he's always there picking up the pizza boxes and stuff like that.


"We like our kids to stay humble and hungry. We preach that to them and preach to them about (being) team players. We talked to Coach Rodriguez about that, and he said one of the things he felt like he had to overcome when he first got to Michigan, there was a lot of I going on."Â￾