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I'm pretty sure he did it on his own. I remember there was an article where he mentioned it would be kind of awkward being at Michigan with his brother on the other side of the rivalry.

According to MGoRecruiting on twitter Levenberry will announce on Tuesday. Don't know if its legit tho.

Nvm I'm 9 hours late haha didn't see it posted it in the 2013 Recruiting thread

Hopefully we win the toss!

Everybody is just guessing on this one.

Exactly, the scoop is giving his gut feeling at this point...

Here's one more far-fetched, wild, "seriously?" conspiracy theory from... me. So if you hate this stuff, I'll ask you to just skip it.

From my non-expert psycho analysis, ahem, EJ and his father was intent on playing the market and getting his value up. I think it's possible he hoped to rekindle interest from schools like Tennessee that weren't recruiting him as hard as they used to. So EJ was waiting, since he had nothing to lose. Or so he thought. Next thing you know 247 drops him about 200 spots. Definitely not what they were hoping for. But the real shock to the system was not getting in the ESPN150 list. So now, EJ starts getting worried that his stock might be falling. And it seems it'd be better if he sells before it drops some more. This might be the motivation behind moving up his announcement date to next week.

So which school is he going to choose? Seriously, I'm split right down the middle here. On one hand, you'd think he's had a change in perspective and chooses great coaching and stability(relatively), a program on the rise. On the other hand, he might appreciate a school that still views him as a star, appreciates it more than ever, and decides to go with them. OK I'm carefully saying Michigan, because even this past year he's seen his recruitment being affected by coaching changes at Oklahoma and Tennessee, and Sal Sunseri leaving Alabama. A Miami Herald's article on FSU last week starts with "Jimbo Fisher is running out of time" and I think coaching stability sways him to

To be fair though, the lead recruiter and LB coach from Bama who was in on Levenberry left, and with the way the family is approaching recruiting, they may not have wanted to wait around to see if the new coach liked EJ as much as Sunseri.

Sunseri did go to Tennessee as the DC, so you'd think they would've pushed hard for EJ, but who the heck would want to jump on board the Dooley ship right now? He's on very thin ice, to say the least..

Safe to say it was a rivals camp

Interesting, but I don't think there is much reason to believe that Michigan's offer is going to go away anytime before his senior year starts up.

If he is truly worried about his stock falling, then I gotta think he is going to FSU, not the school that has made it well known that he is at the top of their list from the beginning.

On the other hand, EJ and his father seem like the type that would be interested in a school who would be likely to pull a solid scholarship offer. So that scenario doesn't really work out to me either way.

I believe EJ and his family do not think there is any more reason to continue the recruiting process. That means that he either was blown away by the spring game visit (he did give it a 10/10), or he thinks he was everything Michigan had to offer and he still preferred FSU.

Unfortunately, my gut is leaning towards the latter.

TOS appears to think positively about UMs chances

but i still think everyone is guessing

EJ is extremely raw, but has some solid upside....I think Mattison sees that and can mold him in our defense. I would have liked to see the speed of O'Daniel in our defense, because EJ more so fits the mold of Gedeon and McCray. Again, Clifton Garrett in '14 is my top LB to get for that class.

Correct. If Hutchings wants to visit and commit, my opinion is the coaches would take him in a second. I just think it's unlikely, so until he sets up a visit I'm not really thinking our chances are good.