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'11 CO OLB Leilon Willingham (Signed to Central Florida)

ESPNU just did their segment on michigan not one mention of Leilon even talked about school closures affecting signings but used a different guy as an example. That should piss him off
 
Shldr2Shldr said:
leilon is clearly not as important to michigan as he is CU. The choice seems pretty obvious to me.
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In addition to a number of other reasons this is why if I were a neutral advisor I would recommend CU to him. Michigan gets one kid per decade out of Colorado, they aren't worried about how they are seen by the HS coaches and players. If a midwestern kid and Lelion are even close the midwestern kid is going to get the preference.

At CU Lelion is seen as a link to the community, a guy who is going to be looked at by other Colorado kids. CU can't afford to screw him over without future recruits knowing about it.

He can get a great education at both places, in both places he would be joining a program that is trying to come back after a number of disapointing seasons. The difference is that at Michigan, despite what the recruiting coaches tell him, he will be just another guy. At CU he will be a building block.
 
MtnBuff said:
In addition to a number of other reasons this is why if I were a neutral advisor I would recommend CU to him. Michigan gets one kid per decade out of Colorado, they aren't worried about how they are seen by the HS coaches and players. If a midwestern kid and Lelion are even close the midwestern kid is going to get the preference.

At CU Lelion is seen as a link to the community, a guy who is going to be looked at by other Colorado kids. CU can't afford to screw him over without future recruits knowing about it.

He can get a great education at both places, in both places he would be joining a program that is trying to come back after a number of disapointing seasons. The difference is that at Michigan, despite what the recruiting coaches tell him, he will be just another guy. At CU he will be a building block.
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I agree. I think here he could help lead this team to big things, similar to what happened with macs class with embree. Mac got all of the building blocks that year and had them all national champions by the time they graduated. Embree is doing this the right way and I think Leilon would be much better off coming here.
 
Okay heres what I'm hearing straight from a Mullen source... Leilon was ready to commit/sign to UCF and his parents and Brady are pulling hard for CU, his parents DO NOT want him going to UCF at all. This has got to be really hard for him.
 
Remember, Junior Seau and, I'm pretty sure Fred Jones' parent(s) would not sign the LOI. Seau wanted to come to CU but his dad would not sign and he finally relented and went to USC. Jones', I'm pretty sure it was him, mom would not sign for him to come to CU but, I think, he waited until he was 18 and didn't need her signature and signed himself.
 
Seems like an idea that wasn't well thought out. If he's got a choice of CU, UM, ASU, and UCF, there is one clear choice that you DO NOT make and it's UCF.
 
Tough for the kid. Go to school with your best friend looks pretty good when you are 18 and do not really have to look at your future. Hell it is four or five years away. Sounds like his parents are trying to steer him into a better decision
 
On Scout, UCF only shows two players signing their LOI, WIllingham and a JC guy. I would guess that might not be accurate.
 
Now I am hearing rumblings Willingham may not have actually signed the LOI.....can anyone confirm?:hmmm:
 
Well, embo said 1 or 2 kids more. Lucien is out. So its nembot in, with willingham being the wildcard.
 
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