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March 2013 - Signing Day Edition

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the back, and it was because Taco had committed on the bus. It was pretty cool.��� Charlton: ���Everyone was telling me they needed me to finish the day off. At first I wasn���t going to do it, but after the basketball game and all of the adrenaline, I wanted to do it. I was on a high and I wanted to keep it going. ���We were coming back to Schembechler Hall after the game, and I committed. People were telling me that a lot of other guys had already committed, and that���s when there was this talk that if I wanted to, I could be the last one and really make it a huge day. I talked to my mom and dad and they said it was OK.��� By then, the gears were fully in motion. Even though he wasn���t on the visit, Fox called that night to commit. Fox: ���First of all, I knew for a long time ��� ever since I did their summer camp, pretty much. And I thought ���Why not do it?��� so I did it.��� Borges: ���It was exciting and unprecedented in my career. I have coached a long time, and I don���t know if that will ever happen again. It was cool, with the basketball game and everything.��� Head coach Brady Hoke (shown at the Feb. 18, 2012, Michigan-Ohio State basketball game) picked up commitments from eight of the 27 players in the class of 2013 on that weekend. photo by per kjeldsen The commitments kept coming, late into the next day, as the recruits were arriving back home and talking over their decision with family and high school coaches. Sunday, Butt called to inform the coaches he was committing, closely

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