Plymouth (MI) offensive lineman Michael Jordan (no, not THAT Michael Jordan), listed by Rivals.com as a 2016 4-star recruit and the 4th best prospect in his class the state of Michigan, verbally committed to Ohio State today, choosing tOSU over Michigan, Michigan State, and Notre Dame, among others. The reason he chose Ohio State? “I committed there because of academics,” Jordan told the Detroit Fee Press.
http://www.freep.com/story/sports/high-school/2015/05/07/michigan-football-michael-jordan/70981312/
COMMENT: Anyone that clueless belongs at Ohio State.
Seriously, he said OSU has both his major, international business, and his minor, Chinese. “At Michigan, they didn’t have my minor,” Jordan said.
Seriously? This kid wasn’t bright enough to figure out that Michigan has “one of the largest and most established Chinese language programs in North America” (according to the school’s website)? Or that you CAN minor in Chinese at Michigan, only they’ll call it the “Asian Languages and Culture Academic Minor”? It requires as a prerequisite 2 years or 4th-term proficiency in an Asian language (e.g., Chinese), and to fulfill the minor, two 300-level courses in that same Asian language (Chinese), plus two courses on the culture associated with the language studied (China), at least one of which must be at the 300 level. But if this kid didn’t have the wherewithal to figure out you can do that at Michigan, I doubt he has the academic chops to succeed in a very tough program at Ross, plus minor in Chinese, plus play football. So maybe he’s better off at tOSU.