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          On The Trail

          Best of the visits: Big Ten

          • Tom VanHaaren, ESPN Staff WriterNov 23, 2014, 03:49 PM
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            • Joined ESPN in 2011
            • Graduated from Central Michigan
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          It wouldn’t be a real visit weekend in college football without a giant cookie cake, and that’s exactly what wide receiver Cameron Stewart was greeted with on his visit to Nebraska.

          Cookie cakes are one of the more popular recruiting tools when it comes to social media posts and the Cornhuskers put together an excellent looking cookie cake.

          There were no cookies tweeted from Michigan State's visiting targets, but there were plenty of happy faces after the big win against Rutgers.

          ESPN Jr. 300 tight end Luke Farrell tweeted a few pictures after his visit and showed off his view. Farrell was joined by fellow ESPN Jr. 300 target Sean Foster, who got to meet Spartans basketball coach Tom Izzo on the trip. The Spartans had a lot of important prospects in attendance and the victory was a big deal for their recruiting efforts, but the bigger story might have been what happened in Ann Arbor to rival Michigan.

          The Wolverines hosted a few big targets of their own, including Florida State receiver commit Auden Tate. Since the game was against Maryland, it only made sense that a few prospects from the state of Maryland would come check out the game. That list included ESPN Jr. 300 targets Devery Hamilton and Ellison Jordan as well as Stephen Spanellis. Unfortunately for the Wolverines the game ended in a loss and further uncertainty about the future of coach Brady Hoke and his staff. With a 5-6 record and its last game coming against Ohio State, the outlook is dim.

          In-state ESPN 300 running back Mike Weber might have added insult to injury when he tweeted that he was decommitting from Michigan almost immediately after Maryland scored its go ahead touchdown in the game. Weber wasn't visiting Michigan, but had just come off a big playoff loss of his own and decided he had seen enough. The Michigan coaches have now lost seven ESPN 300 commits in the 2015 class and there is potential to lose more as tight end Chris Clark is planning visits as well.

          Clark is the highest-ranked commit Michigan has left and he took to Twitter after the game to express his disappointment.