Holmes said commitment was too early

Detroit Ford athlete Dwayne Holmes is one of the top players in the state of Michigan. However, early in the recruiting process he said he wasn’t feeling the love from the college coaches. So when Purdue offered him a scholarship, he jumped on it. But now Holmes said that leap to a commitment might have been premature.

“I got excited at the time and Purdue was the first school to offer me,” Holmes, who is 6-foot-2 and 235 pounds, said. “Nobody else was sending me offers, letters or calling me. Purdue really talked to me about the little stuff – things outside of football. They talked to me about the classroom and what I wanted out of life, and I really liked that. That just got me really excited, and I jumped on their offer.”

But now that he’s had some time to think about it – and more time to earn offers from other teams – he’s not so sure that he considers himself committed.

“I’m shopping around now,” he said. “I want to see what’s out there. I’m going to go down to Purdue on one of my visits for sure, but I get five visits and I think that I’m going to take them all.”

Especially now that he has some new impressive scholarship offers on the table.

Purdue, Michigan State, Wisconsin, Colorado and Indiana are his top five teams and all have offered scholarships, along with Illinois.

“It was weird to see that Michigan State finally came through with an offer,” Holmes said. “They hadn’t sent me a whole lot until it was almost the end of May. I was wondering if I was good enough for them. I guess I’m not good enough for Michigan and that’s going to be their mistake in the end.”

This summer, Holmes said he’s not going to camp anywhere and has been just working out at school, trying to get better.

“I’ve been working on detailing me,” Holmes said. “You know how you detail a car and clean up the little things. That’s what I’m doing this summer. I’m detailing me like I’m a car. I’m working on my speed – the minor things like cuts, my change in direction and other mechanics that I can work on.”

And he’s been pleased with the results, so far.

“I’m already a lot faster,” he said. “I want to be down to a 4.5 in the 40 by the end of the summer.”