When Jim Harbaugh took his first Michigan team in his first game to Utah against Kyle Whittingham many of us knew that was going to be a tall task. Michigan was debuting the Jordan brand and Utah was debuting their new apparel provider Under Armour. UA has a saying "Protect This House" and I think Coach Whitt took that saying to heart and is doing his best to keep the Michigan roster intact right now.
-Bryce is back!
-Andrew Babalola is back!
-Blake Frazier is back!
Yes, we are at the stage in College Football that you have to announce your not leaving. The Coaches are working hard to keep Sullivan but Oklahoma is putting on the full court press. I would also love to hear from Justice and Marsh that they are both staying in Ann Arbor as well.
- Former MSU and Michigan Safety Jaden Mangham is signing with Purdue. Good Luck Jaden.
- Michigan RB Bryson Kuzdal is heading to the portal. If Justice stays, Bryson is too good to be 4th string.
- Mikely Keene is also heading to the portal. I just don't understand this situation at all. His best pass in Ann Arbor was a TD to Will Johnson.
- Elijah Dotson is visiting Missouri and then to Texas AM
- Mike Hart is the new WR coach at Eastern Michigan
- I'm old enough to remember when Sam Leavitt and Brandon Sorsby were average Big10 QB's and not worth anywhere near $5M a year.
- Highly ranked 2026 Utah commit WR Salesi Moa has enrolled at Utah. There was some smoke he could ask out of his LOI and head to A2.
- Greg Crippen is heading to the NFL Draft, best of luck Big Man!
- Utah CB Smith Snowden will visit A2 soon.
- Utah DE John Henry Daley is visiting ND, Daley is a Junior and we know what obstacles having a Jr. transfer to Michigan is.
- Michigan lost 4 recruits in Bear McWhorter, Brady Marchese, Matt Ludwig and now Andre Clark. Mason Bonner is a question mark and the rest of the class is either solid or enrolled.
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What are the obstacles of having a junior transfer to Michigan?
First of all, this is pure conjecture ..... but Michigan degree is highly rated, and they are not going to cheapen it by allowing students to get a two -year degree and then finish off with a degree from Michigan. I digress to anyone that knows more than me.
Kids are going into the portal looking to get paid. When they dont, they usually return (with their tail between their legs).
Michigan's credits are ridiculously strict on transfers. Been costing us recruits for decades. Reminds me of that Ohio St. player that said, "I ain't here to play school". Lol
UofM requires at least half of your credits towards your degree to be from UofM to get a UofM degree. Assuming it’s 120 credits required, all 90 credits transferred from Utah, the player would need to get 150 total (60 from UofM) to graduate. A junior transfer is essentially throwing away a year of credits.
Some players being paid to play football might care less about achieving a degree in 4-5 years and having credits tossed out would be secondary to them if the $ made sense, but that's where the NCAA comes in and controls who's academically eligible to play, that is achieving adequate scholastic progress to participate
That's why we miss out on multiple players each year who would love to transfer to Michigan.
We need to start getting some incoming portal guys, especially WRs. Prob had to wait for the new coaches to do player evaluations before going after new guys. I'd love to be a fly on the wall in Whitt's staff meetings.
Demar Dorsey comes to mind. Poor Rich Rod.
applying transfer credits. so Fr and So credits are consider lower level courses and generally easier to apply from other universities. where Jr and Sr credits are considered upper class level and some schools (Michigan) have very high in not impossible barriers to applying them. I've heard that's the issue at Michigan. Harbaugh had a major issue with the admissions office.
IMHO - I think its a little silly to have a big time NIL program have such stringent admissions for student athletes. I think the argument that it cheapens the degrees is stupid. Nobody's going to look a Michigan degree differently cause some football player caught a break. In 2026 the idea of student athletes is a fantasy. NIL killed that fairytale.
and the whole student athlete thing is a fantasy anymore. NIL has destroyed that illusion. in reality most of these players are professional athletes that are affiliated with the University. Mendoza...the IU QB, he admitted all his classes are online....wtf....OSU does the same thing. you want to tell me Michigan is different? oh ok...I got ocean front property for you in Idaho. College sports, i.e. football and men's basketball = BIG BUSINESS. nothing more
Schools also set their eligibility, but its all a joke now. its pro football, where guys are getting paid. the student athlete went the way of the Dodo bird. many schools, all the football players only take online classes....no who's really sitting there and attending online class?
MM: Dorsey couldn't even get into SEC schools. he ended up at one of those football mill JUCOs. I had heard rumors they kid couldn't even read.
Underwood is now staying. He received 10mil for coming. If he would have left would he have to pay anything back? If not does he get another deal? Was the 10mil for one year or however long he stays? How does that NIL crap work? FYI,,,, didn't seem to be worth 10mil,,, IMO....
I think I see the light (with the help of others), Michigan wants you to attend their university for at least 2 years: so as to prevent people from getting two or three years (like from Owens Tech Toledo) and then transferring to Michigan to say they got a degree there. But an exception should be made to deal with Portal, and NIL. Too rigid of system. Chowman is right, that a great part of the portal is just Mercenaries willing to play for who pays the most. I guess Bo"s famous quote .... "the team ... the team .... the team" means nothing anymore (mostly).
someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but I think in state transfers, i.e. MSU to UofM or CMU to UofM, all credits transfer if both schools are publicly funded. I thought I read that some where.
I've always been proponent of UM enforcing academics....until now. Listen, college football is all about the $$ associated with the uniform. Screw the academics. It's a profession now so stop enforcing some faux academic standard. The players will graduate, or not, but it has nothing to do with the market of college football now....that's the nature of the game. As for Hart, good for him, he gets a 2nd chance. Besides, now the administrators are saying "well, he got a DUI but he ain't no Sherone Moore!"
Welcome to the dark side Rudy.....lol
he wasn't going anywhere. Nobody else was paying him what Michigan was paying him. UofM fans have to be honest with themselves. BU wasn't any good last year. you want to blame that on the staff? cool, but he was exactly what you'd expect out of a true freshman QB: more bad than good.
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