Michigan Thursday: Look at all these Rumors

One of the benefits or non-benefits of blogs are that they report "rumors" that could become fact or could just be fiction. 

The hottest rumor that was flying around last night and reported/tweeted by a professional model and sometime Big Ten Network reporter was that Tate Forcier had requested a transfer.  She quickly pulled the "tweet" and TomVH from Mgoblog quickly pulled her credibility by calling Tate's dad and finding out there wasn't any truth to the report.   Whoops!

This next rumor comes off the Mgoblog message board that JT Turner is planning to enroll at West Virgina on Monday.  At this point, this rumor seems to lean more towards Fiction then Fact but WVU did recruit the him out of high school and is about 3 hours from him hometown.   More to come.  I still wish he would get committed to playing for Michigan and get back in camp, but I guess that's just me wishful thinking again.

• Remember all the reports from practice from the Big Ten Network last week?  Well that program air's tonight at 8:00 Eastern.  Will Tate have wings?  I'm guessing he won't.

• SI.com's Stuart Madel on Michigan Football today.

• Pete Bigelow from Ann Arbor.com profiles the Wingless Helmets but also throws in a past NCAA violation by Lloyd Carr making Arrington run the stairs at the Big House:  For 60 straight days, Adrian Arrington woke before the sun rose and reported to Michigan Stadium at 6 a.m.  Each morning, he ran up and down the Big House stairs until he was exhausted. Each morning, the talented-but-troubled wide receiver awoke eager to do it again.The stair runs preserved his place on the Michigan football team. Arrington had violated team rules, and former Michigan coach Lloyd Carr used the grueling dawn workouts as a disciplinary technique.   This is an example of disciplining a player in the summer months, which was called out in the NCAA's report regarding Michigan's violations.   Pete's article points out that Wingless helmets are RR's way to get a point across to players that make mistakes.  The difference is: one is an NCAA violation the other isn't.