Recruiting never stops and Michigan now has a commit from a young man that hasn't even played his junior year of high school football yet. That new commit is 6'6 280 pound offensive lineman Giovanni El-Hadi from Sterling Heights.
Its always good to get a jump on recruiting and Giovanni will be a good player to track as he continues to add weight, muscle, and learns his position on the offensive line.
- Former Ohio State QB Tate Martell has received a waiver to play at Miami right away. I guess the NCAA doesn't care about the "hardship" part of the waiver any longer and free agency is open for business. Tate's hardship was that OSU had a 5 star transfer QB. Expect Aubrey Solomon to get one as well.
- Michigan made the top 5 for 2020 WR Maliq Carr from Oak Park. Other teams include: Texas AM, LSU, ND, and Purdue. He is ranked as a 3 star WR but is 6'6 and 230 pounds.
- Former Michigan player and grad assistant Allen Gant has got a paying job as the DB coach for Slippery Rock. Congrats to Allen!
- Michigan also announced two chances for fans to view the Wolverines this Spring. An open practice on April 6 at 2:15 p.m. and the spring game will be held April 13 at 5 p.m.
- Ohio State has their Pro Day today.
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Free agency in college football is here. Expect any freshman who thinks they should start and doesn’t to be recruited by other schools with an open position. This is no way helps the kids grow up and learn to make themselves better. If NCAA doesn’t change and re-enforce transfer stipulations than college football will become chaos. Recruiting while even be enrolled will never stop. I’m not against true hardship transfers if proven and actually like graduate transfers since that enforces the correct idea of get a degree and educate yourself, but college free agency will ruin the game and kids becoming productive adults.
M Don, I see your point and it's a good one. It would be great if the concern was really about the student athlete, but we all know that the backstory of all of this craziness has to do with money to be made by the school, the conference, the media, and so forth. IMHO!!!
I'm totally ok with people doing what they believe is in their best interest. I dont think free agency at the collegant level is a problem at all. Seems like some are hitting the panic button a bit early. Just my thoughts.
Goose-well I can respect your point a view I don't think I could disagree with you more. That does nothing for kid who can't learn to deal with adversity, the school who is trying to recruit good players, helping them grow as athletes, and educate them for a lifetime (albeit some schools more than others) or for the college game as whole. Handlers, agents, coaches, etc, will take advantage of free agency for recruits and many kids lack wisdom to make the best decisions. Sure it may make things more competitive having good athletes start someplace and go elsewhere when they can't start right away, but in the long term it's not why people watch college over pros or really does a damn thing for the kid to learn anything but it should be their way all the time. Doing things in your own best interest in the moment might feel good, but can be a huge detriment later because it was not well thought out. I know I don't want my kids to feel like they can run away from adversity to a greener pasture all the time. They learn far more from failure and adversity than doing what they want to do in the moment all the time. I sure hope free agency doesn't happen long term or we may as just make it all pro football. College sports has been different and been more about the love the game. Maybe that's old fashioned as things have gotten perverted to the backstory Voice of Reason mentioned, but free agency in college is a bridge too far in my opinion and will be a detriment to the kid becoming a productive adult in the long run as most will never get the pros.
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