It's hard to know what keeps a kid from transferring to Michigan when admissions stops a transfer. Could it be they don't have a mandatory French Literature class or do they have 3 years of Volleyball, Swimming, and Weight Lifting? That situation is really between Michigan and the transfer athlete and none of our business. You would think these things would be vetted before any commitment was made.
Still Michigan Basketball the last 2 years has lost high profile transfers to admission issues. The latest is Caleb Love who decommitted on Wednesday as he wasn't able to clear the admission hurdle in Ann Arbor. Juwan Howard's job continues to be tougher and tougher when his elite recruits play a year and then turn pro and his transfers have a hard time qualifying. He even lost a player from his dining room table.
Michigan is going to need to figure this out because the college basketball landscape has changed. If you can't recruit the transfer portal, you're going to struggle to compete. It seems graduate transfers work and even early in college transfers like football's Hausmann and Stewart. The issue seems to be juniors or seniors whose past classes don't meet Michigan's transfer requirements. I don't understand how U of M doesn't have a special process to get these highly recruited kids admitted somehow? Help Santa!
Michigan Basketball has a tough road ahead for the next couple of years.
- MSU best offensive player WR Keon Coleman has transferred to Florida State.
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I think the landscape of all collegiate Athletics has changed... Money is part of recruiting now and part of the transfer protocol
How can a school like Michigan not have a person that vets potential recruits for academic eligibility? Is this just Juwan going after guys that can't make the school's entrance requirements? This just screams clown show! Look, I might get lambasted for this, but enough with the "academics" charade! College football and Men's basketball are billion dollar businesses and most elite level players don't go to a school for a degree. They go to show case their wares for the next level. Oh, what if there not good enough for the next level? Try telling a kid that, that's been told his entire life he's special and he's the one! Does Michigan want to have an world class sports program, at least when it comes to football and basketball? Or do they want to be this high caliber academic university? Cause from what I see, the 2 are mutually exclusive. Don't see Stanford or Northwestern, or any of the Ivy league schools competing for Naties!
Yeah let's dumb it down so the slow ships can catch up. That's the tail wagging the dog. More good comes out of that university through academics than athletics. Catering to some kid who dumps you after one or two years doesn't sit right with me. You want soul selling there are plenty of other programs to root for...
Keep the standards. Skip the kids who took classes elsewhere that probably never would have been a path to graduation at those institutions, either. Don't let the tail (athletics) wag the dog. We have too great a university to let that happen.
Alabama here "we" come!
I agree
Blue for life
If you're an alum and are somehow worried that lowering the standards will some how diminished your degree I guess, not sure how, but ok. But for the Walmart crowd: what you living vicariously through UofM sports? Also, you do realize that student athletes, at least the football and men's basketball players aren't held to the same admission requirements that the general student body is. There are guys on those teams that would never get admitted to UofM otherwise.
And if the academic hill is one you want to die on, cool, but then get used to a mediocre basketball team and getting dogged in bowl games or the CFP. Don't complain cause you have your priorities.
No complaints. Not selling my soul. But you go ahead...
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