Eyabi Anoma late grad-transfers to Michigan

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This is super weird, I've never seen timing like this. Rumors on the recruiting sites were going wild last night saying he was in the directory. And then it started being reported he was joining the team. Now Michigan confirms it this morning. A grad transfer two weeks before the start of the regular season is bizarre.



Eyabi Anoma was a top 5 player in the 2018 class, Michigan was fighting for him (we had a few other of his teammates in the class) and he ended up going to Alabama. He got kicked off Alabama for violation of team rules, then went to Houston where he got kicked off for....violation of team rules and then he joined some FCS team. And now, apparently, he's going to join Michigan literal days before the start of the season. Just a super weird series of events.
 
Seems like a keeper
 
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MAIZEandBLUE09 said:
Seems like....something. Michigan doesn't typically let this "types" in, so I'm shocked on multiple fronts.
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That's what happens when the school won't let you bring in players from the transfer portal unless they are grad transfers. UM obviously needs help on the edge and are will to take the risk on a former elite recruit. He had 7 sacks in 8 games last year for whoever he played for.

If the admins join the rest of CFB in the current century and allow them to sign players from the transfer portal. We could fills holes like everyone else
 
NewPhoneWhoDis said:
That's what happens when the school won't let you bring in players from the transfer portal unless they are grad transfers. UM obviously needs help on the edge and are will to take the risk on a former elite recruit. He had 7 sacks in 8 games last year for whoever he played for.

If the admins join the rest of CFB in the current century and allow them to sign players from the transfer portal. We could fills holes like everyone else
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So they won't let in transfers before they graduate but they will let in ones who have been kicked off of multiple teams.

Sounds like a Michigan thing to do
 
fishinabarrel said:
So they won't let in transfers before they graduate but they will let in ones who have been kicked off of multiple teams.

Sounds like a Michigan thing to do
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Hell, Xavier Worthy is starting at Texas right now because he didn't have the GPA to get him into Michigan....but we'll let this kid in. Make it make sense.
 
MAIZEandBLUE09 said:
Hell, Xavier Worthy is starting at Texas right now because he didn't have the GPA to get him into Michigan....but we'll let this kid in. Make it make sense.
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obviously Anoma is a scholar.. you don't just show up and get admitted at Bama or Houston
 
Extremely talented kid who is a headcase.
 
fishinabarrel said:
So they won't let in transfers before they graduate but they will let in ones who have been kicked off of multiple teams.

Sounds like a Michigan thing to do
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They won't accept majority of the credits from other schools, so a kid can transfer in if he wants to lose out on most of the credits he has earned at another school. It is why you only see Grad Transfers go to UM, because they have a clean academic slate.

UM is only screwing themselves by continuing their archaic way in the admin offices. It is why they lost Xavier Worthy -- school wouldn't accept his transcripts to be an early enrollee, yet a week later, Texas lets him in. It is why we lost one of the top basketball portal guys from Texas Tech -- they wouldn't accept his credits to transfer, yet Illinois took him in the next day. Texas and Illinois are top 50 academic schools -- they have no issue accepting the players, but UM has a stick up their ass thinking they are better than everyone academically. It is beyond frustrating.
 
MAIZEandBLUE09 said:
Hell, Xavier Worthy is starting at Texas right now because he didn't have the GPA to get him into Michigan....but we'll let this kid in. Make it make sense.
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It wasn't the GPA -- he wanted to be an early enrollee and UM wouldn't let him because of one of the course credits on his transcript. With NIL, acacemic restrictions and not using the Transfer Portal -- UM is only screwing themselves. I honestly wouldn't be surprised to see MSU pass UM up in football.
 
NewPhoneWhoDis said:
They won't accept majority of the credits from other schools, so a kid can transfer in if he wants to lose out on most of the credits he has earned at another school. It is why you only see Grad Transfers go to UM, because they have a clean academic slate.

UM is only screwing themselves by continuing their archaic way in the admin offices. It is why they lost Xavier Worthy -- school wouldn't accept his transcripts to be an early enrollee, yet a week later, Texas lets him in. It is why we lost one of the top basketball portal guys from Texas Tech -- they wouldn't accept his credits to transfer, yet Illinois took him in the next day. Texas and Illinois are top 50 academic schools -- they have no issue accepting the players, but UM has a stick up their ass thinking they are better than everyone academically. It is beyond frustrating.
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Playin school.

We’ll see where it gets the University.
 
NewPhoneWhoDis said:
It wasn't the GPA -- he wanted to be an early enrollee and UM wouldn't let him because of one of the course credits on his transcript. With NIL, acacemic restrictions and not using the Transfer Portal -- UM is only screwing themselves. I honestly wouldn't be surprised to see MSU pass UM up in football.
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If you haven't been paying attention, this has already happened.
 
NewPhoneWhoDis said:
It wasn't the GPA -- he wanted to be an early enrollee and UM wouldn't let him because of one of the course credits on his transcript. With NIL, acacemic restrictions and not using the Transfer Portal -- UM is only screwing themselves. I honestly wouldn't be surprised to see MSU pass UM up in football.
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This is kind of true. He wanted to enroll early at UM but there was issues with that initially, but he still planned to come. He was supposed to show up in April for offseason workout at UM and get on campus, and he didn't. Basically, the same admissions problems he had in Winter, followed him to Spring. They were trying to figure it out throughout those few months and couldn't.

Also, MSU is not going to pass UM up in football. This is arguably the best class they've ever been able to pull in and it's still outside the top 20. I think MSU's ceiling is what Wisconsin is, even if they're limitless in NIL opportunities. They still don't have the backing or resources to become a top tier school.
 
ericd7633 said:
If you haven't been paying attention, this has already happened.
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I'm still putting money on Tucker being fired within 5 years. He got extremely lucky last year with Walker + that schedule. That defense was one of the worst in football. Lots of major red flags are being overlooked because they beat Michigan and won 10+ games. Giving a coach $9.5 million dollars after that single season is a huge gamble, and really starts to draw attention when you're not good.
 
ericd7633 said:
If you haven't been paying attention, this has already happened.
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Yes -- I couldn't agree more with you, just like Cincinnati has passed up Notre Dame. At least you can say they are a P5 school now.
 
If Alabama threw him out and didn’t just give him an ice cream cone then this kid is bad news.
 
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