Michigan only accepted grad transfers until this year. Not sure what changed, but the whole grabbing guys from the portal is new to UM fans. Usually it is one, maybe two guys.
I thought I was seeing things when I saw the portal guys we were signing. I'm just happy to see the school joining the rest of CFB in the new age of the system.Who would have expected this?
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I have no idea, but the ASU guys is really the only one i'm worried about getting. He can take over at LT. The Center we got from Stanford is big too, as we are losing our C, who was an All-American.
Let's not get crazy here. The transfer portal has been around a little while. Michigan is just late to the party. I'd LOVE to be a school who does "anything for the W" -- Lord knows we have the money to do so. I will celebrate if we ever start using NIL to our advantage, instead of watching everyone else do it.
It isn't like it is a big secret that UM doesn't recruit like the top teams. Hell -- you can see the recruiting class we have signed right now for 2023. We are barely top 20. In the age of NIL deals -- Michigan does little to nothing with it. That's why I laughed at the Georgia fan who said Georgia isn't using NIL to recruit, then mentioned how every player is giving 50k to do charity work.
No doubt -- the only teams who don't really need are those programs bringing in top 5 recruiting classes every year, which Michigan is definitely not one of them.
They ain't come here to play school
We've lost recruits in every sport because of how strict our admin is on transfer credits. We wouldn't accept any credits toward a major if the courses weren't completed at Michigan. I'm wondering with the Stanford kids, if we accepted them because Stanford is superior academically to Michigan. I also wonder if we were able to sign the Nebraska true freshman LB, because he hasn't taken classes toward his major yet?
I'm not surprised. It has been building up since NIL was introduced. Even the classes that have been solid, they were like that because we secured top talent late after a coach left, like Derrick Moore after Lincoln Riley left or Keon Sabb.
This is a big deal for UM fans. We've bitched about this for so long. I'm crossing my fingers that this is the new norm and we can get some depth from the portal more often. We don't recruit like the Ohio State's, Bama's, Georgia's, etc. -- so this is a way to help out schools like UM.
Seems like some of my thoughts about where the recruits transferred from may be right. Michigan is looking to sign a TE that is a junior and this is the last line of the article.
