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[RedTeamGo!]

Haynes to.....portal??

College football has lost it's damned mind. 

Rumors that OSU RB1, Bo Jackson, is going to enter as well. 

Edited yesterday at 06:09 PM by RedTeamGo!

[buddha]

29 minutes ago, RedTeamGo! said:

Haynes to.....portal??

College football has lost it's damned mind. 

Rumors that OSU RB1, Bo Jackson, is going to enter as well. 

hilman and mangum too.

when you want a raise, enter the portal.

i think haynes will leave.  michigan picked up that kid from oklahoma because i think they knew haynes wanted more money than was in the budget for rb.

[Hongbit]

1 hour ago, RedTeamGo! said:

Haynes to.....portal??

College football has lost it's damned mind. 

Rumors that OSU RB1, Bo Jackson, is going to enter as well. 

Every player in the country should enter the portal every year.    Thats the smart business decision.  It’s become JC ball where the roster turns over 50% a year and 90% in two years.  

[GalagaGuy]

I give up on even trying to follow this portal nonsense.  I'm gonna wait until after the spring game and then read up on what the starting lineups are projected to be.  

[buddha]

i know this is a stupid thought, and a naive thought, but how many of these guys are actually going to class?  bryce underwood is getting millions of dollars to play football for michigan, is he really going to English 101?  is anyone still actually checking?

[gehringer_2]

37 minutes ago, buddha said:

i know this is a stupid thought, and a naive thought, but how many of these guys are actually going to class?  bryce underwood is getting millions of dollars to play football for michigan, is he really going to English 101?  is anyone still actually checking?

I guess until we hear differently, one would assume things like the progress toward degree rules are still in place, but good question. And what will happen the 1st time a guy getting big bucks loses his eligibility? You would think NIL contracts specify that it's the athlete's responsibility to maintain his eligibility. But that would be in a sane world. Are they going to demand those clauses when Sunshine State U is offering the $$ without them? Sure they are....🙄

Things change constantly, but at least relatively recently it was true that UM didn't have a lot of faculty in thrall to the athletic dept. Of course there were profs here and there that had reps for making life easy for the varsity but generally not enough that it wouldn't be hard to far a guy to dodge all the way through. Maybe that's changed/changing, I would doubt it though. Most of the faculty in A^2 have come from other places and worlds 180deg from sports, there isn't a lot of natural identification or sympathy compared to a place were you have more home grown faculty. But there has been so much trauma and upheavel in academic governance at UM in the last few years with Covid and two failed presidencies and since I'm a couple years out of the system now, I couldn't tell you anymore.

[Deleterious]

52 minutes ago, buddha said:

i know this is a stupid thought, and a naive thought, but how many of these guys are actually going to class?  bryce underwood is getting millions of dollars to play football for michigan, is he really going to English 101?  is anyone still actually checking?

Find the degree that offers the most online classes, and I imagine you will find the program most football players are enrolled in.  

[gehringer_2]

13 minutes ago, Deleterious said:

Find the degree that offers the most online classes, and I imagine you will find the program most football players are enrolled in.  

true. the availability of online course work has opened a whole additional universe of ways to have someone else do your work.

So at UM, the Engineering School runs on a honor code system. A faculty member acquaintance recently told me that the honor council, which back in the day might have handled a mere handful of cases in semester, is currently buried in a huge number of cheating charges mostly originating about AI. While that's a very different student cohort and issue, it symptomatic of the growing difficulty in maintaining integrity in the system. I mean if you are losing the straight arrow engineers, who do you think you can still trust is doing their own work?  😱

Edited 20 hours ago by gehringer_2

[Screwball]

I taught for 6 years in a little state college in Ohio. I had sports people. Get out of jail free cards. Easier than those with disabilities.

We weren't big enough for football, but had many of the others. I had a guy I called the soccer player. He was there day one when I explained how it all works. Then I didn't see much of him. Maybe a class every couple of weeks, but he would send me an email telling me he had a soccer game the day of class. You needed to be in my class, or it gets bad. I spent extra time with him when he could be there to get him though. I should have flunked him, but I didn't.

The next semester when I walked into class on day one, my soccer player was sitting there. What are you doing here? They told me I flunked this class. No, you didn't. Really? Can you fix this? Of course, you may go. How the **** don't you know if you passed a class or not?

No NIL money involved. I can only image what happens with this much money. Or, doesn't happen. Nothing new really. It's all about $$$$.

[buddha]

i had a casual acquaintance who played at michigan with the fab five.  he said jalen had 4 independent study classes and a cpr class.  got a C in cpr but A's in the independent studies.

they sat around and smoked pot and played video games all day, surrounded by huge boxes of shoes and clothes Nike constantly sent to them.

had other friends who knew basketball players at michigan.  traylor would show up for class on the first day but never again.  then there would be a strange number of asian kids who showed up to take the final exam.  willie mitchell?  quite possibly the dumbest person she ever met.  they would all get free cab rides whenever they wanted (pre-uber) and all the free subway they could eat.  

another person i know knew steve smith at state.  said he had a huge SUV and lived in a nice condo in a really nice apartment complex.  nice guy, but when he gave $5m to msu, he was paying them back...

grant hill?  really nice guy at duke.  laettner and thomas hill?  gay as all get out and the biggest snobby ass holes on campus.

[buddha]

i remember d rose flunking his ACT three times and then mysteriously passing it IN DETROIT on his 4th attempt.  he was signed and sealed to illinois until memphis came in and gave his brother a "job" for $250k per year doing nothing.  so rose spends a semester at memphis and all the records and wiped out two years later because he never actually passed his act. 

anthony davis famously charged schools $250k just to take a VISIT to campus.  of course he ended up at kentucky.

[Tigeraholic1]

9 hours ago, buddha said:

hilman and mangum too.

when you want a raise, enter the portal.

i think haynes will leave.  michigan picked up that kid from oklahoma because i think they knew haynes wanted more money than was in the budget for rb.

Or….. Your you get tired of a program constantly involved in scandals.