This Week's Obsession:
Ten Michigan players were drafted and everyone's angry about it. Where do you fall on the "everything is fine" vs "panic and run around screaming" continuum?
Ace: Should we explain why people are angry? I’ve stayed off the internet this weekend and had no idea this was a thing.
David: Yeah, I missed why everyone is angry, too.
Brian: There's a combination of things.
- Josh Uche went in the second round and Michigan took heat for his low snap counts
- Michigan had the same number of draft picks as OSU and got nuked for the second consecutive year
- Bleed-over recruiting anger because the first round was 24 four or five star players and M hasn't recruited a four star defender.
Seth: Without looking I'm going to guess the responses to today's hello post for a 3-star cornerback from one of the biggest schools in the country will tell you all you need to know about the current fan zeitgeist.
Brian: So this weekend was a resurgence of the fanbase schism. Fun! But also what else we gonna talk about.
Ace: Ah. So the draft bit I think is most worth pointing out in this context is that, despite Michigan getting ten players off the board, Shea Patterson very much wasn’t one of them.
David: That's a very big point...I don't even think he signed a FA deal, yet?
Ace: He has not.
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Seth: Neither was Lavert Hill for whatever that's worth. This doesn't so much apply to Shea, but sometimes there's no accounting for NFL taste.
Ace: Hill got snatched up within hours (possibly minutes?) of the draft ending. Also: quarterback is a very important position.
David: Yeah, McKeon signed right after well...so, 12/13 guys had an NFL team by Saturday night.
Brian: Princeton's QB signed with Cleveland.
[Hit THE JUMP for, eventually, a rundown on where Michigan's players went in the draft, plus more of this.]
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