Darryl Stonum to Baylor
I've been interested to see where Darryl Stonum would end up following his dismisal from the team. According to his Twitter it looks like that will be Baylor. I'm happy for him that he gets to return to his home state and resume his career. Once a Wolverine, always a Wolverine.
Good for him. We obviously could have used him big time this year, but it wasn't in the cards. I wish him the best!
If he's learned his lesson[s], Baylor just picked themselves up a quality player. Hopefully he gets it together and has a great season.
I hope he tears it up! It's to bad he wasn't able to finish his collegiate career here but I wish him all the best.
Is he eligible immediately?
Well, he did sit out this past year, so maybe that will count as his year off. Another possibility is that he is using the grad school rule to get around the year off.
I think he's doing the grad year transfer thing. He received his degree from Michigan this Spring.
that's the best news possible from this whole ordeal. He's a Michigan grad, and although football didn't work out 100%, he stuck with it academically and got it done.
Best to you Mr. Stonum. We'll always remember the return vs. ND.
It would have to be a grad year transfer, as he used his redshirt year this past season.
If he is eligible immediately he would interestingly play his first game on September 2 (Baylor vs. SMU) in Waco. That's less than two hours from Dallas, the day after Michigan-Alabama.
Two-for-one weekend for Michigan fans in Dallas?
I think you can stop trying to push your sports travel business as I don't think there is a single Michigan fan that wants to drive two hours to see a former wide receiver potentially catch 2-3 balls against SMU for Baylor.
Good luck, Darryl!
Man we could have used him on the field this year....
Oh yeah!
I was really looking forward to seeing him this fall, but SHIT happens.. Good luck to Stonum and Baylor
Go for you Darryl! Hope you tear up the Big 12. I remember when he was an incoming freshman. Time flies.
Good to see that he has got another chance at a BCS team in his home state. Considering the trajectory all the teams at Baylor have been on in the past few years, I wouldn't be surprised if they stay good and have a Big 12 title contending team even after the departure of RGIII.
Baylor is a 6-6 team this year--they just lost way too much, and their defense is borderline RR-era bad. Still rooting for Stonum, though.
Good Luck Daryll!
Glad he landed somewhere with a good program and hopefully stays out of trouble and finds some success on the field. Best of luck to him
Wow. Good for him. I will always remember the KO return against ND and him finally getting glasses.
He graduated from UM this spring jackass.
I pictured the guy from Happy Gilmore when I read this.
Frankly, I'm surprised by all the encouragment in this thread. Stonum betrayed his teammates by making numerous selfish decisions in his time here. I'm not upset he's going to Baylor, but I'm also not going to say "good for him."
Then shouldn't his teammates be the ones to crap on him?
Dick.
When did I crap on him? What did I say that was untrue? Oh that's right, nothing.
Dick.
Actually, "Ghost," most of what you said was opinion. In this thread, you sound like one of those people who thinks his opinion is "fact" and everyone who disagrees with him is "wrong." I can't imagine that ending well on the most intelligent message board in college sports.
It is the in thing on this blog to be hyper gracious and all "best of wishes" and "go get em bud" to basically anybody who goes anywhere for any reason. I am kind of more like "whatever dude" on this one. Don't want bad things for the guy but I could do without him catching 15 touchdown passes and so forth. What does that say about me?
It says you are a rational person, unlike the idiot sunshine blowers like El Jeffe.
That's good. I thought that was taken out of the insult rotation years ago. An oldie but a goodie.
And thanks for answering honestly. I guess I just really don't give a shit about Baylor football.
No, it says he doesn't support people who put themselves before the team. But I guess "numbnuts" works too.
I don't know what it says about you. I know that I made my own set of mistakes when I was Stonum's age only no one cared because I'm not a high profile athlete. Maybe that's why I'm a little more forgiving towards him. I've got a nice big glass house.
Really? You had numerous run-ins with the law while part of a college atheltic team?
I know that I made my own set of mistakes when I was Stonum's age only no one cared because I'm not a high profile athlete
No actually, that's a reading fail on your part. Being a part of a college team does not mean you are a high profile athlete.
Dude put other people's lives at risk repeatedly and went to jail for his total lack of responsibility and respect for others. A guy like Chris Webber, who, while selfish and misguided in his views and actions, actually harmed no one directly - gets all but black-balled to anyone who wasn't around for the Fab 5. Meanwhile, Stonum, selfishly, recklessly, and indifferently put others in harms way and refused to change - gets a pat on the back on his way out the door.
I realize webber did way more damage to Michigan athletics, but looking objectively outside the sports realm, Stonum's actions are ethically abhorrent.
I hope he's learned from his mistakes and wish him the best going forward as long as he can have some basic respect for other people.
See, your third paragraph is the key point. No one is saying that what Stonum did to get kicked off the team wasn't wrong, and when it happened, most were in agreement that he needed to be off of the team.
What GhostofYost can't seem to put together is that you can be both disappointed or even appalled by his actions, while at the same time be happy if he learns from his screw ups and lands on his feet.
A question to you, GhostofYost - if you had a close friend get a DUI, or struggle with an addiction of some sort where he lost something equivalent to a spot on Michigan's football team (a job maybe?) and that friend cleaned himself up to where he found another job - wouldn't you wish him the best of luck? Or would you take the same attitude you're taking right now with Stonum?
People make mistakes, sometimes big ones. Especially young people (Stonum was like 19 and 20 when this happened). I think they deserve a second chance if they work for it.
Your premise is flawed on multiple levels. First, you assume that because an athlete is longer committing crimes, he has somehow cleaned everything up and learned from his mistakes. What evidence do you have that would confirm this? Second, this is hardly his "second chance." Third, he's not a "close friend" of yours or mine or anyone else on this board. Come back with a more accurate hypothetical and I'll answer your questions.
Once a Wolverine, always a Wolverine.Not if your name is Justin Boren.
That was my first thought too, but then I remembered with that shitty attitude of his he was never a real Wolverine in the first place.
Once a snow plower, always a snow plower.....
Too bad he won't have RGIII throwing to him, that would've been really fun to watch.
He's from Texas so he's going back to his home state. Waco isn't that far from Dallas either.