Fact finding By Aubreys mom

She should have headed due diligence for a few corporate mergers (I'm looking at you, AOL-Time Warner), US invasions (NO POLITICS) and pre-2015 Michigan head coaching searches (aieieieiee) I can think of. Those far more consequential decisions seem to have been made with less thought involved.

Not impressed.

Where are the questions about the Engineering Department?

 

We have 6 coaches with NFL experience. And JH has probably forgotten more about coaching football than Kirby Smart ever knew.

She seems like a real peach. Fucking helicopter parents know absolutely no bounds. At a certain point it's time to tell a kid that he is responsible for his own success or failures in life and the sooner he breaks away from this kind of nonsense bullshit the better he'll be. By all means she should have the right to a meeting and sit down and discuss this stuff but there is so much entitlement and individual concessions or special attention assumed in these questions that someone is going to have to tell her that "no, sorry, we're not going to change practice time for one kid because of the degree they're perusing and to assume that's an option makes you insane."

Trouble! She's already asking what to do if her son wants to transfer. Wow

I hope this young man is serious about nursing. Michigan is one of the top 10 in the country. Alabama just makes the top 100 and UGA not so much. Great career choice outside of football.

Ten bucks every coach but Harbaugh tells her whatever they think she wants to hear.

Nursing would be essentially impossible as a football player without serious allowances.

These are great questions. Can't fault her for wanting to have a thorough knowledge of where she is sending her son.

Looking at that list, I feel good about Michigan's ability to answer and quell her qualms about sending her boy so far away from home. Between Gwen and Greg, we definitely have the support system that she's looking for. Michigan seems to have great academic support for the student athletes. I'd say that the biggest issue may be the whole "choose your major part" which we've seen come up as an issue before. I don't know what Aubrey is looking for as a major (looks like Nursing), but something like Engineering could be tough/discouraged. Bottomline, if both son and mother are serious about the things on that list, I do think that Michigan can get back into contention.

in his recruitment and I don't agree with that. The kid is the one going to school there and has to be happy with his decision not his mother. My daughter was recurited by schools to play softball. Sure nothing on this level but still we helped her do fact finding and went on recruiting trips with her.

After we had finished all our trips I told what I saw from both good and bad stand points of each school and never tipped my hand as to what school I thought was best for her.  I gave her a very neutral opinion on each school to help her gather information and then left her completely alone and never brought it up until she felt comfortable with her choice and informed us.

It's one thing to gather information and help guide a child, but sending out questionaires and saying how important it is a school gets you the information.... Nah..... kid needs to be the one involved and making the decision and I get the feeling his mom will be deciding for him.