After a while it falls on RR's head and this is after a while.

What the hell?  I hope this is an academics thing and not a "eh, I won't ever play" thing.

done for a while...

...after Terry Talbott.

He's probabaly pre-drop add  so does he even showing going to school if he didn't take summer school?

I am a bit worried about the attrition but who on the list of transfers has had an "OMG Mallett is leaving!" level of impact?  I/we had high hopes for Vlad and JT but it seems none of the transfers had a decent shot being in the 2-deep in the next 2years or so.

EDIT - Reading this it really sounds callous. Sorry  -   I am torn between feeling for these young man and the loss of a chance at a U of M degree--  and the ability to pick up some really high end recruits if Michigans continues to do well in 2010.

especially when you start to look at what factors it could be. No way it's not just simply not enough playing time. There are plenty of big football tradition schools that have their recruits sit the first couple years and the guys stick with the team. So there are only two main conclusions I can come to:

1) Rich Rod is taking too many flyers on kids barely academically eligible and when these kids are starting classes they can't cut it.

2) Rich Rod is making promises and not fulfilling them. I find this one less likely since players have left with good things to say. 

It makes no sense to me to like Michigan so much you commit and start the program, see all the improvements and start the season 1-0/2-0 then think "Man, I gotta get out of here"

if it was academics related, and he was never part of the team, is it an APR hit?

to list Kinard as a 2011 "commit."

So there's that.......

I have to imagine this is a clearinghouse thing, and he was never really on the team.  If so, it doesn't hurt APR and doesn't really say anything bad about UM other than RR took too many chances in this last class on academically borderline kids.  After consecutive seasons of 3-9 and 5-7, maybe that was necessary.  He rolled the dice a few times and missed more than he wanted.

If our season this year is as good as we hope, we should be able to recoop a lot of those with guys in this class who are a year younger but with a higher upside than the guys we lost. 

At what point does Brian or Tim pick up the phone and call the athletic department about these recent transfers?  I really like to get some info from the source rather than have to read some of this (often) baseless rumor mongering that goes on on these message boards and others.

If you want to know why they are leaving, ask the players who are leaving.

I thought winning was good for the program.  Holy crap, at this rate if we keep winning our offense is going to have to start playing both ways.

Perhaps the statements about Rogers' character and motivations, as well as speculation as to "what is wrong with RR" can wait until we know why he left. Maybe he did something really stupid and forced RR's hand. Maybe a family memeber died, and he felt he had to go home. Nobody knows.

This isn't the worst thing, since he wasn't going to contribute for several years.  We're basically going to be replacing half of a recruiting class that came after 3-9 and 5-7 seasons. 

In theory, we should be able to attract much better recruits with a good record this year. 

We're not losing a lot of seniors, so we can probably afford to have RS Freshman playing instead of RS Sophmores in 2012.

That's a long list but they're not all equals.  Were Jones and Kinard admitted?  We know Dorsey wasn't.

I understand that one's dong doesn't differentiate how those punches feel, but I think these cases pose different questions.  From an NCAA perspective too, right?   RIGHT?!  (desperate, pleading look)

ETA:  Thanks for providing some additional explanation in update

I could really use a Hello Dee Hart post right about now

This is clearly Lloyd Carr's fault.  He totally left the cupboard bare and no reasonable person could expect RR to recruit kids who might actually stay in A2.