WH
Justin Feagin Dismissed
So I got an email yesterday predicting the departure of a quarterback from Florida and thought to myself "oh God, not Denard Robinson."
Well, it wasn't Denard Robinson. Sophomore-to-be slot receiver Justin Feagin is no more:
"Justin Feagin was dismissed from the team for a violation of team rules Thursday evening," head coach Rich Rodriguez said in a statement.
That's ambiguous as to whether the dismissal or the violation came Thursday, but I'm guessing it's the former.
I'm of two minds about the departure. On the one hand, it would be hard to pick out a player on the roster whose departure would be less likely to impact Michigan's performance on-field both this year and going forward. Feagin was a late flier Michigan took on the off chance he might be a viable quarterback. He was not and got bounced to slot receiver, where he wasn't a factor. With the spring emergence of Roy Roundtree and availability of freshmen Terrance Robinson (a redshirt), Jeremy Gallon, and Je'Ron Stokes, he didn't figure to be a factor in the fall. And it's not like slot receiver looks like 
a thin spot going forward; enough bits have been spilled about Michigan's receiver-mad recruiting class to fill all the tubes of the internets.
On the other hand, Feagin is the first Rodriguez recruit to leave [UPDATE: forgot about Taylor Hill, who left almost before he arrived] and did so in inauspicious circumstances. The email yesterday provided some murky detail on the violation of team rules and it's the sort of thing that is a no-BS immediate seeya type of thing. I'll let the actual journalists ferret out the details, as one anonymous, if prescient email does not a solid story make. I'd be surprised if it didn't end up in the papers eventually.
Though this kind of thing happens at a certain rate to all programs, it's another opportunity for evil bad PR gnomes to stroke their beards and mutter sagely about What Is Going On In Ann Arbor. And I (baselessly) liked the kid. How could you not, given the picture at right?
Also: you can subtract at least one additional point from Michigan's APR, which isn't going to be fatal or anything but it ain't good. Also also: I have Michigan at 20 scholarships for 2010 now, assuming that Cone and Wright don't get fifth years.
July 25th, 2009 at 5:52 PM | 
I could really use a dose of
I could really use a dose of
July 25th, 2009 at 7:10 PM |
I agree
I agree
It's been a while since I got to sit at a Michigan game and not wonder if the team we were supposed to throttle wasn't going to pull off the upset. I would like a nice, exciting, day at the stadium for once. The ONLY advantage to scheduling a cupcake is seeing the impending blowout and having a guaranteed win. Those two things haven't happened recently.
OH-HOW-I-HATE OHIO STATE
July 25th, 2009 at 6:02 PM |
I agree
I agree
Seems like Brian is talking about the APR a lot lately, which is not a good trend these days. Hope things start to turn around with the new recruits.
HAIL.
July 25th, 2009 at 6:03 PM |
Must have been something
Must have been something
Must have been something pretty bad. Grady was kept on the team after his drunken shenanigans.
I was rooting for him because he wanted to get on the field no matter what.
July 25th, 2009 at 6:27 PM |
No shit. Stonum and Grady
No shit. Stonum and Grady
No shit. Stonum and Grady both picked up DUIs and both got off with what amounted to a slap on the wrist. Feagin must have been burning churches and pillaging ye ol Scio Township if the violation is as serious as Brian says it could be.
July 25th, 2009 at 6:37 PM |
"Pillaging ye ol Scio
"Pillaging ye ol Scio
"Pillaging ye ol Scio Township..." haha
I have a Fandom Endurance III merit badge
July 25th, 2009 at 6:04 PM |
And we were all worried last
And we were all worried last
And we were all worried last season about burning his redshirt
I have a Fandom Endurance III merit badge
July 25th, 2009 at 6:04 PM |
how many fulmer cup points is
how many fulmer cup points is
how many fulmer cup points is this worth?
July 25th, 2009 at 6:14 PM |
Sigh
Sigh
The description of the event Brian gives has me bracing for news of a rotten event.
No Fulmer Cup points without an arrest. But, it doesnt take much to imagine something like that given the vague, ominous description above.
Why not turn the email over to the new VB reporting guys and see what they turn up?
July 25th, 2009 at 6:16 PM |
Also:
Also:
Why not have some fun. I dont care if I get dinged the wrong way.
But, I set the eventual (if any at all) Fulmer Cup points at 1.5.
Place your bets.....
July 25th, 2009 at 7:02 PM |
Give me 25 mgopoints on the
Give me 25 mgopoints on the
Give me 25 mgopoints on the over.
Ann Arbor: now the permanent home of the Little Brown Jug
67-22-3 all-time
July 25th, 2009 at 9:11 PM |
That's free money (points) my
That's free money (points) my
That's free money (points) my friend. The under is your routine 'driving without valid registration' type of offense, hardly worth a boot from the team.
I'd put the house on the over.
July 25th, 2009 at 6:17 PM |
So does this count as
So does this count as
So does this count as "getting Rodriguezed" over at Spartan Tailgate, also known as your unhealthy obsession center for things Michigan? Or do you have to voluntarily transfer for that?
Ohio State is the #1 bathroom. I take poops in the bathroom.
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July 25th, 2009 at 6:20 PM |
Another one bites the dust
Another one bites the dust
And how many kids have left the team now? Jeebus.
Also, internet hate-mongering "HURR DURR HE WAS TEH SUCK ANYWAY" begins in 3...2...1...
July 25th, 2009 at 6:32 PM |
This is not a case of
This is not a case of
This is not a case of "leaving the team."
http://genuinelysarcastic.blogspot.com (UPDATED: 5/27)
July 25th, 2009 at 6:47 PM |
I picked this up from another
I picked this up from another
I picked this up from another site: "From what people who have been on the Rivals board have been saying, there might be multiple transfers coming in the next week or so."
Can anyone confirm this?
July 25th, 2009 at 7:19 PM |
Dammit, let's hope not. Kids
Dammit, let's hope not. Kids
Dammit, let's hope not. Kids who transfer are not my kind of crowd
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July 25th, 2009 at 7:31 PM |
I think Rivals was hinting at
I think Rivals was hinting at
I think Rivals was hinting at possible academic issues with some of our players.
"I'm Leslie E. Miles and I approve of this message."
July 25th, 2009 at 7:58 PM |
Damn that would suck.
Damn that would suck.
Damn that would suck. Hopefully we won't lose anyone on the 2 deep.
July 26th, 2009 at 10:55 AM |
that would be terrible
that would be terrible
At this point I'm not even sure of a position that we COULD afford to lose someone. Feagin was that last guy that was kinda "meh". A defensive player would be the worst. Hopefully it isn't true.
OH-HOW-I-HATE OHIO STATE
July 26th, 2009 at 6:27 PM |
I have heard rumors about
I have heard rumors about
I have heard rumors about this, but it was on the grapevine, so I haven't said anything. But, I have heard that a starter on defense and one of the players who enrolled early are struggling academically.
I don't want to say names to monger fear but I think there may be some substance to this.
July 26th, 2009 at 6:27 PM |
I have heard rumors about
I have heard rumors about
I have heard rumors about this, but it was on the grapevine, so I haven't said anything. But, I have heard that a starter on defense and one of the players who enrolled early are struggling academically.
I don't want to say names to monger fear but I think there may be some substance to this.
July 26th, 2009 at 6:30 PM |
Rivals was implying something
Rivals was implying something
Rivals was implying something similar to this.
"I'm Leslie E. Miles and I approve of this message."
July 26th, 2009 at 7:37 PM |
Booboo?
Booboo?
Booboo?
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July 25th, 2009 at 6:47 PM |
Getting the boot and leaving are two very different things
Getting the boot and leaving are two very different things
Since this is a boot, and he was small and could not throw...
See ya.
Lets talk about players that play for Michigan!
What the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve and...Those Who Stay WILL Be Champions.
July 25th, 2009 at 7:00 PM |
Yes
Yes
I agree. There is a clear distinction between getting booted due to something you did and choosing to leave for whatever reason.
I'll be interested to see how the media spins it to still make it out to be RR's fault. That is, if indeed it was purely Feagan's fault; we still don't (and perhaps never will) know the specifics.
July 26th, 2009 at 12:59 PM |
He wasn't small.
He wasn't small.
He wasn't small.
July 26th, 2009 at 8:33 PM |
That's what she
That's what she
That's what she said.
/rimshot.
July 25th, 2009 at 6:57 PM |
This points to Rodriguez
This points to Rodriguez
running a tight ship. It's his way or the highway, on the field and off. Grady and Slocum are cases of kids being kids. This smells of something much more serious. In the end it will probably look good for RR to have done this.
Until Brian started all this APR talk, I had never heard of it before. Now it seems to be a growing problem(unlike an enlarged prostate), but still a problem.
What I don't get is how Nick Satan, er Saban can sign 26-28 guys two years in a row and UNC signs 28. Logic would suggest that those schools would be having some serious turnover issues as well, especially Bama.
With the number of guys that have left and graduated and those leaving unexpectedly, we would have more than 20 scholies available. Does it make any sense that if your APR is going down because of guys leaving early, then shouldn't the number of schlarships increase inversely proportional to the APR?
What the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve and...Those Who Stay WILL Be Champions.
July 25th, 2009 at 8:58 PM |
Not too related to your post,
Not too related to your post,
Not too related to your post, but Central Michigan managed to sign 30, read: THIRTY!!! players last year due to graduation/finished eligibility attrition alone. Some teams do manage to sign more than your typical amount of players without resorting to shady, shitty, scummy tactics like Saban does.
July 25th, 2009 at 9:34 PM |
I sure hope there weren't any scummy tactics
I sure hope there weren't any scummy tactics
I don't follow Central Michigan recruiting, but it's my second favorite team (I go to Central), so I'd like that program to be run clean as much as I want Michigan run clean.
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July 25th, 2009 at 9:40 PM |
Yeah I go there too,
Yeah I go there too,
Yeah I go there too, following Michigan ball is kind of a secondary thing for me.
Butch Jones seems to run a clean program; I mean, how dirty can a mid-major team get, right?
July 25th, 2009 at 9:46 PM |
Yeah, I'm not sure about Butch Jones
Yeah, I'm not sure about Butch Jones
because he's only been around for what, was that just Year 1? But I'm a JRN major at Central and there do some to be some shady things going on in other capacity's...(nobody does know quite what happened with that frat fight involving the football team last year, but some believe the athletic department covered for players). I'm also not 100 percent confident that Brian Kelly was the most clean coach around, but I really have no proof of that. Either way, to respond to what you said, Michigan ball is first for me, Central second.
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July 25th, 2009 at 10:06 PM |
heh....Butch Jone$, more like
heh....Butch Jone$, more like
heh....Butch Jone$, more like it.
as an Eastern grad, I know for sure that he's paying players to come to $entral. How else would you get anyone there?
If Jone$ played it straight EMU would win the MAC every year.
BOOM CHARLIE BATCH'D
No question, Jim.
July 25th, 2009 at 11:00 PM |
Hahaha...
Hahaha...
"BOOM CHARLIE BATCH'D". That's a ridiculous thing to boom. I've got to work that into a conversation. I'm positive I'll just get weird looks, but when I do, I'll follow up that gem with "BOOM Chrisgocomment'd" and a highfive.
E to the S Go Blue, Class of '04
July 26th, 2009 at 8:47 AM |
I smiled throughout what you wrote
I smiled throughout what you wrote
then when i saw that last line...just awesome. From now on, when a poster gets boomed by another, we're calling it "chrisgocommented"
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July 26th, 2009 at 9:31 AM |
Or
Or
You could say "BOOM Crisco'd", we'd all know what it means, but it sounds dirtier/greasier.
Edit: n/m, I had a long night, still tired.
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July 26th, 2009 at 9:35 AM |
you would you dirty chip$
go
you would you dirty chip$
go
you would you dirty chip$
go back to your casino and gamble away all of your ill-gotten gains
No question, Jim.
July 26th, 2009 at 5:49 PM |
MAC schools don't have the
MAC schools don't have the
MAC schools don't have the cash to buy players like the BCS boys.
No dollars, just ¢ral.
July 26th, 2009 at 2:16 AM |
Heh, weird, I'm a journalism
Heh, weird, I'm a journalism
Heh, weird, I'm a journalism major too but this is getting creepy.
It sure was football players that started shit at Sigma Chi or whatever; Mount Pleasant High School players.
But this is irrelevant.
July 26th, 2009 at 8:48 AM |
Haha
Haha
I guess the next thing is to ask you if you actually work for CM Life. That would be creepy!
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July 26th, 2009 at 11:07 AM |
I'm a.....
I'm a.....
I'm a Sigma Chi from Central. What incident are you talking about with the football players? If it's the one that I'm thinking of, that was the wrestling team.
If it's the one from last year, that was the football team, at Delta Chi.
Tom VanHaaren I TomVH on Twitter I U Recruit I Email
July 26th, 2009 at 11:43 AM |
Yeah you're right, it was
Yeah you're right, it was
Yeah you're right, it was Delta Chi. I don't get too fratty, haha.
And no, I don't work for CM Life. I stay on the down low.
July 26th, 2009 at 1:03 PM |
"Kids being kids" doesn't
"Kids being kids" doesn't
"Kids being kids" doesn't include drunk driving. "Kids being kids" is getting in a fight at a party or getting an MIP or stealing a candy bar.
Having a BAC that was something like three times the legal limit is adult stuff when you decide to drive. Just because he didn't kill someone (a la Leonard Little) doesn't mean it wasn't serious.
July 25th, 2009 at 7:47 PM |
1 more scholarship for the defense
1 more scholarship for the defense
given the numbers we could use another recruit for the defense.
July 25th, 2009 at 8:04 PM |
Brian, one thing
Brian, one thing
Taylor Hill, I believe, was the first primarily-RR recruit to leave the program, even though he left quickly.
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July 25th, 2009 at 8:26 PM |
On the two deep or not, I
On the two deep or not, I
On the two deep or not, I just can't imagine pissing away a free college education. What a shame for all concerned parties.
July 25th, 2009 at 8:39 PM |
Is he going back to his gang
Is he going back to his gang
Is he going back to his gang of pick-pockets on the East End?
July 25th, 2009 at 9:17 PM |
WOOOO DOCKLANDS
WOOOO DOCKLANDS
WOOOO DOCKLANDS
When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing. -- Bo Schembechler
July 25th, 2009 at 8:56 PM |
if it makes anyone feel
if it makes anyone feel
if it makes anyone feel better, didn't lousiville lose like half their team to transfers when petrino left?
Rudy watches inspirational movies about Shawn Hunwick
I could really use a dose of some good news. Something like: Michigan Destroys Broncos 49-7.
C'mon September.