Pipkins Transferring To Texas Tech
[Bryan Fuller]
Ondre Pipkins already announced he was out, but with Harbaugh asserting he was still on scholarship and would be this fall there was some uncertainty about what would happen. No longer:
Former Michigan DL Ondre Pipkins said he’ll transfer to Texas Tech, sit out this season and play in 2016.
— Joe Schad (@schadjoe) July 17, 2015 Michigan now has another slot to give a walk-on this fall, or they could bring in at fifth-year wide receiver. The latter seems a little far fetched this deep into the offseason.
but it didn't seem that it could have blown up like it had the potential to. . .
Not sure why he couldn't stay on to graduate from Michigan then do the 5th year transfer without sitting out. Get the Michigan degree and another year of football if he thinks he's healthy enough.
if Harbaugh refuse to suit him even in practice. By transferring, he'll able to practice and then play the next year.
Best of luck to him. Anyone know if he will have enough credits to get his Michigan degree? I'd hate to see him trade off a Michigan degree for a Texas Tech degree. During his recruitment, I remember him talking about being okay with redshirting because it would provide him the opportunity also to get a Masters degree at UM. Unfortunate it didn't work out that way.
I have recruited frequently at Michigan and have seen several football players come through looking for jobs. All of them have had very low GPAs and did not get much of our time. Based on the brief time I talked with them, this was how their job search went with every potential employer. The point being, many of these young men may get a degree, but not one that will do much for them.
Malcolm Gladwell talks a bit about this in his book David and Goliath and backs it up with facts rather than anecdotal evidence. He points out that going into a top tier college as a borderline student is a bad choice, you are much better off at a school where you can be a top tier student.
thanks
You can't unscramble scrambled eggs. Quit playing football, man.
Sorry, too easy to pass up. Guns up to my fellow scholars of Texas Tech
But the team doctors probably have concluded that one more concussion may cause a serious long term brain injury. I hope he avoids another head injury playing for TT.
I read the headline of one of the articles starting with "DL Ondre Pipkins..." as "Dr. Ondre Pipkins..."...kind of funny when you think about his self-assessment
THOSE WHO STAY WILL BE CHAMPIONS
but best of luck to those who don't stay
Reading Brian's recruiting post from 2012 is devastating: http://mgoblog.com/content/2012-recruiting-ondre-pipkins
The YMRMFSPA was Gabe Watson, but fast. The projection is just a what could've been. Needless to say, injuries suck.
Projection: Won't redshirt with very little behind Campbell and Pipkins seemingly the obvious choice to replace him next year. Probably starts off a little slow due to conditioning issues and general freshmanhood, starts coming on midway through the year, and does some stuff towards the end of his freshman season that get everyone revved up about year two.
From there he's likely a three-year starter somewhere between pretty dang good and All-American.
He hit his freshman season on the head. Pipkins just had the worst luck getting injured one game too late to get a medical redshirt for his sophomore year. So then he missed the rest of year 2 and was hurt almost all of year 3. That injury pretty much took out 2 years of playing, and led to further injuries. Just bad, bad luck.
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He should have a lot of fun playing for a young guy like Kliff Kingsbury.
He might find this link interesting about Lubbock, Texas.
Hope for his sake that he's correct and has a great career. Too bad it didn't work out in Blue as everybody wanted.
I believe the reason Coach Harbaugh told Ondre Pipkins that he's too banged up to play. football is that he is too banged up to play football.
Nevertheless, the fact is this young man got injured while putting his health and welfare on the line for our Michigan football team. If his decision is a little more emotional than logical, he still deserves respect for his honest effort.
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i hope he does well and does not get hurt. big gamble on his part if he was not meant to play again.
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