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Portal Out: Deuce Spurlock Comment Count

Brian January 2nd, 2023 at 2:54 PM

The portal has giveneth at linebacker and now it will takeneth:

Spurlock redshirted this year, playing a total of ten snaps in the early-season walkovers. That means he was definitively behind classmate Jimmy Rolder, who got meaningful snaps across the back half of the season including OSU and TCU. When Michigan took Ernest Hausmann in the portal that looked like two guys in his class year who were ahead of him on the depth chart at a spot with two starters. Thus: this.

Star-hounds will shrug since Spurlock was the #995 composite recruit last year; around here it's still disappointing, as you'd like to hold on to guys at a spot like LB where it often takes a while to know what you've got. The circumstances here made that a hard sell, evidently. Spurlock's departure does not affect the scholarship count since that doesn't exist anymore at Michigan because of NIL.

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Brhino

January 2nd, 2023 at 4:20 PM ^

Still unclear personally about the "scholarship numbers don't matter anymore" line of thinking. I'm sure we can now give walkons equivalent compensation to scholarship players, but aren't there a lot of perks that only official scholarship holders have access to?

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