5th MSU player enters transfer portal

The offense right now is suffering the effects of awful OL recruiting. This is the second year in a row where we're only losing one OL starter to graduation (Tyler Higby, who I think started the season as a backup guard before injuries forced him to start at LT. Cole Chewins would be another starter but has been dealing with back problems all season and isn't expected to play). We've had to put guys out there before they're ready, and as a result the O-line has been bad for a couple years now. We should start to see some improvement next year, but as you mentioned the QB spot is uncertain. WR and RB groups will be fine so if we can get good QB play, the offense could be pretty solid. That's a big question mark though.

He beats Michigan this year and he buys himself another 2 seasons...

Who is upvoting this shit?

Ben Bredeson, Michael Onwenu, Lavert Hill, Carlo Kemp, Nick Eubanks are those five remaining of the "Top 15" (why the hell we're only looking at the Top 15 of a 27 member class is another question). 

Of the 10 not here, 3 are in the NFL: Gary, Bush, Long. 1 is kinda-hopefully still here in Chris Evans. Not a recruiting miss among them.

Of the 6 remaining of your mythical Top-15, Peters, Ron Johnson and McDoom are all playing time casualties that we're not missing (in Peters' case, he was basically replaced). Asiasi and Kekoa Crawford were transfers I wish had stayed. Kareem Walker was a flame out. 

Is that a problem? No, but maybe you could make a case... until you look at the rest of this class that is conveniently excluded under this "Top 15" bullshit restriction:

Khaleke Hudson, Josh Uche, Michael Dwumfour, Josh Metellus, Sean McKeon, Devin Gil, Quinn Nordin, Stephen Spanellis and Brad Hawkins were all a part the non-top-15 remainder of that class. 

So from a 27 man class, four years later Michigan has 10 starters, 11 if you count both McKeon and Eubanks which could be considered reasonable. That doesn't count the 3 guys already in the league, 3 other contributors and hopefully the return of Chris Evans. 

18 hits out of 27 recruits. And you tried to paint it as 5.

What the hell are you talking about and who in their right mind liked your dumb post?

He isn't in the JD program, he is in a master's program that is much more flexible and less burdensome.

As someone who went to law school, I just want you to know I went to law school.

Plan to lose your significant other ??? Damn if the relationship can’t withstand a busy schedule and some stress is better off done with. 

He graduated in 3 years, so I think he can do a grad transfer and have immediate eligibility. He's certainly no stranger to heavy course loads after graduating a year early, but he did have to miss some time during fall camp due to law school responsibilities. I'm not sure how all the law school stuff works though. Maybe he can finish up the spring semester at MSU and then transfer over the summer.

He's studying corporate law and has said one day he hopes to help create incentives for larger companies to move facilities to lower income communities in order to create jobs and generate tax revenue which would help those communities. He seems like a really good kid and I hope he does well wherever he ends up.

Let's not get crazy, now.

I don't know if he is doing it but he (Blackwell) could easily call up his high school connections and urge them not to send guys to MSU.

Every report that I've seen, and there were a bunch for a while, suggested that Blackwell went salted earth on MSU with his HUGE network of HS coaching buddies. There were even suggestions, either from Blackwell or proxies, that his treatment at MSU had racial aspects. More than one coach was quoted in the press saying that they'd never send a kid to MSU.

I initially thought it was all internet BS, but then MSU's recruiting tanked and basically stayed tanked.