grumbler

July 25th, 2017 at 10:16 AM ^

I hope they had as much fun doing those podcasts as they seemed to.  I didn't find all of them great, but I found all of them more than worth their price!

Thanks to them for doing these.

M-Dog

July 26th, 2017 at 12:47 AM ^

Honest question: Why does he even need a scholarship?

His family has enough money to pay for a year of school somewhere.  In fact, paying for college to better your situation is what most people do.

Just find a program that can offer a role for him with decent playing time even if they do not have a scholarship slot open.

 

robpollard

July 25th, 2017 at 1:41 PM ^

I literally don't understand his decision -- he has already been in the B1G and experienced high levels of team success; he also played (two years ago) in the B1G, in a mop up role, and one of two things will happen next year at OSU: 1) He will play very little, because the team ends up being OK (e.g., 6 or 8 wins in the B1G) or 2) He will pay quite a bit and the team will be terrible (e.g., 2 or 4 wins in the B1G).

I can completely understand wanting to play quite a bit, but his dad or someone should have stepped in and gave him an honest assessment of his game -- if he wants to play 25-plus minutes a game and doesn't want to get drilled almost every game, he needed to go to a school like Quinnipiac.

Going to a rival school, to get drilled by MSU, UM, Wisky, etc doesn't make sense.

swoosh

July 25th, 2017 at 11:02 AM ^

What they say about X is spot on, I was there and I think I may have video of the pushups.  X was into the games, it was worth the price of admission.

 

J.

July 25th, 2017 at 7:19 PM ^

These guys have great chemistry together, and I think it might actually be even more fun if they represented rivals.  Andrew Dakich sacrificed the opportunity to play a couple of seasons at a mid-major in order to help out Michigan when they needed it.  It's hard for me to blame him for taking a scholarship to OSU vs. paying his own way to UM grad school, and I think it'd be hypocritical of me, as someone who professes to care about the players' education, to criticize him for transferring from Quinnipiac when he didn't make it into the grad program he wanted.  So, I'm never going to root for OSU, but I don't have any bad blood for Dakich personally.

It'd be hard, logistically, to do the podcast from separate locations, and while Robinson's Michigan teammates might accept the idea, given that Dakich is a former teammate, the OSU guys would probably give Andrew crap if he didn't quit.  So, sadly, I expect this truly is farewell.

Maybe they'll have a reunion podcast after OSU gets eliminated from postseason consideration. :-)  Say... mid-January?