Darryl Stonum to Baylor

Submitted by MAgoBLUE on

I've been interested to see where Darryl Stonum would end up following his dismisal from the team.  According to his Twitter it looks like that will be Baylor.  I'm happy for him that he gets to return to his home state and resume his career.  Once a Wolverine, always a Wolverine.

https://twitter.com/CornellStone22

McGreenB

July 20th, 2012 at 2:56 PM ^

I actually had class with him a couple semesters ago, and he's very well spoken and bright..it's a shame he couldn't get it together in AA. Best of luck at Baylor!

joeyb

July 20th, 2012 at 3:04 PM ^

Well, he did sit out this past year, so maybe that will count as his year off. Another possibility is that he is using the grad school rule to get around the year off.

jadaSPW

July 20th, 2012 at 3:10 PM ^

If he is eligible immediately he would interestingly play his first game on September 2 (Baylor vs. SMU) in Waco. That's less than two hours from Dallas, the day after Michigan-Alabama.

Two-for-one weekend for Michigan fans in Dallas?

Patent Pending

July 21st, 2012 at 2:36 PM ^

I think you can stop trying to push your sports travel business as I don't think there is a single Michigan fan that wants to drive two hours to see a former wide receiver potentially catch 2-3 balls against SMU for Baylor.

Wolverine Devotee

July 20th, 2012 at 3:02 PM ^

Go for you Darryl! Hope you tear up the Big 12. I remember when he was an incoming freshman. Time flies.

dc22

July 20th, 2012 at 3:03 PM ^

Good to see that he has got another chance at a BCS team in his home state. Considering the trajectory all the teams at Baylor have been on in the past few years, I wouldn't be surprised if they stay good and have a Big 12 title contending team even after the departure of RGIII.

dc22

July 20th, 2012 at 4:15 PM ^

That could be argued as their only good year in the past 5 required a breakout performance from RGIII and they lost quite a bit as you mentioned. I just think that the positive momentum overall should carry them to atleast 8 wins possibly more. I don't follow the Big 12 very closely but no team (atleast on the surface) other than Oklahoma looks particularly scary and isn't the Big 12 a 'defense optional' league anyway.

Perkis-Size Me

July 20th, 2012 at 3:12 PM ^

shame it didn't work out for him here. we needed him big time this season, but i hope everything works out for him. baylor got itself a solid receiver.

anyone know if he can play this season? i have to imagine he can, seeing as how he's already used a redshirt.

reshp1

July 20th, 2012 at 3:21 PM ^

Glad he landed somewhere with a good program and hopefully stays out of trouble and finds some success on the field. Best of luck to him

TheGhostofYost

July 20th, 2012 at 3:28 PM ^

Frankly, I'm surprised by all the encouragment in this thread.  Stonum betrayed his teammates by making numerous selfish decisions in his time here.  I'm not upset he's going to Baylor, but I'm also not going to say "good for him."

Tater

July 20th, 2012 at 4:56 PM ^

Actually, "Ghost," most of what you said was opinion.  In this thread, you sound like one of those people who thinks his opinion is "fact" and everyone who disagrees with him is "wrong."  I can't imagine that ending well on the most intelligent message board in college sports.

ijohnb

July 20th, 2012 at 3:39 PM ^

It is the in thing on this blog to be hyper gracious and all "best of wishes" and "go get em bud" to basically anybody who goes anywhere for any reason.  I am kind of more like "whatever dude" on this one.  Don't want bad things for the guy but I could do without him catching 15 touchdown passes and so forth.  What does that say about me?

MAgoBLUE

July 20th, 2012 at 3:48 PM ^

I don't know what it says about you.  I know that I made my own set of mistakes when I was Stonum's age only no one cared because I'm not a high profile athlete.  Maybe that's why I'm a little more forgiving towards him.  I've got a nice big glass house.

UMaD

July 20th, 2012 at 6:58 PM ^

Dude put other people's lives at risk repeatedly and went to jail for his total lack of responsibility and respect for others.  A guy like Chris Webber, who, while selfish and misguided in his views and actions, actually harmed no one directly - gets all but black-balled to anyone who wasn't around for the Fab 5.  Meanwhile, Stonum, selfishly, recklessly, and indifferently put others in harms way and refused to change - gets a pat on the back on his way out the door.

I realize webber did way more damage to Michigan athletics, but looking objectively outside the sports realm, Stonum's actions are ethically abhorrent.

I hope he's learned from his mistakes and wish him the best going forward as long as he can have some basic respect for other people.

WolvinLA2

July 20th, 2012 at 7:07 PM ^

See, your third paragraph is the key point.  No one is saying that what Stonum did to get kicked off the team wasn't wrong, and when it happened, most were in agreement that he needed to be off of the team. 

What GhostofYost can't seem to put together is that you can be both disappointed or even appalled by his actions, while at the same time be happy if he learns from his screw ups and lands on his feet. 

A question to you, GhostofYost - if you had a close friend get a DUI, or struggle with an addiction of some sort where he lost something equivalent to a spot on Michigan's football team (a job maybe?) and that friend cleaned himself up to where he found another job - wouldn't you wish him the best of luck?  Or would you take the same attitude you're taking right now with Stonum?

People make mistakes, sometimes big ones.  Especially young people (Stonum was like 19 and 20 when this happened).  I think they deserve a second chance if they work for it.

TheGhostofYost

July 20th, 2012 at 11:15 PM ^

Your premise is flawed on multiple levels.  First, you assume that because an athlete is longer committing crimes, he has somehow cleaned everything up and learned from his mistakes.  What evidence do you have that would confirm this? Second, this is hardly his "second chance."  Third, he's not a "close friend" of yours or mine or anyone else on this board.  Come back with a more accurate hypothetical and I'll answer your questions.

M-Wolverine

July 20th, 2012 at 8:10 PM ^

Stonum had a year of his Michigan career taken away never to get it back. Webber never had shit done to him. How you handle it helps too. Stonum left without blaming Michigan for his troubles, and Webber can't stop finding people to blame other than himself.

You can make your own judgement on how harshly the legal system treated each.