Gregg Glenn III to the Portal
Men's hooper Gregg Glenn III is off to the transfer portal. Quite honestly, this is a good thing for all parties. It was unlikely that Glenn was going to get much PT and now Michigan has a scholarship open to court another transfer. Wish GG3 all the best. My guess is he heads back to Florida, maybe to USF which was one of his finalists.
April 24th, 2023 at 12:52 PM ^
I'm sure the coaches have a plan. What that is, I have no idea.
Uh...maybe it is, "get better?"
This is a random comment after freeing up a scholarship from literally the 13th man.
I was high on Glenn long-term, but for next year you can lose your 13th man and pick-up a starter. And we're questioning the plan?
This could mean Nkamhoua is on the way and he's a much better player today and could instantly start at PF and move Jackson to a roll coming off the bench.
C: Reed
PF: Nkamhoua*
G: Burnett
G: Love
PG: McDaniel
C: TBD*
PF: Jackson
F: Williams
F/G: Khayat
PG: Llewellyn
PF: Tschetter
F/G: Ja. Howard
G: Washington
(OUT: Glenn, Dickinson, Baker, Bufkin, Barnes, Je. Howard)
Michigan still has 2 open spots...1 if they land Nkamhoua. We will need a C (unless Dickinson returns).
And if you move Jace Howard to walk-on/NIL...you can add another spot.
Michigan needs TALENT, period.
Add Nkamhoua, pray Hunter returns or go get Cisse since Traore is headed to UCSB.
Move Jace to walk-on/NIL and go get a backup SG (bump Khayat to the 3rd unit).
Nkamhoua, Dickinson and Matthew Cleveland would have been ideal but Dickinson is trending the wrong way and we didn't make the top 3 for Cleveland.
Nkamhoua, Cisse, and whatever guard in the portal shoots best from 3 is what we need.
April 24th, 2023 at 12:54 PM ^
Gotta wonder if he was given some "encouragement" by Juwan. Needing a scholarship or two for bigs.
When you are be recruited over you, I suspect he could figure it out himself.
Proverbial writing on the wall... maybe he'll be replaced with a kid named Daniel.
April 24th, 2023 at 12:54 PM ^
Wish him luck. I actually thought he had transferred along with Barnes so perhaps not a total surprise.
This team is going to look really different next year anyway but this will likely mean another new face.
I know Dickinson visited UK and KU recently but not sure if he's decided yet. Will be interesting to see where he winds up.
April 24th, 2023 at 12:57 PM ^
Good luck, sir. I liked his game out of high school and was hoping he would develop. All I'm left with is the memory of one of the funniest FG attempts I've seen in a Michigan uniform
What's your favorite Gregg Glenn III story?
Either the time he committed to Michigan or the time he entered the portal. Hard to choose.
You remember that time he entered the transfer portal and we all reminisced with our favorite stories about him?
That was awesome.
It's hard to say. There's just so many to choose from.
Portal season is stressful as a fan.
Gotta love that every time someone leaves, we explain it away by saying he would get no playing time and so he's best off elsewhere. If you watched the guys on the court last year, and we have a bunch of players who couldn't at least rise to that level, then I question at every tier.. wtf are we doing here?
We are shedding guys left and right. Even with the guys they got in the portal, how is this a way to build any sense of team? Where is there any depth?
In the era of the transfer portal, I feel we are lost on our approach and it shows up in the resultant team roster each year. Next year looks... very odd to me. Dug, Reed, Burnett, Love and then what?
You may want to just take a peak at the rest of the teams out there
Another uninformed guy talking about college basketball. This is how it is now in college basketball. Some guy on here posted about how 14 of the 16 teams in this years Sweet 16 had like 5 transfers or more and most of the teams had 2 or 3 transfer starters. Please if you don't know about sports keep comments to self. This isn't 2000s anymore.
Wow 14 of the 16 teams in the final 4. That is some amazing math. Lol. But I get what you are saying. College BB is fluid and you can make a run with a team of transfers.
I know right. Lol my bad I edited to Sweet 16. But I don't like the way College basketball is now. But unfortunately the team that gets the best transfers are now the teams to beat for the Championship. Recruiting is still good but the transfer portal is now just as important as recruiting used to be.
Michigan needs more than Caleb Love to make a run. Right now, they are probably 11th or 12th in the Big Ten with what they have and what they lost.
lol just no
Never argue with a Goblin.
Glenn was a solid prospect but he was (ignoring YoYo because he wasn't rated at all due to being overseas) the lowest rated on the team and a guy who you had to project a good deal with especially after an injury-hampered senior year. In a perfect world you'd like him to stick around another year and grow but guys can also read the room and this team has a glut of PF types (quality is different than quantity) and when you're being beaten out for playing time by guys who you may not pass then I can see wanting to find a better spot. Barnes, for example, went to Tulsa, a school that was ranked about where EMU was this year. Hopefully he'll find playing time there and be happy but it's not unreasonable that after a couple of years the lottery ticket you took doesn't pay out the way you expected and both sides move on.
I don't think this team will be better than they were this year objectively; they're losing too much talent and even if Love and Burnett are in-place replacements there's nobody like Dickinson coming to UM. I also do think they'll be better in close-game situations because there's little way they could be worse and maybe they pull of an ASU-type season where they're mediocre but win some close games and sneak into the tourney. But Glenn was unlikely to factor in either way to that future so it makes sense he'd look to land somewhere else.
"Lost our Approach". What are you talking about? In college basketball now days every season is going to be like this for most of the teams. Michigan might not have this type of turnover every year but it is going to happen. We are on the verge on putting 2 more players in the first round in the draft again. Can't fault Juwan for a young man making a decision that is best for him and his family. College basketball is like the Wild West everyone looking for a pay day. The staring point guard at Creighton could have came back with 4 other starters to compete for a Ship and he transferred to Gonzaga where his brother played and to get more money. So until you look up how the game is played now days quit whining about our roster. These mid majors used to have good teams with seniors but as soon as one has a good year they are now gone. Do I like how what it has become NO. But that is unfortunately how the game is played in 2023.
Also I am not trying to be a total dick to some of the people commenting but everytime someone acts like this is just something happening at Michigan and it is JHs fault. Just wish people would do a little research and see how everyone else is going through the same as us. Some better though but some worse
"Michigan fans are not happy unless they are miserable"
I'll be honest, I had no idea he was even on the team...
So, who of any consequence is left from this year's team? Dug, Tarris, TWill, Cheddar, and Jace. And 3 of them are marginal. More than half the team is gone. Weird.
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"who of any consequence is left"
in a post about a player who totaled 11 minutes of game time last year.
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My point was not about this one player. It was about the totality of exits. That should have been clear.
Dug and Tarris are the only guys who really matter. The other guys who mattered went to the NBA (and Hunter). TWill, Tschetter, Jace, Glenn, Baker, etc are all replacement level players at best. Maybe Llewellyn comes back and plays a solid role -- but who knows. I'd prefer open spots for Howard to go portal hunting.
Another Howard “family friend” from AAU days out the door. Poor evaluations hurting this staff
Gregg wasn't a very good shooter or dribbler out of high school. I like my wings to be able to do one of those two out of high school and have a chance at cracking a ten man rotation. With Barnes and GG3 we had the same issue and I don't think we should spend scholarships on guys that are two years out and not expect them to end up in the portal.
Barnes was a way different player then Glenn. GG3 was listed as a Power forward and his scouting was of a power forward for college ball. Barnes was a SG/SF who wasn't to bad of a shooter in HS. But he was athletic and could jump out of the gym. If he could have played any defense Barnes could have played but unfortunately his defense wasn't good.
Best of luck to Gregg at his next destination. Weird recruitments usually end in weird ways, as the staff seemed to warm and cool on him at 3 different points throughout the 22 cycle. A level down in competition would probably do him good, the fact that he couldn't even sniff the rotation this year given our depth issues should tell you everything that needs to be known.
Protect TWill at all costs
Man, college basketball is a rough product right now. Even low 4 stars transferring if they don't get day 1 PT. I'm starting to sound like an old man with my reactions to these transfers and early draft decisions. It's just a bummer that the days of having a guy develop and seize his chance as an upperclassman seems completely gone, unless you can be developing 2* guys.
I wasn't a big fan of Glenn as a prospect tbh but the one upside was that hopefully he'd be around 4 years.
Figure out a way to get Tschetter to take an academic scholarship or something. I don't even know if he could start in the Horizon, much less get PT on a decent Horizon league team.