Hand Trying To Flip Peppers

are kids who want to play for Michigan. kids who get what Michigan is all about. if peppers is feeling queasy about his commitment, so be it. he has the right to look around, so let him. his generation is very attracted to the next greatest bright and shiny thing. i see it all the time at school (i teach high school). right now, bama is that thing. perhaps the sparkle will wear off, perhaps it won't. regardless, if it's meant to be, it will happen. if not, we move on and we find someone who wants us as much as we want them. we will be fine.

That's my opinion also about Alabama and most of those Southeastern Conference schools,  I personally don't buy their large share of the top recruits wanting to go there.  I think they are somehow paid.  Some of the players we lost like Treadwell, I think that's exactly what happened.  Same thing with Alex Kozan.  When I hear a recruit going on about Auburn's business school is when he has a chance to go to the Michigan business school, something does not add up.  I could speculate the same thing about Hand. 

 

Look at it this way.  You are a top high school football player.  What theoretically is your pay?  A free education.  Would you not want to mximize the value of your pay and go to the best school available?  When I hear kids making statements about other scholls in comparison to Michigan’s, non-sense statements favorably comparing other lessors schools educations to Michigan, I am somewhat confident they are hiding something and have an ulterior motive for their statements.

 

The other thing you theortically get is adequately prepared for the NFL.  At least on defense Michigan’s coordinator has excellent credibility for doing that, and Michigan has historically turned out excellent and successful pro’s on both sides of the ball.

 

However these kids have a valuable talent, and the other thing you can get out of college is payment while you play.  Some of these kids who flirt with Michigan for awhile and sign somewhere else. I think they want to go to Michigan and are waiting to see if they get a monetary offer, and when it doesn’t come, they go were the money is.  This is an opinion but when a top recruit twitters a picture of a pile of cash, I think he is telling you exactly what he wants and what it will take to get him.  That is a message. 

 

Really I don’t think it’s even rational to expect kids with this kind of valuable talent, at least some of them, to not seek out the highest bidder.  Some of these top flight recruits come from very impoverished backgrounds, and their talent represents a chance to get out of that and to have something. 

 

I don’t blame the kids one bit if they take advantage of there talent.  I think it’s the system that takes advantage of them.  Unfortunately many of these kids I don’t think are really able to take advantage of the free education they are given.  The  classes they can’t take because they interfere with football.  These kids who get in because of football are probably smart enough to know it. 

 

Put yourself in the position of a hiring manager.  You are paid a performance bonus and you have a position to fill.  Some kid comes in who went to some school on a football scholarship, ended up being a sub,  You probably look at him more suspect because  he was on scholarship.  Are you really going to hire a guy who was a benchwarmer just because he got to see the action? 

 

Money from football is used to fund free educations for other athletes who sports otherwise can not fund there eduation or sport otherwise.  The only these kids get is an education of questionable value to them given there academic capability and the time requirements of major college football .  Not to mention the value of football in keeping a feeling of continuity with the alumni base and therefore helping keep a flow of donations, the real unquantified value of a major college football program. 

 

I am a propenent of paying these kids, and I think Michigan would be in a position to compensate them quite well and would eliminate the a disadvantage I think Michigan has of presently playing by the rules.