It's Official: Ty Isaac is a Wolverine
The title says it all. The university is now saying it's official so we can stop the speculation as to whether there's a possibility if Isaac didn't recieve the waiver to play this year he might not transfer to Michigan. There's still no mention of the waiver so it appears we are still waiting on that, but at least we all know he's a Wolverine either way. Welcome to the good guys Ty!
http://www.mgoblue.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/061014aaa.html
I think that it would be better for both parties if he didn't get his waiver and had to sit out this year.
If all things are equal then he would get a year seperation from Green, Smith and would be running behind a better OL in 2015, 2016, and 2017.
As someone posted about this earlier, it's all hands on deck for the 2014 season. This is the year we need to turn it around. If Isaac is our best back (and looking at his freshman film, he might very well be), then we want him ASAP.
one of the others could RS and you would still have the gap.
I don't believe you can RS unless you're a freshman, you have a medical injury that keeps you from playing, or you transfer. You can't simply take a sophomore that played last year who is healthy and RS him just for better future depth.
Wasn't there some discussion on the board that Terry Richardson didn't play in 2013 and would be red shirted?
"Each student-athlete is eligible for four years of competition in each of their chosen sports. If a qualified incoming student-athlete is "redshirted" his or her freshman year (i.e., practices but does not compete), four full years of eligibility still remain. An extra year of eligibility can also be granted via a "hardship waiver" if a student-athlete suffers an incapacitating injury or illness in the course of a season. The injury must occur during the first half of the season and the student-athlete, in Divisions I and II, must not have participated in more than two contests or 20% of the school's completed contests, whichever is greater. In Division III, the threshhold is three contests or 33% of completed contests, whichever is greater. For more information on redshirt eligibility, access the NCAA website."
http://sports.findlaw.com/student_athlete/elig_summ/
Does it matter?
How do you even know if they're even close to equal?
Why on earth did this get 3 upvotes? Yes, lets turn down the 5 star RB with college experience and S/C because our other RB's have proven so much...
Derp, yes it was.
IDK I could go either way. Although based on recruiting and the young talent on the roster, I'd tend to agree that we need all the help we can get to win now. In some ways that's best for now and for the future...in order to continue to have recruiting momentum and positive vibes about the future of the program and to keep/get the fans engaged. But, on the other hand if someone else has a good year (Green, Smith, Hayes), and we could get seperation between Green/Smith and Isaac, that would also be beneficial.
In all honesty I think the Darboh injury was good for the team if he comes back 100%. Gallon and Funchess produced just fine without him last year. Now we have him for another year after Funchess leaves, which also gives guys like Harris time to develop. In the same logic if UM misses on any highly rated RBs in the 2015 class it's better to have Isaac a year behind Smith and Green. But, that assumes Smith or Green has a good season in 2014, which is no gurantee. IMO it's less about the back and more about the o-line at this point, but I can see both sides of this argument. Either way I'm excited about a 5-star player added to the roster.
I think you're off base on that one. It's quite possible he would have been valuable last season. Having that experience would have put him in a better position to produce this season. He may well have been in line to be our #2 receiver. The tradeoff of having him back in 2016 hardly helps guys like Harris who'll be juniors by then.
I'm coming around to the idea of Isaac not getting the waiver. A year's seperation is good, but I have a feeling whoever wins the starting job out of those three guys is going to have the NFL pullng them away before they run out of eligibility.
I also think Isaac brings something different to the table (namely a receiving threat out of the backfield) that could be very useful this year, even if he doesn't earn the starting RB spot. If we can't get an elite RB in the '15 or '16 class, we're in trouble anyway.
Draft analysts this spring talked about the decline of RB cache...that the NFL wasn't placing as much value on RBs because many teams now see them as disposable players. They get banged up, they only stay around, on average, a couple of years and all the team needs is 50 or so yards a game to keep the defense honest. This may become a stronger trend as NFL teams look to add more QB/RB players.
In short, we may see more RBs get a sheepskin as an insurance policy as they play out their eligibility.
Hoke-
"We're excited that Ty has decided to join the Michigan Football family," said Hoke, the J. Ira and Nicki Harris Family Head Football Coach. "I know it was important for him to get back to the Midwest to be closer to his mom and family, so I think it's a great fit for everyone. Ty's a big back with really good speed and catches the ball extremely well out of the backfield. He certainly adds depth and competition to a position we feel very confident about."
That bolded part will never not be the worst wow experience ever.
You mean the "J. Ira I made a crapton of money in investment banking and I'm so ridiculously wealthy I can afford to attach my name like a bloated tick to the job held by Fielding Yost and Bo Schembechler even though I've never had a fucking thing to do with Michigan Football or any other remotely athletic endeavor besides refereeing IM sports and pushing myself away from the dinner table and Nicki Harris Family Head Football Coach."
LOL!
Hey, at least they're giving the athletic department money to build toward new homes for the "non-revenue" sports. They also paid for this-
and getting their names in shiny aluminum letters on the exterior walls of expensive locker rooms they write checks toward. I have no problem with rich donors attaching their names remora-like to the coordinator positions. When it comes to the position that Yost, Crisler, Schembechler, Moeller, and Carr held, I think it's pathetic that somebody whose only connection to the program is his checkbook gets to graft his name onto that iconic position for reasons solely consisting of his own egotistical desire to obscure the fact that he's an overweight, unathletic paper-pusher desperate to glean some of the alpha-male cred that elite athletes have.
Bo died in 2006, right?
Michigan football suffered two of its most embarassing defeats in 2007, under the leadership of a coach who was directly from the "Bo Tree." Then, it suffered through what turned out to be one of the worst coaching transitions in major CFB history and set a plethora of new program lows in 2008. The roots of historic lows didn't come from seeds that were sown the day Bo died -- those seeds, sadly, began to germinate while our legendary leader was very much alive.
I loved Bo, knew him personally, and cried when he retired. But, we need to stop the near evangelistic way with which we evoke his memory. He was a great coach and a great leader of young men, no doubt. But he was a party to the arrogant protectionistic attitude that enveloped Michigan football, and it was these (IMO) that were the seeds that eventually bore rotten fruit.
Some day you will (you should hope) learn that there are things that are more important than the Almighty Dollar.
Dave? DAVE?? Is that you?
Didn't think so.
Someday there will be a FritoBandito walking taco restroom facility.
Dave Brandon.
a lot of people have syphilis,
right?
That a lot of schools advertise in their football stadiums, right?
It would be nice to see Green, Smith and Isaac emerge into some manner of a "triple threat" at the RB position. That might be asking a lot, but this is definitely not a bad get for Michigan by way of a transfer from USC. I am not sure of the timeline of the waiver that he seeks, but clearly the reason he wants it is one the NCAA will consider, so we will see about that, I suppose. In the meantime, welcome officially to Michigan, Ty Isaac!
Ty, The Creator.
I would hope that 100 mile range is just a guidelne meant to discourage frivolous and rampant transferring. . Obviously, commuting between home and back is fairly easy wheras it is logistically impossible from USC. Then again hoping the ncaa makes a common decision is like me hoping Kate Upton calls.
So maybe his waiver application has a chance.
Except in some of those really weird words.
their our acceptions too this rool