Oliver Martin Isn't Going Anywhere
There were rumors aplenty last week that Oliver Martin was looking to enter the portal, so Sam Webb made some calls - including to Oliver's family - and it turns out that Oliver will be back on the Michigan football team this fall. Per Sam this morning, "Unless something happens and he does a complete 180, he's not going anywhere."
Another twist in the Oliver story .Hopefully he has an excellent year.
Please sir...........can I have some more?
another.......Oliver twist
i'll show my self out
That was what the comment you're responding got at, but in a more subtle and clever way.
Logged in for the first time in years to downvote this. Your comment was unnecessarily mean.
by any chance did you just umpire the Louisville game sir
That's horrible.
4 game suspension
*4 thread suspension
NB: cannot be OT threads either
Thanks for explaining, Mr Obvious.
i was aware
but not fully aware...
ultra aware
yet still not completely
98.6%
Ok Cap'n.
As long as he's orphaned the idea of transferring ...
The thought of him leaving gave me the dickens!
I hear it's because he's having the best of times.
I've got great expectations for his production this year.
This saga is grueling.
About a thousand pages long. It was originally serialized though.
OK. That was fucking brilliant! Well done!
Take that, angry Michigan Wide Receiver Hating God!
Told Y'all.
Did Oliver ever go anywhere? Hard for someone to be "back on the Michigan football team" if they never left.
Unless something happens.
s/
Hey, man, it's /s.
/s
My bad.
My bad, but I was kinda being sarcastic, about being sarcastic. If he wasn't considering it, his dad should have just said that, instead of, "Unless something comes up".
My 2nd /s was to show you that I'm kidding and don't care about trivial things like the correct form of "/s."
My attempt to be clever: FAIL
It’s really the smart thing to do even if you not happy with your spot on the depth chart. He can compete this year for playing time in a new speed in space offense.
Why sit out a year? Anything can happen.
If you are still not happy after this year you could likely grad transfer and play right away.
He’s going to be “the guy” next year.
Were there threads on this taken down? This is the first I've heard of these rumors.
Not sure if there were on this site, but Webb was all but forced to address the rumors on the 247 boards because it had blown up on Rivals and bled over to the other sites.
Did it really "blow up" or really just a few mentions which "Joder" (how he should be addressed from now on) then claimed as "lots of chatter in Ann Arbor."
Webb's post implied that it had, but then again I've never been on a Rivals board and cannot confirm.
I saw it pop up in my Google feed (from an Iowa beat writer) over the weekend.
The Iowa writer was directly addressing a Yoder tweet that said Martin was gone.
Same here - Google feed popup. A quick search last week revealed the sole source was Yoder at ShatSports. Was actually nice to see that it was ignored for so long. In fact it never "blew up" anywhere despite others' claims.
Fucking Yoder.
THROW THE RECEIVERS THE DAMN BALL
The most interesting part of the whole thing is what Gattis said about having room for everyone to move around on the depth chart. It’s also interesting that Gattis post a picture of the wide receiver crew and Oliver was front and center so I would say that if all things stay how they are then he should be on the team for the up coming year
Can he play RB? I'm 17% serious.
Turner, Wilson, and Charbonnet, will be better this year than Higdon and Evan's were last year. Were fine there
Were fine, indeed
That's a bold take. Also weird considering you included Tru in this year's group but not last year's group. If you list a group of 3 guys in each year, Tru is in both.
We've seen nothing to suggest a true freshman and guy who has 20 carries to his resume will be better than a 1,000 yard rusher (almost twice - off by 6 yards) and Evans who was a 600+ yard rusher in his best full season.
Higdon wasn't all world last year, but he was a really solid RB. If Charbonnet is better than Hidgon, he's probably one of the best freshman RBs in the country.
Wilson... get out with that shit!
Here's an insane take on the RB situation: Could this turn out like Nick Ward's injury for MSU? That forced Izzo to put his best lineup out there and is, IMO, the only reason they swept us and made the Final Four.
If our RB depth is that limited, that could force us to open up the passing game with all of our highly regarded skill players.
That's what I'm hoping for, penny. I'd be just fine with all the Michigan passing records going down this season. Patterson is more than capable of shouldering that load and with upper classmen receivers, they are too. I get the optimism with the running game but I also believe we're in the bottom half of the conference in regards to RB's. ZC is a frosh, Turner hardly used last season, and Wilson is a nice player but not a guy who should be starting or a workhorse.
I couldn't imagine how annoying it must be for a bunch of internet strangers to complain enough about your life decisions as a college student to warrant multiple people reaching out to you to figure out why you didn't come back from a trip soon enough.
Glad he's back, but why this became "a thing" beyond the fact that Yoder copy-pasted some shit from a message board is tiring.