Question Re: grayshirting

Submitted by teldar on

So we keep hearing about greyshirts and who is going to be one and how much it's going to cost them to go to Michigan for a semester and pay for it themselves out of pocket. So my question is in two parts.

One: Can they work out with the team the first semester they are on campus? Are then then treated as a walk-on with all the benefits of the training table but not benefits of tuition/room&board?

Two: If they decided they couldn't afford it, what are the chances they would be able to just enroll in the spring semester?

AZBlue

December 12th, 2015 at 2:57 PM ^

First answer is No - they cannot participate in any team activities except maybe the weight room.

Second - I suppose it is possible, I have also heard the possibility of going to a nearby CC which would be cheaper and Credits from MI schools are easy (easier at least) to transfer into M.

WolvinLA2

December 12th, 2015 at 3:24 PM ^

No, that's not a grey shirt, that's just a walk on. The difference there is that first year would count as your redshirt year, whereas a grey shirt year doesn't count toward your 5.

A grey shirt is either when a kid enrolls, pays his own way and doesn't begin team activities until the spring or he simply doesn't enroll until the winter semester, making him an early enrollee in the 2017 class, essentially.

WolvinLA2

December 12th, 2015 at 3:27 PM ^

OK, but if they don't enroll then the still can't work out with the team. It just depends on whether the kid wants to start college or not. And he'll still have access to the IM building and CCRB (and quite possibly the football facilities when the team isn't using them) and he'll be able to begin relationships with the coaches and players.

BlueinOK

December 12th, 2015 at 3:26 PM ^

No one seems to understand grayshirting. The player doesn't enroll until the spring. They don't go to school for the fall semester. They report in the spring. If they do come, it has to be as a part time student. Being a full time student will start their five-year clock.




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teldar

December 12th, 2015 at 4:00 PM ^

That ties together all the thoughts about being part time and everything else. So they could enroll to get ON campus and have access to the facilities and everything but not start their 5 years of eligibility until they are actually full time on scholarship for the Winter (misspoke earlier with Spring) 

 

So they would NOT be on the hook for the full tuition the first semester, but if they wanted, and they were not Michigan residents, they could move up and start the clock on when the would be able to apply for Michigan resident status.

 

alum96

December 12th, 2015 at 5:45 PM ^

We talked about this in the diary for the recruiting class and most had indicated you'd enroll at WCCC to make sure the credits transfer (and not incur a massive cost esp if student is from out of state) and then enroll at UM in January 2017.

I guess the other option is to be a part time student at UM itself in fall 2016.