Several Alabama Players enter the Portal
Don't know who we would have interest in, but here is the list:
Transfers out of Alabama as of January 2022
Paul Tyson - Quarterback (New to transfer portal)
Drew Sanders - Outside linebacker (New to transfer portal)
Jahleel Billingsley - Tight End (New to transfer portal)
Tommy Brown - Offensive lineman (New to transfer portal)
King Mwikuta - Outside linebacker (New to transfer portal)
https://alabama.rivals.com/news/several-players-from-alabama-enter-ncaa-transfer-portal
January 12th, 2022 at 9:55 AM ^
Billingsley was a preseason All SEC tight end selection before he got his spot taken by Latu during the season.
January 12th, 2022 at 9:56 AM ^
Alabama 4*s after the 5*s arrive
January 12th, 2022 at 2:36 PM ^
Legit LOL’d
January 12th, 2022 at 9:59 AM ^
Any influx of talent/experience on the D front 7 would be welcome by me!
January 12th, 2022 at 10:01 AM ^
Coach Oz started following Drew Sanders on twitter. He's a 5-star.
January 12th, 2022 at 10:05 AM ^
Fingers crossed we get him
January 12th, 2022 at 10:06 AM ^
Drew Sanders is probably the guy we would want the most of that list. Former 5 Star (#22) who got stuck behind Will Anderson and Dallas Turner.
According to his 247 page, he ran a 10.91 100 meter dash and "Physical profile fits edge defender...Motor runs high... Should become an impact Power 5 starter with the potential to reach an early-round NFL Draft projection." Much of the report talks about his fit at TE as well.
January 12th, 2022 at 10:47 AM ^
Texas kid. Hard pull these days with the cash comin outta UT and aTm.
January 12th, 2022 at 10:51 AM ^
TAM has to run out of money at some point.
January 12th, 2022 at 10:53 AM ^
Yup. As soon as we run out of oil.
January 12th, 2022 at 12:52 PM ^
So electronic vehicles are the key to Michigan’s Texas recruiting strategy?
January 12th, 2022 at 1:27 PM ^
Massive shortage of materials requiered to manfuacture the batteries for electric vehicles is going to continue to limit de transition, unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a short or mid-term solution to this. The Chinese, which totally own the market, is currently reserving most of the production for internal use...
January 12th, 2022 at 11:20 AM ^
LOL!!! I do like the positive thoughts, though!
January 12th, 2022 at 10:51 AM ^
Looks like a great potential player for us. But it'll take a lot of $$$ to land this guy given the competition.
January 12th, 2022 at 11:09 AM ^
We've got need at edge and tight end. Seems like he would be a focus. (Unless he's already decided where he's going.)
January 12th, 2022 at 11:11 AM ^
We have need at TE? Explain.
January 12th, 2022 at 11:19 AM ^
I think we found Harbaugh's burner account.
January 12th, 2022 at 11:59 AM ^
We have 7 scholarship TE's, plus Seltzer, who played a decenet amount. All was All Big Ten this year and Luke S came up big at the end of the year, plus a couple of the young guys are supposed to be studs
January 12th, 2022 at 7:41 PM ^
Depth chart only lists 5 as current tight ends and All and Schoonmaker will be gone after the coming season. The next most experienced are freshmen.
January 12th, 2022 at 7:30 PM ^
This is undoubtedly the last year for All and Schoonmaker. Hibner and Hansen are freshmen and have potential but you can never be sure how ready they'll be when A & S leave. Sanders should have a covid year so he has plenty of eligibility left and it's always good to have a number of young guys in the queue. Also, it might be helpful in recruiting him if we can give him the choice of which way he wants to go.
January 12th, 2022 at 1:28 PM ^
Go get him OZ...obviously slim chances with any SEC player, but hey, throw some NIL at him.
January 12th, 2022 at 1:55 PM ^
No time like the present to kick off the new NIL money cannon program and go buy this kid's commitment.
January 12th, 2022 at 3:08 PM ^
The scary thing is that some of these kids could get more than their coaches. I guess that is why JH wants more for his assistants too.
January 13th, 2022 at 4:03 AM ^
Oz is going to be coaching at Texas?
January 12th, 2022 at 10:05 AM ^
As a rule, I'm never interested in a potential transfer unless he is from the midwest. It seems that transfers far more often than not go closer to home.
January 12th, 2022 at 10:20 AM ^
Have you guys not figured out that we cant get portal guys because of our admissions office... That is why they go to state -- we usually only get grad transfers -- I believe that is what Harbaugh is fighting for....(from what I hear)...
January 12th, 2022 at 10:25 AM ^
We've had what, 2 undergrad transfers in the last 12 years? Shea and Ty Isaac. All the rest were grad students, who are not transfers.
January 12th, 2022 at 10:36 AM ^
And the Shea experience basically proves the point. Wasn't he one of several guys considering Michigan as a landing spot when Ole Miss got (very temporarily) nuked?
January 12th, 2022 at 11:26 AM ^
Yes, he wanted to bring two WR's with him (one of which is now in the NFL). I heard that Shea was willing to give up ~one years worth of classes at Ole Miss to get into Michigan, though I don't know if this is actually true. That seems rather unique for a player, if it is true. He was a strong Michigan lean before committing to Ole Miss when Hugh Freeze was still there. Draw your own conclusions...
January 12th, 2022 at 11:06 AM ^
If you exclusively look at football sure. If you look at all sports you realize it’s not an admissions issue because admissions let’s in undergrad transfers for all kinds of sports every year.
January 12th, 2022 at 12:03 PM ^
Letting them in vs letting them bring credits with them is a completely different thing. Sure, you can get in, but you lose most of the credits you have earned at the other school. That isn't a great option for a lot of kids. So, yeah, it may not be an "admissions" thing, but it is still a huge barrier.
January 12th, 2022 at 3:40 PM ^
I’d love to see an example of credits not transferring. I have a strong suspicion the credits that aren’t transferring are either classes that are pass/fail or classes that simply don’t have a close equivalent at M. Like advanced shoelace tying.
January 12th, 2022 at 3:51 PM ^
Why does losing credits matter much if you still get in?
Most of these kids don't intend to graduate. Who cares if you are 20 credits short of graduating or 30 credits short of graduating when you leave early?
January 12th, 2022 at 4:37 PM ^
I don't know for sure but it may have something to do with credits toward a degree showing progress in the classroom. If you don't have a certain number of credits at at the institution then you are not academically eligible. I don't know but I get your point and have to guess why it matters because apparently it does matter.
January 12th, 2022 at 8:10 PM ^
You've got it - laughable OP. "guys we are interested in". Our record of transfer undergrads is heroic. We can get "any guys are interested in" through admissions.
Mel Tucker is salivating - he can take whatever he wants. Our pearl clutchers in admissions will shit on JH even asking if the nonsense garbage classes they are taking there transfer to our kinesiology who is world renowned!
January 12th, 2022 at 11:05 AM ^
This is not true, admissions does not deny entrance, I don’t know why this clearly false statement gets made and upvoted every time.
January 12th, 2022 at 11:16 AM ^
Admissions doesn’t deny admission, but they do deny transfer credits, which often puts M at a disadvantage. Not sure why this is so difficult to understand.
January 12th, 2022 at 11:30 AM ^
Yes. I transfered to Michigan. I was admitted and they told me to call them and they gave me the buts ...
1. They did not accept X credits which would require me to take a full 5th year
2. I had to retake freshman English/writing despite having already passed higher level classes with writing whose credits did transfer
3. They didn't accept my foreign language credits. I had the option to test into higher level.
4. I had to agree to take X extra credits within my department - e.g. 3 extra upper level electives - to get my major or I could retake courses I already took.
I'm not sure with football players if they ever reach this stage and then decline to enroll, or if interest is shut down earlier.
January 12th, 2022 at 12:22 PM ^
I have mixed feelings on the admin office rules. In general I think Michigan should continue to hold themselves to a high standard....I do think (regardless of athletics) that they are extremely picky and needlessly so at times. Your example about foreign language is one - do we really think that learning a foreign language at another school is different? Especially when it felt pretty easy to test out of foreign language at Michigan?
The part that seems a bit odd to me about transfer athletes giving up credits is that out of the other side of our mouths we bitch about how athletes don't actually care about school, barely go to class, get put in an easy "general studies" path, etc. Not to mention that many athletes, at least in football, take 5 years of eligibility on the field and in the classroom. So is giving up some of those credits and having to take an extra couple of classes making that decision for them? I'm not sure.
The Admin office isn't helping and isn't making it easy and is giving one more reason to pick a different school.....but I'm not so sure it is the blockade that we think it is.
January 12th, 2022 at 12:52 PM ^
Is there a point where the lost credits actually impairs eligibility?
Shea might have been ok with losing credits because he was still in the clear to qualify towards Junior eligibility status, but other recruits might need to sit a year to catch up academically because of their lower credit hours.
January 12th, 2022 at 11:56 AM ^
Upvote this^^^^^----I did not say they are denied admission- but they do lose a lot of their credits-- where as in other schools (like msu) those credits transfer right over... Would you want to retake a bunch of classes again? -- so in effect the admissions office hinders transfers to UofM -- which is what I said..
January 12th, 2022 at 1:25 PM ^
Why do we think these players care about these credits? They aren't paying for them, if they plan to go the NFL it doesn't matter and they can still get their degree for free if that is what matters.
Anyone transferring into Michigan that we care about as fans is someone on an NFL radar. There is a lot of projection about the transfer issue being a hurdle because this blog thinks about graduating in four years and having to pay for school.
Not to mention, its still seemingly not a barrier for athletes in other sports at Michigan and nobody on this board knows anything about the transfer credit policy at OSU for example and how it compares. But no school of academic value is accepting more than 60 credits for a transfer.
January 12th, 2022 at 1:44 PM ^
What about the player that knows that they can only be in the nfl for a few years (which is the majority of them) and needs that degree to have a career --- they could have been taking extra classes toward their degree or graduating and starting their graduate programs -- so when they run out of eligibility - they could have already been on their way to their graduate degree... why do you think there are so many grad transfers -- they couldnt transfer to a grad school if they had to retake a bunch of undergrad classes -- And I will bet you that there is no player that wants to retake a class they already took --I dont care how good of a player they are... It is just logic ... one school is going to make you take a bunch of classes over and another is not... Which one would you pick ?
January 12th, 2022 at 2:55 PM ^
Admissions has nothing, at all, to do with deciding what credits transfer.
January 12th, 2022 at 12:46 PM ^
I love how you constantly tote the line that admissions isn't a problem despite the evidence to the contrary. Rejecting transfer credit from potential athlete has cost us. One of our only football undergrad transfers, Shae, had to retake multiple classes as a result. We, at minimum, lost out on a chance at Tenry To'oto'o.
January 12th, 2022 at 2:57 PM ^
Rejecting transfer credit from potential athlete has cost us.
Admissions isn't the one rejecting transfer credits.
January 12th, 2022 at 12:01 PM ^
If Jim Harbaugh were head of the admissions office Xavier Worthy would have been our leading receiver this year.
Its time for them to stop screwing stuff up for sanctimonious reasons. I totally agree with the general point that the portal means this is critical on a go-forward basis.
January 12th, 2022 at 12:13 PM ^
Yeah it truly SUCKS that we have Academic standards!!!! To bad we can't be like Ole Miss, but if we were, at least half the people who went to Michigan WOULD NOT HAVE GONE!
/smh
January 12th, 2022 at 1:28 PM ^
My best buddy decided to transfer out of Air Force and got accepted to Michigan (where I was) and UVA. He had 96 credits because Air Force gives you an insane workload. Michigan would only transfer 52 credits and UVA offered to transfer over 20 more credits than than. After busting his ass for two years my buddy would have had the same number of credits as someone who had slacked off his first two years and he couldn't afford a do a 5th year. So he went to UVA an equally if not more prestigious undergraduate school.
I had another friend who did transfer to Michigan after two years because he didn't get good grades in high school but went to a Michigan community college for two years and got straight As. Because he went to a Michigan community college just about all his credits transferred over. I'm not sure what the hell is going on at Michigan's admissions office when it comes to transfers but I'm not sure how much of it has to do with prestige.
January 12th, 2022 at 2:45 PM ^
The process isn't consistent, it isn't based on norms used by similar level academic institutions, and it serves no obvious purpose that couldn't be accomplished with a simplified system. I would understand if you didn't want C's at Ole Miss to count, but the current system is way beyond that.
Hopefully these types of illogical situations being brought to light lead to positive change.(Not holding my breath)