Tony Posada now completely out of football
Just a quick note: Former Wolverine Tony Posada is completely out of football per Rivals.com. This is really too bad. It is difficult to understand how someone can turn their back on a D1 scholarship, especially to Michigan. I guess D1 football isn't for everyone.
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January 13th, 2012 at 2:51 PM ^
The real amazing thing is how fast Hoke and Funk have turned around our offensive line depth. The number 1 OL class in the nation will do that for you.
January 13th, 2012 at 3:07 PM ^
... that recruiting has been amazing. We are not out of the depth woods yet. Next year you should be holding your breath anytime someone gets a leg rolled up on. Especially at the bookends.
January 13th, 2012 at 2:54 PM ^
Yeah...Posada was out of shape long before he signed with Michigan. I had hoped that we would cut him loose, actually, but no luck.
January 13th, 2012 at 3:02 PM ^
you wanted to send him to St. Saban Memorial?
January 13th, 2012 at 3:13 PM ^
...but I believe Magnus meant to indicate he hoped the staff woud cut him loose before signing day, efffectively revoking the scholarship offer.
January 13th, 2012 at 3:40 PM ^
No, I was hoping Rodriguez or Hoke would have revoked his scholarship offer prior to NSD. Then we might have been able to find another lineman instead of him.
January 13th, 2012 at 3:47 PM ^
I'm sorry, but how is that any better and/or ethical?
January 13th, 2012 at 3:55 PM ^
If you pulled an offer before NSD the recruit still has the chance to sign with another team. Recruits change their mind before they sign all the time before they sign a LOI and if a recruit is not holding up their end of the bargain how is it unethical to then pull an offer? Sabans Medical scholarships are completely different , I don't see how or why someone would try to compare the two. The student is already signed with alabama for starters and when they receive their medical scholarship they can;t play college football anymore for any school.
January 13th, 2012 at 3:56 PM ^
The same way a college can revoke your admission if your grades suck senior year. It's not about making room for another player. If a coach doesn't believe you deserve that offer and you haven't signed a LOI, it should be pulled. I have no problem with that.
January 13th, 2012 at 4:08 PM ^
when a guy shows he's not interested in playing football or doing what it takes to play football, I'd say its reasonable not to honor an offer for a D1 football scholarship
January 13th, 2012 at 4:16 PM ^
I don't know. Is it ethical to say "Yes, I will gladly take a free education in exchange for playing football. Now watch me eat these cheeseburgers"?
Scholarship offers include text that says "We'll give you a scholarship if you hold up your end of the bargain physically and academically." Posada didn't keep himself in shape, and now Michigan wasted a scholarship on him. Meanwhile, there's some kid playing for Indiana or MSU or Western Michigan who could be in Ann Arbor instead.
January 13th, 2012 at 7:17 PM ^
Which of course raises (but doesn't beg) the question: Would it be better to have Indiana/WMU-level talent on the team so we can feel a little cushier about depth for a year, or would it be better to bank the scholarship to 2012 (which is what happened) and roll the dice? If someone like Jordan Diamond fills the schollie, isn't that better than making a last-minute offer just to have a spot filled?
January 13th, 2012 at 10:18 PM ^
I don't know... Ask Mark Huyge, who started 29 games at Michigan.
January 13th, 2012 at 6:05 PM ^
If a kid gets a scholarship, shows up out of shape, doesn't practice hard, and doesn't care to be on the team, why not kick him off?
January 13th, 2012 at 6:37 PM ^
I wrote a little piece on him when he committed. No disrespect to John Ferrara, but when he committed I was like "eh?" and he didn't do much. Posada was the same, I saw him 3 times at Tampla Plant.
From everything I saw with my own eyes and heard from people who knew Tony...he didn't even like football like that. He's far too laid back and doesn't have that "fire" you expect. He was just big and football came easy to him, so he felt like he had to play football.
But I think he'll be a very successful businessman or whatever he decides to do, he's a smart guy...just didn't like football as much as the people around him did. Best of luck to the guy.
January 13th, 2012 at 2:56 PM ^
Wish him the best. Seemed like the wheels came off pretty quickly for him. Hopefully he'll find some calm and purpose outside of football.
January 13th, 2012 at 2:58 PM ^
Please refresh my memory: was he the one that signed with us and then didn't even make it to fall camp?
January 13th, 2012 at 3:02 PM ^
He made it to fall camp. He just didn't make it through camp.
January 13th, 2012 at 3:04 PM ^
Felt he could eat what he wanted, when he wanted....that is the opinion of me, some random guy on the internet.
January 13th, 2012 at 3:08 PM ^
At first glance I thought you said something about him eating out a pregnant woman.
January 13th, 2012 at 7:34 PM ^
Seriously...thank you for sharing that with us
January 13th, 2012 at 3:09 PM ^
Maybe he didn't like playing football? Kids his size are always going to be urged to play, but that doesn't mean he enjoyed it, even if he was good at it.
Playing college football takes an amazing investment of one's time and effort. Giving up football obviously comes with a lot of costs (literal costs in the form of tuition), but if he didn't like actually playing football, that's a pretty miserable way to spend 4-5 years. Hopefully this will allow him to discover something he likes to do.
January 13th, 2012 at 3:04 PM ^
But respectfully, I am really glad he isn't riding the bench taking up a scholarship since he didn't have the desire or drive to be the best (at football that is). Hopefully he will pursue something he will excel at.
January 13th, 2012 at 3:04 PM ^
Football is only one part of life. Hopefully, he has done what he needs to do to have a happy and successful life off the field. I still think of him as blue and hope the best for him.
January 13th, 2012 at 3:20 PM ^
thats what happens when you don't work out through the summer and take your privilege of getting play for michigan seriously.
January 13th, 2012 at 3:32 PM ^
Hoping he just didn't like football. Because turning your back on a free degree (only cost is hard work) is a big decision.
January 13th, 2012 at 3:33 PM ^
but due to quitting football for non-medical reasons is. Losing Pasada from an already meager recruiting class of OL obviously didn't help our depth any.
January 13th, 2012 at 4:20 PM ^
His new career: Competitive Eating.
Kobayashi is trembling.
January 13th, 2012 at 4:26 PM ^
The sad part is, if he was 340 lbs and out of shape as an 18 year old playing sports, I hate to see what he'll look like in even 5 years without a sport keeping him active for half the year. I'm 28, and it already takes me a decent amount of work to keep from getting fat. If he can't stay under 340 with the best motivation I can think of (D1 football scholarship), then it scares me to think how his health might look without it.
January 13th, 2012 at 4:30 PM ^
....that he wasn't quite willing to do what it took to maintain a D1 scholarship offer, but hopefully he can be successful in other endeavors. If he at least had the grades to get into Michigan, he almost certainly could find something he enjoys and go from there.
January 14th, 2012 at 1:27 AM ^
I feel bad for Posdada. There will never be a day that he doesn't look back and think, "what could have been".
January 14th, 2012 at 10:26 AM ^
Yeah it would have been great to have a monster his size on the O-line, but what if he did bare minimum to keep his scholarship. We would of had a player taking up a scholarship, who may have possibly brought other guys around him down and hurt team morale in some cases. I hope he has great success in whatever he does after football, but I also hope he sits down with his little Posadas in the future and tells them about how he could've been part of something great and encourages them to work hard.
January 14th, 2012 at 11:03 AM ^
Why is it that our OL / D depth is so pathetic? I wasn't following recruiting a few years ago, but were we taking 15 receivers / CBs in the RR era while just neglecting the lines?
January 14th, 2012 at 11:42 AM ^
More or less.