Vinopal to Cowboys
Ray Vinopal of Pitt and Thomas Rawls of CMU, both former Wolverines, have been signed by the Dallas Cowboys.
Update: Rawls has disappeared from the list of new Cowboys. Somebody else made a thread for him. Let's make this one about Vinopal.
Reached deal with seattle. http://www.themorningsun.com//sports/20150502/former-central-michigan-r…
They had Rawls listed under the Cowboys on the NFL website. Now he's gone, though not yet showing up as a Seahawk.
The Cowboys rejected him for only having one run-in with the law. The team minimum is three.
Magnus with the zinger! Well played *polite golf clap*
All of these have been mentioned?
I feel like this is the worlds most delayed double post.
I didn't see a post for them. I didn't check everything this time, though, because I thought it deserved its own post.
I ain't mad, but I have been in the car most of the last two days, so I missed pretty much everything anyways. Thanks OP
What makes Furman deserving of his own thread, but not Rawls and Vinopal?
Drunk. Clips/Spurs. Fight.
Great sports night.
No rhyme intended.
Shows how bad our coaching has been the last 7 or 8 years when we have these players leave and excel elsewhere.
It actually doesn't, though. Vinopal did not excel - he simply became a starter. He was already playing a lot at Michigan when he was a freshman, but he wanted to be closer to home. He didn't do anything special at Pitt, and now he's an UDFA signee. If you think that's some sort of awesome accomplishment and was something he couldn't have done if he had stayed at Michigan, check out Jordan Kovacs (who was at Michigan and latched on with the Dolphins) or Brennen Beyer (who had a very mediocre career but still signed as an UDFA with the Ravens).
I'll give you Furman. He went to Oklahoma State and had a pretty good year in the Big 12.
But then Thomas Rawls went to CMU, averaged 5.25 yards a carry, gained 1100 yards, and scored 10 touchdowns. Those are pretty decent numbers, but they were also in the MAC. There are lots of guys who could go from Power Five conferences and then go put up equivalent numbers in the MAC. Mike Jones went to WMU and had somewhere around 100 tackles, IIRC. Richard Ash went to WMU and had a decent year. Neither one latched on with an NFL team (although Ash still has a chance, I guess, since the draft just ended).
Failed to mention Rawls only played 9 games. And that he had 205 all purpose yards against Purdue with 2 touchdowns.
Oh, okay. Sorry, guys. Let me amend my previous statement.
He did all that in the MAC *and* in one game against Purdue, the Big Ten's worst team.
Criticizing the coaching staff for the last "7 or 8 years" because a player who played 1 bad year here signed a UDFA contract is moronic. Any player can sign one of these and most of them won't even make it out of camp.
Seriously? Ray Vinopal was drafted into the NFL? He was one of the worst players I've ever seen in a Michigan uniform
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Not drafted.
So you're telling me that the 2-star recruit who was pushed into the starting line-up as a true freshmen didn't meet your exceedingly high standards of excellence. Color me shocked.
Not to mention he became a multi-year starter at PItt.
There's so much wrong with this...
Vinopal is an unrestricted free agent. There is very little chance any UFA makes an NFL team. FYI.
UFA to Pro Bowl QB
For a twelve-year old, that's really saying something.
How's his leg length?