Johnell Davis Not Expected to Join May at Michigan
A portal update from 247's Travis Branham:
Johnell Davis is the top guard in the portal due to his dynamic scoring ability, proven impact on winning, and role in the 2023 Final Four run. Davis is an elite scorer from all three levels. The initial expectation was to see him follow May to Michigan but that is no longer the case…
Also, per his Instagram, Davis has signed with Roc Nation Sports (Jay-Z's Agency).
Damn I already picked up his jersey.
Congrats on the new Austin Davis jersey
Signing with Roc Nation doesn't preclude him from returning to college basketball.
Also, apparently he isn't in line to graduate like Vlad which complicates things for Michigan recruiting. That's probably why May is casting a wide net on guards. If May can land Gayle from OSU, that's a decent fallback option if Davis isn't an option.
sounds like he didn't graduate yet even though he's in year 5. that seems difficult to do.
Bluto and Tommy Callahan would disagree with you
Christ. Seven years of college down the drain. Might as well join the fucking Peace Corps.
Van Wilder as well
Not surprising. After all, Otter is Van Wilder’s dad.
You know, a lot of people go to college for seven years.
Yeah, they're called doctors.
April 17th, 2024 at 10:19 PM ^
You're trailing off. And did I catch a 'niner' in there?
I do. Including myself but I have a Masters degree, a teaching credential, an administrative services credential, a autism certificate and an english language learners certificate. In most cases, if you go to college for 7 years, you acquire more than a bachelors degree.
If in a Senior year of college your 31 year old Western Religions professor coming off a divorce asks you to pick up the course syllabus at her house on a Saturday, allows you to live rent free, cooks for you and encourages you to date.
I heard it could happen even at SIU-Carbondale.
Really difficult to do with academic progress needed towards a degree to maintain eligibility.
I wonder if our admission's department has a pole somewhere where they carve a notch for every prospective athlete they've been successful at blocking going to school at Michigan? Or do they have a big board inside the department with a headcount of how many they've been able to shut down? "This month's goal is to deny 20 prospective transfers guys and we're only at 10. Got to pick up the denial pace or we're not having the end-of-the month happy hour"
Or do they have a wall with pictures of prospective players with X's through them like the serial killers do in the movies? Pelts if you will of successfully blocking a transfer from coming here.
We need new shirts. The "Michigan vs everybody" are so 2023. I propose a new version: "Michigan vs Michigan".
God this is tiresome.
Where does it say anywhere that admissions blocked him?
The story all along on him has been that his first preference was NBA, then to get some NIL.
He's signing with RocNation, he's clearly got certain designs at the forefront.
And if the other posters are right and he hasn't graduated yet after 4/5 years, that's not admissions blocking him, that's a kid who hasn't done enough academically to get in.
Remember, we cheer for Michigan because it's got higher standards and isn't just another bullshit diploma factory like other schools ... but damn we wish it had lower standards and was a bullshit diploma factory like other schools!
I root for Michigan because the Fab 5 and Desmond Howard were there when I was 7. I couldn't care less about the higher standards.
Yeah, I also don't care about high academic standards for scholarship athletes. It's not like I had to pass any athletic testing to get into the college of engineering. Michigan is special because we have elite people across many, many facets of the human existence, and few if any are elite at more than one thing.
Yeah, the fact he was in the 2020 class, which is the same one Hunter Dickinson, Terrance Williams, and Jace Howard was in, and he apparently doesn't have his degree yet is absolutely a "him" problem and not one for UM's admissions.
I've also come to realize that there is just a pat number of things to complain about around here that'll always get you upvotes even if they aren't remotely applicable. Admissions is one of them, and while sometimes they absolutely do make it harder for athletes to transfer into this school than elsewhere, this place also loves to act like a Michigan degree is some well-earned mark of superiority that much be treated with proper reverence.
Michigan's 2024-2025 season will not be saved by Davis coming or doomed by his absence.
Drain the swamp, I say.
On a serious note, could someone explain the relevance of this?
Davis has signed with Roc Nation Sports
I just wanted to state the facts in the main post. I'm not sure if it means anything or not. My opinion would be that if he's hiring Roc Nation and returning to college, he's probably looking to maximize his earnings (which falls in line with other Davis-related rumors).
Makes sense, thanks.
You know little of what you speak.
Better than Michigan vs. Breathalyzer
There's nothing wrong with a policy that says you have to get at least 50% of your credits from M to graduate with an M degree. If someone gets 99% of their credits at a different school, transfers to M and takes that last course, should they be able to get an M degree? NO! They can get the degree from their old school. I actually know someone who did that in reverse. She finished four years at M two credits short of graduation, and got the final credits from a (already transfer-approved) BYU online course. She graduated from M, not BYU.
So this, a cap on 50% credit transfer, in combination with the NCAA progress requirement (40% after soph year, 60% after junior year, 80% after senior year), is why we can't get non-grad-transfers older than sophomores...
It’s my understanding that Michigan admissions doesn’t NOT admit some of these players we wring our hands over, it’s just that they’re not willing to give someone a U-M diploma if that person has earned the majority of their credits elsewhere. From what I understand, look at Terrence Shannon and Caleb Love. They were both within a handful of credits from graduating at Texas Tech and UNC respectively. But they didn’t and they wanted to come here, grab 6-10 credits and get a U-M degree. This is where admissions says that no more than 60 credits (half you need for a bachelor’s degree) can transfer over. Thus they aren’t necessarily denied admission it’s just that U-M doesn’t want to be a diploma factory giving out degrees to folks who completed the majority of their credits elsewhere. People can disagree on whether or not they like that policy, but it seems reasonable to me, if my understanding of these cases is correct.
This also isn't a UM exclusive policy.
I heard one time they denied Seth’s transfer credits!
Seth has connections.
Look ... the basketball team, as do other athletic teams, represent the UNIVERSITY of Michigan, not the STATE of Michigan Wolverines.
I think it's a wall off IDs with the eyes cut out like Village Corner back in the day.
Jay-Z is the most overrated rapper alive. Almost as overrated as Biggie was.
Yeah, I said it.
/flashes "W"
The only Jay-Z songs I like are the ones where someone else is the primary vocalist, e.g. Empire State of Mind.
And that song has the notorious f-up line "concrete jungle where dreams are made of."
How many times was that listened to before it was released? NOBODY had the guts to stand up and say "It's either 'where dreams are made' or 'what dreams are made of'"??
D-U-M dumb!
Yeah but it made for a great line in a Stuffing the Passer video.
Congrats on the two dumbest posts I’ve ever read on here.
It's a hard-knock life ripping off Annie.
i agree with just the Jay-Z portion of your hot take so no downvote
I'm not here to defend Jay Z, but bro...
We're not really a John L. school anyway, that's more down I-96's vibe...
damn. thought he could be a real piece to the puzzle in not only making hte tourney next year but making a little run. need playmakers and finishers.. expectations for next year should be heavily heavily tempered by all. gonna take a little time to dig out.
Weren't expectations already gonna be tempered for next year?
Speak for yourself, I already bought tickets to the Alamo Dome to see our boys ruin Dan Hurley's three-peat attempt.
Are ya suuuuuure?
He was just announced as taking an official visit to the good guys this weekend.
An insider on another forum categorized the story about Davis not being expected to go to Michigan as “sloppy reporting”.
I don’t think he’s a lock to end up at UM by any means but it’s pretty clear he’s going to give it a serious look.
Maybe the OP doesn’t understand that the kids can hire agents now and still be in college. Drew Rosenhaus represented Corrum last two years
Well Johnell Davis has a visit to AA lined up so the rumor may be wrong?
Apparently Davis is visiting M this weekend so there's that.
EDIT: Webb said tonight the visit is cancelled.