Sponsor note.
Hey folks, Wolverine Weekend is back at Grand Traverse Resort and Spa from June 9 – 11. The weekend includes:
- Meet-and-greets with Donovan Edwards, Will Johnson, Colston Loveland and Junior Colson,
- Dinner featuring John U. Bacon, Devin Gardner, Sam Webb and football players,
- Golf Outing on The Wolverine, and
- a Woodson Whiskey Tasting Event.
Great opportunity to get your Michigan on and support some NIL initiatives.
Harbaugh gonna Harbaugh. Pat Forde profiles Harbaugh, and his world champion dad status never wavers:
If Harbaugh hadn’t gone to Michigan and become a famous football player and coach, what skilled trade would he have undertaken?
“A lawnsman!” Harbaugh enthusiastically responds. “That’s what I do. Mowing the lawn is one of the great feelings I have in life.”
I don’t think this will work and I don’t think it should. Deion Sanders has detonated the Colorado roster:
Colorado recently updated its 2023 football roster. All of the names of players who are departing via the portal have been deleted. The revised roster lists 76 players: 12 returning scholarship players, 21 incoming transfers, 17 new freshmen and 26 walk-ons. Not listed are 17 more transfers who have verbally committed. …
A total of 53 scholarship players have left the program since Sanders was hired in December.
A large number of them were told to hit the bricks after spring practice, which is really doubling down on the idea that you can import a roster from whole cloth. Folks are skeptical:
“It is just absolutely unreasonable to think you can sign 25 players out of the spring transfer portal and make your team better,” the Big 12 DPP said.
There’s a reason the NFL sees far less in-season trade activity than any other major sport. In hockey, soccer, baseball, and basketball you can kind of just go play even if there’s some transition costs moving from system to system. In football one busted assignment is a touchdown. And we’ve seen transfer-heavy teams fail to live up to expectations. MSU, which recently aspired to become Portal U, seems to be cratering. Adding a few guys here and there to plug holes is reasonable. Getting a whole football team on closeout from TJ Maxx? Maybe not so much.
[After THE JUMP: how this makes me feel]
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