Also Exit Josh Furman, Richard Ash

Brian January 25th, 2014 at 3:55 PM

Come on guys, do you know there's a basketball game tonight?

Anyway: along with Thomas Rawls, Michigan has announced that Josh Furman and Richard Ash are exiting the program. Both would have been fifth year seniors and can presumably transfer and be eligible immediately as long as they have graduated.

Both Furman and Ash were pressed into the first extensive duty of their career late in the year, with Furman getting a couple of starts due to injury in the safety corps and Ash being rolled out to see if he could somewhat delay the runaway train that was the OSU rushing offense. The answer there was NOPE, and Furman was also not too good in his limited time.

Michigan now has 85 slot allotted for next year's roster, and there are a couple of other players in unfavorable depth chart situations who might look for greener pastures themselves.

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WolvinLA2

January 26th, 2014 at 12:57 PM ^

Probably safety, but really neither. Neither of these guys were very good in the time they saw, but Furman was the better of the two. In reality, both guys were at about replacement level, so whoever takes their place on the depth chart will be at least as good.

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rowtheblue

January 26th, 2014 at 1:15 PM ^

Hopefully this means we see more Dymonte. I remember Furman giving me quite a bit of frustration when he played. But good luck to the players! Too bad Rawls couldn't have rowed his way over to Kalamazoo instead!

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Rabbit21

January 26th, 2014 at 8:39 AM ^

I wish all three of these young men the best and that they shall end up places where they can get a great education and good playing time.

So with 85 allotted and I would guess few others leaving, I think the McDowell or bust is the approach for the rest of the 2014 recruiting cycle.

So while no signing day surprises, we do get a tight knit group that's been together a long while. Think I like that better.

While Safety and NT depth are now officially concerning, I think with Houma and Shallman around, our RB depth will be okay, maybe not great but at least there'll be bodies.

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Blue in Yarmouth

January 27th, 2014 at 8:14 AM ^

Obviously I wish all these young men the best of luck. The only one that I could say I would consider shocking is Furman, who seemed to be getting a lot of playing time late in the year.

I should also say that he is the one I will miss the most. For whatever reason, he was the guy is his class that I was most excited about. As an athlete, the guy was unbelieveable and racked up some crazy numbers as a RB in HS. I often wished that the coaching staff would have given him a shot at RB because honestly, it didn't seem like he could have done much worse than the others over thepast 2 years. Anyway, good luck to all three and I hope they find success somewhere, whether in football or something else.

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