Pipkins Transferring To Texas Tech
[Bryan Fuller]
Ondre Pipkins already announced he was out, but with Harbaugh asserting he was still on scholarship and would be this fall there was some uncertainty about what would happen. No longer:
Former Michigan DL Ondre Pipkins said he’ll transfer to Texas Tech, sit out this season and play in 2016.
— Joe Schad (@schadjoe) July 17, 2015
Michigan now has another slot to give a walk-on this fall, or they could bring in at fifth-year wide receiver. The latter seems a little far fetched this deep into the offseason.
Best of luck Ondre! I hope that you're injury free and cleared to play in 2016.
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So who's the angry smurf downvoting everything?
Good luck Ondre!
I'm not sure how wishing a kid working through a transition well is neg bait, but oh well.
Could be a cool upgrade. It may not work that way by design though.
I have been wanting this for a while. It would really help when you see those racist comments right before they get deleted that have 150 downvotes and 2 upvotes.
as a non football player.
I'm not sure that a degree from ANY D1 school should be labeled as "shit".
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Yep, especially after seeing that video with the Hoke impression. Seemed like a really charming and likeable guy. Wish him the best.
Work is insane today and I just saw this flash across my phone, but my brain read "pipkins" as "peppers". Phew!
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Dont say things like that...
I find that Joe Schad guy to be really annoying.
Rooting for Pip wherever he goes. Great kid. Good luck Pip!
Hope that you come back full-on physically and avoid the injury bug as you go forward.
They can backdate in terms of counting against the 25-player-per-class limit (up to 3 EEs can count as part of the previous year's class) but they all count against the fall 85-scholarship limit.
Pipkins' departure opens up one of the 85, not one of the 25.
We will always have the Hoke-walk impersonation.
I had such high hopes for him coming out of HS
May your 0.21 career solo tackles per game be forever raised to the rafters and blasted from the highest hills.
It was too bad how things turned out. Hopefully he can make the best of this situation. Best of luck to him and hope he can find success at TT.
Best of luck, Pip.
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Will he graduate from Michigan?
Probably not if he has to sit out a year before playing. Were he to graduate he could have played immediately as a grad transfer.
That said, maybe the year off will help him finally get healthy. As others have mentioned, best of luck wherever he goes. He was one of my favorite recruits I've followed, hope he can get and stay healthy.
sit out another year...thats brutal. Stay up big dog...good luck.
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to improve on some technique issues that might lessen his chance for further injury?
The Drake Johnson analysis the other day was eye opening. . .
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Why in the world would you walk away from a Michigan degree to get one from Texas Tech? And why transfer, he could have finished his degree and played 2016 anywhere as a post-grad.
Man.
That is what makes no sense, unless he feels the waters have been so poisoned that the feels uncomfortable being around his teammates and staff. Another possibility is that he feels that he would get better S&C training at another school. With Michigan's determination that Pipkins has a health problem, perhaps they do not feel comfortable having him use its training facilities.
football and get to the NFL. There are football players who don't care about where the degree come from as long as they get PT.
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It is probably to his advantage to acclimate himself to a new school, watch the team play, learn the system, work with the coaches to the extent he can, and be comfortable going into the season when he hopes to play.
I understand all of that. Those are good points. I'm not sure it's a good decision to give up a top undergraduate degree in order to practice with a team for 3 months, where you have no opportunity to play, and you (let's be honest) have no guarantee Texas Tech's defensive coaches will be your coaches in 2016.
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If he signed the medical - he could not have finished his degree and played in 2016.
If he signed the medical, he can never play college football again.
The only way he could have finished his degree and played as a post-grad in 2016 is if Michigan were willing to redshirt him this season. They didn't offer a redshirt (medical or otherwise), they only offered a "medical hardship".
This. You cannot take a medical hardship and play NCAA football again anywhere. He'd have had to pay for his senior year out of pocket, and then transferred.
Nor can you take a medical hardship and play NCAA football again anywhere.
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