I'll be interested to see how Lacy training with Tony Horton (P90X) in Wyoming goes. Hopefully not too well.

Going to Central Michigan? It worked once before!

Him? no. I get it, Rawls, Toussaint, etc etc. But Green had a better line, and the best coaches, and all the chances in the world, but still couldn't get it together. too bad, because I was so so excited for him to be the man...

"Story is from a month ago"

Then why is it dated "Fri. Feb. 19, 2016?"

They still have that dumb rule in place where a school can tell them they can't transfer to certain schools if they still have eligibility left. Not sure if it apply to grad transfers or not, great question.

Well hopefully he gets the opportunity to start for his next team and tears it up.

I had that alumni network.

The article says "if he graduates" in Spring, not that he will graduate.

Seems like there may be some doubt, in which case the release seems like a good insurance policy.

They stay on campus for both of the Spring/Summer half terms, and while strength and conditioning is a big part of that, they also take the required course loads.

I doubt it is possible to do it without the half terms, even taking maximum course loads. You'd have problems with prerequisites and class schedules.

I'm also puzzled how some of these guys graduate high school early. I had no idea it was even possible. I know a girl who graduated a full year early to play soccer at NC.

Doubt it

although because I witnessed Grady live, I was actually more surprised at him not meeting expectations than I was Derrick. Grady was an absolute monster, and as everyone on site who resides in Michigan is aware, he was the product of a program that accepts all challenges, and any concern about his level of competition, should have been answered by his totals in playoff games and his performance on the biggest stage high school allows and doing so facing more than a small amount of adversity.

Watching the first half of that state championship game, and although the opposition had no one close to possessing the talent level Kevin did, they had three or four young men headed to, in some cases, the MAC, and in a few others, Div II schools. A pretty solid challenge, one in which EGR faced a deficit at half-time. I kept waiting, during that first half for him to show why he was so highly rated. It never came. Obviously, either self realization convincing him of the need to step up his level of play, or possibly brought about by a wake up call from the head coach, basically he started answering every question I asked myself during the firs half.

He was simply unstoppable, showing a burst of speed at the mesh point that allowed him at least three yards of penetration past the first level of defense and in almost every case, the first defender to hit him was met with an unambiguous definition of what separated the 5* from the 2 and 3*s. He was absolutely punishing and gained, I believed close to nearly 200 yards in the secong half. It was clear their coach had decided on a second half adjustment that consisted of nothing more than challenging Kevin to prove his ratings correct and provided him every opportunity to do so. Suffice to say, his seconld half performance convinced me he was the absolute real deal and would be a super star at UM.

Derrick was a completely different story, but I did not question his ratings, realizing that VA had produced an impressive number of RBs, correctly judged as a superior RB. However, early on his career at UM, I realized something that basically relieved the staff from consideration as cause for under performing. Despite the time he put in attempting to increase strength, losing weight, thereby becoming quicker, achieving both goals and although you pondering the consideration the coaching staff played a role in development certainly contains a degree of merit, because he was actually talented enough to have been more than a complete failure and if provided actually openings, he would have realized a few runs of impressive length.  But the same thing I realized and I was certainly not alone in this realization, Derrick, unlike most high schoolers sharing the same ranking, possessed one obvious weakness, almost impossible to pick up at the high school level, but impossible to hide at this level, and it was one of two things. It was either lacking the balance that all great runners seems to have, and in his case so pronounced despite his other skills, make it absolutely impossible to ever come close to meeting expectations. The other possibility is so absurd, I will not ever present it as an option. Let's just say we were all witness to something defenders use normally out of nothing but desperation, but in his case, everytime they did, he fell immeditely.

With that said, I wish the young man nothing but a successful future, and as always thank you for your decision to attend the University of Michigan.

I did not call this in any way but I always wondered how a guy that was formerly 5'6 260lbs could be elite. I convinced myself that he could be but as per ush I was wrong.

Doubt it. Green has vision and balance issue. That can't be coached up.