Shea Patterson granted permission to explore transfer

Congratulations.

Yeah we should pass on the most talented QB in the country because it may or may not (probably won't) hurt QB recruiting in the future.

 

Also why will 2018 not be great?  Get the QB situation figured out and you're looking at a surefire playoff contender

Michigan maybe has issues at tackle and qb next year. If you add him, the only issue is possibly at tackle and he throws for 300 yards a game. How long are we going to play for the future? He would be eligible in 2018 AND 2019.

Did you seriously already give up on NEXT season? We haven’t even played in this year’s bowl game yet...

I'd love to have a problem in recruiting where we might not sign a top QB for 1 year, because we are loaded at the QB position. I'd see that as a good thing.   

 

I mean, first of all M has two commits already for 2018. I suppose there is some small chance that one or both of them could decommit based on Patterson that but that seems exceedingly unlikely. Milton is a project recruit all the way and likely expects to spend at least two seasons developing. Doyle comes in with more polish but even he has to know he’ll be behind Peters and McCaffrey and thus a longshot to play as an underclassman. Being behind a third guy for two years doesn’t seem like a big deal. The 2019 recruits would be true freshmen when Patterson is in his final year of eligibility. So any deterrent effect that Patterson’s presence would have on them is diminished even further. And this is without taking into account the possibility that Patterson goes pro after 2018, or the possibility that Patterson winds up a second- or third-string QB because Peters and/or McCaffrey hold him off. Also, any negative effect that Patterson’s presence could have on QB recruiting is potentially offset by the positive influence that could happen if Patterson plays well at M, gets drafted, and puts M in the college football playoff.

If this whole Ole Miss issue went down a year earlier and if we had Shea Patterson in 2017.....there is a reasonable chance we'd be playing tonight.

With better QB play we beat MSU and OSU...perhaps even Wisconsin.

I would hope to hell that our compliance office would vet his transfer and remove any doubt.

You can not pretend that he is not a top 5 recruit that somehow wound up at Ole Miss. 

There is not exactly a great track record there.

No. They wouldn't be responsible for the actions of anohter school. It's not an issue unless they knew of continuing benefits or something along those lines. 

Michigan is not responsible for something that may have happened at Ole Miss. Ole Miss flat out had guys telling on themselves and look how long it took to even investigate. Treadwell and Gas mask dude flat out flaunted there winnings.

This is so baffling that I don’t even know where to start

Wait...you know Patterson has started more games than Peters right? And was the top QB in his class right?

Harbaugh has a history of QBs tranferring out or changing positions. That's going to happen when you recruit the position fearlessly and bring in multiple QBs per class. Harbaugh knows what he's doing.

Harbaugh has a history of QBs tranferring out or changing positions. That's going to happen when you recruit the position fearlessly and bring in multiple QBs per class. Harbaugh knows what he's doing.

I agree with this 100%. We could have used another QB this year against OSU. No Peters, no Speight and we had to play a flawless game in order to win because of O'Korn. You can't have enough depth, ask Ohio State when Cardale Jones won them a natty in 2014.

But if you had used the Oxford comma, you could have cut out the word then and it would have still made sense. Also, since you brought it up, you should have put a period after board and started the next sentence with if. Additionally, in that same sentence there should be a comma after year so it's not a run--on sentence with poor flow between separate clauses/ideas.