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Report: Shea Patterson to Be Ruled Eligible for 2018 Comment Count

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the same five photos will continue this summer [Bryan Fuller]

Good newwwws everyone! As first reported by Chris Balas of The Wolverine and confirmed by Josh Henschke of The Michigan Insider/247, word out of Schembechler Hall this evening is that the NCAA is expected to rule Shea Patterson immediately eligible for this year, though even now 247’s report was a bit measured:

The Michigan Insider is able to confirm published reports that Patterson is expected to be granted immediate eligibility by the NCAA with the news coming as soon as Friday. As of a week ago, the U-M programs confidence was at about 90%. On Thursday, TMI can also confirm that the confidence level has risen.

Ole Miss submitted its last response to Shea’s appeal two weeks ago and a resolution was expected tomorrow-ish. Michigan sources have maintained a high level of confidence during this process, and given the relative strength of Shea’s case versus his former school’s, this outcome was favored, but with the NCAA nothing’s ever certain.

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CLord

April 26th, 2018 at 8:41 PM ^

Quite the contrary.  Michigan fans tend to have ridiculous expectations year in, year out.  This will be the perfect storm of a season where we have our strongest team in a decade combined with the hardest schedule we have had in decades.  We'll go 9-3 or 10-2 and everyone will blame Harbaugh for not pulling monkeys out of his ass to go undefeated against this insane schedule.

Do not mix expectations with standards however.  As Michigan we very much have the right to set very high standards for our football program as the winningest of all time, but many are smart enough to not expect a team facing this brutal schedule to achieve that standard of winning this year.

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BroadneckBlue21

April 26th, 2018 at 6:12 PM ^

Exciting news for the competition between the three QBs. Peters was a redshirt frosh 4-Star with talent (let’s not judge him off the bowl game), McCaffery is a 5-Star redshirt, and now the motivation to improve faster for those two is even more important if they want to start over Shea. That’s the depth, along with Milton, that takes years to build, and that makes the team better able to handle any injuries to QB.

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CLord

April 26th, 2018 at 8:46 PM ^

I'm not buying.  Still hold our problems at  QB the last severals were 30% talent, 70% card castle, pro style schemes over-reliant on picture  perfect pass pro that set our QBs up for failure with anything  less than  Andrew Luck level football  acumen.  When Meyer can plug in absolutely any QB he wants and Ohio never skips a beat, year, after year, after year, you start realizing it's not the talent as much as the QB friendly scheme.  Having Shea is awesome,  but we need to see some coaching and play calling adjustment this year because if it's the same ole offense, no bueno.

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SoccerDancer

April 26th, 2018 at 9:04 PM ^

They came to bury Michigan, all wrapped in Maize and Blue
The words were said, the prayers were read and everybody cried.
But when they closed the coffin, there was someone else inside!
The Bucks came to bury the Wolverines, but Michigan wasn’t dead!
And when the game was over, it was someone else instead!
Twenty-two Michigan Wolverines put on the gloves of grey,
And as (Rivelli) THE MICHIGAN BAND played ‘The Victors’, they laid (Woody Hayes) THE BIG away!”

 - Bob Ufer - 

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