Richard Ash to play at Western Michigan
Per the Twitterverse, Richard Ash will play his last year of college football at Western Michigan.
Western Michigan adds Michigan transfer lineman Richard Ash http://t.co/EdQolyOZVX
— Brandon Folsom (@Brandon_Folsom) May 19, 2014Good luck to him, I hope he does well.
That's somewhat surprising - seeing as how he's from Florida. I figured he'd try to get back in the south somewhere at a place like FIU or USF. Hope he has a great season.
That's been a trend lately with Marvin Robinson (to Ferris State), Mike Jones (WMU), Demar Dorsey (Grand Rapids CC), and now Ash.
It's likely the Michigan coaches that are helping these players land at these schools, and with those schools being local, it makes sense that that's where they'd send them.
Typically, the schools that reach out for these types of transfers (unheralded ones) are going to be the ones that recruited you in the first place, or where your current coaches can help you out. Otherwise, you're leaning back on your high school coaches possibly, and their connections up wouldn't be as solid, particularly for an unheralded player. It will come from the college coaching staff vouching for a player in that case. My guess is that Hoke and co have connections to WMU through a variety of paths and helped Ash land this opportunity.
Ringer transfered to Ferris State too, I believe.
Yeah. I was pointing out the trend of Florida guys transferring to other Michigan schools after leaving the University of Michigan, but Ringer (who's from Ohio) is currently at Ferris State, too.
I didn't realize he had another year of eligibility. Good luck to him.
Good luck to Mr. Ash.
(Yes I know that they went 1-11 last year and the row the boat analogy is stupid)
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As I recall, the initial announcement that Ash was leaving the program came a few months ago around the same time Furman left, but it had not yet been decided where he would go.
I believe he is one of our many esteemed Pahokee natives of recent vintage as well, so he will always have that going for him. Nice to see that he's found a place to play out his eligibility and best of luck to him.
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Hope he has a ton of sacks next season.
Best of luck to the young man!
The kid will be able get some solid minutes there...I think he's always had some guys just a notch above him at Michigan. I see him as an instant impact player at WMU.