2025 Michigan Offseason Thread

[Mdot21]

Michigan RB Tavierre Dunlap to the portal. Part of the 2021 class, redshirted and has one year of eligibility left. Makes sense, he has about 20 career carries. Never saw the field at Michigan and probably wasn't going to next year either with Jordan Marshall looking like the guy at RB in '25.

[Mdot21]

Free safety Rod Moore apparently returning for 2025 season. Wow. That's pretty huge news for Michigan's secondary. Moore is a definite 2nd or 3rd rd pick in this upcoming draft I would think. Provided the medicals were all good and he tested well at the combine. Some rumblings that NT Kenneth Grant could possibly return as well. 

DT Mason Graham and CB Will Johnson both obviously gone to the top 10 overall picks of the upcoming NFL draft.

[SuperMario]

Free safety Rod Moore apparently returning for 2025 season. Wow. That's pretty huge news for Michigan's secondary. 

pretty surprised to be honest.  definitely good news. Seems to be a good news week.. and possibly a very good news day. 

[betarhoalphadelta]

Ive said all along, Im fine with paying for recruits.  however, people want to spend their money, good for the players.  I just hate it to build teams out of the portal, particularly for basketball where you can just bring a whole new roster year to year.  At that point, what are you even rooting for as a fan?

Good for the players; bad for the sport. 

[SuperMario]

Ive said all along, Im fine with paying for recruits.  however, people want to spend their money, good for the players.  I just hate it to build teams out of the portal, particularly for basketball where you can just bring a whole new roster year to year.  At that point, what are you even rooting for as a fan?

This has been the elite basketball schools for a while anyways.. especially a Duke... or Kentucky.. recruit the top 10-15 players out of high school...they'll stay one year, go to the NBA and get paid and reload the same way the following year. 

I believe we talked about this topic earlier this year and you suggested a great idea, specifically for basketball of locking guys in for X amount of time if they transferred or had NIL deal at a school. I don't remember the details exactly, but I truly missed the CBB days where guys had to stay 3 years. It was a great game and league at that point. The NBA has been trash for a long time so I wish college would take the opportunity to refine their game so it's a powerhouse product. 

[ELA]

This has been the elite basketball schools for a while anyways.. especially a Duke... or Kentucky.. recruit the top 10-15 players out of high school...they'll stay one year, go to the NBA and get paid and reload the same way the following year.

It was a couple programs that did that.  But with the portal now, teams bring in whole new rosters of 21 year olds.  It also kind of ruins the NCAA tournament heroes.  Steph Curry is probably at Duke after a year.  Power schools just build a whole new roster year to year out of the portal.

[MikeDeTiger]

I personally LOVE the NIL. These fuckfaces in the SEC were paying for players under the table for decades and Michigan wouldn't get their hands dirty in that mud. Well, now it's all legal and above board and those southern hick swamp fucks got zero shot in a bidding war if Michigan aims the money cannon at a kid they truly want.

You seem like a lovely guy who really knows his stuff.  

[Mdot21]

You seem like a lovely guy who really knows his stuff. 

Thanks. I am.

NIL is changing the landscape. LSU and most of the SEC teams are about to fall off the face of the earth now that they can't give HS players $100k in cash in McDonald's bags. They simply do not have the kind of money backing them that schools like Texas, USC, Ohio State, Michigan, etc., have. Jai Eugene says what's up. Payback is a bitch.

[SuperMario]

It was a couple programs that did that.  But with the portal now, teams bring in whole new rosters of 21 year olds.  It also kind of ruins the NCAA tournament heroes.  Steph Curry is probably at Duke after a year.  Power schools just build a whole new roster year to year out of the portal.

I'll admit, I follow NIL very little and basically zero percent of the time with basketball. How common is that type of situation happening? I an see it being flexible when coaching changes happen, but I hope it doesn't become a rotational event as you're describing.. yet it likely will

[MikeDeTiger]

Thanks. I am.

NIL is changing the landscape. LSU and most of the SEC teams are about to fall off the face of the earth now that they can't give HS players $100k in cash in McDonald's bags. They simply do not have the kind of money backing them that schools like Texas, USC, Ohio State, Michigan, etc., have. Jai Eugene says what's up. Payback is a bitch.

In some posts you claim Michigan offered Underwood no more than LSU, presumably to show that Michigan is just more attractive regardless of money.  In other posts LSU lost because they can't compete with Michigan's $. 

It's got to be one or the other.  

btw.....this doesn't really have anything to do with anything talked about here.  This was imminently foreseeable.  If you go back far enough somewhere on this board, a little over a year ago when you were moaning about losing Underwood to LSU, I told you I wouldn't put any stock in it, a year was a long time and recruits in his situation flip all the time.....probably most of the time in the years I tracked LSU recruiting.  The exceptions for LSU hanging on to highly-rated kids not from Louisiana are kids from Texas and Florida.  When I see a highly-rated kid from way up North commit with more than a year to think about it.....yeah, this isn't the first time we've seen this movie.  

[MikeDeTiger]

What is your obsession with Jai Eugene anyway?  A kid from 15 years ago who never did squat in college.  It boggles the mind you're obsessed with losing him.  He did squat at LSU, he would've done squat at Michigan. 

And it was one kid.

15 years ago.  

[Mdot21]

pretty surprised to be honest.  definitely good news. Seems to be a good news week.. and possibly a very good news day.

very surprising and great news. they need to throw an NIL money cannon at Kenneth Grant and Derrick Moore to keep them around and out of the NFL draft. I would think LB's Jaishawn Barham & Ernest Hausmann and DT Rayshaun Benny would be back for their final year of eligibility but who knows with these things these days. If they can somehow manage to keep all those guys put the defense will be excellent again in 2025.

[ELA]

I'll admit, I follow NIL very little and basically zero percent of the time with basketball. How common is that type of situation happening? I an see it being flexible when coaching changes happen, but I hope it doesn't become a rotational event as you're describing.. yet it likely will

It's pretty across the board, except with some of the more older school coaches.  MSU doesn't, but not doing it hasn't been particularly successful.  Like I said, Purdue seems to only school succeeding without doing it.  To a lesser extent Gonzaga

Michigan's entire starting lineup last night was transfers.  The two best teams in the country, Kansas and Auburn, start 3 and 4 transfers respectively

[Mdot21]

that's a lot of EE's getting bowl practices. love it.


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