Michigan pursuing Miss St. DT transfer Fabien Lovett
Michigan has reached out to Lovett, a 6’3 330lb DT from Miss St.
Lovett entered the transfer portal after Leach posted a meme depicting a noose which his family did not like. He’s so far heard from Michigan, Houston, Florida, FSU, Tenn., Oregon, Ole Miss, and Houston and has expressed that he would like to take visits to FSU, Oregon, Tenn., and Michigan.
He is originally from Mississippi and was ranked #437 in the class of 2018. He redshirted in 2018 and then had 19 tackles and 2.5 tackles for loss in 2019. His connection to Michigan is through Bob Shoop who used to be the DC at Miss St last year.
He heard from Houston twice!? Man they must really be interested!
HE WEIGHS TOO MUCH!!!
Leach seems to be suffering from some culture shock. He probably should have stayed out west.
Well he did spend like 15-16 years coaching in the south so I doubt there’s a lot of culture shock.
He sent out something that would probably be pretty innocuous to most people in his circle of friends. I suspect he didn’t consider that his Twitter audience is not the same as his circle of friends.
He is a history buff so hopefully he takes some time to brush up on Mississippi history.
I assume you're talking about his time in Texas? That's a very different place than Mississippi.
He spent 4-5 years at Valdosta State. Lowndes County, GA has a pretty bad history with lynchings as well. Not a lot of Twitter in the 90’s on which to embarrass yourself though.
I hope we pass. This sounds like a kid who is too sensitive and may be a locker room cancer.
BernardC was obviously a bully who faced zero consequences growing up.
Haha. Yes; that’s it. Or could be a guy who is tired of seeing everyone get offended by every little thing.
Leach in no way, shape, or form implied anything about race. It was a joke about husbands and wives being irritated with each other during the lockdown. That’s all. Those jokes are all over Facebook.
Now, Leach obviously didn’t realize his audience. No doubt there. But to transfer over something Leach didn’t even realize would offend? And make it a race issue? Yah, thanks but no thanks. Calm down kid. He made a mistake, one which was not rooted in hatred, and apologized. Get over it.
Maybe already wanted to transfer and was looking for an excuse, any excuse? Play the race card, move to next destination.
This isn't Mike Leach's first rodeo when it comes to tweeting dumb, possibly-offensive things. And at this point, Leach has been a major-college HC for decades; I don't even see why he thought it was a good idea to tweet something that, at best, is a dumb shitpost to his Twitter feed. He makes $5M a year and when you are the highest-paid public employee in your state that means you should have the internal governor to say "is this picture with an old lady fashioning a noose REALLY worth posting?"
Yes, I'm sure Leach wasn't trying to subconsciously tell people he wanted to lynch members of his team (or anyone else, for that matter). But coming from the guy who tweeted a clearly-doctored video of Obama a couple years ago and seemingly didn't realize it was so until that was repeated to him multiple times, being situationally unaware and lazy isn't going to be a pass.
For a “guy who is tired of seeing everyone get offended by every little thing”, this seems to have you somewhat offended. Maybe the kid is a bit tired of hearing about all the things he should just get over. That confederate flag, just get over it. That cop giving you extra scrutiny, just get over it. Those people looking at you like they’re scared you might jump them, just get over it.
Maybe he expected more from his coach. Maybe he expected that someone getting paid $5 million a year would have the sense to think before making a dumb tweet that anyone with half a brain could see might be perceived the wrong way by a good chunk of the people he is supposed to be coaching. Maybe he’s seen other times Leach “didn’t realize his audience “. Maybe it was only one example of a number of examples of Leach using poor judgement that Lovett has witnessed.
Maybe I’m being an asshole in making a snap judgement about someone I don’t know based on a few posts on a message board. Maybe you really can tell Lovett is “too sensitive” and “a locker room cancer” based on assumptions you are making about him. Maybe you’re an asshole for feeling the need to post crap about a kid you don’t even know. Maybe all three of those things are true or maybe none of them are. I’ve got my own opinions on which of the three is most likely to be true. I’ll give you one hint, it isn’t the one about Lovett.
Bernard C is about to,”Noose his mind!”
User name checks out (as an insensitive closeted racist)
Could've been a guy who was already on the fence about a new coach and then that coach thought it'd be funny to share a joke about a noose in Mississippi. I like Leach but how dumb can you be as a public figure.
Everything should be taken in context. I'm not in Mississippi, but I shared that same meme & thought it hilarious.
But you're also not the head or "face" of a football program at a southern school where there's known history of such in not too distant past.
Was it the SNL thing about little brother? That was very funny.
Unfortunately “context” is often just an excuse
Yes, there's context for everything and Mike Leach is the head coach of a football team in rural Mississippi. He's gotta have more self awareness than that, even though he was obviously referring to a suicide attempt rather than a lynching. There's things that fly if you're an average Joe, not a public figure
WSU also had a suicide on his watch
It's a "Jump to Conclusions Mat". You see, you have this mat, with different CONCLUSIONS written on it that you could JUMP TO.
Hey -- you forgot to call him a snowflake.
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Odd, isn't it, how some people don't realize that "snowflake" describes a person's psychology and is largely independent of politics?
You can't teach 6'3" 330. I don't even care if he can push the pocket. I just care that he can eat up double teams like they're a pair of honey-glazed hams.
As last year showed, compared to 2017 & 2018, we desperately need a big boy or two in the middle to either hold down double teams (a la Bryan Mone) or to be a fast, disruptive penetrator (a la Maurice Hurst), so we should take this guy in a heartbeat. Pair him with Chris Hinton and Mazi Smith as they develop into reliable starters
What happened to Michael Thompson from OU? I thought we were pursuing him? He's from the same class and in transfer portal. Anyone have any idea where he's leaning?
He’s keeping things pretty quiet. He also converted to OG at Oklahoma where his ceiling is apparently higher
You don't want him.
What makes you think he would make an impact here when he couldn't even get playing time for Oklahoma's defense? He was so far down on the depth chart that they moved him to guard despite the fact they were going to be graduating three DT from their rotation.
Quite frankly, I don't even think Michigan wants him.
You just can’t post noose funnies on social media today thankfully, especially down south. Mike Leach has just used up his ninth life...
Posting a noose in Mississippi. Great, great. What, the burning cross emoji wasn't available on Android?
Comparing a hangman’s knot to a burning cross. ?♂️
Bernard would like a word with you,”CUPCAKE!”
You haven't met my mother-in-law.
But with Michigan's high academic standard....will he be able to qualify ?
Ill take anyone on the line right now. What we were doing last year at DT wasnt working.
And Glasgow has graduated.
/\ This is funny.
Potential giant DT for the roster? I Lovett.
I think he would be a nice addition but based on his recruiting profile I think it is unlikely he leaves the south or even Mississippi.
Is he likely to be granted immediate eligibility?
Fields was. He also was the #2 overall recruit. That’s what Michigan vs osu recruiting has come to.
If this is presented to the NCAA as a racial situation he is more likely to get immediate transfer eligibility.
All he has too say to the NCAA is:
Turn Me Loose
If we get him, could we invite his uncle, Lyle, to sing the National Anthem before a game?
Only if his Large Band comes with him.
I think Mike Leach is a beady-eyed jerkoff who happens to have a very good pr person. I thought this before the noose nonsense as well.
Exactly this. Dude is overrated as a coach and a personality.
Lol. This made me laugh out loud.