Interesting List: Top 10 Michigan Transfers of All Time
Really interesting new list I just saw on Facebook. With Duncan Robinson and Charles Matthews fresh on the brain, this guy ranked the top 10 Michigan football and basketball transfers of all time.
I had forgotten about a lot of these players, and some of them I had no idea were transfers (including No. 1). Rudock made the list; O'Korn did not. Interesting list.
https://thelivingstonpost.com/michigans-top-10-football-and-basketball-…
Howard Yerges has no place on honorable mention. He was a First Team All-B1G QB and beat the school he transferred from 3 times. Ohio State is where he came from.
Duke is going to be hard to beat especially if they get Joe Cremo to grad transfer there.
Are all basketball players named Joe in Albany?
Willie Heston? All-time Michigan great, but he played 7 years of college football in an era where rules about eligibility, transfers, recruiting, and the like didn't exist. It was the Wild West out there--schools found and suited up mercenaries for a matter of a week or two if they had a big game coming up. It's not even the same concept.
He has Shaw receiving honorable mention but I don't know why he wouldn't make the top 10 over say, Isaac. Shaw didn't put up big numbers but was a starter on a national championship team.
Corey Allen was the Horizon League freshman of the year two seasons ago and shot 42% from 3. Could this be foreshadowing?
He shocked everyone with his quickness and speed. Many thought Dave Baxter would be the starting PG in 75-76, because he was a really, really good basketball player. However, in Ricky's two years at Michigan he was a honorable mention All-American in '76 and then first team All-American in '77.
Ricky was Michgan's sparkplug, leading us to 51-11 (25-7 and 26-4) record when he was here. Damn good was he, and those two teams.
Green scored the five millionth point in NBA history while a member of the Utah Jazz in 1982.
That would be a record." ~ Kenny Mayne
Ricky Green was one of the most fun and spectacular players to watch in Michigan history. I've never seen a guy who could go from one end to the other as fast as Ricky. With backcourt mate Steve Grote, Phil Hubbard, John Robinson and Wayman Britt, Johnny Orr had a perfect team for his fast breaking style. Two of the hardest losses for me ever were the 76 game in Bloomington, where Bobby Knight intimidated the refs into costing Michigan a win over the Indiana team that wound up going undefeated, and the 77 tournament upset of top-ranked Michigan by North Carolina-Charlotte. Cornbread Maxwell of Charlotte showed the kind of player he went on to be for the Celtics. That was one of the great Michigan teams of all time.
Stretching to fill the 10th spot.
You are right, of course, about "let's wait and see". That being said, half of sports talk is people yapping about how they think athletes, coaches or teams "will be".
While there's often too much hype on anything highly rated, I don't think it is a fair comparison to state that most fans had the same level of expectations for a mid level recruit who got benched at Houston vas they do for a top level prospect who had some success at an SEC school.
I mean, feel free to cut and paste "Remeber Kevin Grady" on every post about a highly touted RB from now until the end of time but.............
Spencer BRITTON and Austin PAINTER?
please tell me those were intentional...
I wonder how many JUCO players we had during the 1980's for basketball?
Here are some other basketball transfers I found besides the ones listed:
Lavall Lucas-Perry (Arizona)
Brandon Hughes (JUCO)
Zack Gibson (Rutgers)
CJ Lee (Manhattan)
JC Mathis (Virginia)
Hayes Grooms (Lamar)
You know there isn't much to choose from when Isaac makes the list, even as an honorable mention.
I'm sure Buddy from the Livingston Post is a great guy. Read his list!
I definitely remember Robbie Reid as I was in Ann Arbor at the same time but I forgot he was a transfer from BYU. How time flies indeed.
Ruddock..... I recall there not being much buzz, big deal, we get a guy who lost his job to a freshman at Iowa.
He ended up being a great pick up, imagine what that season would have looked like without him?
I'm shocked Wayne Lyons didn't make it
Maybe not Wayne, but Momma Gwen
He's not exactly a transfer -- He just had some residual elegibility after working a year on Wall Street.
And he's definitely not on the list of top-performing grad students in Michigan sports.
But the Wolverine of Wall Street deserves some sort of Honorable Mention in this thread.
http://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/17644197/michael-hirsch…;
I don't remember any football transfers under Bo/Lloyd. Russell Shaw ('96/'97) was a JUCO, fwiw. [EDIT - Sorry, already mentioned]
DANI WOHL GOT SHAFTED
but the idea of the article is good, many of his rankings are absurd.
Howard Yerges seems like a pretty big omission in the top 10, but the others seem pretty solid. What's absurd about the list? What's your top 10?