Bryce Underwood to decide Saturday

NIL has significantly changed recruiting elite QBs to the point where Michigan is going to find it very difficult to compete with a "pay for production, not potential" NIL strategy.  And that might be a good thing to be honest.

I'm not surprised there's been locker room issues when you've got a handful of players literally making over a million dollars/year to play alongside players making nothing.  

Hope he chooses UM but everyone seems to think he is going somewhere else. We will be fine. May be he will transfer to us in a few years after we win a few championships.

I mean... if LSU is producing Heisman QBs how can you really be mad about it? As a fan I'll gladly take a NC over a Heisman though.

Best of luck to him. I like our approach. 

This should be characterized as his FIRST school. Everyone gets another shot at him when he enters the portal after a year or two or three. 

Its no different than a player being drafted in the NFL. Who knows where his career goes from there… it merely starts there. 

Win with us or get beat by us, pretty simple formula

If he decides to go elsewhere - will he start as a true freshman?

My view is.. time to acclimate and learn is a good thing.  It seems that JJ’s development was helped by essentially being a “spot” player his first season - and, that time served him well.

Well based on how the article is written, Wiltfong has already seen Underwood's commitment video. And Wiltfong has not moved his crystal ball from LSU...

We will get him in the transfer portal in 1-2 years.

Would obviously be great to get Underwood, but I really think Carter Smith is going to be an awesome player.

hasn’t looked good for us for a long time.

While no guarantee he'll match in college what he has done in HS, the point is Michigan wants kids who buy into a culture. We have witnessed the last three seasons what a team that isn't made up of high 4  and 5 star kids can do when they play complimentary football. I am not naive to think that this can be replicated every season because there are so many moving parts but either Bryce wants to be part of that selfless Michigan culture or not. It also doesn't help that no one knows if Harbaugh is going to be around after next Monday's glorious win to capture a well deserved National Championship title.  We'll soon see.

And I'll take the win on Monday over getting the verbal commit from Underwood everyday of the week for the next 100 years.

I honestly don't care. We will be ok. If/when we win the title, it will show development > 5 stars

Would like to have him, but we're doing just fine. 

I thought he always wanted to play in the SEC, that’s fine if he goes south. We have people who were brought up in the south that go north. maybe these players want to experience something different. 

Never expected him to pick us.  So longy Bowser

If a place in the championship game isn't enough to sell this young man?  He wasn't ever coming.

Mercenary or a Swanson?

Now we can always play nice when you finish second in recruiting and wait for him to get pissed off at his first team.  See him in '26?  It keeps the teams that are fronting money to 17 year olds from getting players during their best (later) years.

Man I sure wish we could get a Gatorade Florida Player of the Year to commit to us

It is darkly hilarious that SE Michigan has produced three generational quarterbacks in the past four cycles and it looks like we'll miss on them four times (twice for Dante).  

To be fair, I don't think we ever actually had a shot with Carr.  Seems clear that he wanted to blaze his own trail and there's absolutely nothing wrong with that, nor with Bryce looking for a bag if that is indeed what's attracting him to LSU (other than, you know, it being an elite program where you can win even if you have certifiable morons at HC)

Missing on Dante is the one that hurts since it seems like if Campbell had been recruiting him rather than Weiss we would have been in a much better position to get him