Gaige Garcia (RB) in portal.
Walk on hopefully gets the chance to play somewhere. Never saw the field for us, so hopefully finds a place where he can play.
Happy I never put him in my database.
It can be hard to gauge where you fit in as a walk on.
Best of luck buddy.
Garcia later
I'll say this for Gaige Garcia: He sure was a guy who was on the roster. Best of luck to him
From a football perspective, this doesn't move the needle for me one way or the other. However, from a wrestling perspective, this is very sad. I was really hoping to see him at 197 this coming year.
I know everyone thinks they can be a NFL player and I really hope they all can be. However, this kid was a GREAT wrestler and I believe could be an AA in the making if he sticks with it.
Well as stated before, when he signed, he either isn't a very good wrestler, or loves football more, because the amount of time and training needed to be a great wrestler in college, doesn't fit with playing football also.
He doesn't want to wrestle Schute. Nobody wants to wrestle Schute except Louden Swain.
Louden Swain gets all my Mgopoints. Or, just 1, as the MGoGods have forbidden much more
Bruttke is going at 197
I agree with you on this! he should have switched from football to wrestling for Michigan!
wish him the best of luck for where he goes.
GO BLUE!
Such a bummer!! Had more than a few friends growing up who could have wrestled at States if they just gave it a go. But no. Wrestling was “gay” because we wore “spandex” and we were always touching other guys who wore spandex.
interestingly, wrestling might actually be worse on your body than football
I wear spandex and I enjoy touching other guys in spandex, but I don’t wrestle.
NTTAWWT
Way back in 1985 Sports Illustrated "created" a player Sid Finch who threw a 120 MPH fastball and was a spiritualist Yogi as an April Fools joke. Because Al Gore had yet to invent the internet many of us bought into the joke as we had no way of knowing if this was real or bullshit.
Sometimes when I read these posts about players entering the portal that I never heard of or even knew were on the roster I remember that joke and wonder if they are a Sid Finch or not.
Good luck Sid.....I mean Gaige. Safe travels.
120 mph was Sidd's changeup
I remember that story. His fastball was 168 mph. The owner of a local baseball card shop told me to go home and look for a Sid Finch card and he would give me $100 for it.That is time I’ll never get back.
Uh oh.....Transfer portal bitches coming!!
Since I have never heard of this player, I assumed he was on another team and that we would potentially target him. Since he is apparently on our team, I will wish him the best and instead assume that this will have zero impact on our performance.
I'm shocked.
He is a better wrestler yes?
Best of luck young man.
If a player enters the transfer portal and nobody notices, was he ever really here?
The only reason I can think of that would explain why somebody would walk on in the 2020 class and then leave after a redshirt freshman season that was completely screwed up by a pandemic is that he's basically been assured that another program is going to offer a full scholarship to him to either wrestle or play football. If that's the case, it's a smart decision from his perspective.
It would make little sense for him to transfer to be a walkon at another program.
Well wrestling doesn't offer full scholarships. It's like most other sports other than basketball and football. Each sport is given a number of scholarships to split between the whole team. I believe DIv 1 wrestling is like 8.5 per yr.
Wish him luck.
Per his bio he was the #2 recruited 195lb wrestler last year, so I assume this is more of a wrestling decision than a football one.
I bet he wrestled with the decision until pinning it down.
Sounds more like a reversal to me.
The reason escapes me.
UMBIG11 strikes again! he said there would be more......
I'm predicting rain before the end of this month.
Yep, Chernobyl will be on here any minute saying he told us and that there will be more.
You are a fake insider. You don't know weather.
Not a big surprise.
Brings back memories of Andrew David from Massillon, Ohio who enrolled in Michigan in the fall of 2015, expecting to compete for the kicking job in football AND a key role as a middle infielder on the baseball team. He set a county record with a 58-yard field goal and a school record with 32 career field goals, while ranking third in his school’s history with 258 career points. He also handled punting and kickoffs. He also had been a very good high school baseball player and planned to join the Michigan baseball team. LINK
He transferred to Texas Christian after one season at Michigan, played two seasons there as a punter and wound up as a graduate transfer, punting for Northwestern where he had 29 punts in seven games in 2019. LINK He didn’t play baseball in college.
Joey Velazquez has been in a similar position at Michigan. He was the top-ranked high-school baseball player in Ohio and had become a starting outfielder for the Michigan baseball team just before the 2020 season was canceled due to COVID, but he has had only eight plate appearances and one hit this season. He’s still on the football team as a back-up linebacker and might be competing for work on special teams, but he has appeared in only one game in 2019. LINK