OSU RB Chip Trayanum enters Transfer Portal

I have a feeling they are going the Deion strategy here and telling people "hey we are going after anyone and everyone in the portal that we think can help. So you may not like it, if so then move on". 🤷🤷

Saw something on 11 wusses about how Trayanum visited his high school over their bye week.  He was supposedly bad-mouthing cryin’ Ryan to his old coaches.  Never hear stories like that about Jimmy H.

Could be. I wouldn't cry over it.

But I used to be quite doom-and-gloom when Michigan would suffer transfers. Most of them were actually understandable, but there were a couple that were startling, and I assumed that it meant the worst about the staff and locker room. And maybe things were bad! 2020 was a rough year and some guys left that the rest of the team didn't seem that sad to see go.

But the doom and gloom turned out to be wrong. Dead wrong.

So I'll wait to see what Day does here. Maybe he's losing a couple guys he doesn't want to lose, but it's also quite possible that he has decided he needs to revamp the team and he's going after it whole hog. Most of the guys that I've seen listed (maybe I've missed a few) have been non-feature guys, and I don't recall them losing critical defensive pieces that they were counting on, and that was the strength of the team last year.

Let's be honest: They're always going to be good, but an offense of McCord and Fleming and Henderson/Trayanum wasn't exactly sending shivers down my spine looking ahead to next year. MHJ was their best player by far, and if they lose him to the draft, they didn't sound like a team ready to light the world on fire. So it's not unreasonable to think that Cryin Ryan thought the same thing and is in the process of aggressively upgrading. Surely, surely, no tampering involved.

But we'll see. Underestimate our biggest rival at our own peril.

Cryin’ Ryan’s excuse season?

My gut feeling is that these departures speak volumes about the lack of a positive, strong culture on that team. Seems like there's not a whole lot that any of these portal players want to come back to for another year.

Players can get NIL $$$ lots of places. And for some guys, that's the most important thing they care about. But for the players who want to develop their skill and be a part of a tight, close-knit team family, there are fewer strong options.