Spike to grad transfer [LOCKED]
Michigan’s Spike Albrecht told ESPN he was granted his release today and plans to play next season elsewhere as a grad transfer.
— Jeff Goodman (@GoodmanESPN) March 29, 2016
MOD EDIT: Alright, we're going to make an editorial decision and just lock this but allow the news and comments to stand. Way too much ridiculous in this thread and I can't in good conscience let it go on. We're better than this. - LSA
March 29th, 2016 at 12:04 AM ^
Ooof. Michigan burned all of its basketball karma in that '89 run
Literally all the basketball Karma
Nah coach B knows all he's the best. We're the third best in the BIG ! Michigan has never been a dominate basketball school so we should just be happy with what we got. /s
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But John Wooden and Sam Gilbert thwarted that.
Except that we've been to the national championship game three times since then - a record most programs would dream of having.
Losing a guy to a grad transfer isn't a horrible stroke of fate, especially considering that 1) it's unclear if Spike can return to being 100% of his pre-injury self next season and 2) we have a very talented point guard coming in.
March 29th, 2016 at 12:04 AM ^
doesn't make a lot of sense to keep chatman, doyle, and wilson but let spike walk
March 29th, 2016 at 12:07 AM ^
yeah, kick out players with 2 years left for a guy with bad hips for one. beat of luck to Spike.
March 29th, 2016 at 12:09 AM ^
ill take one year of spike over two years of doyle any day
March 29th, 2016 at 12:17 AM ^
Um Coach Beilein can't just cut players from the team with eligibility left.
March 29th, 2016 at 12:19 AM ^
Tom Crean finds a way to clean up his roster every year to make room.
March 29th, 2016 at 12:24 AM ^
Hell, MSU just did it today.
March 29th, 2016 at 12:30 AM ^
lol exactly. firm handshake.
March 29th, 2016 at 12:25 AM ^
I guess you view it as a misfortune that M basketball players conduct themselves in a manner which doesn't raise the specter of getting booted off the team
but he did say he has conversations with all the players and "these things tend to work themselves out". Which read between the lines that's sitting a kid down and saying you're not good enough and its probably time for you to start looking elsewhere.
Yup, that's why Brundridge, Christian, Smotztrch (sic) and others have transfered in the past. I'm guessing those conversations happened yesterday evening or this morning, so we should expect another 1-3 transfers today or tomorrow.
I believe Smotrycz had personal reasons for transferring and it was not the wishes of the coaching staff. He would have made the next year's team much better with the ability to shift Novak to the 3 as his primary position, rather than having to play him out of position at the 4. He also would have given the national runner up team more depth in the front court and more versitility, allowing for bigger lineups shifting Robinson to the 3 from time to time.
Rather have me?
But then, I really really like you.
You'd rather have those garbage players for two more years? Or one more year with a solid player with a great assist to turnover ratio and the leadership that's going to be needed since Walton and Irvin seem to be more passive types.
"Garbage players".
Go back to the rcmb or whatever shithole you came from.
March 29th, 2016 at 12:07 AM ^
You never know who else may be leaving.
March 29th, 2016 at 12:08 AM ^
Spike would be a fifth year senior. The players you mentioned would not.
March 29th, 2016 at 12:23 AM ^
Seems to be working well for Izzo.
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March 29th, 2016 at 12:35 AM ^
And Michigan shouldn't follow his lead if he did.
March 29th, 2016 at 12:40 AM ^
right, we don't know why two "meh" players left before izzo's best class of all time shows up
Same thing could be said about our football team.
yep, and ive got no problem with meritocracy
some people operate on a higher set of morals
Insert eye roll emoji.
...has four kids coming in & four kids with expiring eligibility (in addition to a walk-on redshirt junior). Izzo doesn't need to "force" anyone out.
He doesn't, but he basically said that if he had three kids transfer out that would be a positive. He may not have needed to force anyone out, but the implication is pretty clear that he did.
to get the national championship now.
Beilein's done the same thing in the past. You tell a college basketball player his future role is to ride the pine, and they'll typically walk.
He mentioned that he wouldn't be surprised if 2-3 players left. He then went on to talk about working hard and getting on the floor.
I'd trade them all for Spike.
March 29th, 2016 at 12:06 AM ^
But I hope he finds a great place to play - on a team that doesn't play Michigan.
March 29th, 2016 at 12:13 AM ^
Yeah, sort of like Max....D'oh!
This is just as dumb as Max. Obviously, we could have used him. Apparently it's more important to have a roster with 15 mediocre players.
I think Beilein is great, but this is definitely a failure. We don't have room for fifth-year guys who could obviously contribute. And it ain't cuz we're Kentucky. We've got a bunch of middling dudes, but so, so many of them only half of them will even play.
I have to say, even though JB cannot control injuries, if Spike balls out next year I will throw an absolute tantrum even if he isn't playing us. This should not happen.
He can't control injuries, but something has to be wrong with the way this team trains. I remain convinced that Jon Sanderson is not as good as advertised and part of the problem.
I know its in bad taste to hope for attrition, but its so damn obvious this roster needs to have some guys move on.
Right now, I just don't understand what the hell we are doing. Beilein wasn't afraid to let 3 guys walk after the 2012 season.
I really hope something proactive happens with this roster and soon.
way to look at it is that it is building to be a roster full of really experienced players. Tons of young talent is one way to build a team, a roster full of grown men who have been through the battles before is another. Watson and Simpson will get some experience next year, combine that with a bunch of senior 22 year olds and we could "YMCA" the hell out of a lot of people when the MAAR, Chat, Dawk class are all seniors.
With regard to your point about roster overhaul, there is only so much he could do. He has recruited with the thought that Caris would be leaving last year and that Spike would unquestionably be gone after this year anyway. Both reasonable assumptions at the beginning of last year.
Now he is in an unenviable position. He can say, "you know, _J W_ _s_n, you can stick around if you want but there may be a better opportunity some where else." He can say, hey, A_ dr_ _ D_ k_ _ h, you could really be part of the rotation at another smaller school" He can say these things, but he cannot go further than that. Ultimately, if a kid chooses to stick around, circumstances be damned, there is nothing Beilein can do.
March 29th, 2016 at 12:07 AM ^
This is the stupidest thing I have seen out of Michigan sports in a long time.....
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March 29th, 2016 at 12:08 AM ^
Brandon and Hoke wasn't that long ago.
March 29th, 2016 at 12:28 AM ^
Apparently you didn't watch Michigan's punter in an important game this season....
March 29th, 2016 at 12:54 AM ^
It will always be too soon
ts still the stupidest thing to happen this year.
Everyone wants to praise all the good with special teams - but that makes it hard to appreciate any of that when you throw away a game.
Get over it. Jeez some of you guys are a bunch of whiny babies. Get some steel in your goddamned spine.
Shit happens. That's life.
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I responded to a post that brought up the stupidest thing in Michigan Sports.
A punter that can't catch the ball and then proceeds to throw it to the other team is pretty damn stupid.
Nothing more, nothing less. It was pretty damn stupid.
Do you care that much what Brown Bear thinks of you to justify a joke?