Spike to grad transfer [LOCKED]

Huh?  What?

People here know that it's unlikely that he will be able to play next year, right? He's apparently not even close to being in playing shape. 

Beilein is making some questionable decisions, he doesn't seem to have great instincts with these matters.

We have some very average and noncontributing players and he decides Spike can't help?

So let's have another season of Doyle doing nothing and still not be able to catch a fucking pass.

So let's have another year of DJ Wilson and his "strength gains" stand on the perimeter and jack up a bunch of 3s while missing them all the time.  

But let's not try to find a spot for the guy that has the most guts in the program.

I don't care if the guy is 5'10 180 pounds, he had the most heart of anyone on the team in the miserable 2014-2015 season.

Spike has limitations, but he also provides a lot of positive production.  

But let's keep around guys that do nothing.

Damnit. Spike is genuinely one of the nicest people I've ever met. This sucks.

Haha now spike isn't even good enough for beilein? After all that happened this year? What a scrub. Get a new coach already.

this hurts me. but I always wish Spike well. Love that kid.

Wish him the best. I highly doubt he plays at the same level as before the surgeries, but at least he gets a free year of Grad school if a team takes a chance on him.

I think a lot of you need to settle the fuck down and wait for more details before shitting yourselves. Jump-to-Conclusions-Mats must've been sold to some of this lot like hotcakes. Good gracious.

far dumber this time.

he's from indiana and their guards suck

Can people just go ahead and stop blaming Beilein for this? What coach keeps an open scholarship available JUST IN CASE a senior has to take a redshirt? Nobody can plan for that.

Lets see how Beilein feels about this grad transfer. Can't complain about the rule when you don't have scholarships available for 5th year guys and the guy decides to leave

Do we know for a fact that this was JB's decision and not Albrecht's?  Because I couldn't tell one way or the other based on that tweet, but maybe you guys have heard further details elsewhere.

What if Spike, knowing that Walton is back and that X is coming in, thought that he'd have trouble getting a lot of minutes coming off that injury?  What if he wants to go to a smaller program and start for them, rather than get spot duty behind a four year starter and a Mr Basketball Ohio?

Are you still mad at Beilein then?  Can you blame Spike in that case?

 

I'm upset.  But I'm not upset about this transfer, I'm upset that Spike missed a chance to play his senior year this season.  We could have used him.

But I thought he "retired" Maybe he saw want a dumpster fire this coaching staff is and didn't want to deal with it.

The "crying like teenaged girls" in this thread is pathetic.

It is clear that many people in here do not understand how scholarships work.

This sucks! It was bad enough to see Bielfeldt in a non M uniform, but I may cry to see Spike somewhere else. Sure he's not an NBA level dude, but he's got so much damn heart and drive. I wish him the best wherever he lands. Definitely gonna keep track of that guy as I'm sure he'll do big things in life.

Is this another thread reiterating Beilein's inibility to recruit top level talent? No? Ok, sorry

Hard to say this is Beilein's fault because you don't leave a spot open on the off-chance a senior needs to redshirt. And we're not the type of program to run people off (and we're one spot over as it is).

Yet, as identifiable as Spike is to this program, this does not look good. Outsiders won't look at the details, they'll see that Spike left Michigan a year after Max did the same thing, which makes it SEEM like people are trying to get out of this program.

Not the topic, of course.  Spike leaving the team is real news, and props to the OP for reporting it.

But damn, this board is being shrill about his departure when the only fact we know is that Spike is leaving.  We don't know why, but that hasn't kept this commentariat from assuming that it's an evil Beilein forcing out of a beloved player.

Maybe Spike is injured, not likely to get back to playing shape, and in denial.  Maybe he's fully-mended, and Beilein is forcing him out.  Maybe (and this seems most likely) the Michigan medical staff is highly skeptical of his ability to get ready for and to play in the 2016-17 season.  Maybe he thinks he'll get more playing time and exposure at another school.  We don't know.

It could be that the tone of the comments is so perjorative because the OP went up at Beer O'Clock, but for fuck's sake, people - let's let the facts come out before demonizing Beilein.  (And realize that the facts may never come out because coaches have limitations on what they can say, and furthermore are loath to publicly criticize a departing player.)