Xavier Worthy's mom on why he left Michigan for Texas

I don't believe this shit for a moment.  Sounds like a single mom ret-conning her past activities (after a piece of time had passed) and then found a beta-male amplifier for it.

Now trying to throw her sobbing salt in our pot just because her boy is at a soft program that can't even manage their own scene vs we're playing for prizes.

The Gattis story will never not be funny. 

Umm, is this true?

They’d waived the SATs.

Was this in place in 2020? I know COVID changed a lot of things, but I was kinda surprised to see they "waived" it in his case.

If we're being honest, even had admissions let him enroll early, I'd say it's pretty likely he would have transferred after his first year given some combination of (1) how we use WRs, (2) NIL, and (3) Gattis leaving...

It’s terrible to imagine him stuck in AA and not able to do anything. Looking at him as an individual, regardless of slant, it’s clear this was a horrible experience for him. At 17/18 and alone in a new place. That sucks.

The number of stories (many of which cannot be confirmed) about admissions is a large number. If there’s enough smoke, there’s probably fire. 

Worthy will be fine. So will Michigan. Just another bad look.

Well he must have gone to some rinky dink college with no standards, right?  No way an elite school would admit him at that point 

“For me, that didn’t fly,” she said. “I turned in all of his academic paperwork and applications in September. As far as I had been told, up until two weeks before, he was on track to enroll early. There was nothing missing, nothing short, they’d waived the SATs. It didn’t make sense. Something wasn’t right. What’s the problem and why am I finding out about this now?”

This part of the story seems odd and doesn't vibe. Why would Michigan admit him waving the SAT score and then say he can't enroll early because of his academic profile? 

For those in the thread pointing out he went to Texas so its just admissions being admissions, lets not forget that he wasn't denied admissions to Michigan. He just couldn't enroll early. And he didn't enroll early at Texas either I don't believe. 

His mom also said she submitted everything in September. Schools do have the right after admitting you to rethink their decision once they get your final HS transcript. 

Plenty about her description of events doesn’t make sense, but it’s also clear Michigan didn’t handle this well to say the least. Whatever man. Have fun losing to Alabama tonight.

I'm all for these articles of recruits and some of our transfers going public. Shine the spot light on how ridiculous and seemingly unorganized Michigan's admission process is. I actually feel bad that this seems like it caused lots of stress for him and his family.

Either the mom is intentionally omitting important facts or Michigan, at the very least, screwed up the communication on this. We know there is less flexibility in admissions standards than some of us would like, but I'm not really surprised someone transferring to an online school wasn't granted early admission. If you look up Apex Learning Virtual School, the stories are not great. I doubt he was getting something comparable to a senior year of high school in one semester online. 

If Worthy’s family had this cleared with UM Admissions before they enrolled him in this online school, then the Admissions Dept backtracked on their word and I don’t blame Xavier, his mom or his family an ounce for being pissed and losing trust. 

But if they just decided to do this without consulting the Admissions Department about it, then…..what can you do? 

Regardless, I think we can all agree that the admissions process here oftentimes seems incredibly antiquated and absurdly difficult to navigate for no real good reason. I wonder how much of this is a situation of certain people being in charge of things for no reason, or people who have no business being in charge of anything important. 

All I know is that I hate he couldn’t come here. Imagine him catching balls from McCarthy this season….that’s a passing combo that gets Michigan over the top against a Georgia or Alabama. 

We see how this is affecting the basketball program.  Can't have your cake and eat it too...

So basically she enrolled her son in a seemingly questionable online program at the last second to get around her son’s schools requirements and is shocked that there was admissions issues? Yeah, I’m not gonna blame this one on admissions

Who knows what to believe? Everyone plays the victim in every circumstance. 

I'm sure there's some truth in there. I'm sure some details are missing

This should be a huge wake up call.

Michigan has to get its shit together.

Basketball deals with the same issue x10.

I hate when we rehash this kind of stuff here, based on an interview with a former player's parent (see Cade McNamara) and then take what the parent says as gospel. I don't know what happened but you can bet if it was on the University, Harbaugh is trying to fix it in some way. No one knows better than him that Worthy transferring was a loss for us. He also wants to uphold academic standards, as well he should -- this is college, not the NFL. 

Most of this was already known when he left (he didn't enroll mid-year and that had been his goal, so everyone was aware of it at the time), but also not a total surprise.  I understand that guys want to enroll early so they'll have a better chance of seeing the field, but with Gattis seemingly being a lynchpin and a lot of this article being about wanting to "honor his commitment" I do wonder if he would have just transferred at some point once Gattis was gone.  Just feels a bit like the match wasn't as solid but Worthy had a sense of duty to honor a commitment. 

I also will say that while I'm all for bashing admissions this is also during the pandemic and Worthy apparently tried to graduate early via some online school that isn't without controversy.  Lots of guys coming from traditional HS graduations are able to enroll early; 3 other guys from Worthy's class, including JJ, enrolled early.  Why Worthy couldn't get this squared away via his HS is another issue but I do understand UM looking at his transcript and saying "yeah, you might need to fill in some holes here" especially during a pandemic when a bunch of things were askew.

On Christmas Day.

Our admissions department is garbage. But question....are Ivy League schools as stingy with this kind of stuff? Or other high end schools like Duke and Vanderbilt?

Also, do non-athletes have such problems with transferring and mid-year enrollments? I thought I saw something recently about a Stanford athlete having difficulties?

Basically...if our department is just a bureaucratic nightmare, then it is directly harming the school and getting in the way of our ability to attract top talent. Being obstructive is not the same as being picky.

I guess I can root for Texas today with a clear conscious, because I always thought that Worthy flipped solely because of Sark's tampering.  Turns out not to be the case.

That this was self-inflicted by Michigan shouldn't surprise anybody.  Guess I should not have been so quick to judge,

My only issue with this is her comment about the trust not being there. This wasn't a trust issue, it's an archaic and asinine admissions policy that caused all the problems, not anyone lying or misleading or even anything to do with the football program. 

There is nothing to be fixed here. His mom fucked up and so did the program by not communicating better 

Here's A.C. Slater for no reason.

Seems to me that the football program/athletic department should way in advance already have a package for any athlete who wants to early enroll, including a list of approved schools and courses, etc. and even a liason to make sure it all goes through instead of leaving it on the student-athlete and his family.

How much control does Ono have over this? Michigan is run like it's own government where the ultimate leader is not the ultimate decision maker.

I'd guess many of the folks who think it's embarrassing that M has higher academic standards than most schools probably didn't go to Michigan. It's ok to have higher standards. It's a university, not a football factory. Consider the bigger picture.

Michigan no doubt already lets in plenty of athletes who wouldn't otherwise be academically qualified. Its standards are lower than, say, Stanford's -- and probably equal to those of ND or UCLA. Michigan doesn't lack for talent. It has the 2nd ranked team in the nation -- which is evidence enough that it can have higher standards and still field highly competitive teams.

It will never change. Academics is important to Michigan. We will never have the lax standards of the SEC and other schools.