Jeremiah Beasley - Transfer Portal - True Freshman
https://twitter.com/Hayesfawcett3/status/1783523112761364934
BREAKING: Michigan True Freshman LB Jeremiah Beasley has signed the papers necessary to enter the Transfer Portal, he tells @on3sports
The 6’2 235 LB from Belleville, MI will have all 4 years of eligibility remaining
Held 25+ Offershttps://t.co/gvsx3NNSBO pic.twitter.com/m8gwThLo1f— Hayes Fawcett (@Hayesfawcett3) April 25, 2024
Sad to see, but makes sense with the entire defense staff changing.
April 25th, 2024 at 12:00 PM ^
Not a loss in terms of on-field performance this season, but not helping ease everyone's anxieties. Oh well
April 25th, 2024 at 12:05 PM ^
Yep. With Hausmann in the 23 class and now Barham in the 24 class maybe the path to the field was too much for him. Sullivan was making plays in the Spring Game too, but that doesn't at all mean anything for the upcoming season.
April 25th, 2024 at 12:08 PM ^
Yeah I don't see this particular transfer as much of a loss, tho it's odd to lose a true freshman who's barely been on campus. The bigger issue right now appears to be the ability of other programs to over-value depth pieces--e.g., Waller--relative to what Michigan is willing/able to do. Maybe we're just headed for a situation in which no one in CFB has any real depth, and therefore winning becomes much more about injury luck, etc.
April 25th, 2024 at 12:17 PM ^
Makes more sense that an early enrollee freshman who lost the entire staff to whom he committed would transfer than someone who’s had more time to invest in his teammates and the school community at large. Good luck to him.
April 25th, 2024 at 12:17 PM ^
Maybe Michigan's depth pieces are other programs starters.
Who woulda thunk it in 2020?
OSU and Georgia have 5 stars sitting on the bench so no it's not all CFB.
Ok, but aren't we also heading to a world in which you have a 12 team playoff and you no longer need to go undefeated to make a 4 team playoff. You can loose 2 games and make a 12 team playoff.
That tells me that you can sub more liberally and play beyond your starters in order to keep the team healthy. Subs should get quality playing time under the new system, I would hope.
Loosing games is sweet sorrow...
April 25th, 2024 at 12:34 PM ^
Hopefully his Maserati can keep o-lineman off of him. Team chemistry and all.
What eases my anxiety is the fact that we’re reigning national champs. Whatever happens in 2024 happens. The warm glow of last season will last a while.
April 25th, 2024 at 12:00 PM ^
If it’s due to coaching change or seeing a long way to playing time, then fine. Hopefully the NIL rumors floating around aren’t true
April 25th, 2024 at 12:01 PM ^
What are the NIL rumours?
April 25th, 2024 at 12:04 PM ^
Heavy tampering, insane NIL offers, and rostered guys asking for more money
April 25th, 2024 at 12:09 PM ^
If our players want NIL, hopefully we are getting them some. I'd hate to lose them because we are too cheap.
April 25th, 2024 at 12:13 PM ^
Waller reportedly making six figures, that seems like Michigan isn't being cheap paying a kid in the two deep who had a chance to start next year as a sophomore.
April 25th, 2024 at 12:18 PM ^
What is Kentucky paying him? Seems weird to be outbid by Kentucky Football and there's nothing to see with Michigan NIL. I feel like our NIL program is being oversold if we are losing guys to one of the worst SEC Football programs.
April 25th, 2024 at 12:20 PM ^
Kentucky has their NIL game humming because they had infrastructure already in place to pay players in basketball prior to NIL
April 25th, 2024 at 12:39 PM ^
Blasphemy! Only Michigan does the impermissible.
April 25th, 2024 at 12:39 PM ^
DJ Waller is the player to be named later in the trade for Steve Clinkscale and Brian Jean-Mary.
April 25th, 2024 at 12:43 PM ^
I think it's been alleged that Kentucky (and probably plenty of programs) are promising more in NIL than they can actually pay. Kids don't have contracts so if the offers turn out to be vaporware, the players are still stuck for 1 year at least.
April 25th, 2024 at 12:55 PM ^
I wouldn't say they are one of the worst. They are a top 1/2 to top 1/3 SEC program currently, which has also been recruiting well and is known to splash some cash. Still head scratching, but it's not Vanderbilt.
Pretty sure it wasn’t Webb saying he was making 6 figs.
Oops, you are correct. I am editing it now.
Saying 6 figures is pretty opened ended. Is he getting 150K, 500K, 800K??
April 25th, 2024 at 12:18 PM ^
They are getting NIL. They’re getting tampered with and demanding more money
April 25th, 2024 at 12:21 PM ^
And Michigan can't get their current players more money? I realize tampering is illegal but I thought the whole thing was that Michigan takes care of the players they have on the roster.
April 25th, 2024 at 12:29 PM ^
The money pot is not endless. Can't imagine it's easy going back to the people you have already asked to foot the NIL bill to keep Will Johnson, Graham, Grant, and plenty others. Now you are going to be held hostage by everyone else on the roster if you cave to anyone being discontent, especially when it would seem to me that he was already being compensated fairly well, and I imagine that number would have continued to grow once he achieved more.
April 25th, 2024 at 12:33 PM ^
Well said. This is only going to get worse and worse.
Who would want to be a HC in this environment... yikes.
April 25th, 2024 at 10:35 PM ^
This. Remember the Maryland 3rd string rb demanding 100k? Not saying the talent is similar, but the well can run dry vis a vis never ending outstretched hands.
Giving players who demand more money what they want is a slippery slope
It’s sounds like we don’t really know what the market is. We can speculate what we are doing vs other schools.
Clearly we have shown an ability to keep top tiered talent from either leaving or going pro as attested to some of the draftable players last year and some guys this year who would have commanded top dollar.
It would be one thing to get guaranteed change your life money vs not. But few things in life are more fun than playing on a winning football team. So if you’re walking away from Michigan right now the money better be significant or I would think you will regret missing out on the experience.
The opposite point might be accurate too. That Michigan knows the market value of these players, at this moment in time. Michigan has set a precedent not to pay for potential, but pay for performance. Perhaps Beasley and Waller and Herring want potential deals and M is saying to be patient. If other schools will pay for potential, there's no reason those guys shouldn't take it.
However... taking the better deal today is not always the better or wiser choice for their football future. Only time will tell, especially in a post-Harbaugh reality, but training at Michigan for the NFL in recent years is a smart investment that goes beyond winning and playing time. Michigan players are finding good success early in the NFL.
You should probably just let the coaching staff know you'll take care of it.
Otherwise it just looks like you're very keen on spending other peoples money.
Also, it isn't 'Michigan' that's taking care of the players right now, it's the fans. And, understandably, for intelligent folks with money, they're a tad bit skeptical about anteing up every year to pay a bunch of guys who could walk at any time for a better offer, if that's what they're after.
Michigan can't get any players money.
Private NIL collectives can give current players money.
I think it just comes down to how much you want to spend on backups, third stringers and freshmen. Once you’re paying guys that far down the roster significant money, all the players at their level or above are going to want the same or more. It’s easy for us to sit here and figuratively spend other people’s money but that’s not the way the real world works.
Eventually this is all going to balance out and backup corners aren’t going to get 6 figure offers to begin with. This isn’t a sustainable system
April 25th, 2024 at 12:27 PM ^
NIL is the one area that IMO could drag Warde down. (Other than the ever-present risk of scandal culpability.)
Football is about 2/3rds of his job. Basketball maybe 20%. He's blown away BB with the Dusty May hire.
"Transformational Not Transactional". (Or "Platitudes, not deserved market value compensation.")
Of course, Warde can't raise for NIL directly, but everybody knows the game, and donors aren't stupid. "Potential" donors like to be smoozed/kept informed. Nothing wrong with that. And they can write checks independently to NIL collectives. Nothing wrong with that.
I'm perfectly fine for Warde to be a chameleon and pretend he never said "Transformational not Transactional." For Michigan to stay elite, it needs an elite NIL pipeline.
April 25th, 2024 at 12:25 PM ^
Death of CFB. Give me more money, or I walk.... jesus h
April 25th, 2024 at 12:27 PM ^
If only someone could've imagined that giving 17-21 year olds access to an open bidding market for their services would have unforeseen consequences...
It's a very strange phenomenon in which I support NIL 101%, yet can't deny these effects are diminishing my interest in the sport.
April 25th, 2024 at 12:40 PM ^
Totally agree man. This is the space we are in, so I fully support all these kids to make their money because 95% of them wont continue on to NFL (or whatever the crazy percent is)...so I fully support NIL.
But like you said, if I was a 10 on the scale of "giving a shit" last year, consider me a ...hmm, Id say 5 now, possibly lower. Im full casusal fan now, and part of me likes that (due to stress and shit), but part of me hates it because thats what made CFB special.
Im here, Im on this blog reading, and I support M football and hope they do really well next season and beat those dummies on ohio....but my Saturdays will look real different going forward
April 25th, 2024 at 12:49 PM ^
Those 17-21 year olds aren't making these decisions on their own. They have parents and other adults in the room authorizing all this stuff.
Yes, but I find it "interesting" that many of the same people complaining about this insane system that's now developing, were the same ones beating the drum to "pay these players!"
Yet none of them see (or will begrudgingly admit) the connection between what they wanted and what they are now complaining about. John Bacon being the most known of these types.
Oh 90% or better of the people on this board complaining about NIL were "Michigan money cannon" stans. Michigan never played the game on the edges before, why anyone thought we would now is a mystery to me.
I've always been a fan of those who stay and willing to accept not winning it all as long as we are doing it the right way.
Oh right!
Yeah if the players aren’t careful and this turns into NFL lite why wouldn’t fans just watch the “real thing” instead of amateurs. There could be blowback from all this if it becomes purely transactional and fans may just lose interest and then the money dries up.
April 25th, 2024 at 12:33 PM ^
If you're going to tamper and throw around NIL money, wouldn't you want to do that on a proven player?
I'm guessing he's leaving because he got outplayed by Sullivan and he can get some enticement dough.
It is not feasible for some programs to keep insane NIL offers going. Their programs will be running at large losses and its not sustainable.
The money isn’t coming from the programs so their bottom line is largely unaffected by this.
April 25th, 2024 at 12:05 PM ^
His name is actually Jumbo Bootron and he's a vampire so can't actually receive the Name or Image part of the NIL and thus far hasn't found anyone capable of capitalizing on his Likeness so he's heading to a Pennsylvania school hoping to play off the -sylvania aspect of his heritage.
April 25th, 2024 at 12:51 PM ^
Nil should be a contract. You want 100k? Ok sign here but you can not transfer for 3 years. Done
That’s not NIL. That would be an employment contract between the player and the school. NIL, by definition, comes from third party sources and can’t be contingent upon playing at a certain school.
Seems as if you could work around that by requiring on site performance to earn the NIL money—appear at autograph signings at Crisler or wherever, or at various car dealerships, make charity appearances with representatives of the outfit giving you the money. I wonder if you could also make it contingent on the player appearing in his Michigan jersey? Seems you could tie someone to a geographic area without making it contingent that he play at “X” school. (Although I admittedly have not read the regulations that govern NIL.)