What happens with Wilson and Bajema?
Can they be released from their LOIs? Are relationships with primary recruiters like Yaklich or Washington more important?
I am not sure
+1 Informative.
I think they'll reopen and look. If Michigan hires a coach from the outside, Yak and Washington are likely gone. If one of Yak or Washington stays, their experience and leadership could legitimately get questioned.
They, like any other player who signs a letter of intent, can ask for a release (and I'd imagine one would be granted if requested), but they'd have to sit a year at their new schools. You can request a waiver, but coaching changes have rarely been the impetus for receiving one. Then again, it's the NCAA, a place where logic, reason, and consistency rarely visit, so YMMV.
They wouldn't really have to sit a year would they? They're not enrolled at the school so how could that be a thing?
There is zero chance Michigan won't release them, if asked, and the NCAA will grant them immediate eligibility. This happens every year.
Yes, the letter of intent binds you to the school for at least one year. If you want to break it, you lose a year of eligibility (although again, the NCAA will ultimately do whatever it wants). Think of all the times you've heard NCAA brass state that you sign with the school, not the coach.
Learn something every day... Thanks!
Except for when the "Calipari" clause was in effect, but the NCAA subsequently disallowed such provisions. After Calipari took most of his Memphis recruiting class to Kentucky, of course.
Didn't Tathan Martell use the coaching change from Meyer to Day as reasoning for his immediate eligibility?
Not directly, he basically made the argument that the school really no longer wanted him around, and OSU didn't really contest any part of it (and basically supported the notion that he should be eligible). Also, the hardship waiver for transfers is a bit of a different process than waivers for letters of intent.
That being said, Texas receiver Bru McCoy is currently seeking a letter of intent waiver after initially signing with USC that's almost exclusively based on Kliff Kingsbury becoming offensive coordinator and leaving a few weeks later. If that's approved, which again you can never assume with the NCAA, it probably is a bit of open season on kids after signing letters of intent.
You're asking questions no one knows the answers to at the moment. Need to hire a coach first and foremost.
Christ, we're gonna have a paper thin roster next year. No way we get Franz now. How did we go from feeling like we potentially had the most stable and deep roster in the country (before everyone declared) to now feeling like the world is on fire? We were looking at a POTENTIAL completely returning starting lineup with Livers, DDJ, Castleton, Johns, Franz, Brooks, and others as backups, to having to start a coaching search where the only thing we can offer is a lineup of seniors Simpson and Teske, junior Livers, junior Brooks?, sophomore Johns? We're in huge trouble
Because basketball rosters are very small and high school kids are fickell, and sometimes coaches leave.
We will likely take some steps backward as a program, but this doesnt have to be a death knell. We hVe great facilities, well paid assistants (thanks Beilein), and a bit of prestige.
Did you mean Finkle? He's really Einhorn.
Or did you really mean Fickell? Hell no, he couldn't even beat Brady Hole!
We are looking at 11 scholarship players next year as it stands. If Wilson and Bajema leave, that leaves it at 9. Simpson and Teske are done after next season, and I suppose it is possible that Livers could have a chance to go early. That would leave us at 6 or 7 with only Zeb committed for 2020, but having to reconsider with Beilein leaving, and could end up being a disastrous recruiting class if we are going through next season with an interim HC.
That is a terrifying scenario. Manuel needs to nail this hire, and do so rather quickly.
I thought 2018-19 was going to be the rebuilding year after losing Mo, Rahk and Duncan and our only loss this year was going to be Matthews.
We would have been stacked for 2019-20 with all of that talent. Part of the excitement on watching last year's team was thinking how much better it was lining up to be with all those guys coming back, plus two top recruits.
I would guess that Franz is not coming. He never sounded too excited in his interviews about the subject.
The only thing you can hope for is that recruiting doesn't take a nosedive. It's a crap shoot other than that.
If you are an assistant coach, you aren't recruiting or even trying to retain players. I hate times like this. I feel bad for these assisstants especially because I see them around so much. That's life as a coach. You are constantly moving your kids around the country.
Musical chairs.
Dance Band on The Titantic.
Lots of stupid analogies--but nothing is funny --when you consider how many individual's and their families lives change when this cycle begins....................
I have traveled (away games) to more M basketball games than M football games in the last 10 years.
Right now I am looking at the M away football schedule again with renewed vigor......
more kahlua, less tomato juice given today's news...
Everclear.
Might as well go all in and all out.
This is one of the reasons Warde must act swiftly.
Transfer Portal
i think Bajema would be solid, despite Beilein leaving as their family have been big Michigan fans for a long time.
Wilson, i can't say...
Wilson was a Yaklich recruit. My guess is he stays if Yak stays and if Yak leaves, he'd potentially look around depending on who the hire actually is.
I've read and heard that Wilson was supposedly named after Jalen Rose so hopefully he'd be solid as well!
They should be granted their release immediately if they ask for it.
I think they'll stay. They committed to Michigan not a specific coach. Michigan would also have to release them from their LOI's. And otherwise, they would have to scramble to find another good landing spot and also sit out a year unless granted a waiver by the NCAA.
I'd bet Yaklich becomes head coach since he's probably the best defensive coach in the country.
Fuck, I’ll be pissed if we can’t do better than Yaklich for our HC.
I''ll be pissed if we don't get as good a coach as Yaklich.
But there are plenty of "fire Beilein" types who won't be happy unless we somehow, by some miracle, steal some big name coach from another program.
What do fire Beilein types have to do with Yaklich? I didn’t want Coach B fire, and I certainly don’t want Yaklich promoted.
Seems like an odd comment to make
Bajema will still come. Wilson may not, depending on the hire.
Bajema is a lifelong Michigan fan and initiated his recruitment by sending tapes to Michigan, unlikely it affects him.
Wilson was just crystal balled to Kansas...