Aaron Burbridge, WR, Harrison HS (MI) - MSU VERBAL

[phillyfan]

UM's standards for football players are the same as MSU's and pretty much the rest of the Big Ten. Do you remember Rawls getting in by the skin of his teeth last year and UM waiting about 3 years for Slocum to qualify?

O let do it

[Cheech]

Shiiiiiittt I'm STILL holding out for Demar Dorsey!

I wonder if Hoke had brought in Dorsey and not Rich Rod if he would have ended up qualifying

[Marklar]

UM's standards for football players are the same as MSU's and pretty much the rest of the Big Ten. Do you remember Rawls getting in by the skin of his teeth last year and UM waiting about 3 years for Slocum to qualify?

not really. Maybe coming out of high school, but you won't find a JUCO at Michigan unless he went to JUCO because of a lack of offers (not smarts).

[Josh2Blue]

not really. Maybe coming out of high school, but you won't find a JUCO at Michigan unless he went to JUCO because of a lack of offers (not smarts).

And then you've got to have a kid that purposely takes classes at that JuCo that he knows will transfer to U of M. IE Austin Panter, who went JuCo because he played 8-man football in HS.

[FastFreddie]

Wasn't there a story that Javon Ringer actually wanted to go to OSU, but couldn't qualify, so he ended up getting in at MSU?

[Josh2Blue]

Wasn't there a story that Javon Ringer actually wanted to go to OSU, but couldn't qualify, so he ended up getting in at MSU?

Pretty sure that is true of Michigan, not sure of Ohio State. OSU wanted to greyshirt him.... they were expecting a commitment from Maurice Wells and Beanie Wells was already known as a superstar for the class of 2006 -- the class after Ringer's.

[FastFreddie]

Pretty sure that is true of Michigan, not sure of Ohio State. OSU wanted to greyshirt him.... they were expecting a commitment from Maurice Wells and Beanie Wells was already known as a superstar for the class of 2006 -- the class after Ringer's.

Either way, it points out there are differences among the conference schools academic eligibility.

[Cheech]

Uh yeahhhh...we are the 15th best University(#1 Public) in the entire WORLD. Not just the country, but WORLD. MSU doesn't even crack the top 200

http://www.topuniversities.com/unive...-rankings/2010

[knuckles311]

Uh yeahhhh...we are the 15th best University(#1 Public) in the entire WORLD. Not just the country, but WORLD. MSU doesn't even crack the top 200

http://www.topuniversities.com/unive...-rankings/2010

Not sure who does those rankings, but the 2011 US NEWS rankings, which are the most reputable by all accounts, have UM at #29 among national (not international) universities, and MSU at #79. He wants to major in engineering, where UM is #9 and MSU is #52. Yeah, there is a large difference, but don't act like picking MSU would be like picking community college.

[Marklar]

but don't act like picking MSU would be like picking community college.

You are right. He would be picking a farming school.

[ep50]

Uh yeahhhh...we are the 15th best University(#1 Public) in the entire WORLD. Not just the country, but WORLD. MSU doesn't even crack the top 200

http://www.topuniversities.com/unive...-rankings/2010

UM holds its players to the same standard as MSU. The only school the conf to impose real standards on athletes is NU. Check out Carty's story about UM's general studies and kinesiology (sp?) basically being diploma mills for athletes.