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.
The trick would be getting players to agree to such a thing when up-front payments are being offered elsewhere. People aren’t actually asking these players to do a whole lot to earn their big money. It is 100% about paying players to be at a certain school. If you’re making players routinely make appearances, they’ll still just pick the school where they’re getting money up front just to be there and we’re in the exact same position.
April 25th, 2024 at 12:01 PM ^
I do recall reading about Cole Sullivan making plays in the spring game, and Barham coming in also moves him down the depth chart. I guess the only positive of this is that he never played outside of the spring game (I'm assuming he played).
April 25th, 2024 at 12:05 PM ^
He is an early enrolled freshmen, way to early to make moves based on the depth chart.
April 25th, 2024 at 12:14 PM ^
Were you never 18 years old?
April 25th, 2024 at 12:11 PM ^
The spin masters are all over it.
Hes a true freshman so the depth chart MAKES ABOSLUTELY NO SENSE.
April 25th, 2024 at 12:15 PM ^
It is like you have never interacted with a teenager before.
April 25th, 2024 at 12:49 PM ^
For what it may be worth, I've stood next to Beasley and I'd be really surprised if he's actually 6'2". I would've guessed 5'11" max.
April 25th, 2024 at 12:54 PM ^
Yes he’s definitely 5’11 lol.
April 25th, 2024 at 12:07 PM ^
This is dumb. College football is now dumb. Michigan won the last true national title. Change my mind.
April 25th, 2024 at 12:18 PM ^
Absolutely on all points. Why i will be a casual observer moving forward.
Username fits...
April 25th, 2024 at 12:23 PM ^
Yep, I've been saying for a while. We won the last real season. In 2029 when we're playing OSU 3 times a season and we each have 5 transfer starters from the other school for the right to make the new 128 team playoff, it's just not gonna be half as special.
April 25th, 2024 at 12:25 PM ^
Bingo!
So eveyone needs to take a step back from this non sense....cheer for them, pull for the, but do we really need to care that much anymore?
April 25th, 2024 at 12:33 PM ^
This is dumb. College football is now dumb. Michigan won the last true national title……
Yes they did. And I watched the highlights again yesterday. 😁
April 25th, 2024 at 12:47 PM ^
And possibly the last meaningful edition of The Game to boot, since rematches the next week are on the table from now on.
If I'm a cellist, I can get paid by my university to play cello. I can play cello for third parties and get paid by them. I can transfer to another university and play cello for them immediately.
All the recent changes in college athletics have been to allow college athletes the same basic freedoms as every other student in every other specialty on a college campus.
There are two differences remaining between the cellist and the football player:
- The cellist can get paid directly by the university.
- The cellist can major in cello, while the football player cannot major in football, even though both are legitimate professional fields.
I know it feels wrong to have these players transferring around constantly, but this is much more in line with what it means to be an amateur college student than the previous model.
I love this analogy as my daughter is a first-year student in cello, having received not quite a full scholarship to do so, even though she is co-principal cellist in the university symphony. She does work for the music department and gets paid (minimum wage, granted) and does gigs on the side and is paid for those as an independent musician.
Notably, my daughter is majoring in music education with a concentration in cello. Others are in cello performance majors. The analogy to football seems solid there, however, as an athlete could major in sports education (coaching) with a concentration in football, OR a football performance major.
The changes in college sports really could lead to some significant changes in university curriculum.
This is absolutely the truth. All students should have the same exact right to decide where they want to get their education.
Problem with CFB and BB is that so much has been built up around these sports that they have financial models that dont really fit into an academic structure. Many of the student-athletes are really only there to be athletes and only because there isn't a legit alternative. A 'one and done' in CBB can't possibly be all in on learning what ever their professor is teaching as they count down the days until the draft.
No where else in the world does anything like this exist and for good reason...
It is definitely harder to follow.
With all of this nonsense, that championship will get better every year.
April 25th, 2024 at 12:13 PM ^
Beasley and Sullivan were true freshmen competing for the same role. Spring game provided a good indication who was ahead.
Pre-NIL and unlimited transfers, Beasley would continue competing. That's not going to happen much now.
Yes but I have also heard MGoBlog and others suggest that Sullivan’s trajectory is more like Chase W. and his eventual position will probably be OLB/Edge
Sullivan is gonna be a star. Was surprised on the roundtable they didn't imply it. Watch the play on 310lb Herring, Sullivan pancakes him and then still makes the tackle 4 yards away.
April 25th, 2024 at 12:14 PM ^
College football is becoming stupid.
April 25th, 2024 at 12:15 PM ^
Kid literally grew up sleeping under Michigan sheets.
I said earlier in a thread the SE Michigan kids aren’t feeling this new staff already. One of the kids most vocal about Michigan is walking out the door. The beat is going to spin this like it’s a playing time thing. It’s not. He knew well he wasn’t starting this year. I’m just wondering when some fucking positive news is gone happen. But I don’t see us getting a Belleville kid again. Or a Cass or King kid the next two cycles honestly.
April 25th, 2024 at 12:20 PM ^
The next highly rated Belleville kid that plays well in college will be the first.
Were you asleep when Nate Marshall committed on Monday?
April 25th, 2024 at 12:27 PM ^
I never heard Beasley, an MSU legacy, being that vocal of of commit or recruit.
I also find this entire take to be strange considering Moore was a part of us repairing Detroit relationships and Bellamy being on staff.
Edited to add: Outside of Underwood there are maybe 2 guys we would take in through the 2026 cycle from those two schools.
I work in multiple schools in Wayne county as a part of the state program. The rep in SE Michigan is not well in the current moment. I used to talk to a few coaches on the old staff. They knew it had to be better. Like for instance… the news says Moore was supposed to be a catalyst. Kid in person mostly referred to himself as both a Cleveland and Detroit kid lol.
I'm sure this comment makes sense to the person writing it. Can you translate for the rest of us?
April 25th, 2024 at 10:04 PM ^
Thanks for asking, I was also confused.
Hahaha I also work and coach in SE Michigan schools and you my friend of full of shit. I’ll go a step further and tell you Beasley’s mom is a principal in my wife’s school district. Remember his half brother refused to be a TE and ended up at Purdue only to go to MSU and be a shitty TE. You are completely full of shit.
Oh and Belleville going to Belleville. Steal all the surrounding talent and make them completely soft as baby shit for college.
April 25th, 2024 at 12:28 PM ^
This is about money, and money alone my guy. Tampering, huge checks offered, orginal school wont pay...buh bye
Not the coaching
Wasn't he a spartan legacy and fan growing up ?
Maizen?
You've been hiding in our midst all along (well, since 10/13/17 anyway?)
April 25th, 2024 at 12:16 PM ^
When you show yourself you fit a culture. Just not this one. Mmmm...k.
April 25th, 2024 at 12:33 PM ^
- Yes, it reveals the player's commitment to the program and personal development within it.
- Could be a purely money thing, or this player could have been really struggling to fit in - team expectations, campus life, etc.
- It calls into some question the massive effort M coaches put into high school recruiting. If a trend emerges, the model might prompt a re-think in M's approach
If M's model leads to more roster stability than other programs, it will be interesting to see if it correlates with winning over the course of several years.
April 25th, 2024 at 12:17 PM ^
I think the Dr. Pepper Fansville commercial about the Transfer Portal is accurate.
April 25th, 2024 at 12:17 PM ^
Well...this hurts because I have the same last name, which probably means he's a distant relative. Because of that, I was was absolutely going to buy his jersey. I guess not now.
April 25th, 2024 at 12:57 PM ^
I'm selling T-shirts if you are interested.
April 25th, 2024 at 12:21 PM ^
Meh.
April 25th, 2024 at 12:25 PM ^
That's a first for an incoming freshman to enter the transfer portal.
April 25th, 2024 at 12:26 PM ^
The answer is probably none, but I'm curious to see if any of the UM portalers might just be testing the waters ahead of the May 1 deadline to see if there are any paths to more playing time/NLI/whatever, and may still return if they don't find what they want.
April 25th, 2024 at 12:27 PM ^
This blows.
April 25th, 2024 at 12:31 PM ^
It really is a sad state of affairs, college sports right now. People who thought paying players would ruin the sport are proving to have been right. Having 18 year olds making decisions worth 100's of thousands of dollars it's bound to create issues. Sad that now CFB is going to be more about who is the highest bidder than anything else.
April 25th, 2024 at 12:35 PM ^
No, it's an over correction without structure.
Prior system was exploitative. Current system is wild west insanity.
Contracts, rev share, and organization should fix the problem over time.
It was broken before , and its broken now - just on completely opposite ends of the spectrum.
While Bo knows and is accurate, the fix is right there. The issue is you don’t have a governing body implementing the needed rules/changes. Quite the opposite, they decide it’s best to eliminate the one decent rule, and allow players to transfer anytime. There needs to be an adopted governing body (maybe the sec/big idea) to get contracts in place and stop this nil crap. Otherwise, you see a watered down product where teams won’t be nearly as good and any good coach will leave almost immediately for the nfl to avoid this debacle.
A lot of parallels with UK basketball and Calipari. As a UK fan, the cal hire was flashy, fun exciting. Hire mercenary OAD’s to elevate the team to win at all costs. As time went on, it got boring, forgot about the players and players didn’t care because they’re getting the bag. Ultimately, generating hate and less interest in UK basketball because it’s boring. Unless something gets fixed, I bet you see similar results with teams/college football. Sad.
April 25th, 2024 at 12:54 PM ^
Was the game more pure when schools were paying players under the table? I agree that NIL has certainly magnified the impact that money has on the sport, but I think people forget that players have been selling their services to the highest bidder for a long time.
Unrestricted transfers have definitely exacerbated the existing issue, as has tampering. You could always pay a kid under the table, but now you can promise to pay a kid and still have him walk to a higher bidder, even before his first season, apparently.
April 25th, 2024 at 12:31 PM ^
Thankfully Michigan won the last "real" CFB championship of the prior era.
This will all get cleaned up at some point with contracts, rev share, etc - but right now it's the Wild West. The NCAA was screwing players for years with free labor and "bagging" (SEC, OSU) teams reaped the benefits of the assymetry. I'm not naive enough to believe that UM never paid players under the table, but also have enough common sense to know that the best players in the country weren't constantly choosing Bama and OSU for the Tuscaloosa and Columbus nightlife, beaches and culture scene. But now the pendulum has swung all the way back to over correct, and the system is broken and completely unstructructered.
Once this gets cleaned up and has some structure, hopefully UM can utilize this "money cannon" I keep hearing about. For now, it's just bagging and tampering on steroids and not much can be done if operating in the reality of limitless bidding auctions where you need re-recruit your team every year.
And not to be a hypocrite here....The same reality that allowed Dusty May to build a seemingly NCAA CBB tourney worthy squad in 1 month from absolute dumpster fire, allows for a quality football squad with depth like UM to get plundered by other programs.
April 25th, 2024 at 12:33 PM ^
Or, you know, maybe Michigan could tamper and have NIL worth a damn, but in true Michigan way, they have to be 10 years behind the changing landscape while OSU is out ahead of it. And this is fully controllable. Thank the regents who hate sports and prevent Manuel from being fired, who we chose over Harbaugh.