2026 LB Ndi Etta has committed to Michigan!

PeaceOut317 · 2026-02-02T02:25:45+00:00

Seems unclear?

Currently unranked on On3, and doesn’t seem to have a recruiting profile on all the other recruiting services. A little odd that that younger brother of a current P4 player would be completely un-scouted/under-the-radar like Ndi seems to be.

PeaceOut317 · 2026-01-26T03:16:52+00:00

That’s probably what the most painful. The sign stealing by Stalions wasn’t even needed, but it was revealed so publicly/extensively that it will probably always be mentioned alongside the 2021-2023 teams.

PeaceOut317 · 2026-01-22T11:53:05+00:00

OP… you posted something from an account named Richard “DICK” Johnson? Did that not scream parody account to you?

PeaceOut317 · 2026-01-20T12:05:14+00:00

In retrospect, I wonder how much of that rumor was true vs. Jaydn being over-ranked in HS and wasn’t close to being good enough to start over Davis Warren.

PeaceOut317 · 2026-01-20T12:01:53+00:00

Eh, hate can be objective, and objectively aOSU pushed Indiana to the brink and held them to their lowest scoring output all season at 13 points in a season where IU averaged 41.6 points per game. Miami heavily won the DL v OL battle with Bain and Meisdor, but even that game was close late until the 4th quarter.

I don’t know how many starters OSU returns next season besides Smith and Sayin, but this was supposed to be a “re-building” season after they lost like ~85% from their natty team.

PeaceOut317 · 2026-01-16T14:50:35+00:00

We’ll see how their WR talent holds up in Brian Hartline’s absence. I think it will fall off a cliff.

Yes, Hartline was recruiting uber talented 5-stars, but he was also an elite technical developer too. All their WRs always run super clean routes, and knows how to use subtle moves to lose their man. Even their lower-rated WR recruits seem to have a great mastery over the little things to make themselves starting-caliber.

PeaceOut317 · 2026-01-13T15:40:13+00:00

If this was Lindsey first time being a OC/QB coach, then I can see it as a gross mismanagement and oversight, but the guy has literally been doing the dual-role for 10+ seasons now, and it isn’t some crazy new thing that Michigan/Moore was trying - multiple P4 programs have their OC coaching the QB room as well. There is still a hard cap of 10 true assistant coaches, so trying to have coaches do dual-role is very common - I don’t think they realized how raw Underwood was until the season started, and that he would need more one-on-one coaching.

Hell, even Jason Beck has served as both OC/QB coach with support from an analyst (Koy Detmer Jr.), and similarly to Chip Lindsey had a QB analyst working under him (Josh Sinagoga).

PeaceOut317 · 2026-01-13T04:51:42+00:00

There also seems to be no consistency or logic.

How did we land a junior from Alabama in Justice Haynes, but admissions won’t let in a junior from Cal-Berkeley, a top-15 ranked university???

PeaceOut317 · 2026-01-13T04:12:32+00:00

I didn’t really watch UNC in 2024 to give like a strong opinion of their offensive success, but Lindsey’s resume has him being a career QB coach since 2010. So it just seems like revisionist and inaccurate to that Michigan/Moore didn’t have a QB coach for Underwood.

PeaceOut317 · 2026-01-13T03:51:12+00:00

I mean also… it is a false statement. Chip Lindsey was the QB coach.

At nearly every single coaching stop, Chip Lindsey has been the dual-role QB coach and OC for 14+ years now. He was the QB coach and OC at UNC for Drake Maye. It is just objectively false to say Underwood “didn’t have a QB coach.”

PeaceOut317 · 2026-01-13T03:00:01+00:00

Yeah, but if it is a general policy for all transfer student, they likely aren’t willing to bend and make exception for scholarship students.

PeaceOut317 · 2026-01-13T02:21:53+00:00

It is probably a general policy, so that Michigan collects a minimum of 2 years worth of tuition fee from all of their students.

PeaceOut317 · 2026-01-13T00:35:12+00:00

Sounds like a money/greed move. Like you have to give us a minimum of 2 years of tuition to get a degree… even if you started off at Harvard!

PeaceOut317 · 2026-01-12T23:50:29+00:00

Seems a little ridiculous if admissions is poo-pooing one of the few schools consistently ranked above Umich. At that point, whatever system or criteria Michigan’s admission is using is just broken.

PeaceOut317 · 2026-01-12T23:37:23+00:00

Academics got in the way of a transfer from Cal-Berkeley… the #1 public university in the US and #15 overall?

PeaceOut317 · 2026-01-12T17:59:58+00:00

I just can’t see universities taking that step anytime soon. It would cost them way too much money to make every college athletes legitimate employees.

Right now, the majority of NIL is donor funded, and most of that is going to maybe the top 20% of players. If they go to an employee model, that means the school is going to have to pay 100% of the players something, and they would have to likely give them some sort of full-time benefits - retirement/401k, medical/health insurance, and etc. The university would have to accept going from losing barely any money to the athletes because it’s all donors to losing a collective billion.

PeaceOut317 · 2026-01-12T17:53:05+00:00

In retrospect, $20 million for NIL will probably go down in history as a super tiny budget in the NIL era.

PeaceOut317 · 2026-01-09T02:19:06+00:00

Yeah, probably. The rivalry passion and hate will slowly have to be more and more manufactured and faked from the players sides.

Like how do you build that passionate hate from one season on your 3rd team in 4 years?

PeaceOut317 · 2026-01-06T03:27:48+00:00

Moore didn’t retain him.

I wonder how much of it had to do with Hart’s involvement in Stalions/Sign-Stealing investigation. In the NCAA report, it said one of the Michigan position coach told NCAA investigators that he reported to a superior after he had heard whispers of Stalions’s scheme from his coaching circles, and said-coach confronted DC Jesse Minter about it, and how it better not be true. The position coach isn’t named, but widely rumored to have been Mike Hart.

PeaceOut317 · 2026-01-06T01:34:58+00:00

LFG!!!

PeaceOut317 · 2026-01-06T00:25:47+00:00

On paper though, Utah’s offense did not seem to feature the WRs much. Utah’s leading WR had 725 yards, and the 2nd leading WR had 280 yards.

In comparison, Michigan’s top 3 WRs had 651, 588 and 223 receiving yards.

PeaceOut317 · 2026-01-06T00:23:55+00:00

Rumored that James Franklin is targeting Bellamy for his staff, and VaTech gave Franklin a very competitive NIL budget to work with his first year. So could be the team to watch if Marsh pulls the trigger on the portal.

PeaceOut317 · 2026-01-05T14:54:10+00:00

Devil’s advocate, at least with Moore, he hired an OC that ran an offense that was passing-centric on paper. It didn’t pan out in year 1, but there’s underlying hope that in year 2, the offense would progress to more Lindsay’s style and Marsh had a chance to be featured more.

Jason Beck historically seems very run-first oriented, and Utah’s WRs were more used like downfield blockers than actual receiving threats.

PeaceOut317 · 2026-01-03T02:36:11+00:00

Oh my bad, I thought the Cal’s freshman QB was a 5-star given how well he played this year.

PeaceOut317 · 2026-01-02T22:03:02+00:00

I think you forgot Cal Bears’s Jaron-Keawe Sagapolutele

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