Michigan Applies for Med. Redshirt for Gardner

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Smart move on their part. Sucks for the rest of the division and conference that he has the potential to be around for the next two years.
 

"Michigan did not immediately apply for the redshirt because of what appeared to be a miscommunication over when the redshirt could be applied."

I'm sorry but how does that happen?
 

GopherInPittsburgh said:
I'm sorry but how does that happen?
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How that happens is that they didn't think he was going to amount to much at the time, so they didn't apply in the hopes that he would transfer out and/or graduate as soon as possible so his scholarship would open up a year earlier. How convenient that they've applied for the waiver now that he looks like the starting QB for the rest of his college career.
 

dpodoll68 said:
How that happens is that they didn't think he was going to amount to much at the time, so they didn't apply in the hopes that he would transfer out and/or graduate as soon as possible so his scholarship would open up a year earlier. How convenient that they've applied for the waiver now that he looks like the starting QB for the rest of his college career.
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Haha, sounds about right to me.
 


dpodoll68 said:
How that happens is that they didn't think he was going to amount to much at the time, so they didn't apply in the hopes that he would transfer out and/or graduate as soon as possible so his scholarship would open up a year earlier. How convenient that they've applied for the waiver now that he looks like the starting QB for the rest of his college career.
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Bingo.
 

Why can't Hoke just use the "rent-a-QB" like Bret does?
 

Killjoy said:
Why can't Hoke just use the "rent-a-QB" like Bret does?
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Because he is smart enough to know that guys like Russell Wilson are few and far between in the rent-a-qb market.
 

They must not think Morris can step on campus even after a RS year and be the guy. Surprising considering they wanted to go more pro-style on offense and they had recruited to that end.
 



Wait, you can apply for a redshirt several years after the fact? That's ridiculous.
 


GophersInIowa said:
Wait, you can apply for a redshirt several years after the fact? That's ridiculous.
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something tells me this is one of those ohio state and michigan only "specials" with the big ten office bobos. sad, but true. you know it and i know it. the multiple year foot dragging on applying for a redshirt is ridiculous and likely wouldn't be allowed for any other big ten universities besides the favored children from meatchicken and o$u.
 

GophersInIowa said:
Wait, you can apply for a redshirt several years after the fact? That's ridiculous.
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I agree. Yes, it is most definitely ridiculous. You think if the Gophers did this with a player, we'd get a waiver for that player? No way. Just ridiculous.
 



I think this is similar to what happened with Matt Roth on the Indiana basketball team. I think they could have applied for, and likely gotten, a hardship waiver for him, but they didn't because they had better players coming in. He suffered a foot injury two games into the 2009-10 season, and they never applied for a hardship waiver, and he was gone after 4 years, not 4 full seasons, at IU.
 

They are michigan-they get whatever they want.
 

e.bigelow said:
I agree. Yes, it is most definitely ridiculous. You think if the Gophers did this with a player, we'd get a waiver for that player? No way. Just ridiculous.
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I'm sure there were lots of people in Michigan that thought we got lucky with Trevor Mbakwe getting a 6th year. Just saying..
 

westcoastgopher11 said:
They must not think Morris can step on campus even after a RS year and be the guy. Surprising considering they wanted to go more pro-style on offense and they had recruited to that end.
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That's the angle I think is most interesting. I thought for sure that Hoke wanted to go pro-set as soon as Robinson left. Gardner is a good QB. Sucks to be everyone not Michigan.
 

They only did this because they know Bellomy is Garbage, Shane Morris needs time to develop and Robinson is out. They don't want Bellomy to be a backup QB and they want to develop Shane Morris in the years to come. The person who gets screwed the most out of all of this is Bellomy
 

MNVCGUY said:
Because he is smart enough to know that guys like Russell Wilson are few and far between in the rent-a-qb market.
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Bret isn't going to like this! Where is going to get his nest QB?
 


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