2024 Transfer Portal
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Here is Flo's article on the transfer:
Michigan Adds Two-Time All-American 197-Pounder Jacob Cardenas - FloWrestling
Two-time 197-pound All-American Jacob Cardenas at Cornell announced on social media that he will transfer from Cornell to Michigan.
Meh, whatever. This is more of a concern for the race for second place. I'd rather see Cochran get a chance anyway, although if a guy the caliber of Cardenas comes to you and says he wants in, you let him in, but there is no reason to actually pursue anyone in the portal this year.
Stevie Wonder could see that one coming.
Yankees' last World Series win was before Cael came to PSU.
So let Michigan have that comparison.
I read that he did not actually play the banjo, but that another guy did, sat behind him and had his arms come through a special shirt to make it look like the kid was playing, kind of interesting.
Word is you can buy a pretty good 2nd place team these days.
Did USMC Recon training (0321) in the 70’s as a relatively small guy (5’9” 135 lbs when I played Lacrosse for PSU). The packs were stifling and I wished at the time that they didn’t let little guys even try. Military training made running stadium steps at PSU seem like a picnic. After being turned loose I did find being smaller was preserving. Hendrickson is a damn big dude so I wonder just what he has in mind with the USAF. He’d make a hell of an impressive CO so maybe he could get some good management knowledge at Michigan at taxpayer expense.
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Word was that Michigan hit the portal hard the first year so they could RS their freshman class. Why is they are hitting the portal the portal two or three years in a row?
Does he know it gets cold in Ann Arbor?
Does he know it gets cold in Ann Arbor?
Because they can? Great place to go get a grad degree if you have to leave an ivy. They don't have any huge recruit getting replaced by Cardenas.
Michigan must have the highest cost(schollys and NIL) per point at Nationals than any other team. As I've said before, late college transfers are shiny looking but many times regress slightly (or more) in a new room/environment. I don't believe Michigan's business model will work short or long term. It just hides mediocre coaching.
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Gulacha (157) and Walters (197) are 2 coveted 2024 recruits entering their RSFR year. Michigan is not showing much confidence in the youngsters.
That was probably about the same time I stopped following baseball, lol. Point taken.
IIRC, Adam Coon was aerospace engineering. Without doing specific research, but I would assume UM would have a similar graduate program that USAF (or SpaceForce?) might find applicable...
Hendrickson is interested in Logistics. If Kerk was not coming back, maybe Dr Coyle could have a conversation with Hendrickson.
I was in Korea 98-99. Thank you for your service! Stands Alone!
As a part of WCAP, no. But WCAP also doesn't have you go to school to earn a degree (or use an extra year of eligibility). Not sure how the AF would feel about sending someone to one of its degree earning programs and then having them join a sports team.
Went through Navy flight training with a recon Marine. Tallest guy in the class,6’4”. Former Southern Cal swimmer. So tall he dead sticked a crippled A4 into Danang rather than ejecting. (Didn’t want to hit his knees getting out). Tough SOB.
Walters and Gulacha both tore their ACLs last summer and were off the mat for the entire season. Hayden took a medical RS this year and can use a regular RS next year. Rogers transferred because he’s behind Bullock who has three more years.
Oops -Dr Coyle …. my advisor and post grad mentor has passed away.
Rogers couldn’t go 197? I thought he could probably grow into it but maybe not? Any idea where he lands?
FWIW, his school list was Michigan, NC State, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Oregon State, and Penn State.
Since he's from northern Idaho, kinda hope he lands at Oregon State.
My guess is he goes somewhere west. Maybe Oregon State, Cal Poly or Utah Valley.
I think he’s too small for 197. He’s wrestled there a few times up there the last two seasons, without a ton of success.
Not how it works, you don't have any medical redshirt until you graduate, apply and receive one. Since he still had his regular and didn't compete, this year counts as a regular redshirt for him unless he has an Olympic.
If they tore their ACL last summer, why wouldn't they be ready to go next winter? They would have 16-17 months of recovery.
Here is Flo's article on the transfer:
Michigan Adds Two-Time All-American 197-Pounder Jacob Cardenas - FloWrestling
Two-time 197-pound All-American Jacob Cardenas at Cornell announced on social media that he will transfer from Cornell to Michigan.www.flowrestling.org
Michigan can't recruit?
Ummm - 11 times national champions since 2011?
One of the best teachers ever. I was an econ major so I only had him for one of those forum classes-the only I didn't sleep through.
Not sure where else to put this and some variations have been stated already, but the PSU transfer situation is so exaggerated to me.
To consider guys like Kerk and Messenbrink to be transfers in the same vain as Griffith and Davidson or Woods and Franek or even Nagao and Truax is just insane to me! Those two should be considered PSU guys, period! Neither wrestled a match that even counts for their original schools. They aren’t guns for hire like the majority of transfers, they just found a better fit before they ever even really got started.
Just had to get that off my chest because it drives me nuts when those two are lumped in with the others in any transfer talk.
To consider guys like Kerk and Messenbrink to be transfers in the same vain as Griffith and Davidson or Woods and Franek or even Nagao and Truax is just insane to me! Those two should be considered PSU guys, period! Neither wrestled a match that even counts for their original schools. They aren’t guns for hire like the majority of transfers, they just found a better fit before they ever even really got started.
Just had to get that off my chest because it drives me nuts when those two are lumped in with the others in any transfer talk.
Yeah, while they are technically transfers, there’s a big difference between a guy transferring for a year or two and guys who transfer before they even use any eligibility. Functionally, they’re more like re-recruits.
This notion about Kerk and Mesenbrink isn't the win you guys think it is.
They left their original schools by their own choice, without first obtaining a degree, and it doesn't matter if they left after a week or a month or a year or 3 years.
Try telling Cal Baptist that Mesenbrink doesn't really count as a transfer.
They left their original schools by their own choice, without first obtaining a degree, and it doesn't matter if they left after a week or a month or a year or 3 years.
Try telling Cal Baptist that Mesenbrink doesn't really count as a transfer.
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