Michigan player wanting to continue career told to sign medical by Harbaugh (link)

[PSU Mike]

I really don't understand the significance here, other than some PSU fans are looking for anything to make another B1G program look bad. There's no advantage to Harbaugh.

 

[PrinceIgor]

Who knows? For whatever reason, Harbaugh appears to have been looking for a way to force the kid off of the scholarship roster. He was cleared, Harbaugh wanted him to take a medical hardship, when he didn't the doctors had a change of heart and said. "Sorry, can't play." The sequence of events doesn't cast Harbaugh or UM in a favorable light, no matter what the reasons for them.

He was cleared? Pipkins seems to be the only one saying this. Nobody else is. It would be one thing if this was a kid of questionable ability, but Pipkins was a 5-star. Reports are that Pipkins was terrific when he was healthy, but that was only for a few games. You don't bail on a kid of his ability unless you know he's medically hopeless.

The problem I see is not the recurring shoulder and the ACL tear so much as the two concussions, and the national furor last year when Brady Hoke sent an obviously concussed QB back into the game. It sealed his doom, and it's not a road I would think Harbaugh would want to go down no matter what kind of 'unfavorable light" our friendly sensation-seeking media wants to cast him in.

 

[Jay Scott]

Get real everybody. There's no story here.

 

[eric2015]

Kid gets to stay and get his degree on scholarship. Either medical or regular scholarship. The kid has had multiple concussions, ACL and also a neck and shoulder injury. I would hope Franklin would go that route. Pipkins is a senior so it's not even close to an open up a scholarship issue. After the Shane Morris concussion incident last year what do you think the media would say this year if pipkins goes out and gets yet another concussion? They would be all over with story's questioning why the staff would even play a kid with the past history of injuries. Not sure this is such a bad thing at all if you really read into the story a bit.

Most D1 programs wouldn't be able to field a team if they medically DQ'd every player that had 2 concussions and one or more surgeries. Hell, many high level high school recruits already have that laundry list of injuries.

 

[Go M&B]

Most D1 programs wouldn't be able to field a team if they medically DQ'd every player that had 2 concussions and one or more surgeries. Hell, many high level high school recruits already have that laundry list of injuries.

Not every concussion is created equal. The kid wasn't even able to finish spring practice. He's had nothing but injury issues since stepping foot on campus, including a neck injury which caused him to lose feeling in his hand for a time. Maybe, just maybe, the medical staff is doing what they think is in the kid's best interest?