Michigan football isn’t a charity. It’s great when people make sacrifices to help those truly in need (such as Mike Barwis with Brock Mealer), but there’s no need for Michigan to chew up scholarship spots with people who won’t play football for them. You just got done saying on another post that Jim Harbaugh doesn’t play Ty Isaac because “he’s not as good.” Now you think that Michigan should give scholarships to players that they don’t want anymore.
If a kid gets hurt before he comes to college, I don’t think the college owes him anything. That’s the way the world works. And as far as Pipkins goes, he tore his ACL and barely played the following year. I don’t think it’s much of a stretch to say that he can’t play anymore. If Pipkins came back last year and was serviceable or dominant, that would be a decent argument. I don’t see why the coaches would turn him away if they thought he could still contribute positively to the team.
