This has nothing to do with Michigan, but 5-star wide receiver Bru McCoy has now decided to transfer twice within his first five months of college (LINK).
It’s always important to reiterate that it wasn’t the Fab Five that was ruled to have taken money in the Ed Martin scandal. It was specifically Chris Webber, Maurice Taylor, Louis Bullock and Robert Traylor.
— Rod Beard (@detnewsRodBeard) May 30, 2019
Too often, the narrative is miscast.
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The McCoy transfer drama is flaw in this new portal system. There should be some kind of cooling off period, and (perhaps) two moves in a year should cost a year of eligibility (or something discouraging)
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Beard is absolutely right. Partially explains some of the friction between Webber and the rest. Either he’s the one who got caught, while they were clean, or he’s the one who got caught and they weren’t. Either way it’s awkward.
Regardless, the weight for a lost decade of Michigan basketball tends to get put entirely on Webber. Even people around the program for a long time who could/should know better like Chris Balas blame Webber almost entirely. Moreover, a share of the blame needs to go beyond the players. Other schools have weathered bigger scandals far more easily. Webber’s the face of it of course, but there’s a lot of ‘guilty’ parties beyond him like Goss and Ellerbe and beyond. The Ellerbe era was a complete disaster and the Amaker era, while successful in some ways, had to dig out of pit that was far more than Webber’s doing and was probably a lot slower than necessary.
No one person owes an apology for the mess that happened.
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