<p>[Demar</a> Dorsey not admitted to Michigan, released from letter of intent - ESPN](<a href=“Dubinsky's late 3-pointer lifts South Carolina State over Delaware State 66-64 - ESPN”>Demar Dorsey not admitted to Michigan, released from letter of intent - ESPN)</p>
<p>Interesting article, this ‘never’ happens at DI school for football or basketball.</p>
<p>It apparently was not an <em>academic</em> issue that kept him out of the school. At least that’s how I would read the linked article.</p>
<p>yea, but they still usually find a way around everything to get the athlete admitted</p>
<p>Good for Michigan! Perhaps character still counts for something.</p>
<p>After reading the article, I’m just hoping he doesn’t end up in FL.</p>
<p>OK, I understand the whole “standards” issue, both athletically and ethically-</p>
<p>But why did they have him sign a NLI, and assuming nothing about him changed significantly in the past few months (his crimes were committed 2 years before his NLI, and apparently he’s consistently sustained the same GPA) proceed to reject him? Does anyone else sense a sort of deception on U of M’s part here? You don’t just tell a recruit that you’ll admit him, contractually bind him and lure him from other schools, and then go on to not admit him. I’m sure because he’s a high-profile recruit he’ll be alright but this sort of situation tends to disaster in my opinion.</p>
<p>^^^Agree 100%! If he was cleared by admissions, signed the NLOI and nothing changed between signing and this announcement, then that is certainly unfair to the kid. Seems to me there may be more to the story than we are getting…</p>
<p>If you know about the Michigan Football program, you would know that we never recruit players with legal issues. Only the school down south accepts players who rob banks and run around with AK-47s.</p>
<p>^ Okay bud, but then why would you make the kid commit if you were never going to accept him?</p>
<p>Rich Rodriguez and the Athletic Department do not have anything to do with admissions. They don’t decide who gets in. They go after people they want and admissions has to approve them. Admissions didn’t approve him because he had legal crap.</p>
<p>So admissions was completely oblivious that the staff was talking to one of the most highly-touted players in the nation, presumably for months if not years, and was offering him a scholarship there? This isn’t MIT here people; to think admissions and athletics don’t coordinate on these things is ridiculous. You don’t go after a kid, offer him, have him sign a NLI, then approve him with admissions. I’d agree with fishymom in that something was probably omitted from the article.</p>
<p>I wish Lloyd Carr was the coach still sooo much. RichRod sucks. My friend lives near him and his house gets teepeed all the time. He does not enforce character like Carr did, and it is quite a shame.</p>
<p>hahalolk- He doesn’t enforce character? what? I understand he is not doing a great job as coach, but don’t attack his implementation of good character. When a coach starts losing people start attacking everything about him…which is not good. Let him get the defense straightened and see if it works out this year.</p>
<p>Monstor- this kid decided on LOI day that he would go to UM. We weren’t expecting him to ever consider us given his situation. Besides, it’s not like the kid got screwed over. He still has the option to play at FSU, FL, or some small school.</p>
<p>Monstor344 is correct. EVERY Division 1 school has an academic/athletic liason whose job it is to make sure there is coordination between admissions and the athletic dept. Some schools have one academic liason per sport. I’m guessing Michigan is in that category as this is a high visibility/high revenue sport. While this student was no choir boy, he was wronged by the Univ of Michigan if they released him for a crime committed 2years prior. I hope he is picked up by another Big 10 school, and he gets to play against Michigan!</p>
<p>Look, I am a die hard Michigan fan and I will always be. I wanted to have this player as much as any fan would. However admissions did not approve of him and they never promised they would. Signing a letter doesn’t mean anything if your grades aren’t up to par. It just means you’re athletically talented enough to be part of the team. The liaison then does the rest and it obviously fell through. Why is it wrong to reject a guy who tried to rob a bank? I don’t know about you, but I think that’s kind of serious. </p>
<p>We’re getting side tracked. We ultimately rejected him so this should be sending the message that Michigan cares about character. That’s why this thread was started. </p>
<p>And fenway, it doesn’t matter if he plays against us. Have you seen our offense?</p>
<p>No, there are so many more stories of kids getting suspended or getting other infractions than there ever was with Carr. It’s not that Rodriguez is necessarily bad at enforcing it, it’s just that he’s has the standard a lot lower than it was for the Carr years.</p>
<p>Or Carr just never suspended them. I am sure there were some infractions but Carr just let them go. I am not bashing Carr; I liked him as a coach. I am just saying Rich Rod is not lowering any standard in character. </p>
<p>He may be lowering the standard for wins right now though.</p>
<p>This kid should never have been offered a NLOI if his academics and/or character were not up to Michigan standards. The coach was obviously aware of his “issues” when he was signed. To not admit him now is unfair to the kid and makes me wonder what exactly is going on at Michigan.</p>
<p>What is going on? Hmm maybe we don’t want to face bs from the NCAA about player issues. Maybe we don’t want players falsely accusing our coaches. </p>
<p>fishymom- seems like you’re just against michigan. More crap goes on at every SEC school, not to mention any other big time football school. Did you see what USC did? What’s going on there?</p>
<p>iamsocool - are you an athlete? Because the NLOI is only offered if the student can gain admission to the university… so, yes, the admissions office would have had to secure a spot in the class for him. I agree with other posters - something is missing from this story.</p>