With our guy Greg Smith. Love his quote about Ohio State 😂

Former Wolverine Jerry Diorio joins the show to discuss Michigan football. What's UM's strategy with recruiting and the transfer portal under Sherrone Moore? Jerry also takes a look at some plays from the spring game.
Breakdown
Open 00:00-2:03
Portal 2:04-13:41
Revenue sharing 13:42-18:13
Portal adds 18:14-27:04
Kentucky 27:05-30:41
Portal targets 30:42-32:28
Recruiting 32:29-41:10
Spring film 41:11-106:10
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I know he graduates in a few days.

May has to renew his scholarship by today or Jace isn't eligible to play anywhere next year if he's not interested in the portal.

Rough week for RB recruiting. Long way to December, but not what you want to see after Davis.
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Some interesting comments from Greg Smith and our Purdue site.


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I want to set up a giveaway for all of The Den subscribers for this commemorative football. I have one to give away and I want to make it the most fair competition where the human element (AKA me) doesn’t have to weigh too heavily on a choice.

Essentially, I want something to make a choice for me 😂

Any ideas on what the best way to give this football away would be? I’ll go with what the consensus thinks is best.

Late Saturday evening, Michigan DL coach Lou Esposito perked up some folks with a cryptic tweet that makes it seem like good news is on the way for the U-M program.

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Naturally, the question needs to be asked: What does it mean?

After doing some digging, I was told that the tweet in particular had to do with Kent State DL transfer CJ West, who the program offered earlier in the week.


Coincidentally, news started to come out from the visits that the Wolverines sit in an EXCELLENT position for 2025 Rivals50 DE prospect Nathaniel Marshall as well. I absolutely consider them the team to beat at the moment.

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It appears that U-M's surge is separate from the West rumblings, which makes it an excellent weekend for the defensive line in Ann Arbor. I am not aware of any timelines or whether news is imminent but it's clear that the Wolverines program did a great job this weekend in recruiting.

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Down 1 - 6 early in the 2nd quarter, UM took a halftime lead of 7-6 and outscored the #1 seeded John Hopkins (#2 RPI nationally) 9-1 after being down 1-6. Avenging a loss earlier in the season. Michigan plays Saturday night at 8 EST @ OSU lax stadium vs winner of PSU & Maryland. Looks like #8 PSU. Can UM avenge another previous loss and take home the B1G tourney trophy two years in a row & punch a second straight NCAA tourney appearance?

UM has the highest scoring offense in B1G that has 3 ranked in top 8 RPI. Doubtful they make the NCAA tournament with a loss on Saturday, so you might as well win!

Is committed to Kentucky. 🤔😐🤷

Jay'viar Suggs. Has a nice stat line in two years, went to Clarkston High School.

Hey, for you that don’t have Comcast, how do you get Bally’s Sports Detroit ?

It looks like the Power Five conference commissioners have agreed to share 22% of their TV rights revenues with their student-athletes. In exchange the schools will not be held responsible for the payment of the billions of dollars in damages that will be adjudicated or negotiated in settlements of the four anti-trust lawsuits facing the NCAA.

Here’s the ESPN article from about 7 PM Thursday night.

Settlement

Having him and Orji in the same QB room is a once in a lifetime opportunity.

From our national guy Marshall Levenson. He predicted one of the top performers to Michigan!

has Michigan reached out? Good player and could use depth at that position

He is the younger brother of 2025 WR Quincy Porter, who has visited campus.

Former Michigan OL Amir Herring has announced his transfer destination.
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Semaj Morgan and Tyler Morris lead a new-look wide receiver room for 2024.
Amorion Walker and CJ Charleston joined via the transfer portal Wednesday, and a depth chart of talent and potential is taking shape. But is it enough?
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I haven’t been able to get anyone to speak with certainty on the Kent State defensive lineman portal target but I am of the understanding that the Jay’viar Suggs offer is related to expanding the target board.

I can’t say for sure that both sides are moving on but it certainly feels that way.

Does Dusty have any candidates for that 13th scholarship?

By letting the Portal door open and close, Jace seems to have decided, so should we assume that Dusty will have only 1 scholly to fill?

While Michigan had SOME losses, I think they came out of this really well considering the program had an extra window to navigate with Harbaugh’s departure.

Grad transfers have an extra 24 hours to enter, by the way, so that takes away a layer of concern throughout the summer.

No, the checks aren’t bouncing. No, a mass exodus or fear of one didn’t happen. If some, not all, depth pieces want to chase the bag, that’s fine.

Not trying to do a victory lap or anything like that, just don’t fall for the bullshit for clicks. I know it sounds crass but that’s what it is, bullshit.