45% of Beilein's players stay in the program at least 4 years

bluex2 · Apr 25, 2019

With all the commotion about Poole and Iggy leaving early, I wanted to see what the typical tenure at Michigan was for Beilein players. Specifically, I wanted to see how many players stayed with the program for 4 years (that of course doesn't mean they played 4 years - they could have redshirted). I thought it would be interesting to see how many lasted 4 years in the face of the NBA, transfers, medical issues, etc.

Michigan recruited the 44 scholarship players below during the Beilein era. Six of those players are still on the team and have not yet exhausted their eligibility (Livers, Brooks, Castleton, Nunez, Johns, Dejulius). Three others are still on the team but have entered their fourth year of eligibility (Simpson, Teske, and Davis, who redshirted so he can play a 5th year). Subtracting out the six players still with eligibility, that means we are looking at 38 players.

A summary:

17 players (45%) stayed at least 4 years (Morgan the only one who stayed 5)
4 players (11%) stayed 3 years. All 4 went to the NBA (Hardaway, Wilson, Wagner, Matthews)
13 players (34%) stayed 2 years. Of the 13, 6 went to the NBA early, 6 transferred, and one ended his career due to medical issues.
2 players (5%) stayed 1 year. Iggy went to the NBA, Brundidge transferred.
2 players (5%) never played: Benzing did not qualify and Hatch had medical issues.
3 of the 38 players transferred into the program. Lucas-Perry stayed 2.5 years (he left Arizona after just one semester) then transferred out. Duncan Robinson played 4 years. Charles Matthews was at Michigan 3 years. I'd say that's an excellent ROI for transfers into the program.

I think it's pretty remarkable that after 12 years at Michigan Beilein has only had two players leave after one season - and it stood at just one player until Iggy declared for the draft this year. That's just a really incredible stat in my opinion.

2008 2 Lucas-Perry - transfer to U of D
2008 0 Benzing - did not qualify
2008 4 Novak
2008 4 Douglass
2008 2 Cronin - medical
2009 4 McLimans
2009 4 Vogrich
2009 2 Morris - NBA
2009 5 Morgan
2010 4 Horford - grad transfer
2010 3 Hardaway - NBA
2010 2 Smotrycz - transfer to Maryland
2011 4 Bielfeldt - grad transfer to Indiana
2011 2 Burke - NBA
2011 1 Brundidge - transfer to U of D
2012 4 Albrect - grad transfer to Purdue
2012 2 McGary - NBA
2012 2 Robinson - NBA
2012 2 Stauskas - NBA
2012 4 Levert
2013 4 Walton
2013 4 Irvin
2013 4 Donnal - grad transfer to Clemson
2014 2 Dawkins - transfer to UCF
2014 4 Abdur-Rahkman
2014 4 Duncan Robinson
2014 3 Wilson - NBA
2014 2 Chatman - transfer to U of D
2014 2 Doyle - transfer to Florida Gulf Coast
2014 0 Hatch - medical
2015 3 Wagner - NBA
2016 3 Matthews - NBA
2016 4* Simpson
2016 2 Watson - transfer to Dayton
2016 4* Davis
2016 4* Teske
2017 2 Poole - NBA
2018 1 Brazdeikis - NBA

Heisman Howard · Apr 25, 2019