re: Reason Bryce Underwood flipped to Michigan

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Back before NIL this would have been the correct answer or it was close to home blah, blah, blah. Now it just sounds disingenuous. I’m sure his family/agent told him to say this but nobody will believe a word of it.

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You’ve got fans here getting emotional in a negative way. It’s irrational but that’s what fans do.

In Michigan, you get the flip side of the coin. The fans there will believe this wholeheartedly. They will love him for this.

Personally, I don’t understand the need to fool myself. The players on LSU are here because of money, too.

I will root against Underwood because he isn’t an LSU tiger. But it has nothing to do with us getting outbid. The kid did what he thought was in his best interest.

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Definitely has nothing to do with Brian Kelly botching another promising season. Definitely has nothing to do with the 30 point bama beat down at home. I’m sure he wasn’t even watching that game. I mean how could he not want to come play in Sloans high powered offense It has to be the money!!!

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This is retarded.

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Who cares? Let it go. The kid signed with the biggest university in his home state. Why are some LSU fans still talking about this kid? I know that some people get caught up in recruiting and who verbally commits but until they actually sign, a verbal commitment does not mean anything.

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I think most are just pointing out the absurdity of the "reason" he flipped schools after nearly a year of saying he would attend LSU. The academic standing of Michigan vs. LSU was the same 2, 3, 20 years ago. It's not like two weeks before signing day he looked at a pamphlet and realized "Wow, I didn't know Michigan was rated so highly from an academic standpoint." He flipped because Michigan donors/supporters gave him a huge NIL deal. There nothing wrong with that. It's the marketplace of college football. But don't contribute to some puff piece to try to convince people the decision had nothing to do with money. The general public isn't that dumb.

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LSU fans are more obsessed with coaches ( Wade) or players (Underwood) who don't coach or play for LSU, than current coaches or players for LSU.

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I'm not quite sure how Wade is involved in this conversation, but I would venture to guess any "obsession" with him would be because he actually won at LSU vs the current coach who is 17-33 (.340) vs. major conf. opponents in his LSU career.

Haha, he should just be honest about it. But whatever.

Let's see...which of these things changed during the time that Underwood was "100% committed to LSU"?

-the quality of Michigan's academics
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-the amount of $ Michigan offered????

I have no problem with Underwood bolting for the money. It's hard to blame someone for leaving one job for another one due to an enormous pay raise.

It's annoying to see entire articles devoted to obscuring the reason Underwood dumped LSU.

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Definitely has nothing to do with Brian Kelly botching another promising season. Definitely has nothing to do with the 30 point bama beat down at home. I’m sure he wasn’t even watching that game. I mean how could he not want to come play in Sloans high powered offense It has to be the money!!!

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These arguments don't work when Michigan's offense was so much worse.

Kid and his family are clowns. This kind of proves it. Not a soul is believing this, UM was always a top academic school, odd that he's trying to justify it like this. Guess it's better than saying i flipped for the $$$$$$

Obviously he is full of it BUT on what he actually said, the statement itself is not wrong.

Can't really compare an LSU education to a Mee-chigan education. Sorry.

If we learned anything during his recruiting it’s that he’s a sharp guy that knows the right things to say regardless of truth

the kid is screwed. expectations are way too high for a high school kid that everyone has deemed as the 2nd messiah