Colin Castleton, Jace Howard and scholarship openings
The Michigan Insider
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4.6 • 855 Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2020
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we break down the significance of two key decisions pertaining to the Michigan men’s basketball team: Colin Castleton’s decision to transfer and Jace Howard’s decision to walk on with the Wolverines in lieu of a scholarship.
We open by discussing Castleton’s decision to depart, and why the move makes a lot of sense for the same reasons David DeJulius’ departure did. We look into Castleton’s career with the Wolverines, why the coaching change did him no favors and why he still has professional potential with the right fit.
We then look into what we can glean from the two decisions. We discuss Michigan suddenly having two scholarship openings, the latest with Josh Christopher and graduate transfer targets and more on potential attrition or lack thereof.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Wolfing 24-7 podcast or audio source for all things. Michigan football, basketball, and recruiting. I'm your host, Sackshaw. Steve Lawrence here with me. Read all of our stories over at the Michigan Insider.com and Michigan.247 Sports.com. So the phrase emergency pod gets used on social media. I see it. I see it from some of our colleagues. |
| 0:23.6 | If I'm podcasting, it's clearly not an emergency. |
| 0:26.8 | That's just my general rule on life. |
| 0:28.4 | But this is about as close as we get. |
| 0:31.6 | Within the last 12 hours, two players have gone off scholarship for Michigan. Colin Castleton entered a transfer |
| 0:41.1 | portal. Jace Howard, Juan Howard's son, I guess opted. I don't know if he opted yesterday, |
| 0:49.1 | but Josh Henske broke the news yesterday that he will be a walk-on player instead of a scholarship player. |
| 0:55.6 | And so suddenly, you know, throw in the David de Julius news from Monday, you know, Michigan fans are suddenly going from panicking about if Michigan will get down to the scholarship limit, which I think you and I have said on this podcast 50 times. We've said it for |
| 1:11.4 | football too. The numbers, the numbers have a, there's a little bit of a natural way of working |
| 1:18.2 | out that the numbers have is, you know, players, when the roster gets crowded, players say, |
| 1:23.1 | okay, is this my best opportunity to the league? Is this my best place to be? |
| 1:28.8 | So I don't know. |
| 1:31.2 | Fans can worry about whatever they want to worry about. |
| 1:33.4 | It's not a big deal. |
| 1:34.3 | But usually the numbers work out even better than people think. |
| 1:38.2 | I mean, John Beeline over-signed a couple times |
| 1:40.8 | and he ended up with extra scholarships available. |
| 1:43.7 | So it's just kind of how it happens. |
| 1:46.2 | Attrition in college basketball happens as much as ever. |
| 1:49.7 | But we're going to talk about what these moves mean. |
| 1:52.5 | I think one was a little bit more expected than the other. |
| 1:55.9 | And I think consequently one has greater bearing on what, you know, kind of reading, but reading the tea leaves a little bit than the other. |
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