Where are they Now?: Former Michigan Commits and Transfers

Outside of a Sugar Bowl championship in the 2011-12 season, this decade has been one to forget for the Michigan football program. And when you add in this list of decommitments, transfers and medical scholarships to the poor coaching hires, you can see where the problems began.

With so many former members of the recruiting classes and program, have you ever wondered “where are they now?”. Here is what each transfer, decommitment and former player is doing lately, and like MGoBlog’s Ace Anbender highlighted in his look back at the Michigan recruiting classes, 2010 is, for a lack of a better word, disgusting:

2016

QB Messiah deWeaver (decommit) – Michigan State commit

2015

TE Chris Clark (decommit) – Freshmen at UCLA
RB Mike Weber (decommit) – Freshmen at Ohio State
CB Garrett Taylor (decommit) – Freshmen at Penn State
WR George Campbell (decommit) – Freshmen at Florida State
RB Damien Harris (decommit) – Freshmen at Alabama
LB Darrin Kirkland (decommit) – Freshmen at Tennessee
DL Darian Roseboro (decommit) – Freshmen at NC State
CB Shaun Crawford (decommit)- Freshmen at Notre Dame

2014

LB Michael Ferns (transfer) – Redshirt Sophomore fullback at West Virginia
OT Denzel Ward (decommit) – Redshirt Sophomore at Syracuse

2013

OG Kyle Bosch (transfer) – Redshirt Sophomore at West Virginia
CB Gareon Conley (decommit) – Sophomore at Ohio State

2012

DT Ondre Pipkins (injury/transfer) – playing his 5th year at Texas Tech in 2016
DE/TE Pharoah Brown (decommit) – Senior at Oregon
LB Kaleb Ringer (transfer) – Enrolled at Butler Community College, transferred to Georgia State
OL Caleb Stacey (decommit) – committed to Cincinnati, transferred to Mount St Joseph in 2013
CB Anthony Standifer (decommit) – committed to Ole Miss, transferred to Eastern Illinois

2011

CB Blake Countess (graduate transfer) – 5th year senior at Auburn
RB Justice Hayes (graduate transfer) – 5th year senior at Southern Miss
QB Russell Bellomy (graduate transfer) – 5th year senior at Texas-San Antonio
RB Thomas Rawls (graduate transfer) – graduated from Central Michigan, signed as an UDFA by Seattle
CB Greg Brown (transfer) – Left Findlay in 2012
TE Chris Barnett (transfer) – Dropped out of Oklahoma
DE Chris Rock – Walked on at Ohio State
CB Tamani Carter (transfer) – Student at Ohio
WR Shawn Conway (ineligible) – Kicked out of Butte College
QB Kevin Sousa (decommit) – Suspended indefinitely by Wake Forest for DWI
LB Kellen Jones (transfer) – graduated from Clemson and transferred for final year of eligibility
CB Dallas Crawford (decommit) – Miami (FL)
OT Jake Fisher (decommit) – Committed and played at Oregon, drafted by the Cincinnati Bengals
K Matt Goudis (decommit) – Left Miami (FL) in February
OL Tony Posada (left the program) – No longer playing football

2010

RB Austin White (transfer) – Kicked out of Central Michigan, now at Fairmont State
DT Richard Ash (transfer) – Finished career at Western Michigan, signed as an UDFA with Jacksonville
DB Terrance Talbott (left the program) – Unknown
DE Ken Wilkins (left the program) – Unknown
DB DeMar Dorsey (ineligible) – Signed with the Arizona Rattlers (AFL) in 2014
CB Cullen Christian (transfer) – Transferred from Pitt and finished career at West Virginia
WR Ricardo Miller (transfer) – UMass in 2013
WR Jerald Robinson (transfer) – Arrested in 2013
WR Tony Drake (decommit) – Committed and finished career at Colorado State
WR DJ Williamson (transfer) – Finished career running track at Akron
QB Cornelius Jones (ineligible) – Ended up at Marshall
S Josh Furman (transfer) – Finished career at Oklahoma State, drafted by the Denver Broncos
DB Carvin Johnson (transfer) – Hampton
DE Jordan Paskorz (left the program) – Unknown
LB Antonio Kinard (ineligible) – Went to Arizona Western College, transferred to Cincinnati
S Marvin Robinson (transfer) – Finished career at Ferris State, signed as an UDFA with Dallas (waived after injury)
FB Stephen Hopkins (transfer) – Finished career at Tennessee State
ATH Davion Rogers (transfer) – Youngstown State in 2011
S Ray Vinopal (transfer) – Finished career at Pitt, signed as an UDFA with Dallas

Just imagine what the program would have looked like if they would have made the right hire back in 2007 and didn’t lose/mis-recruit 30+ between 2010 and 2011?

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