Are you expecting an announcement of some kind this week, whether it be staying with Alba or coming to Michigan?
This is correct. You have to be enrolled in summer term to participate in team activities. Unless you have been in school for something like two years and have good grades. Would have to look up the specifics of the rule.
Thereâs no rule against enrolling in the fall semester and playing this season though. You just would miss out on the summer term.
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A secondary question thenâif he is, in fact, waiting for admissions and/or test clearance, and he gets those too late to get here and enroll on July 3 (say he gets them Wednesday and could not get here until the following Monday for example), can he still enroll in summer term, albeit late?
Not sure about that and honestly I could see just waiting for the fall term given that he played a 60ish game schedule with Alba Berlin and would have to move across the Atlantic. Thatâs just me speculating though.
Does he have to be a full time student in the summer to be able to get housing and extra time with the coaches or can he just mail it in with one class?
Could he already be over here ? Dylan:. Franz is nominated to that other 18 under German Camp for this week. Whether or not he showed would answer a lot of questions you would think.
As an attorney, I have to say that the rule you cite has really ambiguous language. As an example, you have to be enrolled in 3 hours of summer school to participate in ârequiredâ summer athletic activities such as S&C and skill-related instruction, but can you participate in those activities on a voluntary basis, or can you participate in basketball activities which are not âskill-related instructionâ (and what would constitute such activities)?
You get 8 hours per week during summer term (the 8 week period). Four of those can be on the court, four can be in the weight room. They are allowed to be mandatory.
Those four hours per week are the only hours that coaches can spend with players on the court. These were added in as it used to be 0 hours per week. I assume that you probably can participate in voluntary S&C activities if you arenât enrolled, this is basically what âCamp Sandersonâ is in the spring term.
If Franz (or any other prospect) isnât enrolled at Michigan⌠they canât be on scholarship, get room and board, etc. as far as I know.
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I guess that one bit of related subtext here is that Juwan will shortly be engaging with current players in the gym?
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Yeah, talked about that a few weeks back in one of the write ups about Martelli. There will be a bit of on court time with the new staff and Michigan players starting in the next week or so.
I believe these are individual or small group workouts usually rather than full team activities but I might be wrong on that.
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Small group/individual is a way better way to use the time thatâs for sure.
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Come on, Franz, you know you want to come to Ann Arbor, and frankly, the sooner the better!
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Franz needs the sand man plan that should be a reason to come over
Well I guess we just wait to see if he shows up July 3. Anyone staking out Detroit Metro for flights coming in from Germany?
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Obviously there have been a lot of positive rumblings, steps taken by Wagner, etc. for him to go to Michigan. But I still canât forget Moeâs words when describing his little brother as a different person than him: an introvert rather than an extrovert. Moe thrived in college, it seems, and loved it by his own admission. But Franz may simply not want nor need it. He may want to stay close to home and make some money. Other than than the college experience - for which we really donât know Franzâs desires - one big selling point as pointed out in that mlive article, is Jon Sandersonâs influence.
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Just so they German coach knows, you practice year around in college too. FWIW I actually listened to a Fred Hoiberg podcast where he said you actually get more practice time with players in college because thereâs so many more games in the nba.
That is definitely true during the season.
We talked about this earlier in the thread, but the college hoops offseason has eight weeks where coaches can spend 4 hours per week with kids on skill development. The rest they canât be coached by the coaching staff, FWIW.
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As much as people are painting this as an incomplete decision and weighing pros and cons of each course of action, my sense is that the decision has been made, subject to an external factor. Either Franz has decided to come to Michigan if he qualifies, and he is not stating a decision so that if he does not qualify, that stays private and he can fashion it as a decision to stay home, or he has decided to stay in Germany if Alba offers him enough, and he is not stating a decision so that if the offer isnât enough, he takes the alternative approach. This fits completely with his past statements about timetable, and speculation about why he hasnât done anything yet. Based upon tea leaves and logic, I lean strongly to the Michigan unless he doesnât qualify scenarioâstaying would be the choice which could, and should have been announced by now, a week plus after the finals ended, if all that was standing in the way was a negotiation where timing is at the will of the parties. Of course itâs possible that he remains genuinely torn, but he was the guy who said that he might announce during the championship series, and then again at an Alba Berlin post-season party last Tuesday that it would be very soon, and he didnât need to put that pressure on himself if he had not essentially decided what he wants to do.
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