Yesterday I did hear about his situation at ND. He was beaten out for the starting role then regained a starting spot due to injury. And now ND has younger linemen that they prefer to be moving forward with. Translation- he was welcome to return, but they didn't exactly beg him to stay either.
FWIW, Spindler is a OG, not a OT. Maybe another OT candidate becomes available during the spring portal window?
He replaced an injured player and started 8-9 games. What ND said he is being passed over by some younger OL and will not start next year. Supposedly they have a lot of young OL that are very good.
I saw on a Michigan forum that he hasn't visited Michigan since entering the portal, and nobody corrected the conversation about it. Not sure if its true or not, but I feel like it would be kinda crazy to commit to a school you hadn't visited (though it happens). However, being from Michigan, I'm sure he's familiar with the program so maybe a visit wasn't necessary for him if true.
Maybe I assumed he visited because @TimVerghese thought Michigan was a done deal. Maybe Michigan has a good younger guy at that position. This guy is good but we really don’t need pieces at the IOL as much as OT .
When he entered the portal, the initial assumption was it was going to be Michigan or Indiana. Nebraska worked really hard to catch his attention and now he's visiting Nebraska before (potentially even instead of) Michigan
Not sure how grad students work but do they still have to be registered for classes like undergrads today is the last day .
That date is including graduate students as well, I'm pretty positive.
There's talk about moving Spindler to center if he came to NU. Others can play center too. Either way, if Spindler gets a good sized NIL package some have wondered if there would be enough money left to overpay for a tackle this summer-- which is probably what it would take to bring someone in at that point.
When you can’t enroll in classes, how you gonna be a student? 🤷🏻 if you ain’t a student, how you gonna be a student athlete? 🤷🏻
please.
How many snaps did Cam take before Frost moved him there?
agreed.
Oh for sure. I remember people calling for him to be benched his first 2 years. Those snaps were bad haha but all those growing pains he went through has tremendously elevated his life.
And that's just THIS year.
the OL took a step forward only after an actual football coach came in, looked around, said WTF are we doing here and then started running more 2 TE/2 back sets to help the OL
Maybe ND also has to trim down its roster and encouraged him to leave so they can focus on developing younger players.
Agree to disagree. The OL across the entire course of 13 games this year gave up less sacks than the offense did last year over 12 games when all we primarily did was force feed QB run and hand the ball off. And the OCs called 172 more pass plays this year than last. To give up less sacks in more games and opportunities is a huge improvement.
He could skip spring ball and take summer classes and register for fall classes.
