I guess Mitch McGary, his agent and his handlers did the right thing. Surely, this is not the best of circumstances for the young Michigan Wolverines Center to leave school early for “league.” Mitch McGary missed pretty much his entire sophomore season due to injury, so he really would have best been served by staying for his junior year at Ann Arbor.
Then, he failed a NCAA drug test for marijuana, after passing eight drug tests at UM. The NCAA cartel hit him with a Draconian one year suspension, basically forcing his hand to leave school early.
Pretty harsh punishment, eh?
With the weed issue (because hey, no college kids experiment with pot, none. at all. whatsoever. no college kids smoke up at all for recreation on the weekends. absolutely none, except the most evil amoral degenerates and low life scumbags If you didn’t realize the sarcasm in that previous sentence just stop reading now because clearly you don’t get it) and the back issue, Mitch McGary is now a mid second round pick at best. He’ll need a monster combine in Chicago next month to change that.
And for UM, it means a major step back next season. Levert will have to step up big time. Mitch McGary, Glenn Robinson III and Nik Stauskas have now all left early. Like their rivals in East Lansing, next year is a rebuild in Ann Arbor.
It’s been real Mitch McGary! Maybe he would have been better off leaving school after his freshman year when he could have been a top 20 overall pick; on the heels of a very strong and deep NCAA Tournament run. However, we would have all missed out on one of the best soundbites from this college basketball season. At Big Ten Media Day, we had an exclusive with Mitch McGary where he basically called Trey Burke a ballhog.
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