00:00What was your takeaway on five transfers for the University of Michigan?
00:05All five guys on the starting lineup were transfer guys.
00:09What was your takeaway on that?
00:10Good for the game?
00:12Well, I think to your earlier point, it's not good or bad for the game.
00:16It's just the way it is.
00:17But to your earlier point, you know,
00:20how do you build the culture when guys are in and out?
00:22Well, Dusty May did it.
00:24I mean, it can't be that hard.
00:25He did it.
00:27But three of those guys, you know,
00:31Yaxel Lindeborg transferred in from UAB.
00:33What are we to tell a guy like Yaxel Lindeborg who was under-recruited out of high school
00:38and was one of two players the year before this last one that led their team
00:44in scoring, rebounding, assists, steals, and blocks?
00:47He and Cooper Flagg.
00:49We're supposed to tell them because you started at UAB,
00:52you have to stay there when nobody even knew who you were.
00:56But you have a chance to go to Michigan and do something special
01:00where everybody's going to know who you are,
01:02and you're going to be a first-round draft pick.
01:03Is he required to stay there?
01:05Is that one of the guardrails the NCAA wants?
01:07And, you know, Elliot Cadeau played two years at North Carolina.
01:10He put his time in there.
01:11And the truth is, the fans complained about him the whole time he was there.
01:15And he heard it, and he goes to Michigan.
01:17He's the most outstanding player.
01:19Moraes Johnson Jr. didn't play very much at Illinois.
01:21Now he got hurt.
01:22But are those guys supposed to stay in a situation that's not working out for him?
01:28You can do it a bunch of different ways.
01:30You can recruit super young talent that may go in the NBA.
01:33You can recruit older guys and have them grow up together.
01:38But if you want players to stay, either sign them to contracts
01:41or treat them well enough where they're going to stay.
01:44To me, it's pretty simple.
01:47And, you know, a lot of coaches last year had good years,
01:50and they left skid marks on their schools, and nobody said a word.
01:53I don't see how you – and not you,
01:56but I don't see how people have such a hard time wrapping their heads around
01:59players are going to do what's in their best interest, and they should.
02:02I don't see how you're going to do it.
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