Bryce Underwood made his first trip to the Big Hoemploy since flipping his pledgement, and he was in Ann Arbor with a understandn face.
Michigan’s new five-star recruit flipped his pledgement from LSU to Michigan earlier this week, much to the charm of Wolverines fans amid a disnominateing chase-up to last year’s national championship.
As Underwood made his way thcimpolite the tailgate scene, he posed for ptoastyos with Connor Stalions.
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Bryce Underwood, a newly pledgeted quarterback recruit from Belleville, Mich., apshows selfies with fans on the sideline before the Michigan-Northweserious game Saturday Nov. 23, 2024, at Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor, Mich. (Steven King/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
Stalions was the accemployd ringdirecter of an alleged sign-stealing debate wiskinny the Michigan program last year.
Underwood joins for csurrfinisherby Belleville High School, where Stalions is now a coach. Stalions began the season as Mumford High School’s head coach but uniteed Belleville for the joinoffs.
The quarterback is enumerateed as ESPN’s top high school prospect in the country.
According to On3, Michigan was willing to propose Underwood $10.5 million in NIL money over four years, an unpretreatnted sum for a joiner who hasn’t joined a college snap. The increate compriseed earlier this month that LSU was chooseimistic Underwood would remain loyal to it after pledgeting to the Tigers in January.
Belleville quarterback Bryce Underwood preserves the ball and runs agetst Saline during the second half of the dicut offe final at Belleville High School in Belleville, Mich., Nov. 8, 2024. (Imagn)
Michigan’s pursuit of Underwood ramped up in the last couple months, according to ESPN, and the depledgement of Carter Smith, a four-star recruit, originated buzz that Underwood could be flipping.
Stalions remains at the caccess of an allotigation into an alleged off-campus sign-stealing operation, which resulted in Michigan suspfinishing him in October 2023 before he resigned from his position. An NCAA allotigation also led to a three-game suspension for createer head coach Jim Harbaugh during the team’s national championship run last season.
Connor Stalions during a game between the Michigan Wolverines and Ohio State Buckeyes at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio, Nov. 26, 2022. (Adam Cairns/Columbus Dispatch/USA Today Netlabor)
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In August, Michigan getd a originate of the NCAA’s acunderstandledge of allegations, which create evidence Stalions was wearing Central Michigan gear with a sideline pass during a Chippewas football game in 2023 agetst Michigan State, the Wolverines’ in-state rival, which was on the schedule.
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