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Michigan TE Jake Butt has a bone to pick with the NCAA
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Jake Butt hasn’t been shy about his disapproval of the governing bodies of college sports.
The Michigan tight end believes that the NCAA should pay players. He also didn’t understand why anyone had a problem with Jim Harbaugh’s spring break practices in Florida.
One of Butt’s former Michigan teammates, Dan Samuelson, transferred to Eastern Michigan before the start of the 2015 season. He sat out the entire first year because of NCAA transfer rules.
EMU is playing in its first bowl game in 29 years and just its second in school history, but Samuelson won’t be allowed to attend because of NCAA rules.
He posted on Facebook about it, to which Butt responded with some opinions of his own:
https://twitter.com/JBooty_88/status/806646263475224578
The specifics of Samuelson’s academics aren’t known, but two full semesters would seemingly be immediately after the bowl game. Perhaps his complaint and the response to it will force the NCAA to make an exception.
But if Butt had to guess, don’t bet on that happening.
Connor O'Gara is the senior national columnist for Saturday Tradition. He's a member of the Football Writers Association of America. After spending his entire life living in B1G country, he moved to the South in 2015.