Michigan benefited from that once, and it would be hypocritical to criticize it now that it cost the Wolverines their best player. Thanks to the transfer portal and NIL, players no longer face a binary choice between playing college basketball for free or turning pro and trying to earn a paycheck. But among all the reasons to cast him as a villain, switching schools to get a better deal shouldn’t be one of them.īrennan: Hunter Dickinson's transfer to Kansas ends a drawn-out saga “I did have a legacy there, and I basically gave that up to try to be selfish and do what’s best for me and my career and not what’s best for anybody else’s career.”ĭickinson is playing college basketball and being rewarded financially and otherwise for it. “It took a lot of courage,” Dickinson said. He didn’t disclose his projected earnings at Kansas but indicated he expects to earn significantly more. They’re free to criticize him for ditching their school, and Dickinson didn’t cast himself in the most sympathetic light with his comments about name, image and likeness at Michigan.Īppearing on his “Roundball” podcast this week, Dickinson said he earned “less than six figures” in NIL money at Michigan last year. Now that Dickinson plays for Kansas, he’s just a guy with a podcast as far as Michigan fans are concerned. Maybe he was a heel, but he was their heel. As long as Dickinson was wearing maize and blue, Michigan fans had an obligation to defend him.
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