Last year, Michigan kicked off its first season with Sherrone Moore after Jim Harbaugh left, and it definitely had its ups and downs. One standout moment was their road game against Illinois, where Bret Bielema and Luke Altmyer really showed the Wolverines how to play. Altmyer threw for 128 yards that day, and Illinois managed to hold Michigan to just one touchdown, ending the game at 21-7. This year, it looks like we might see more of that kind of action, and Bielema has made a pretty big statement about Altmyer to highlight his skills.
The Illinois head coach appeared on the June 18th episode of the ‘George Wrighter’s CFB’ podcast and was asked how he managed to keep Altmyer despite several NIL offers for him. “He got done with last year’s season, and we sat down had conversations right and not one time was it about the money; not one time was it about what are you going to do for me it it was literally about all right we’re losing some good receivers what are we going to do?’” said Bielama about Altmyer. But this isn’t where the head coach stopped and compared the QB to an NFL-caliber quarterback.
Luke Altmyer didn’t quite demand NIL money, but according to the head coach, he did demand that Barry Lunney Jr., the OC, and Artur Sitkowski stay put at the team for his final season. Bielama agreed to that, and it was quite a simple decision, as the head coach recalls. “I got an NFL player here that’s in college because he understands his success is driven by the people around him, and when you get kids that think about that, that’s probably when you truly win a game,” said Bret Bielama.
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