Former Michigan football head coach Jim Harbaugh took quite a few of Michigan staffers with him to the Los Angeles Chargers. Among those that went to the NFL were Jesse Minter, Mike Elston, Steve Clinkscale, and Ben Herbert.

But even with the losses of coaches, head coach Sherrone Moore did the best damange control possible. Moore has put together a favorable coaching staff heading into the 2024 season, and Moore did a fantastic job at roster retention. The only major loss from the 2023 campaign was S Keon Sabb leaving the Wolverines for Alabama.

While Sabb was the only big name to leave Michigan during the 30-day transfer window — the spring transfer portal will be here before we know it and the Wolverines will once again have to do their best to keep big named players from Ann Arbor.

You may ask why a player would want to leave Michigan after winning a national title and let’s be honest, the Wolverines should be really good again in ’24 — especically defensively. But in the new age of the transfer portal, tampering — while it’s not legal — is a thing.

According to The Athletic, a Michigan football player was offered $1.75 million to leave Michigan for another school.

Whispers of lucrative NIL offers for Michigan’s star players proliferated during the open transfer window. One parent of a returning starter said, on the condition of anonymity, that their son was offered roughly $1.75 million to play next season at a different school — significantly more than the player was earning at Michigan. Despite those overtures, the transfer window closed with Michigan losing only one projected contributor, safety Keon Sabb.

While the parent spoke under anonymity, the Wolverines return a few key players that you can figure that were approached for a potential offer like this: Will Johnson, Donovan Edwards, Colston Loveland, Mason Graham, Rod Moore, or Kenneth Grant.

While this is a big no-no in the rule books, the NCAA continues to turn a blind eye to things like this. The NCAA continues to rather go after more pressing matters like eliminating recruiting photo shoots or other small things like that — logic.