Have you ever played sports? If you did on an organized level at all you should be able to relate to why he wants to transfer. He wants to play. Simple he knows this is it for him. It's human nature if you have played a sport since junior high till now and you've put in so much time work and sweat into it that if your best opportunity to play meant leaving that you'd take it. I'd never advise a kid to give up on his dream to go to the "real world" It'll still be there when you get there soon enough. Have fun while you can. Same reason Brett Farve kept coming back.
What exactly is he giving up by transfering? An education at Iowa? Sorry to burst your bubble but Michigans medical program is held in higher regard and that's just a fact. Not every kid that comes to Iowa has parents that are lifelong fans thus they were growing up. He's from Florida and probably didn't know where Iowa City was before he visited. And again I think this is the main thing he'd have to wrestle with. He has to consider if he is to not start this year would he be happier on the bench at Iowa or Michigan or wherever he ends up? And he's made the decision it's not at Iowa.... He won't get any grief from me after what the coaching staff did last yr.
