Talking Chaundee Brown's Waiver Appeal, Departure From Wake Forest & More
New Michigan Wolverines basketball guard Chaundee Brown doesn’t appear to be coming to Ann Arbor as a grad transfer from Wake Forest, meaning he’ll have to petition the NCAA for a waiver if he hopes to play next season as a senior.
Winston-Salem Journal writer Conor O’Neill — who covered Brown and the Demon Deacons each of the past three years — recently spoke to TheWolverine about the 6-5 guard's waiver appeal, head coach Danny Manning’s firing this spring and the timing of it all.
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“I haven’t heard about Chaundee theoretically graduating before the fall semester at Michigan and then being a surprise grad transfer,” O’Neill explained. “Wake is a hard place to graduate from in four years, let alone three.
"He’s a bright kid who I always enjoyed talking to so him being a grad transfer isn’t something I’d put completely out of the realm out of possibility, though I don’t think it’s likely.
“[Former Wake Forest center teammate] Olivier Sarr’s waiver request [at Kentucky] makes a little more sense to me, because he has told ESPN he wanted to enter the NBA draft process and Manning convinced him not to, so that's why he didn’t.
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