I'd love to hear you explain how you THINK we could count the kid towards the 2022-2023 cycle. This should be fun.
By the way, I know the answer, and it either involves him paying his own way at UM, or else enrolling in January 2022. We can't blueshirt him in August 2021, as we officially recruited him (he took an official visit to UM).
This kid isn't coming to UM unless we give him a 2021-2022 counter, and we can't do that until January 2021. And that would take another spot away from our signing class.
Optimism is fun. Realism is hard.