OT: What is your football related background?
It is a boring Friday night seeing as many people are off campus for Spring Break, so I figured I would take advantage of my new posting capabilities to have this question answered.
This is a question I have often pondered since I began frequenting Mgoblog. What football background do most people have around here? To what degree is the Mgoblog community made up of just plain old football fans, ex high school players, ex college players, coaches (etc)? This is just out of plain curiousity. Feel free to include other sports experience as well since this is not exclusively a football blog.
I guess I will start. I played high school football and also a bit of amateur/semi pro ball before tearing my ACL and MCL which brought my fun to an end. I played an outside linebacker / hybrid, inverted safety position at both levels. I don't have much experience with other sports other than simply being a well informed fan. Been a huge football fan since the age of six or seven, like most people here I imagine.
Ex-college player who still loves the game and always enjoyed the way Michigan played football. Never got that Michigan offer but hope my nephew one day does.
I am now entering my sixth year as a varsity high school football coach. I plan on being an OC by next year and hopefully a head coach one day. I have a lot more to learn, but Im up for the challenge.
You are telling us that the guy who is "sick of how pussified the NFL has become" and is in favor of bounties for injuries, and is enough of a loose cannon to post it on a public forum is entrusted with being an example and role model for high school athletes?
Sorry, dude, but I'm going to go vomit now.
Fortunately now that he's put that out on the internet, he can get fired if it ever gets back to his principal.
Im a loose cannon because I think the NFL has become soft? That makes sense. Again, I never said I am in favor of a bounty. I said I have np with it as long as everything is within the rules and its a clean hit. Some of you guys dont interpret things very well. Its not like I go to practice and implement a bounty or some sort of reward for injuring an opposing teams star player. We run a clean program and emphasize sportsmanship. Just bc I have opinion on something doesnt mean I practice it. None of you know me. I am a role model. I am only in my mid 20s and have been coaching varsity for several years. So dont judge me like Im a bad person or a bad coach. I would never tell a high school kid to injure someone. I guess Im cut from a different cloth than you guys. I am an intense guy, but if you think I encouraged those actions you are mistaken.
And for the guy who thinks Id get fired because of that comment I made is actually quite comical.
having no problem with incentives for 'clean hits to injure a player' = being in favor of such. it isn't a crime, or a sackable offense, but it kinda sucks.
Again, I never said I am in favor of a bounty.
Really? Jimmy, roll the tape:
This is like some Buddy Ryan type shit. I love it. As long as its a clean hit, I have np with it. Im sick of how pussified the nfl has become. You cant even tackle anyone without a flag. Keep the bounties coming.
where did you play college ball at?
Football: Have watched Michigan forever, began reading MGoBlog about two years ago and have finally learned that I can do more than follow the ball. This has enhanced my football-watching experience greatly and I now devote a good amount of time learning about and following the sport. Wouldn't be much help to other users beyond stastics/history.
Basketball: Absolutely none. I understand the basics, and whatever intermediate/advanced stuff I can pick up reading on here, which hasn't been a whole lot for me. Wouldn't be much help to other users beyond stastics/history.
Hockey: Fourteen years playing, eight as a referee. Anyone with an on-ice rules question, feel free to ask. I should know the answer; if I don't I definitely know where to look. I can also talk about coaching-type things, but I am considerably less confident about that. Usually it works out better with me and one or two others who know their stuff answering, especially since a lot of it is opinion.
High school safety, went to Michigan and didn't play football (although I was an IM flag football champ one year), and also played a season of semi-pro ball out here in LA, also at safety.
I was pretty athletic, but football obviously wasn't my sport. I decided to quit football after my Sophomore year in High School and focus on baseball. That decision I made was great, as I ended up being 2-time all-conference (Senior year 1st team and Junior year 2nd team).
for me. I gave up football after 8th grade to focus strictly on track. (I wanted nothing more than to win state, missed it by.04 seconds in 8th grade) , but I now have lost my speed running about the same 200 time I ran in 8th grade, (now a sophomore) so I am going back to football next year.
I just read about it on the internet.
Currently play HS football (nowhere near college quality), huge Michigan fan since birth...hopeful Michigan student in the future!
I'll bite. 4 years playing OL at Class BB (back when only 16 teams made the playoffs per class). Three years playing at football at the division 2 level. Coaching 4 years at a Division 2 high school (sub varsity). We won the state championship during that time. 9 years coaching middle school and youth football. High School state champion in powerlifting, heavyweight division and have coached various other sports, including track as well.
Never played football or any land based sports. Growing up in California I grew up around the water, so I played waterpolo, swam and surfed.
I have logged extensive hours on my couch watching football.
I'm a girl. So...none. But born and raised in Ann Arbor, so loved Michigan football since the day I was conceived.
But Kathy Ireland was in Necessary Roughness!?!
Girls can play football. At least in high school, I don't know about college.
We moved to New York when I was in high school. We lived 4 or 5 houses down from the Gronkowski's (yeah, those Gronkowski's). High school football was not going to happen.
or a freak athlete of above average height, or a kicker or punter, you'll have a hard time being competitive in men's college football as a woman. There are a few schools with women's teams, though.
is the way it should be.
I shall respectfully disagree.
Grandfather played for Crisler. His uncle played for Yost.
I played center, DE, and LS in HS and played center for a semi-pro team in the North American Football League.
Is that your grandfather in your profile pic? That is beyond cool to have a family connection to the Yost and Crisler eras. +1
He was a guard from '37-'39. He blocked for Tom Harmon, which is a cool claim to fame.
His uncle Fred Conklin was the captain of the 1911 team.
Damn, you've had some old people in your family.
We demand stories!!!
MOAR STORIES!!!!!!!!
When he played for Sterling did he run track or play football?
-2 years youth ball O & D tackle
-1 Junior High - TE & OG
-4 years High school - O & D Line
-3 years - DE - Saginaw Valley - Muddy Waters days so that will date me.
-A couple of years Coaching youth football - O & D Line.
Eugene Marve? When I was in HS I used to work out with him at the Y. 4 years HS(RB, CB, and K), 1 year of college, coached youth (OC and HC), and have worked with DBs and K individually at the HS level.
Eugene came in the year after I left. I never had the pleasure of meeting him. I had
a couple of friends speak highly of him.
I really enjoyed youth Coaching, but my work hours required me to give it up. Maybe when I retire I'll try it again.
backup qb for my high school team
-being on the 2nd team we rarely saw the field but I do remember the coach calling a reverse and I was flanker so it was my time to shine. The coach took 1 look at me and called a different play instead. In all honesty I probably would have fumbled
Antonio Bass played soccer in middle school with my older brother, then in high school he always asked my brother for answers on quizzes in their Advanced Algebra class...My life was made when I got to take a shot with Antonio at a party during my freshman orientation in '09. He's an incredibly humble and nice guy. And he was faster than anyone I've ever seen as a 12 year old when I watched him play soccer with my brother.
You also went to Kentucky?
A 2nd year player/coach in pop-warner football. Competition is stiff this year
Played in High School
Currently a HS Varsity Assistant in Missouri
I played 10 years in inter-city leagues, playing every position but QB. Played 10 years of touch football (similar to flag) and played 7 years of rugby. Tore my ACL, meniscus and put a hole the size of a quarter in my cartilage. So that was the end of my playing career. Might have gone farther if I had grown up in the great republic to the south (I'm from Canada). Coached defence with my brother last year for our nephew's team (12-13 yr olds). Been a fan of the Maize and Blue since the first time I saw the winged helmet roughly 30 years ago. I was such a fan that I turned my brother and a buddy into fans (they were Sooner fans during the Boswoth era).
A bone condition kept me from playing football, but I was a veteran bench warmer in basketball in high school. One of the perks of going to a tiny school is that you'll make the team if only ten guys try out.
My avatar was pretty good back in the day.