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Notes from Brady Hoke's final press conference before the Spring Game. Photo from file.

Weekend Festivities

Spring game - not enough depth to have a draft "and that would be what we'd wanna do, have the seniors draft." 1s will go against 1s, 2s against 2s. "We'll keep a score of some sort, but there's no scoreboard anyway." Winners get steaks, loser get hot dogs. The teams tied last Saturday. Scrimmage - "It will go until I think we've done enough plays."

Offense and defense will both be on the field the whole time. Al will coach the offense, Greg defense. "So that they can get the mechanics of gameday and getting the plays and personnel in and all that," Borges has been away from the field in the last couple practices.

Alumni returning - "It's great to have all these guys back. I think they've got close to 85 for the flag game they're gonna play. We've got over 300 coming in Friday night for a team meeting."

Team meeting: "We're gonna have a conversation. You know. We're just gonna talk about Michigan football." Introduce the new staff to the former players, and talk about how they're accountable. Current players will not be present.

The Team

Held out Saturday - Woolfolk, Floyd, Lewan, Demens, that's about it. Shaw and Molk are both back. Woolfolk has done very little. "He's done some individual drills and stuff like that. He maybe has taken a few snaps in 1-on-1 and a few snaps in 7-on-7." Floyd is behind in his recovery compared to where Woolfolk is.

Hoke always participates in hands-on coaching "I couldn't just walk around and watch stuff."

"We're heading down the home stretch of spring, obviously. We've got two days left to keep evaluating." Mindset, mentality, etc. will still be evaluated in the final two days. "We've made some progress in some of those areas but we're a long way from being the football team we want to be in the fall."

Koger, Herron, RVB leaders. Hard for Molk to assert himself since he's been out so much. "Your definition of a leader can vary. It doesn't have to be a vocal guy."

There's better communication, especially on defense, at this point than there was at the beginning of spring. It starts with communicating changed fronts. "I think that there's a pride that those guys are starting to feel as a defense." Defensive communication - "I think Ryan [Van Bergen] has done a really good job. I think he gets it." Cam Gordon and JB Fitzgerald, Kovacs, Carvin Johnson have been vocal out there.

Defensive coaching chemistry: "It's great. It's like they've coached together forever... As soon as recruiting was over, we started those meetings, how you wanna coach it, how you coach it."

"I think we're OK" with how much they've gotten done this spring. Really depends on how the next two practice days go. "I usually like to compete in 2 minute offense/defense] 3 or 4 times throughout the spring." They'll work that in earlier in fall camp to make sure they get it done.

Individual evaluations with every player, with Hoke and their coordinator and their position coach. "Expectations, where they're at, what they need to do. Where their weight needs to be when they report. What their role right now will be in the fall... The evaluations at the end, believe me, they'll be very specific."

Freshmen contributing this fall: "Really haven't thought about it much yet." Depth concern at OL and DL might provide some opportunities, but it's too early to say. Corner? "Maybe. We'll see. Greg Brown's really, in the last week and a half he's really stepped up." Courtney Avery has stepped up as well.

Lloyd Carr - "He's been over. Hasn't been to a practice, but he's been in and we've talked a little bit. Coach Moeller has been around a little bit, and Coach Hanlon is here every day [laughing]."

Positions

Denard and Devin: "I think Devin is a very talented guy and I think he's learned the offense well. I think he's got a good handle on it. There's some consistency we've gotta coach better with." QBs will organize 7-on-7s in the summer. What will Denard take into the summer to work on? Footwork issues, ball mechanics, play action game. He needs to settle his feet on dropbacks. "The mental aspect of getting you in the right plays" based on safety alingment, defensive fronts, etc.

Running back - "I think Hop's had a pretty good spring... Toussaint's been pretty steady." Mike Cox hasn't practiced as much because he has a class during Tuesday practice time "so that doesn't help him." Smith has played well. Incoming freshmen will have a chance to step in. "Hopkins is a guy right now who has been probably the most consistent." He can also line up at FB and do some things there.

Tight ends - they have the guys to run what they want. Koger was out early in spring "but he didn't miss much." He's been good on the line, Ricardo's more of a "move guy" right now. "I think the 4 guys you mentioned [Moore and Watson] all have done a good job in the offense, and that will be an important part of what we do offensively."

Molk - "He's been doing some individual, and then yesterday he did more of some of the team stuff." With Lewan out, Huyge has played both tackle positions, Schofield has been good, Ricky Barnum has been kicked out to tackle a few times. "You have 7 or 8 guys who will form kinda the nucleus of the group."

Rocko Khoury has gotten a lot of good snaps. Omameh has taken most RG snaps, played a little bit at RT. "A guy like David who's played a lot of football, sometimes you need to give snaps to more of those other guys."

Barnum: "I tell ya, Ricky's a good football player. He's a tough kid, he's a smart kid, he plays with good technique. That's why he's a good football player." He's been as consistent as any player up front this spring.

Defensive Linemen: Mike Martin - "He's done a good job. We're doing a couple different things with him." "I think think Will Campbell has made strides, but the consistency has to be there. You know Quinton, I think he's going to be a good football payer here at Michigan."Jibreel Black "Jibreel is a guy that, as his body composition changes a little bit, he's gonna be a good football player. I think him and Craig at the rush have had pretty good springs." Roh has progressed better than they thought this spring.

Linebackers - "Marell's done a pretty good job. We moved Brandon Herron back to a Mike." Mike Jones and Brandin Hawthorne at Will. "Cam Gordon's getting better, and I think Cam will have a very good summer." Jake Ryan also at Sam. Those six plus JB Fitzgerlad who "has started to come along a little bit."

Safety situation is fluid. "Carvin Jonhson, I would say of anybody, and Kovacs" know the defense best. Marvin Robinson has also come in and made plays, along with Thomas Gordon.

Kicking game: "I think it's a work in progress." Everything from snapping, to punting, etc. needs to continue improving. Long snappers are competing. Placekicking is a "huge competition with 4 guys in there." Seth Broekhuizen, Kris Pauloski, Jeremy Ross, and Brendan Gibbons. They kicked 14 or 15 times during last week's competition at the stadium. "They haven't been there probably as much as we'd like for them to." The field is the same indoors, the elements are the only difference. "We've got a lot of work to do in that area of it." Wile will get a chance to compete when he comes in. [Author's note: those two statements weren't said back-to-back, so don't read too much into it. Hoke said every freshman has a chance to compete for playing time].

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April 13th, 2011 at 3:18 PM | We really need a FS (Score:1)
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the 2009 Defense wasn't completely atrocious until Woolfolk moved to CB and we had 2 SS competeing for that spot

"Relax you panic monger" -Megatron

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April 13th, 2011 at 3:29 PM | did the phrase "Al will coach (Score:1)
Brhino
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did the phrase "Al will coach the offense, Greg defense." put anyone into state of terror for a few moments while they struggled to remember Coach Mattison's first name, or was that just me?

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April 13th, 2011 at 5:13 PM | Haha absolutely!!  At first I (Score:1)
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Haha absolutely!!  At first I was like huh?!?  Whyyyyyyyyyyy on God's green earth??

Then I realized I was being an idiot.

Denard has spent the offseason working really hard and smiling at people.

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April 13th, 2011 at 3:33 PM | Campbell needs to work on (Score:1)
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Campbell needs to work on consistency? Safety situation is fluid? When will Brady Hoke get over his irrational hatred of Brady Hoke?

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April 13th, 2011 at 5:58 PM | (Score:1)
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Give it up Brady! RR is not coming back!

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April 13th, 2011 at 3:35 PM | Defense and secondary especially is key (Score:1)
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"Woolfolk has done very little."  "Floyd is behind in his recovery compared to where Woolfolk is."

Anyone have a good feel for when Woolfolk and Floyd will be game ready?  I would think it would be nice to have a couple healthy months under their belts before the opener so they can really get used to game speed again.  I may just be bored, but how much should I be worrying about their health at this point?

Crunch. Zip. Live to fight another day.

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April 13th, 2011 at 3:49 PM | Don't worry too much, every (Score:1)
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Don't worry too much, every year there are tons of players across the country that miss spring practice and return for the fall.  With Woolfolk being involved, even if it's very limited, I'd expect him to be able to get up to full speed by the opener.  Floyd also has plenty of time to get ready, but even if he's not quite 100% by the opener, I'm not sure how much it will hurt.  There's other guys with experience that I think might eventurally pass Floyd anyway.

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April 13th, 2011 at 3:57 PM | Coach Hanlon is here every day (Score:1)
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That's a great thing to hear.


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April 13th, 2011 at 4:05 PM | Kickers (Score:1)
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Egad, man! Get them in there more than you'd like them to...

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April 13th, 2011 at 4:11 PM | Really looking forward to (Score:1)
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Really looking forward to seeing Carvin Johnson after getting coached up by a real coach.  I still think he reminds me of Ronnie Lott.

 

 

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April 13th, 2011 at 5:57 PM | (Score:1)
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Hey Fred Jackson, you just outed yourself here! BTW, best job at hiding identification since Leo DiCaprio in Catch me if you Can.

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April 14th, 2011 at 11:08 AM | Nice (Score:1)
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I'll take that compliment.  Your way with words is like a combination of Billy Mays and Dr Phil, except it's as positive as Bill Cosby.

 

 

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April 13th, 2011 at 4:39 PM | Video of the Presser (Score:1)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdekwrnRKjo&feature=channel_video_title

Brady talking.

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April 13th, 2011 at 9:38 PM | Presser: Interview: (Score:1)
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Presser:

Interview:

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April 13th, 2011 at 5:00 PM | QB Situation... (Score:1)
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Is it me, or does it seem that Devin has supassed Denard?  maybe i'm reading too much into the MGoBlue.com videos where Denard is mostly handing off and Devin throwing -- and then there's the epic Mike Martin Pick-6.

 

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April 13th, 2011 at 5:53 PM | Don't think it matters at (Score:1)
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Don't think it matters at this point.  Borge's system is going to require a lot of touch + accuracy on the deep balls, something we knew Denard was weak at last year.  He's had to learn a whole lot of relatively new mechanics this spring, and if he looked confident or polished yet I'd be skeptical.  Everyone knows about Denard's insane work ethic, so I'm a lot more interested to see how polished and comfortable he looks after a summer of hard technique work.

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April 13th, 2011 at 6:31 PM | I don't understand how people (Score:1)
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I don't understand how people can say Devin has surpassed Denard, with out getting some real game time action yet. let's not forget all the records set by Denard, and his Big Ten offensive PLayer of the Year award he got his sophmore year. As of now I feel Denard is the best qb we have, until lI see proof otherwise.

In Hoke We Trust!

 

 

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April 13th, 2011 at 7:21 PM | On an unrelated note (Score:1)
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Avatar uploads are back!

Abort, Retry, Fail?

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April 14th, 2011 at 6:19 AM | Amen (Score:1)
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Big ten offensive player of the year?

All in for some manball.

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April 14th, 2011 at 9:02 AM | He must have been talking about speed. (Score:1)
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I hear Devin is running a 4.1 this spring.

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April 14th, 2011 at 8:55 AM | posted from iPhone (Score:1)
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Keep in mind that Devin is shredding a very weak 2nd team D. And Mattison is really dialing up the D in the last few practices which is looking good. In a radio interview, Borges said they chart the QB's and Denard is completing over 65% of his passes.

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April 14th, 2011 at 10:07 AM | They are supposidly running (Score:1)
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They are supposidly running #1 O vs #2 D and vice versa in the spring game.  If Devin looks better there it will be a bigger deal.

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April 14th, 2011 at 10:21 AM | I think its actually 1s v 1s and 2s v 2s. (Score:1)
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Spring game - not enough depth to have a draft "and that would be what we'd wanna do, have the seniors draft." 1s will go against 1s, 2s against 2s. "We'll keep a score of some sort, but there's no scoreboard anyway." Winners get steaks, loser get hot dogs. The teams tied last Saturday. Scrimmage - "It will go until I think we've done enough plays."

I put up a tough front, but deep down I just want to be held.

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April 14th, 2011 at 11:45 AM | posted from iPhone (Score:1)
FreddieMercuryHayes
Joined: 12/29/2010
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Agree. But I've heard different things from different places in regards to which units will run against each other. I personally would like to see Devin with the ones against the ones a bit so we can better gauge him.

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April 13th, 2011 at 5:38 PM | Wile (Score:1)
Scheißkerl
Joined: 09/16/2010
MGoPoints: 1151

Is it sad that the player I'm most excited about is Matt Wile, the placekicker?

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April 13th, 2011 at 6:53 PM | Excuse (Score:1)
WestSider
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Joined: 02/04/2011
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to test ability to use droid app. Droid X says thanks for the app and the presser notes!!!

Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.

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April 13th, 2011 at 10:48 PM | posted from iPhone (Score:1)
CoachW
Joined: 01/10/2009
MGoPoints: 450

Is anyone else disappointed that Ike Bell has not made a peep? I had some hopes for that guy.

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April 13th, 2011 at 11:07 PM | Now That...is Coaching (Score:1)
NoMoPincherBug
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Coach Hoke is always careful to praise kids and not throw them under the bus....but he does the praise cautiously and without overdoing it.  In addition, when he does criticize...he has a way of taking the criticism off of the player and on to himself and his staff, for example: "We need to coach up more consistancy"  ..... that is just awesome and does so much for team unity.  Its WE not I.  No silly dumb attempts at jokes that come off as arrogant, squirrly and self-serving...No constant stream of excuses to cover his own big ass...No throwing a player or player group under the bus, or leaving a player off the bus to Columbus for that matter.  This guy gets how LEADERSHIP of young men is supposed to work.   The kids pick up on this... which is a main reason why the attrition has been kept to a very very low minimum for a coaching tranisition.  Hoke is It.

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April 14th, 2011 at 12:58 AM | You are dumb (Score:1)
BraveWolverine730
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RR consistantly said things like "we need to prepare them better" and got criticized for it.  Show me where RR "threw a player group under the bus" I bet you won't find it. And there is no way you can consider the Hagerup suspension a negative on RR. When given the choice between discipline(because Hagerup was the one who violated rules) or trying to win at all costs, he made the decision I'd want the Michigan coach to make 10/10 times and benched the player.

Hoke has the potential to be a good coach here and I look forward to his tenure. But there is no reason to idiotically revise history just to prop him up. 

" I want to win Big 10 titles. Multiply. Consecutively. I just made that word up (multiply). I'm like that. I'm good at Scrabble."

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April 14th, 2011 at 2:19 AM | OK... (Score:1)
NoMoPincherBug
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Just off the top of my head... Steve Threet.. openly criticized deeply by RR and staff and left home from the OSU trip, not allowed to travel with the team after he had poured his heart out trying to fit in to RRs system which was crammed down his throat.

The kickers last year who were constantly ridiculed in public by RR with his comments... boy that really helped their confidence didnt it?

I could go on with this...but you are not really open to listening or paying attention to what a chump RR was with blaming his kids for his faults.... ... so why bother you ignored those comments and situations that RR caused when they happened...so why would you bother to pay attention to them now?

Dont shoot the messenger. 

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April 14th, 2011 at 4:24 PM | Credit to RR for not leavinig the cupboard empty? (Score:1)
Rumsey87
Joined: 09/24/2009
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I was wondering if you are at least willing to give Coach Rodriguez some credit for not leaving the cupboard empty this time?  Hoke is very lucky to have more talent on his first team than what Carr left for his successor. 

I assume that you agree that with an experienced junior starting qb, healthy defensive backs with experience, etc.  that not only will Hoke have his 4th winnnig season in his 9 year coaching career but that he will continue the trajectory and win at least 9 games this year.  Anything less should be considered a failure on his part in my opinion. 

Hoke will obviously have a better chance with junior Denard at qb than Rodriguez had with Sheriden/Threet. 

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April 23rd, 2011 at 8:14 AM | RR had a better qb than (Score:1)
Crazy Canuck
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RR had a better qb than Sheridan/Threet. He had Mallett. The thing with Hoke and his coaches is,  they are trying to install an offence (they know and want) with leaving in a lot of plays to exploit Denard's explosiveness. Unfortunately RR did not do the same. The first thing he should have done was to inform Mallett that he wasn't going to force him to run the spread. A good coach would've tailored his playbook to his players not the other way around. Not to mention trying to run the 3-3-5 with a DC that has never run it and so many Freshman and Sophmores starting on defence. He also managed to run off Mallett, McGuffie and a few DBs. I to have been lucky enough to watch my beloved Wolverines coached by Bo, Moeller, Carr, RR and now Hoke. The two things that they all had incommon with the exception of RR, is that the players came first and they all knew and followed the traditions of Michigan.

Don't get me wrong. I was excited when RR was hired. I thought he would bring the spread in and do great things with it here. But, his unwillingness to adapt to the situation, to change and to learn from his mistakes is inexcusable. Not to mention all the NCAA violations here and at WV. I hate OSU and Notre Dame. I want him to win the championship every year  but, if Hoke beats them 50% of the time and goes 9-3 or 8-4 every year. I'd be ok with that. At least he will return us to our winning ways, he will restore how others see us, he will value Michigan's traditions and he will care for each of his players as person, a student then an athelete. Not the other way around. I would much prefer this than to be like an SEC school. Over recruiting and where winning is the only thing.

But, if you were happier with RR than with Carr or Hoke. Feel free to change who you root for if and when RR comes back to coaching. I'll be ok with that to.

 

Michigan fans are not made. They are born!

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April 14th, 2011 at 7:45 AM | The "Vince Lomardi couldn't" (Score:1)
leu2500
Joined: 01/22/2011
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coach/win with this defense" comment.

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April 14th, 2011 at 9:38 AM | “Grand Canyon-sized right now” (Score:1)
Bodogblog
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The gap between where the team is now and where they should be, per Brady Hoke.  Someone without any sense could interpret that as throwing the entire team under the bus.

Let's praise Hoke, I like what he's doing.  But constantly going back and saying "DickRod was stoo-pid!! lol!" is so ridiculous at this point.

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April 14th, 2011 at 10:01 AM | How about after Mesko failed (Score:1)
UMdad
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How about after Mesko failed on the fake punt attempt against MSU?

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April 14th, 2011 at 11:40 AM | posted from iPhone (Score:1)
FreddieMercuryHayes
Joined: 12/29/2010
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Well in that case, someone specifically asked him in the presser about it, and he gave an honest answer. Zolton made a bad read. Happens all the time in football. It's not really throwing him under the bus to say so.

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April 14th, 2011 at 12:15 PM | He could have taken (Score:1)
jmblue
Joined: 11/07/2008
MGoPoints: 28961

He could have taken responsibility for giving his punter an option to run on our own 15-yard line, something most coaches would never do in the first place.  

 

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April 14th, 2011 at 10:01 AM | Sacrebleuu........INVADERS! (Score:1)
ReadYourGuard
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Sacrebleu........INVADERS!

"the Spirit of Michigan...is based on a deathless loyalty to Michigan and all her ways....and a conviction that nowhere is there a better university, in any way, than this Michigan of ours" - Fielding Yost
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April 14th, 2011 at 10:08 AM | Could it happen?  Sure.  (Score:1)
ReadYourGuard
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Could it happen?  Sure.  (Denard could get hurt, which as we all know is a reality in Big10 football.)

Will it happen (barring an injury)?  NO.  Emphatically NO.

"the Spirit of Michigan...is based on a deathless loyalty to Michigan and all her ways....and a conviction that nowhere is there a better university, in any way, than this Michigan of ours" - Fielding Yost
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April 14th, 2011 at 10:48 AM | safeties (Score:1)
Wolverine 73
Joined: 08/03/2009
MGoPoints: 563

The more I read about the safety position, the more I wonder if one of the corners (Avery, Brown, whoever?) might play well enough that he could start at corner and we could see Woolfolk move to safety again.

wolverine 73

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April 14th, 2011 at 10:57 AM | Rehab (Score:1)
Clayzer
Joined: 12/09/2008
MGoPoints: 329

I was at the scrimmage Saturday at the Big House, they had Demens, Woolfolk, and  Floyd rehabbing with one of the strength coaches by walking up an aisle of the stadium, usually all the way to the top, then they'd walk across to the next aisle and walk all the way down. They repeated this around the entire stadium. When they walked by me about 3/4 the way around, the players were ready to be done with it. They ran a few times up the stairs, but for the most part just walked them.

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April 14th, 2011 at 11:50 AM | posted from iPhone (Score:1)
FreddieMercuryHayes
Joined: 12/29/2010
MGoPoints: 4883

I think it's kind of silly that you're angry at people who are bitter about RR's firing. He gave 3 years of his life to UM, and worked hard. It didn't work out in the end. Now we have Hoke. You're not helping by fanning the flames. Just let it go, and RR lovers will to when we start winning again. And yes, I realize I'm fanning the flames as well by responding to you. I'll shut up now.

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April 14th, 2011 at 12:05 PM | OT Rants (Score:1)
kman23
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Joined: 08/03/2009
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Does this rant have anything to do with Hoke, spring ball or how current players are doing? The next time that you feel like ranting about the previous staff 1. don't and 2. at least place it somewhere where it relates to the main post. Not only is this way OT but it's outdated and incorrect.

Just wondering, are you an old white man with a mustache?

Alex: Backup QB is the best position in sports. In fact I get drunk all the time, I don't have to show up to class, and it's just like being a real QB but without all the pain.

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April 14th, 2011 at 12:01 PM | I have one reaction and one question (Score:1)
markusr2007
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Joined: 10/21/2008
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1. "MANBALL!"

2. Has anyone noticed that Will Campbell is using a running back's facemask? That's cool.

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