Home
i'm an actor, not a reactor

Primary links

  • About
    • $upport (lol)
    • Ethics
    • FAQ
    • Glossary
    • Privacy Policy
  • Contact
  • MGoStore
    • Hail to Old Blue
  • MGoBoard
    • MGoBoard FAQ
    • Michigan bar locator
    • Moderator Action Sticky
  • Useful Stuff
    • Depth Chart By Class
    • Hoops Depth Chart by Class
    • 2017 Recruiting Board
    • Unofficial Two Deep
    • MGoFlickr
    • Diaries, Windows Live Writer, And You
    • User-Curated HOF
    • Where To Eat In Ann Arbor
  • Schedule/Tix
    • Future Schedules (wiki)
    • Ticket spreadsheet
Home Forums MGoBoard

Navigation

  • Forums
  • Recent posts

User login

  • Create new account
  • Request new password

MGoElsewhere

  • @MGoBlog (Brian)
  • @aceanbender
  • @Misopogon (Seth)
  • @Aeschnepp (Adam)
  • @BISB
  • @EUpchurchPhoto
  • @FullOfTwitt (Fuller)
  • Hail to the Victors 2016
  • MGoFacebook
  • MGoPodcast
  • WTKA
  • Instagram

Michigan Blogs

  • Big House Blog
  • Burgeoning Wolverine Star
  • Genuinely Sarcastic
  • Go Blue Michigan Wolverine
  • Holdin' The Rope
  • MVictors
  • Maize 'n' Blue Nation
  • Maize 'n' Brew
  • Maize And Go Blue
  • Michigan Hockey Net
  • MMMGoBlueBBQ
  • The Blog That Yost Built
  • The Hoover Street Rag
  • The M Zone
  • Touch The Banner
  • UMGoBlog
  • UMHoops
  • UMTailgate
  • Wolverine Liberation Army

M On The Net

  • mgovideo
  • MGoBlue.com
  • Mike DeSimone
  • Recruiting Planet
  • The Wolverine
  • Go Blue Wolverine
  • Winged Helmet
  • UMGoBlue.com
  • MaizeRage.org
  • Puckhead
  • The M Den
  • True Blue Fan Forum

Big Ten Blogs

  • Illinois
    • Illinois Loyalty
    • Illinois Baseball Report
  • Indiana
    • Inside The Hall
    • The Crimson Quarry
  • Iowa
    • Black Heart, Gold Pants
    • Fight For Iowa
  • Michigan State
    • The Only Colors
  • Minnesota
    • GopherHole.com
    • The Daily Gopher
  • Nebraska
    • Corn Nation
    • Husker Max
    • Husker Mike's Blasphemy
    • Husker Gameday
  • Northwestern
    • Sippin' On Purple
    • Lake The Posts
  • Notre Dame
    • The House Rock Built
    • One Foot Down
  • Ohio State
    • Eleven Warriors
    • Buckeye Commentary
    • Men of the Scarlet and Gray
    • Our Honor Defend
    • The Buckeye Nine
  • Penn State
    • Slow States
    • Black Shoe Diaries
    • Happy Valley Hardball
    • Penn State Clips
    • Linebacker U
    • Nittany White Out
  • Purdue
    • Boiled Sports
    • Hammer and Rails
  • Wisconsin
    • Bruce Ciskie

Links of Note

  • Baseball
    • College Baseball Today
    • The College Baseball Blog
  • Basketball
    • Ken Pomeroy
    • Hoop Math
    • John Gasaway
    • Luke Winn/Sports Illustrated
  • College Hockey
    • Chris Heisenberg (Class of 2016)
    • College Hockey Stats
    • Michigan College Hockey
    • Hockey's Future
    • Sioux Sports
    • USCHO
  • Football
    • Smart Football
    • Every Day Should Be Saturday
    • Matt Hinton/Grantland
    • Football Study Hall
    • Football Outsiders
    • Harold Stassen
    • NCAA D-I Stats Page
    • The Wizard Of Odds
    • CFB Stats
  • General
    • Sports Central
  • Local Interest
    • The Ann Arbor Chronicle
    • Arborwiki
    • Arbor Update
    • Ann Arbor Observer
    • Teeter Talk
    • Vacuum
  • Teams Of The D
    • Lions
      • Pride of Detroit
    • Pistons
      • Detroit Bad Boys
      • Need4Sheed
    • Tigers
      • Roar Of The Tigers
      • Bless You Boys
      • The Daily Fungo
      • The Detroit Tigers Weblog
    • Red Wings
      • Winging It In Motown
      • On The Wings
    • Michigan Sports Forum

Beveled Guilt

Site Search

Diaries

  • New
  • Popular
  • Hot
  • This Month in MGoBlog History - April 2008: No Spring Game at the Big House! Hockey loses to ND in the Frozen Four!
    Maize.Blue Wagner - 3 days ago
  • Thirteen unlucky minutes (TL;DNR-This is a bit of rant about the refs)
    docwhoblocked - 2 weeks ago
  • Fan Satisfaction Index End of Season Bball Survey
    OneFootIn - 3 weeks ago
  • How likely are we to revert to the mean?
    Bo Glue - 3 weeks ago
  • It's time to avenge Villanova's 1985 NCAA tourney upset over Michigan
    Communist Football - 3 weeks ago
  •  
  • 1 of 2
  • ››
more
  • This Month in MGoBlog History - April 2008: No Spring Game at the Big House! Hockey loses to ND in the Frozen Four!
    Maize.Blue Wagner - 1,187 views
  • This Month in MGoBlog History - April 2008: No Spring Game at the Big House! Hockey loses to ND in the Frozen Four!
    Maize.Blue Wagner - 8 comments

MGoBoard

  • New
  • Recent
  • Hot
  • Hello? Boring Tuesday POSbang Happy Hour Thread
    4 replies
  • OT: UCL Semi-final First Legs
    14 replies
  • More evidence of awful culture at MSU, volleyball this time
    52 replies
  • OT: Rick Pitino Rumored to be Candidate for Detroit Mercy Job
    68 replies
  • New Jersey DE Aeneas DiCosmo: Prospect we should all want at UM
    52 replies
  • In-state recruiting rankings update
    115 replies
  • A piece of U-M broadcast history ends tonight.
    28 replies
  • Crootin': Joey Velazquez
    78 replies
  • OT: College Football video games coming back
    90 replies
  • LaMarr Woodley Opening K-8 School in Saginaw
    43 replies
  • SIAP: Jay Feely prom "controversy"
    36 replies
  • Pep and Partridge Pressers
    11 replies
  • Michigan Vs Notre Dame in 131 days
    83 replies
  • WBB Hello: 2020 G/W Makailah Griggs-Zeigler
    12 replies
  • Pep Hamilton on Shea: Can extend the play, make all the throws, plus other QB's
    129 replies
  •  
  • 1 of 6
  • ››
  • Hello? Boring Tuesday POSbang Happy Hour Thread
    3 replies
  • OT: Rick Pitino Rumored to be Candidate for Detroit Mercy Job
    68 replies
  • More evidence of awful culture at MSU, volleyball this time
    52 replies
  • New Jersey DE Aeneas DiCosmo: Prospect we should all want at UM
    52 replies
  • A piece of U-M broadcast history ends tonight.
    28 replies
  • Pep and Partridge Pressers
    11 replies
  • OT: UCL Semi-final First Legs
    14 replies
  • Crootin': Joey Velazquez
    78 replies
  • In-state recruiting rankings update
    115 replies
  • WBB Hello: 2020 G/W Makailah Griggs-Zeigler
    12 replies
  • LaMarr Woodley Opening K-8 School in Saginaw
    43 replies
  • Michigan Vs Notre Dame in 131 days
    83 replies
  • OT: College Football video games coming back
    90 replies
  • OT: Tigers at the 1/8th point
    59 replies
  • Elysee Mbem-Bosse apologizes
    67 replies
  •  
  • 1 of 6
  • ››
  • Belleville coach Jermain Crowell mad at UM again
    244 replies
  • "Being Not-Rich at UM" Guide
    168 replies
  • Whats the Best Way to Make Flight Arrangements?
    149 replies
  • The Evolution of Commerce - What Industries are Dying, What's Thriving?
    148 replies
  • Pep Hamilton on Shea: Can extend the play, make all the throws, plus other QB's
    129 replies
  • OT - Jalen Hurts possibly looking to transfer
    121 replies
  • Notre Dame Spring Game: analysis from M n B, video
    119 replies
  • In-state recruiting rankings update
    115 replies
  • No additional protest of Shea Patterson appeal by Ole Miss
    113 replies
  • OT: MSU digs hole deeper, Engler adviser: Nassar survivor's claims of payout 'fake news'
    106 replies
  • Nebraska football
    105 replies
  • OT: Map of college stadiums that sell alcohol
    96 replies
  • Karsen Barnhart - did we cool on him?
    92 replies
  • OT: College Football video games coming back
    90 replies
  • UCF Knights unveil 2017 championship banner
    89 replies
  •  
  • 1 of 6
  • ››

Support MGoBlog: buy stuff at Amazon

a reason for all of the DB recruiting...thinking out side the box possibly

7 posts / 0 new
Login or register to post comments
Last post
March 5th, 2009 at 3:19 PM
#1
dpowell7
Joined: 11/12/2008
MGoPoints: 18
a reason for all of the DB recruiting...thinking out side the box possibly

Looking over the recruiting board for 2010 something hit me. We are high on 4 defensive backs. They are all 4-4.5 star players according to brians guess. We are only recruiting 2 DT's. One is already commited (Guy and the other goes to Southeastern). I understand that the DT's are few and far between this year but maybe just maybe the reason that we are going for so many DB's is because we are planning to switch to the 3-3-5 defense. Fewer DT's are needed obviously and a ton of D Backs and inbetween players, like we have recently recruited, are needed. Players that have size of linebackers or saftey's but are quick. I know we are kind of thin at DB this coming year as well, but you never know. I'm just throwing a crazy idea out there...

Top
  • Login or register to post comments
Tags:
  • MGoBoard
  • undefined

Comment viewing options

Select your preferred way to display the comments and click "Save settings" to activate your changes.
March 5th, 2009 at 3:32 PM
#2
LJ
LJ's picture
Joined: 07/05/2008
MGoPoints: 17328
I don't have a link, but

I remember Rod stating during the search that we will remain a 4-3 base defense, and Robinson has repeated said we will have both 4-3 and 3-4 fronts. Never any mention of the 3-3-5 at all. I don't see why they would be lying to us, or why Robinson would have been hired to run a defense with which he has no experience.

The 2010 recruiting season has just started (unless you're Texas)--there's still plenty of time to identify and offer DT's, though the class is light on them.

Top
  • Login or register to post comments
March 5th, 2009 at 3:49 PM
#3
wolverine1987
wolverine1987's picture
Joined: 07/07/2008
MGoPoints: 11614
Don't think so.

Otherwise we wouldn't have been actively recruiting and hoping that Graves and Jones would stay committed, plus the public comments re: keeping the 4-3.

Top
  • Login or register to post comments
March 5th, 2009 at 5:47 PM
#4
MGoObes
MGoObes's picture
Joined: 07/05/2008
MGoPoints: 1122
i'd say

it's much more likely that we need corners and that's the reason we're recruiting corners. but then again i'm thinking inside the box.

Top
  • Login or register to post comments
March 5th, 2009 at 6:38 PM
#5
Six Zero
Six Zero's picture
Joined: 09/05/2008
MGoPoints: 10549
That's Gold, baby

Don't overthink it, fellas... Rich's gotta stock the shelves.

Top
  • Login or register to post comments
March 5th, 2009 at 10:54 PM
#6
Magnus
Magnus's picture
Joined: 07/17/2008
MGoPoints: 123042
sorry but you're wrong

We're not switching to a 3-3-5. At least not while Greg Robinson is here.

Top
  • Login or register to post comments
March 6th, 2009 at 8:43 AM
#7
Magnus
Magnus's picture
Joined: 07/17/2008
MGoPoints: 123042
Yes. Yes, you are throwing a

Yes. Yes, you are throwing a crazy idea out there.

In other news, I think we've offered so many running backs because we're going to start running the wishbone.

Top
  • Login or register to post comments
Powered by Drupal, an open source content management system
Theme provided by Roopletheme; sidebars adapted from Chris Murphy.