Spring Roster Overanalysis

Lalota. I thought his issue was being in the 235 range, but at 263 (BG's weight) he obviously has the size to provide some depth on the line. He was a highly regarded recruit and would be a nice addition behind Roh and/or Van Bergen.

Building leg strength puts on weight fast, but boy you have to eat lots

"Any trainers or lifters out there: What in the hell do you have to do to add 17 pounds of muscle."

Front page of the Freep: RichRod force feeds his players 'roids to gain otherwise impossible amounts of weight.

Actually, while 17 pounds is a lot of weight,it is not at all out of the realm of reasonable. I recently put on 10 pounts in about 3-4 months, and at 33, I am an old man compared to these kids. Assuming that the weight gain program started in late November, that is approximately 16 weeks, so about a pound a week. The guys who put on 17 pounds (even Bell) are big freekin dudes, so 17 pounds for then would be like the average person putting on 10-12 pounds in 4 months - totally reasonable. They are also 18-20 years old, lifting more consistently than most gym rats and probably eating diets that are focussed on muscle gain.

You can put on a lot of muscle weight in a given period (which is often followed by a long plateau of not putting on any).

"Be sure to drink your Ovaltine"

Now I'm 190. Yeah that was a year ago.. And yeah my metabolism is catching up to me.

(Hint it's not muscle)

Spent 7 months in the middle east desert with nothing to do but lift. Regularly did protein drinks with lifting and went from 170 to 198 in that time. Very possible to gain alot in short periods of time. Side effects thoug, couldn't run anymore (military required that), broke a vertabrae in my back and slipped two discs, still paying for all that to this day. Probably not smart to gain like that the way i did it.

Jones at LB. He's the lightest scholarship LB by far. so i'm not exactly sure what the game is. despite exhorting otherwise for a while, i think Brian called it. we'll see more of a 4-2-5, with two spurs, perhaps only one of whom will be capable of playing a deep half.

Not to hijack the thread, but I took a shot at explaining it here:

http://touchthebanner.blogspot.com/2010/03/what-will-michigans-defense-l...

Hawthorne is a weak safety. Jones is now an inside linebacker (Mouton's spot).

And Washington getting slimmer can only help his chances at winning the other guard spot.

I think an o-line of Lewan (6'8 283), Schilling (6'5 303), Molk (6'2 270-275), Washington (6'4 307), and Omameh (6'4 293) is pretty solid. They should have good pass blocking from the left side and solid run blocking on the right, exactly how you want it.

The amazing thing is that Lewan is RS Freshman, Molk is a RS Junior, Washington is a RS Freshman, and Omameh is a RS sophomore, meaning our o-line will only lose Schilling. But the possibilities to replace Schilling are endless-- Barnum (RS SO), Mealer (RS SO), Khoury (RS SO), Huyge (RS JR), and Schofield (RS SO).

How long have you had that bad boy loaded and ready to drop on us?

This is amazing.

a million, billion, bazillion cocktails to you, sir.

On the audio, when he peers around the corner, he is asking, "Is it Media Day yet?"

So I'm sitting in a super dry genetics symposium at this work conference, see your comment and literally laugh out loud. I'm also sitting in the very back so a lot of people turned around to see who was laughing.

Mortifying slash completely worth it.

"No Fatties".

You're not missing anything, you just happen to have a brain unlike the purveyors of that myth.

Both lines last year put relatively less pressure on the scale than previous teams. They were young. I don't think RR'/Barwis' approach is outside of the coaching mainstream in regard to building players up over time. (Or slimming the fat ones down.) It's natural. It's also not an earthshaking revelation that good defenses have big players. Ergo, with defensive players in 10 bigger than they were in 09, Michigan should allow fewer points.

Yay!

I just calculated the average weight for our projected OL starters (Dorrestein, Schilling, Molk, Omameh, Huyge), it's 295.2, and I expect that to be a pound or two bigger on average come the start of the season. That's not Wisconsin or Oklahoma big, but it's not a small line either.

Hemingway isn't Dez Bryant. Hemingway wasn't fast to begin with. In fact, the reason he dropped in the recruiting rankings his senior year of high school was because scouts didn't think he had "big play ability" (aka speed).

more than a bit on this thread...

Yea I thought that was a real surprise. I hope that a lot of the weight isn't from fat from this offseason, even if it is then I'm sure he'll lose that all in spring training. But 227 will def. limit his ability as a deep threat which he did have the ability for last season.

That's what I was thinking also - I don't know the stat for his average kick, but I kind of remember he was solid on kickoffs.

there's a decent chance we'll see him move inside.