Why weren't these guys in the North African deserts eatin' sand and battling Jerry, or storming Sicily?

"Grampa, what did you do during the great world war 2?"

"Shut yer yap, ya little bastard!""

Since he cannot be medically redshirted I value any Jake Ryan time we do get but looking at the schedule if he cannot make it back for the 10/12 game vs PSU the next week is Indiana at home - super dazzling offense and al (which we should not need Mr Ryan) and the next week is a bye.  So if not 2nd week of October perhaps better to let him have the next 3 weeks off and come back against MSU.  While it would be preferable to get one game in before said match since the bye is where we'd normally want him to come back to get used to game speed the question is, better to see him get Indiana time and 13 days off after or just all rest and thrown into a rivalry game. Hmm

I wonder if he's a little overloaded mentally and the coaches thought he could use some time to watch plays develop instead of having to run them. 

"Hoke told the Michigan insider that Shane Morris was held out of Saturday's scrimmage because they wanted to rest him. Uh?"

Occam's Razor answer is that he has a problem he'd easily bounce back from if he got rest, but if he didn't could get very, very bad.  This could be anything from overuse injury, exhaustion, acute dehydration, heatstroke, emotional stress, food poisoning or a 24-hour bug.  Granted a lot of these problems (especially exhaustion & dehydration) are stuff the coaches would be on the lookout for and others try to avoid, but this is real life so stuff happens sometimes.  The sorts of things you'd ignore if you're playing Ohio tomorrow, but absolutely no reason to burn out your backup QB during practice.  The important thing is that I can think of a half a dozen and, if given time, over a dozen reasons why a kid could sit out a practice yet be back the next day.

Now yes, Hoke DOES tend to play coy with injury, but just because he downplays every injury doesn't mean every injury is way more serious than he's making it out to be.  If Morris stays out for a few more practices, then we can break out the paper bags and antacids.

Yeah, not good times.  But of course, that brought about the emergence of HenneRobot...

This just feels like a kid trying to do a million things at one time and the coaches realizing that they really don't have a backup other than him, so no need to overwhelm him too early.  And might be a bit of a boo-boo in there as well.

The original West Coast coaches seem to really like that formation (and you'll still see it from time to time in the NFL still today, and probably at colleges that nobody cares about) because it gives you a flat receiver to throw it out quickly to and backs hand the ball off to on belly and trap plays with the proper timing. I think the coaching stints of the original guys loosely match up to your time frame for the end of the split back as major formation. 

Borges will still run some split backs occasionally for reasons the poster that first responded to you touched on. But you'll notice almost all plays out of it will be pass plays, lots of which will include swing passes, and draw plays. Lots of HS teams still utilize it because it gets lateral movement from the defense when forward movement tends to be more difficult to take advantage of for HS QBs.

To answer your question directly though, likely sometime in the midish-90s is when you stopped seeing it on a fairly regular basis. Some teams, such as Borges's UCLA teams, still utilized it as a way to involve the RBs in the passing game, but because it was so difficult to run out of (because college and pro defenses don't have as much issue going horizontally) it really started tipping your hand without really giving any benefit. I-form and offset-I started being used more because they sucked defenses in, you could still pass block out of them, and especially with the emergence of offset, the FB could be used on a lot of the quick hitting flat routes, and the TB could still be used in the screen game and on swing routes to some degree.

Essentially, the upside of the I-form was higher than that of the split back set, and with the offset I, the split back was no longer viewed as an optimal formation.

No more jumping up and down in piles of other people.  Or at all.

The folks who are responsible for wrapping him in bubble wrap and carrying him around needed to get there more quickly.  (If we don't have people responsible for wrapping him in bubble warp and carrying him around then we need to get some.)

Officer is a canine and the door is a doggie door.  That's all i've got. 

and what I am imagining is a scene where the door was open (perhaps DT was trying to hold it shut or close it on them) and during the fracas he jumped up and smacked someone on top of their head over the top of the door? Maybe he's got a "blunt" nail and it caused some scratching?

Also, "manufacture"? It's like...a plant, Man. You don't build plants. Well, maybe like industrial plants, but not like....wait...what were we talking about?