Unverified Voracity Was On The Other Side
Rudock versus M. I missed this in April when it was posted; let me repair that omission now. Wolverine Devotee put together an every snap video of Jake Rudock playing Michigan in 2013:
Rudock threw three interceptions, but only one of those was really his fault. On the other two he got obliterated as he threw; one of them deflected to Brennen Beyer for a Rather Fit Guy Touchdown and the other required Raymon Taylor to make a great play to dig out a play that was otherwise open. The third was real bad, a Blake Countess bait and switch job that went directly to him.
For the day Rudock was 19/30 for 8 YPA and 2 TDs and the three INTs. Of note: every pass Rudock is actually trying to complete is dead on the money except a flea flicker that hung up in a 25 MPH wind. The long Tevaun Smith touchdown was greatly facilitated by Rudock locating the pass where Smith could catch it and keep running without so much as breaking stride—something that is a consistent strength of his.
The interceptions are not much of a worry since he just went through a season in which he had five against 16 TDs. I think he's pretty good.
More ENDZONE Brandon's Lasting Lessons excerpts. From Michigan Today on Hackett:
“I was retired,” Hackett recalls, “sitting at our home on Spring Lake, convalescing from my hip replacement on my right side. Already had the left one done. And the idleness hit me—and I realized something that I didn’t realize before: I don’t like to be idle. I’m wired to be busy. Serving on boards is good, but they only meet once a quarter. I have a lot of energy, and particularly like solving problems,” a central part of the CEO mindset.
Schlissel refrained from telling Hackett that Brandon had just resigned. Instead, Hackett recalls Schlissel saying, “I don’t know what’s going to happen next. I just need to know if you’re interested. And I need to know tonight.”
From ESPN on the 2011 coaching search:
And that's what it came down to. Not money. Not power. Not fame -- but love. And Michigan, under Brandon, wasn't offering it to Harbaugh.
"I will never know what Brandon's motivations were," Anson told me, "but it seems clear to me that Dave was so insecure that he needed to be the big deal and could not countenance a strong personality as Michigan's head football coach.
"The 49ers swooped in and grabbed Jim, while Michigan stood on the sidelines. In my mind, Michigan should have had Jim locked down a month before that, and could have. I can only conclude that Dave Brandon is the sole reason Jim did not become our football coach in 2010."
Now it can be told (because it's in the book) that Anson is the gentleman who bought Jim Harbaugh those ties.
The Hoover Street Rag has a review and Bacon talks with ESPN as well.
Well, yeah. Beilein, nation's top offensive coach:
Beilein, entering his ninth year as Michigan head coach, was voted as the best offensive coach in the country in CBS Sport's annual "Candid Coaches" series, an anonymous polling of nearly 100 Division I basketball coaches at all levels.
Unfortunately this poll doesn't come with the set of anonymous comments it has in the past. Those were always interesting and, in the case of Beilein, highly complementary.
Hiding in the hidey-hole. OH YEAH THAT GUY
John Beilein can take a good joke every once in awhile. Chalk it up to those Irish-German roots.
That's why he cracked his familiar wry grin last week. It was suggested that, should the 62-year-old Michigan basketball coach have any skeletons in his closet, now would be the time to air them out.
"What do you mean?" he asked.
"No one is paying attention, John," he was told.
"Oh man, I'm loving it," Beilein said, laughing. "I absolutely love that part of it. I have no problem with that."
John Beilein can start a world war or eliminate snakes from an island every once in a while. Chalk it up to those roots.
Not that bad. Joel Klatt visited Michigan practice and came away relatively impressed:
"They're not even in the same sentence right now in their own division with Michigan State and Ohio State, but here's the misconception," Klatt began, speaking on The Rich Eisen Show. "The misconception is that they're down talent-wise. I like Brady Hoke, but Brady Hoke underachieved to an enormous level with the talent he had. ... When I went yesterday, I was pleasantly surprised to see the type of talent they had.
"I don't think nine wins is out of the question. I could see nine wins this year."
Since they only play two teams in the preseason top 25 that is certainly within the realm of possibility. Michigan's schedule has many winnable games… and many losable ones. Many outcomes are plausible.
Etc.: Michigan's director of social media on the hacking incident. I do like this. I do love the Big Ten. BYU loses a starting TE. 1977 player intros. Cometh the Doylepocalypse.
August 24th, 2015 at 4:10 PM ^
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No, I believe if you look, they used the author of the article's name as a "for instance." That, or the person who fell for that phishing scam, was then assigned to write that article about it too which seems weird.
That whole report/data dump was a very odd release and I'm not really sure for who's benefit, honestly.
August 24th, 2015 at 4:59 PM ^
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August 24th, 2015 at 4:14 PM ^
August 24th, 2015 at 5:04 PM ^
I can already hear people complaining about the tipped passes. Navarre redux.
August 24th, 2015 at 5:32 PM ^
Must be hearing an echo...
August 24th, 2015 at 4:15 PM ^
Just wondering if he will be healthy . He was limping a little outside of Youth Day.
August 24th, 2015 at 5:09 PM ^
Aubrey looks short in this photo (great pic!)
August 24th, 2015 at 5:25 PM ^
He's standing next to DJ who's 6'9 even before you take into account the Kid n Play haircut
August 24th, 2015 at 6:33 PM ^
also the giant headphones on Kam. and the depth causing perception issues... I get it. he still looks short ;)
August 24th, 2015 at 4:23 PM ^
The Michigan State section of the EDSBS Big Ten post was laugh out loud funny.
August 24th, 2015 at 6:11 PM ^
It bears mention that the author of the EDSBS article is a Michigan grad and fan. So she is particularly plugged into the MSU fanbase's mindset.
A pretty funny read overall.
August 24th, 2015 at 4:24 PM ^
The cupboards were not left empty, The cupboards are full and ready to go nutz! Just need a little dash of Harbaugh!
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August 24th, 2015 at 4:28 PM ^
What about having "Irish-German roots" suggests you'd be able to make jokes? Are either of those cultures known for being particularly funny? I guess Irish maybe sorta, but German??? What a weird aside.
August 24th, 2015 at 5:20 PM ^
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I am from Germany! I am funny! I will exterminate you! Awkward!!!
August 24th, 2015 at 4:31 PM ^
Too cool. Anson is the brother of my boss.
August 24th, 2015 at 4:32 PM ^
"In my mind, Michigan should have had Jim locked down a month before that, and could have. I can only conclude that Dave Brandon is the sole reason Jim did not become our football coach in 2010."
Ugh, reading that is some painful shit.
August 24th, 2015 at 5:14 PM ^
Like I said, that did suck to know that though.
August 24th, 2015 at 4:34 PM ^
even the most well-trained social media professionals are still subject to human error.
That's pretty disappointing that someone whose job is to handle the social media is falling for phishing scams. It's pretty well established that no company will ever ask you for your name and password in an email or messenger app. It's also not that hard to check a URL before you click it.
August 24th, 2015 at 4:34 PM ^
read the Bacon book already. The many excerpts from which I've seen I think that it would be contentment for me to not purchase it. Of course there's much more. The playing field in college football is is becoming more to where I think about the games for most team's are winnable, loseable.
August 24th, 2015 at 10:01 PM ^
I used the Google gibberish-English translation on this post and it still came out gibberish.
August 24th, 2015 at 4:51 PM ^
1. Jake Ryan <3
2. @ 7:09 mark, lolz. 6 Total Yards in the 2nd half; 119 yards for the game. Not going to miss that.
August 24th, 2015 at 4:52 PM ^
after watching his highlites i realized he has more td passes thrown to a michigan player then morris does.
August 24th, 2015 at 5:05 PM ^
spends summer throwing into wind stream of jet turbine #fleaflicker #HARBAUGH
August 24th, 2015 at 5:08 PM ^
I'm hoping Rudock will be good but those highlights show a really average player. I put some of the for blame the first interception on him. Sure it was going to a big loss but just throwing the ball like that there is a really bad idea.
He just is what he is and hopefully the defense and rest of the team is good enough to make that work but the only reason Iowa won that game was because Michigan had a pathetic offense and Mark Wiseman and co. eventually wore the defense down, not Rudock.
August 24th, 2015 at 5:19 PM ^
your judging rudock on a game from his soph season? in a game that he won by the way, i would judge him as far more then average at this point.
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Which one does: good pocket presence, decision-making, and accuracy.
If OL/TE/RB are effective (I think they will be), play action could be very effective for us this year
August 24th, 2015 at 5:21 PM ^
Interesting that you were able to find the 1977 team introductions from Keith Jackson. The beginning of that game coincided with Anwar Sadat's arrival in Israel for peace negotiations. Network TV broke in and covered the arrival live. It preempted the opening minutes of The Game. My father was apoplectic.
ABC returned to the game. Ohio State 3, Michigan 0.
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August 24th, 2015 at 5:31 PM ^
Can you imagine Denard Robinson and Devin Gardner after a couple years with Harbaugh? OMG that would have been incredible.
August 24th, 2015 at 5:59 PM ^
I bet Harbaugh would've converted Denard to another position immediately.
And before you exclaim "KAEPERNICK!", Kaepernick is a far more polished passer than Denard will ever be.
August 24th, 2015 at 9:42 PM ^
Dammit, stop raining on my parade! In my dream world, Harbaugh wins 3 National Titles with Denard and Devin at QB! Seriously though, Denard had a lot of raw material to work with and with a little actual coaching, could have improved a lot. I really think he and Devin were let down by the coaching staff under Hoke.
August 24th, 2015 at 5:53 PM ^
It's true, I once saw John Beilein kill a guy. With kindness. Then he buried the body in a bath of newly-poured concrete near the new Player Development Center.
I await the episode of Mythbusters: The College Years, when you will all find out exactly where.
August 24th, 2015 at 5:57 PM ^
Wow. I feel old all of a sudden
August 24th, 2015 at 9:44 PM ^
and it's been an amazing ride. A lot of great kids and fun teams. Here's hoping he stays another 10 or more.
August 24th, 2015 at 6:33 PM ^
Rudock's positive attributes
Accurate
Athletic
Poised good pocket awareness
Spreads ball around to a lot of receivers
Good command of team and offense
Intelligent
Able to shake off negative plays and mistakes and not let them bother him
The only neg that I can possibly see is that he does not have "a gun"...but he may not need to. This is not the NFL
Other take away from this game is that it is a typical Mattison era defensive performance: Generally solid, however several big mistakes cost them the game.
Mattison was also outschemed big time by the Iowa OC in the second half. He had no answers to what Iowa adjusted to.
August 24th, 2015 at 7:19 PM ^
I'm also encouraged by the fact that Rudock put up the numbers he did at Iowa behind a horrible offensive line. It wasn't the trainwreck Michigan had but it stil wasn't very good.
August 24th, 2015 at 10:44 PM ^
August 24th, 2015 at 7:08 PM ^
I get to root for both the best defensive coach and the best offensive coach in basketball. I fucking love college hoops.
P.S. and both are basically the awesomest individuals and stand-up gentlemen in the whole sport too. I really fucking love college hoops.
August 24th, 2015 at 7:22 PM ^
Thanks for the excerpts . . .
That Brandon wanted a coach he could dominate, a certified underling, was my intuition. Didn't chalk it up to insecurity, but that fits. Fits with those arch emails he sent as well . . . what a schmuck the guy is, a little man.
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