Denard: Big Ten Offensive Player of the Year
Press Release:
Robinson Named Big Ten Offensive Player of the Year
PARK RIDGE, Ill. – The 2010 Big Ten Football Awards were announced Monday evening (Nov. 29) during a live show on the Big Ten Network, with University of Michigan sophomore quarterback Denard Robinson (Deerfield Beach, Fla./Deerfield Beach HS) winning the conference’s offensive player of the year award from both the coaches and media. Robinson was also named to the All-Big Ten first team by the media and earned honorable mention recognition from the coaches.
Robinson directed the league’s top-rated offense that racked up 500.9 yards per contest. The Wolverines led the Big Ten in rushing (251.1 avg.) and were second in passing (249.8 avg.). Robinson set the NCAA record for rushing yards by a quarterback with 1,643 yards on 245 carries this season. He led the Wolverines with 14 rushing touchdowns. He completed 155-of-250 passes for 2,316 yards and 16 touchdowns. Robinson became the first quarterback in NCAA history to rush and pass for 1,500 yards in a season with his performance in 2010.
Joining Robinson on the coaches’ first team was senior/junior center David Molk (Lemont, Ill./Lemont Township HS); he also earned All-Big Ten second-team honors from the media. He started all 12 games in 2010 after missing the majority of the 2009 due to multiple injuries. Molk was a Rimington Trophy candidate the past two seasons.
Junior nose tackle Mike Martin (Redford, Mich./Catholic Central HS), fifth-year senior linebacker Jonas Mouton (Los Angeles, Calif./Venice HS) and junior/sophomore Roy Roundtree (Trotwood, Ohio/Trotwood-Madison HS) earned all-conference second team honors. Martin received his selection by the coaches with Mouton and Roundtree collecting their honors from the media. Martin also collected honorable mention accolades from the media.
Martin collected 36 tackles, six tackles for loss and 2.5 sacks during an injury-riddled season. Roundtree is the league’s third-leading receiver with career highs in every major receiving category, collecting 63 receptions for 882 yards and six touchdowns. Mouton led the Big Ten in tackles with an average of 10.1 stops per contest; posting a career-high 111 tackles this season.
Fifth-year senior left guard Stephen Schilling (Bellevue, Wash./Bellevue HS) earned honorable mention All-Big Ten from both the coaches and media. Junior/sophomore safety Jordan Kovacs (Curtice, Ohio/Clay HS) earned honorable mention from the media.
Fifth-year senior linebacker Mark Moundros (Farmington Hills, Mich./North Farmington HS) was named the Big Ten Sportsmanship Award recipient for the Michigan program.
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November 29th, 2010 at 7:08 PM ^
Eat that, Dan Persa! He was the primary competition right?
November 29th, 2010 at 7:10 PM ^
Stanzi and Pryor might have been other canddiates.
November 29th, 2010 at 7:11 PM ^
I guess the /s was necessary
November 29th, 2010 at 9:49 PM ^
I guess I'm missing how or why that was sarcastic. Persa was definitely a candidate, and in fact, he made first-team All-Big Ten at QB.
November 29th, 2010 at 7:11 PM ^
If Pryor won it, I would've started a riot on the streets of AA.
November 29th, 2010 at 7:14 PM ^
If there's any kind of violence involved, Pryor would have just joined in!
November 29th, 2010 at 7:16 PM ^
Love, not war, in the streets of Ann Arbor... just ask Anne Hathaway.
November 29th, 2010 at 7:25 PM ^
http://www.bigtennetwork.com/dpp/sports/football/2010-Big-Ten-Football-Award-Winners
Interestingly enough, Persa was media 2nd team while Tolzien was coaches 2nd team. Robinson was honorable mention QB by the coaches.
November 29th, 2010 at 7:59 PM ^
I love that kid.
November 29th, 2010 at 8:28 PM ^
When he finally cracks a smile at the beginning of the video, my worries for the program disappeared. If I was on that team, his attitude would elevate me so much, and I would give everything it takes for him and my teammates.
November 29th, 2010 at 9:04 PM ^
Yes precisely! I'm so happy for this kid... This might be premature, but I mean this: He is my all-time favorite Wolverine. He's got uncanny charm and ability, and he could very well save RR's job.
November 29th, 2010 at 8:38 PM ^
When he smiles, I smile.
November 29th, 2010 at 9:23 PM ^
November 29th, 2010 at 7:08 PM ^
Congrats to Denard!!
Up next... Heisman:
November 29th, 2010 at 7:13 PM ^
Next year should be the year. Michigan guys win the Heisman when they're juniors, and playing OSU at home.
November 29th, 2010 at 7:45 PM ^
make a good point,we need to keep coach and roll with the punches that were delt this year.We might be in a january 1st bowl,there's a chance.Next year will be awesome,bookit!!!
November 29th, 2010 at 7:10 PM ^
Here's your bag of dicks, Terrelle.
November 29th, 2010 at 7:10 PM ^
the Big Ten OPOTY and $1.06 will get us at McDouble.
seriously though, really happy for him. well-deserved.
November 29th, 2010 at 10:00 PM ^
I would give him way more than just one free McDouble, so I guess that's not true.
November 29th, 2010 at 11:54 PM ^
Hey now, you gotta make him pay for it. We don't want any eligibility issues!
November 29th, 2010 at 7:10 PM ^
Wooooo! There is no doubt in my mind that if Martin was healthy all year he would be 1st team as well. Congrats to everyone honored! Go Blue!
November 29th, 2010 at 7:11 PM ^
Here's hoping he's fully healthy for the bowl game to give everyone one last good show until 2011!
November 29th, 2010 at 7:12 PM ^
Fuck it!!! Let's flush that all down the toilet and hire an arrogant asshole as head coach who disparaged the University when it suited him to elevate his status.
/SHOOOT ME IN THE FUCKING HEAD
November 29th, 2010 at 7:14 PM ^
100% agree. If David Brandon does that, I will literally walk down to the AD and piss on their front door.
November 29th, 2010 at 7:16 PM ^
We will need photographic evidence.
November 29th, 2010 at 7:20 PM ^
More like microscopic evidence : (
November 29th, 2010 at 7:22 PM ^
....Self-inflicted burn?
November 29th, 2010 at 8:02 PM ^
Congratulations!
You are the first, and only, male on the internet NOT to claim to be hung like a bull elephant.
Your prize: your very own Swedish penis enlargement pump hand signed by Mike Meyers
November 29th, 2010 at 7:18 PM ^
That might be a tad bit of an...
November 29th, 2010 at 7:16 PM ^
And why, praytell, would this be "flushed down the toilet" if we hired Harbaugh?
November 29th, 2010 at 7:29 PM ^
seriously? praytell? We're not the Harvard of the West, they are the Michigan of the East.
November 29th, 2010 at 7:43 PM ^
Harvard is a good school and I've heard of it, but Harvard will NEVER be Michigan.
November 29th, 2010 at 7:18 PM ^
I mean, I understand forgiveness and all that jazz, but Mr. Michigan Man fucking threw our program under the bus for his own personal gain. Why do people conveniently ignore that?
November 29th, 2010 at 7:20 PM ^
If David Brandon doesn't care about some three-year-old sound bites, does it really make sense for us to do so?
November 29th, 2010 at 7:24 PM ^
You're assuming he doesn't.
November 29th, 2010 at 7:36 PM ^
I'm assuming he isn't, because it would be an absolutely idiotic reason to reject his candidacy.
November 29th, 2010 at 7:47 PM ^
I disagree. Anyone who worked their ass off to get to this University would never do something like he did. That wasn't just some random burn. He thought about that long and hard (TWSS). It was calculated and it was a horrible thing to say at a time when he knew it would hit hardest. He is a classless asshole.
November 29th, 2010 at 7:30 PM ^
doesn't mean that I have to follow suit as a fan. I have my own opinions, and frankly I don't appreciate that this dude went out of his way to say the things he did. They aren't just "soundbites." It was a deliberate and unfounded attack on our athletic department.
November 29th, 2010 at 7:38 PM ^
And a lot of people outside Michigan think RR is an asshole, too.
I have a feeling that if he actually becomes our head coach, you'll suddenly see him in a different light.
November 29th, 2010 at 7:53 PM ^
I'm just pointing out that I don't think that fans should just give him a free pass because he's an alum and is winning football games.
November 29th, 2010 at 9:34 PM ^
Harbaugh is objectively an asshole based on his words and deeds. RR not.
November 29th, 2010 at 8:38 PM ^
It was also a slam against all his former teammates and all the other football players who graduated from Michigan.
Yeah, I'll get behind JH if he is named Coach. But there is no denying that this guy can be full of himself at times; and at least this one time it was to the detriment of his alma mater.
November 29th, 2010 at 7:37 PM ^
i feel the same way.
if harbaugh were to come back for the '85 celebration and show even the slightest contrition, i might back off on the hatred, but it looks like that's not going to happen.
at this point, rodriguez is more of a Michigan Man than harbaugh, in my book.
EDIT: typo
November 29th, 2010 at 8:18 PM ^
And it is times like this in life that I want to stand up on something tall and scream so fucking loud because I know something horrible is about to happen and I am the only one thinking clearly about it and we have suffered the last three seasons but we are right there and we are so fucking close and I love Denard and I want to see him succeed and I feel really bad for how Rich was treated here and I think he has done a great job molding these young men and I think he is so close to breaing thorough but the cloud of stupidity from ESPN and Detroit is so loud and so negative it makes me so fucking mad that I have no say and I can't do anything about what is going to happen. This is so fucking frustrating. I have been at UofM for exactly three seasons. 2008 was my first as a student and this will be my last. This is so fucked, man.
November 29th, 2010 at 9:01 PM ^
You said it. Speak truth to power.
November 29th, 2010 at 9:52 PM ^
I'm just sayin'. Also, Denard is awesome. I kind of regret helping to start coachageddon banter in this thread when there are a billion others out there.
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