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January 6th, 2013 at 10:49 AM | Word. (Score:3 Normal)
GunnersApe
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I used to blow smoke up my mothers ass too.

Fuck it, Dude, let's go bowling.

January 6th, 2013 at 2:55 PM | You blew smoke up your mom's ass?... (Score:5 Normal)
redwhiteandMGOBLUE
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So, That's How It Is in Their Family

New Oldsmobiles are in early this year.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIdGxR-aU6o

January 6th, 2013 at 10:29 PM | I'm not an Indian but i don't (Score:4 Normal)
RedGreene
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I'm not an Indian but i don't think that's the right way to send smoke signals.

Yes I got him a gift. He had a kidney stone. You piss a rock through your pecker, you deserve more than just a pat on the fucking back.

January 5th, 2013 at 11:27 PM | Getting Green would be big (Score:5 Normal)
ThadMattasagoblin
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Getting Green would be big for getting Reuben Foster since they are friends.

903 wins most in college football

January 5th, 2013 at 11:38 PM | Getting Green (Score:5 Normal)
MGoBrewMom
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Would be great for or running game too

Mom, MGrad and life long fan living in So Cal

January 5th, 2013 at 11:53 PM | Yeesh (Score:3 Normal)
Blazefire
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Don't you know that the national recruiting championship is the important thing, now?

"This is the EMU game, not the emo game."
January 6th, 2013 at 1:24 AM | this Reuben foster talk is (Score:4 Normal)
there_in_2005
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this Reuben foster talk is such nonsense guys. I mean, come on.

January 5th, 2013 at 11:29 PM | I know too (Score:5 Normal)
brooktrail
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January 5th, 2013 at 11:36 PM | Is (Score:5 Normal)
THISISMICHIGAN33
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Is that the State of Ann Arbor.

THIS IS MICHIGAN

January 5th, 2013 at 11:45 PM | The People's Republic of Ann (Score:5 Normal)
ReadYourGuard
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The People's Republic of Ann Arbor.

"the Spirit of Michigan...is based on a deathless loyalty to Michigan and all her ways....and a conviction that nowhere is there a better university, in any way, than this Michigan of ours" - Fielding Yost
January 5th, 2013 at 11:53 PM | Republic of (Score:4 Normal)
Frito Bandito
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Republic of Dave... Nntd

/fallout3'd

Bears Beets Battlestar Galactica

January 5th, 2013 at 11:54 PM | Apparently someone made a flag (Score:4 Normal)
gopoohgo
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January 6th, 2013 at 12:01 AM | Why (Score:5 Normal)
Blazefire
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For the love of FARK is that thing red?

"This is the EMU game, not the emo game."
January 6th, 2013 at 7:44 AM | Nevermind the hammer & sickle (Score:5 Normal)
mgobleu
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Nevermind the hammer & sickle right in the middle of it; that color is atrocious!

January 6th, 2013 at 9:38 AM | its Red Because (Score:5 Normal)
coldnjl
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Nike trademarked maize...

January 6th, 2013 at 11:39 AM | Looks like somebody's been (Score:2)
Seth
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Looks like somebody's been playing a lot of golf.

(Blogger alias: "Misopogon") This team is under construction. We thank you for your patience.

January 5th, 2013 at 11:37 PM | If he's waited this long, he might as well wait until NSD (Score:3 Normal)
Don
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so he can milk the process for all it's worth.


January 6th, 2013 at 1:03 AM | Fine with me. As long as he's (Score:1 Normal)
OmarDontScare
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Fine with me. As long as he's happy with M and ready to commit I could care less when he announces

I got the shotgun. You got the briefcase. It's all in the game though, right?

January 5th, 2013 at 11:43 PM | BALTIMORE -- Two years ago, (Score:5 Normal)
MJ14
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BALTIMORE -- Two years ago, Derrick Green looked nothing like an invitee to The Opening. As a matter of fact, he didn't even look like a tailback.

Green, who now is 6-foot and 215 pounds, was once a 5-8, 268-pound offensive lineman. Suffice to say, Green, a running back from Richmond (Va.) Heritage who ranks as the nation's No. 83 player, worked hard secure his ticket to The Opening.

"I was always downhill," he said. "If you look at my film, I'm not really a bounce guy. I'm a one-cut-and-go, real straight, north-south runner and I have the speed to kick it up in sixth gear. All that bouncing and shaking, I wouldn't say that was me. If you're in the way, I'm going to blow you up. I'm not going to try to shake you.

"At my school, they call me 'The Freight Train.' I like that a lot. I'm going to run you over and let you know I'm here. I'm coming."

Green and his family said he has consistently run the 40-yard dash in the 4.3 area.

When Derrick read on a website that he didn't catch the ball well, father and son were outside working on pass-receiving for hours after work and school.

"He wanted to get better, so we had to take the time to get him better," Chris Green said. "The next camp he went to, they were saying he had hands good enough to play wide receiver. He accomplished that. He got over that hurdle."

Derrick led his family to better health, and he's also trying to inspire his teammates. He used to be the only player to run laps after practice. Now most of the team is joining him. When he gets his allowance, it's already spent. He buys food -- probably salad -- for the team on Wednesday evenings while they study game video. He takes his offensive linemen to Golden Corral if the team wins on Friday night.

Good article on Derrick. You can read it all here: http://espn.go.com/college-sports/recruiting/football/story/_/id/7923008...

January 5th, 2013 at 11:57 PM | "At my school, they call me (Score:5 Normal)
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"At my school, they call me 'The Freight Train.' I like that a lot. I'm going to run you over and let you know I'm here. I'm coming."

We like trains at Michigan stadium.

I think Green just got himself #32.

"This is the EMU game, not the emo game."
January 6th, 2013 at 12:08 AM | D Train? (Score:5 Normal)
Elmer
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D Train?

January 6th, 2013 at 10:05 AM | The Green Line (Score:5 Normal)
robmorren2
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The Green Line

January 6th, 2013 at 10:53 AM | How about (Score:5 Normal)
hailtothevectors
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If he runs for 1760 yards we call him the Green Mile

January 6th, 2013 at 3:39 PM | De' Train (Score:2)
All Aboard
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De' Train

ALL ABOARD THE A-TRAIN!!!!!

" ~ Herm "

January 5th, 2013 at 11:58 PM | Derrick sounds like a good kid from a good family (Score:5 Normal)
Don
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Wherever he ends up, he'll do well.


January 6th, 2013 at 12:02 AM | TTB? (Score:1 Normal)
TJFB
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Is this website referenced by the Green family TTB? One could agrue that if he spent hours working on a perceived weaknesses in his offtime TTB is actually improving our recruiting classes.

http://touchthebanner.blogspot.com/2012/05/mini-scouting-report-derrick-...

January 6th, 2013 at 12:05 AM | No, TTB's scouting report was (Score:2 Normal)
MJ14
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No, TTB's scouting report was two weeks after the ESPN article was published.

January 6th, 2013 at 12:15 AM | Well done (Score:2)
TJFB
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I stand corrected

January 6th, 2013 at 12:20 AM | I was very interested once (Score:1)
MJ14
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I was very interested once you posted that, because I thought it would be epic if so. I was bummed when I found out that was not the case!

January 6th, 2013 at 12:28 AM | 5'8" 268?? (Score:5 Normal)
bluetell
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Holy cow, dude was a sphere back then. To say he has gotten in shape would be the understatement of the year. What a turnaround to go from 5'8" 268 to the nation's #1 HS RB

Rudy watches inspirational movies about Shawn Hunwick

 

January 6th, 2013 at 12:37 AM | Dang (Score:3 Normal)
yoyo
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Dang.  Is he gonna get sanctions for paying high schoolers in meals?

January 5th, 2013 at 11:42 PM | He is not coming to Michigan (Score:2 Normal)
pessiMICHtic
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He is not coming to Michigan because Hoke can't close...right? (sarcasm) 

3-3-5 til the day I die y'all

January 5th, 2013 at 11:51 PM | Seriously, just to put to (Score:5 Normal)
turd ferguson
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Seriously, just to put to rest some of the nonsense about that, part of me wants him to choose Michigan on Signing Day (HOKE CAN'T CLOSE LATE) by picking a Michigan hat instead of an Auburn hat (HOKE CAN'T WIN HEAD-TO-HEAD BATTLES) and then remind the country that running back is in fact a SKILL POSITION.

January 6th, 2013 at 12:01 AM | Fighting a losing battle my (Score:5 Normal)
FreddieMercuryHayes
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Fighting a losing battle my friend. We'll always find something to complain about. Next it will be "Hoke can never get 6'4" WRs from Utah on odd numbered days in January".

January 6th, 2013 at 12:28 AM | Ha (Score:5 Normal)
TrueBlue25
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Won't you feel foolish once we flip Ammon Barker on monday.

"I have three kids and no money. Why can't I have no kids and three money?"

January 6th, 2013 at 7:57 AM | It's not really a skill position (Score:4 Normal)
Mr Miggle
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when it's filled by a Freight Train.

Eating is murder.

January 5th, 2013 at 11:52 PM | Many (Score:2 Normal)
Hokemaniac24
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Many sources said yesterday Michigan tops his list... Hopefully this is true. 

2013 will be the year.

January 5th, 2013 at 11:53 PM | Green & his family said he's consistently run a 4.3-area 40 (Score:1 Normal)
Don
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I'll give that 3 fakes out of 5.

Rivals lists him as running a 4.4, while Scout lists one of his weaknesses as "breakaway speed", saying "not a conventional breakaway threat because of raw speed..."


January 6th, 2013 at 12:02 AM | Same people who said a state (Score:3 Normal)
MJ14
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Same people who said a state track and field champion, who ran slightly slower than a college Denard, was slow, after having run a different event shortly before.

January 6th, 2013 at 12:21 AM | I would give that 5 fakes out (Score:2 Normal)
crazyjoedavola
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I would give that 5 fakes out of 5, that is Denard speed... Green looks to me around a 4.5 guy, which is still fast for someone his size.

January 6th, 2013 at 2:48 AM |  in the 2nd half of the army (Score:1)
B1G_Fan
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 in the 2nd half of the army game, Green ran a toss sweep on a 4th and 2. I'll say this he looked plenty fast to me. Not that there is much difference between a 4.3 40 and a 4.4.

January 6th, 2013 at 12:02 AM | its time for Green to become (Score:2 Normal)
Ball Hawk
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its time for Green to become a legend

If at first you don't succeed, skydiving isn't for you.

January 6th, 2013 at 2:29 AM | #1? Braylon no like. (Score:4 Normal)
willywill9
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#1? Braylon no like.

Touchdown Michigan!

January 6th, 2013 at 5:55 AM | negged for #1 on RB (Score:-1 Offtopic)
January 6th, 2013 at 12:18 PM | Negged for talking about (Score:0 Flamebait)
January 6th, 2013 at 12:25 PM | You're welcome for doing that (Score:4 Normal)
Magnus
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You're welcome for doing that thing you requested.

Twitter - Recruiting Update: May 20

January 6th, 2013 at 12:06 AM | So (Score:1)
maizeonblueaction
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do we have an estimated date for when he does announce said knowledge?

So it goes.

January 6th, 2013 at 12:10 AM | He has said that he will (Score:4 Normal)
Magnus
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He has said that he will announce sometime in January.  That's as specific as it gets.

Twitter - Recruiting Update: May 20

January 6th, 2013 at 12:17 AM | (No subject) (Score:3 Normal)
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How many times have you been on the freeway and had someone fly by you at 100 mph then end up 2 cars ahead of you at the off ramp? What's the point? -Mark Harmon

January 6th, 2013 at 12:31 AM | I don't know if the wolverine (Score:5 Normal)
bluetell
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I don't know if the wolverine is the only one to break this story, but it usually bodes well for school X when their rivals site is the one breaking the news on omg shirtless guy

Rudy watches inspirational movies about Shawn Hunwick

 

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