Doug Dutch
I don't recall ever seeing Doug Dutch on the field. Despite being one of the country's best receivers coming out of high school--#12 according to Scout and #10 according to Rivals--he caught only four passes for 34.5 yards in his entire Michigan career before switching to cornerback, where he continued to sit on the bench.
What's the story behind him? Was he just buried on the depth chart behind a bevy of more talented receivers (Edwards, Avant, Manninghham, Arrington)? Did he suffer from the injury bug? Off-field problems? Something else?
February 15th, 2009 at 3:35 PM ^
Yes, Dutch was buried behind a bunch of more talented receivers. In the 2006-07 offseason, he switched to cornerback when Carlos Brown tried corner and was thinking of transferring.
He didn't suffer any significant injuries, as far as I know, and he didn't have any big off-field problems. He just lacked sufficient talent.
He was put on the field once at cornerback last year (that I remember) when we were having a very hard time tackling. I think the coaches were just looking for SOMEbody who could tackle and not allow a big play. Dutch promptly allowed a big play, ducked his head when trying to tackle a guy, and missed the tackle horribly. He was subsequently yanked and I didn't see him play defense for the rest of the year.
February 15th, 2009 at 5:47 PM ^
i recall in the '06 season he found himself WIDE open on a go route, chad put the ball right on him and he let the ball go right through his hands.
"He just lacked sufficient talent."
that's putting it nicely
February 15th, 2009 at 3:50 PM ^
he was overrated coming out of HS and had attitude problems.
February 15th, 2009 at 4:07 PM ^
he was banging my buddy's sister. She's good looking and fiesty, so I imagine he was too tired to perform in practice and that reflected heavily on his playing time.
February 15th, 2009 at 4:16 PM ^
Do you have any inside info on Forcier's dating habits, too?
February 15th, 2009 at 5:28 PM ^
I've heard he's a lot like Sunshine from "Remember the Titans."
February 15th, 2009 at 4:50 PM ^
I've heard of Doug Dutch indiscriminately banging many, many women on campus; ugly and non-ugly alike. If his on-the-field contributions rivaled his off-the-field "contributions" I'm sure he'd be a 4 year starter.
February 15th, 2009 at 6:14 PM ^
Doug Dutch was always trying to mack on my women friends...
*Shakes fist like Colbert*
DAMN YOU DOUG DUUUUTCH!!
February 15th, 2009 at 7:48 PM ^
from Maryland.
He ran a crazy 40 time but couldn't catch anything, IIRC. He got a couple Kickoff returns under RR.