Ever played with/against a UM athlete?

You played?  Played with?  Against?

I coached Kevin Grady in baseball, and played against John Aines in baseball.

My younger brother played against David Harris and Ruben Riley in football.  Harris was obviously in a different league; bigger and faster than about everyone on the field.

But some of these people have:

http://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/famous-high-school-opponents?quicktabs_1=0&q...

I remembered that thread and thought it was from last month, but it was November...

NOT an M athlete, but I played middle school bball against Mark Ingram.  I probably went through puberty in like 6th grade, so I always looked older, but man, Mark looked like an 18 year-old D-1 prospect in 8th grade.  He had big muscles...

Also, I've seen JT Floyd playing (last year) some bball at CCRB, and he was SLOW.  I'm really hopeful his "burst" has improved in the past year as they've been saying, because man, I'm a clunky white guy and I could almost run with him.

Played against Zoltan in intramural mini-soccer. As the goalie, I'm proud to say that he didn't score on us. Of course I'm not sure if he realized that he was supposed to get the ball in the net and not above the crossbar. Not surprisingly he had some power, and is a giant man.

I was a freshman when Stevie Brown singlehandedly beat my team. This guy was/is a freak of nature on the football field. If only he hadn't broken his ankle that year playing dodgeball in gym class...

Also, I was at football camp (IU camp) and Kurt Wermers was a Michigan commit at the time. One of my coaches said I should go shake his hand. It's too bad I didn't considering he needed all the luck to pass his classes at Michigan. A good luck and go blue could have gone a long way.

I beat Gerald Ford at beer pong.

I have known/played football with Taylor Lewan since I was seven.

I played one year of football with craig roh.

I played with all members of the 2004 men's lacrosse team.  They were awesome.

Monster euchre tournaments with some of the football and swim team members back in the day. Some of of them were pretty good.

I have played pick up ball with big Dave many times and gone fishing with him once. Dude is hilarious.

I "raced" Morgan Trent in HS.  And by "raced" I mean he crushed me. 

I frequently played pickup ball with Michigan* basketball players.

*UM-Dearborn

I got to over-size box in one of those inflatable rings with 3 other football players in there.  It was in the West Quad courtyard.  It was awesome.  I am not actually sure what the festivity was to have all of those games in the courtyard, but it was in the spring.

I once used a urinal next to Denard Robinson.

Terrell posterized a buddy of mine playing IM basketball.

Also ended up in a pickup game of touch football with Will Carr, he quite rightly demanded that it should be 4 hand for him since no one on the filed could realistically bring him down by themselves.  It was a couple years after he graduated, was a really nice guy.

I tossed pizza with DB, he could toss higher and made a mean crust.

I opened with a drop kick to the mid-section of his thumb, and it was all down hill from there.  It was even for a while, but it turned out that his thumb was just toying with me.  His thumb let it go the distance just to make me feel better about myself.  I ended up losing by double digits at the hand of just one of his.  He bought me a couple beers afterwards to raise my spirits - man, can that thumb drink!

Still trying to appear normal until you reach 20 points and post new topics?

Played IM Hockey against Matt (Mr. Irrelevant) Elliott.  He was way too large to be a good player, but he was anyway.  And while the IM league is no check, I still crapped myself when it looked like he was lining me up for a Fetisov hip check.

against Jay Riemersma........He dunked on me (not a huge accomplishment, as I am 5'11) but put up a "tre" the next time up the court. Redemption!!

Next to the Black Student Union powderpuff game in, I want to say 2006. He was easily the most graceful person on Palmer Field that day, had hands that could handle an eggshell, and was still a monster of a human being. It was unreal to watch him up close. There were other football players there too that day, but man, Watson was something else.

Brian Thompson when he was at Saginaw Nouvel. He wasn't that big then, he definitely bulked up at Michigan. His brother Shawn was at the game (he was a senior at Michigan at the time) and was a monster.

I once played OL against LaMarr Woodley back in HS.  That's why I've been dead for the past 9 years.

A buddy of mine got stiff-armed by Antonio Bass in high school. Said he did everything right but Bass still constantly made him look foolish.

What could have been.

not me but my roommate played adrian arrington and mike hart in beer pong back in 2007 at a small bbq thing at a friends house who was in order of Angell.  this was a few days after the ND game and mikes guarantee we'd win it.  it was a pretty close game but on the last cup hart proclaims i'm gonna sink this i guarantee it.  he drops back and makes it thus game over.  carson butler and arringon had to drag him away as he did some major shit talking. 

I once received a beatdown from Caron Butler.

I played football in HS against Dave Armstrong's team (Central Bucks West 97 98 98 Pa state champs) He was a 6'4 240 RB, I believe he played DE for UM but ended up at Bloomsburg. Guy was a beast, ran over us all scrimmage but I did hit him with a great crack-back block that actually knocked him out of the game for 2 plays.

Can't think of any M players off-top, but I played against Paul Davis (MSU) in high school basketball.  He won the tip, made a beilein to the hoop and caught an alley-oop, passed from beyond the 3-point line, for a dunk.  All within the first five seconds of the game.  He was pretty good at playing basketball, and playing Karl the Giant in Big Fish.

I went to Dearborn High School and I saw Tractor Traylor play (dominate) a few games in Districts his senior year. He was a man amongst boys to say the least. I also witnessed Ian Gold win the 100m dash. He was screaming (aka talking shit) the whole race, while Bellville finished in 1st, 2nd and 3rd place. I could not imagine anyone playing football against a kid like that in highschool. Both were a couple years older then me. To a lesser extent I was teammates with Brodie Killian (97-01) who is lucky enough to have a beautiful National Championship ring (which looks great on my finger by the way). I'm sure no on has heard of him, but he was one of the best leaders I've have ever met (if that means anything).

I played basketball against Austin White quite a bit. I also played in a flag football tournament that Mike Martin was in.

dunked on my friends and me in a game at the CCRB.