First UM FB blog?
I was gonna post this in the Henson-FSU thing, but thought everyone would want to take a look at it. I was searching because everyone brings up the myth that Carr said he wouldn't recruit any other QBs if Henson committed, when it was really Bowden (at least, first). So, this umich personal site of a guy named Deep popped up last updated in 1997.
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~svijan/mich96_7/12news.html
I went to the homepage, and it's got bball and some other misc shit. Great recruiting info and needs/commits Chart? charts. Even had a forum at one point!
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~svijan/
Anyway, it was cool to read all the old names. Unfortunately you can't get to the archives easily, so there's only the most "recent".
December 11th, 2009 at 6:03 PM ^
This guy probably reads Mgoblog. Show yourself and be posbanged!
Although from the looks of it, the guy has much more important things to worry about now.
December 11th, 2009 at 6:18 PM ^
Might I be the first to nominate Kenyon Rambo, from the Recruiting tab as Name of the Year candidate.
December 13th, 2009 at 1:48 PM ^
Kenyon Rambo was a Douchenozzle that went to tOSU. So thereby is disqualified from "Name of the Year"
December 11th, 2009 at 6:19 PM ^
subsequent decommitment by Grant Irons; not good for my pysche. Don't want to go back there.
December 11th, 2009 at 8:56 PM ^
"James Whitley and William Peterson fill the need at cornerback. A couple of names worth considering here, primarily at safety, are Quentin Jammer and DeWayne Patmon. Michigan may not land either but the need for depth may be addressed by an "athlete"."
I don't believe James Whitley or William Peterson ever filled our needs at corner. And I didn't know Quentin Jammer was considering Michigan. We landed Patmon instead. Cool...
December 11th, 2009 at 10:15 PM ^
William Peterson (now William James, and still playing in the NFL) would've filled our needs at CB, if he hadn't gotten kicked off the team after his sophomore year. The one thing we didn't have in 1999 was a lockdown corner.
December 11th, 2009 at 6:47 PM ^
The dude's a professor at the med school now. But pretty detailed coverage. Surprisingly the recruiting lingo apparently hasn't changed a whole lot over the years; "silent" commits and so forth. Great find!
December 11th, 2009 at 7:03 PM ^
That's fantastic. It would be awesome if Brian could get a hold of him for a quick interview or something... (Or TomVH.)
December 11th, 2009 at 7:43 PM ^
the original! show yourself!
December 11th, 2009 at 8:20 PM ^
This is awesome. I agree - show yourself and we will give sacrifice and praise to a pioneer.
December 11th, 2009 at 8:21 PM ^
thank you.
But
"Quarterback - Stocked for the future with Jason Kapsner and Drew Henson."
Inigo Montoya would beg to differ.
December 11th, 2009 at 9:47 PM ^
Another top RB prospect considering Michigan is RB/FB Anthony Thomas out of Winnfield, LA. Thomas is 6'2, 225 lbs, and runs a 4.5 40, and is considered the top FB prospect in Louisiana. He recently set a state record for TD's scored (102, I think). Some rumors have him favoring Michigan
Sounds like a promising young back...
December 11th, 2009 at 10:31 PM ^
Four fakes out of five.
December 12th, 2009 at 12:38 AM ^
In the 2001 NFL Combine, Thomas ran a 4.54. He had wheels to go with that size.
http://espn.go.com/melkiper/s/2001/0307/1136944.html
December 12th, 2009 at 12:45 AM ^
"Purdue's Drew Brees needs a strong individual workout to answer some of the questions that remain after the combine regarding his ability to throw the ball down the field effectively."
Wonder how that worked out?
December 12th, 2009 at 12:56 AM ^
I always enjoy seeing the 40 times for offensive linemen. Backus - yikes.
Also interesting to note that an FSU linemen only could bench 225 pounds 12 times. He probably lost a lot of money that day.
December 12th, 2009 at 1:25 AM ^
But that was after 4 years of college strength & conditioning (which, we'll assume, existed back then), and then training specifically for the combine 40.
Methinks he didn't come into school at 18 as a fullback running a 4.5. But I could be wrong.
December 12th, 2009 at 1:15 PM ^
Speed training wasn't Mike Gittleson's specialty. His players generally tended to underperform in the Combine. Besides, we saw enough of AT's breakaway speed at Michigan. He was maybe the last every-down back we've had who was a threat to go the distance on any play.
December 11th, 2009 at 10:12 PM ^
If the dude is a professor at the Med School, he shouldn't be hard to get in touch with for an interview... Tim.
Wink, wink.
December 11th, 2009 at 11:52 PM ^
You know how to find him :)
http://directory.umich.edu/ldapweb-bin/url?ldap:///uid=svijan,ou=People…
December 12th, 2009 at 11:34 AM ^
because the University shuts down your personal site like 6 months after you leave the University.
December 11th, 2009 at 10:37 PM ^
Odds are he is a mgoblogger now. Back then all we had were the online detnews and freep, though not many good articles. I wish I would have stumbled on to his site back then, a true pioneer!
December 11th, 2009 at 11:04 PM ^
"The 8 redshirt seniors are Zach Adami, Brent Blackwell, Mike Elston, Brian Griese, Ben Huff, John Partchenko, Glen Steele, and Rob Swett. Of these, I would expect Adami, Huff, Partchenko, Steele, and Swett to remain; the others I am unsure about, especially Griese, who will graduate this spring."
Do we win the national title if Griese wasn't the QB? Remember, it would have been some guy named Tom...Tom.... I think he married a model and had a kid or something.
December 12th, 2009 at 12:35 AM ^
It may have been Driesbach, who had started most of the '96 season - or Jason Kapsner, the blue-chipper who redshirted the previous year. He actually had the most hype of any of them.
December 12th, 2009 at 1:09 PM ^
Brady struggled a bit in his first year as starter. There was a stretch in '98 where we had trouble scoring against some bad teams, and for the most part Griese was efficient.
Still, I may be wrong. By the end of '98 Brady was playing reasonably well, and the toughest games of the '97 season were mostly at the end of the year. The big exceptions were Iowa and Notre Dame, when the offense helped make the games a lot closer with a bunch of turnovers. Griese threw nearly half of his interceptions that year against Iowa, and there was that sequence against Notre Dame in the fourth quarter when the offense turned the ball over on 2-3 straight possessions.
With a senior Brady in '97, though, I think they do go undefeated.