Fun Question: Who would you bring back?
Completely transforms the defense.
I'm recalling a writeup on going to the 4-3 over that mentioned that it can be awesome if you have a dynamic 3 tech. I'll take Mike Messner and sit back and watch the mayhem.
Looking for that kick ass,inside prescence to solidify leadership on OLine.
All star interior, Hutch, Everitt, Baas.
Our OL is too broken for one man to fix. I would go with Mike Hart, as I think if anyone could run behind this o line he could. Maybe Tyrone Wheatley
I would bring back Gary Fucking Moeller.
best coach we ever had.
jdon
we've been above average minus a few years (2006, 1997, ...). In addition, 1997 was all with Moeller's players and Carr's teams seemed to consistently under acheive horribly.
Uhhhh... the guys that went on to play in the NFL were majority Carr recruits from the 97 team.
Carr was also Woodson's lead recruiter.
Moeller was a good coach, but talk about under achieving teams... Were we ever more than slightly above average under Moeller?
LOL... you're so completely full of shit it's laughable.
Two of the most frequently mentioned players here on the '97 team—Woodson and Hutchinson—played their entire careers under Lloyd Carr. Same goes for Ian Gold, Tai Streets, Rob Renes, Anthony Thomas, Steve Frazier, Chris Ziemann, Aaron Shea, James Hall, Daydrion Taylor, Clarence Williams, Josh Williams, Jeff Backus, David Brandt, Tommy Hendricks, Dhani Jones, Dewayne Patmon, and William Peterson.
This is in addition to guys like Marcus Ray and Jon Jansen who red-shirted as freshman and did not play in 1994, seeing their first game action under Carr.
everyone can chill out, I was misinformed. I'll tell my 5 year old self to take better notes next time
Graham or Woodson
and placed your favorite player last, I will have to go with Jake Long or Dan Dierdorf. Jake obviously is amont our most famous OLmen because he went No. 1 in the draft coupled, of course, with a tremendous career in which he was named All Everything in regard to offensive line play. However, in tradition when Bo was listing some of his favorite players, he went out of his way to mention Dierdorf as being one of the best leaders he ever had on the offensive line. I don't know if Jake was as vocal as Dan in the huddle, but when it came to crunch time and the team needed to pick up a few yards, Dan would just say in a not so clean version, "Just run the damn ball behind me." And, of course we always seemed to pick up the needed yardage. So I am kind of torn between naming perhaps the best OLman we've had-hard to name one because we've had so many-against one who was probably equally great and a proven leader. This OL is so in need of a leader that can motivate the other 5. As to favorite, it would be Woodson or Denard w/o a doubt. Now those were two players that epitmotized excitement.
Denard.. It will always be Denard. Unless maybe Zack Novak can suit up and play linebacker or something.
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Mitch McGary
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Would be Woodson, Edwards or Hutch, but honestly for this team it would be Brian Griese at QB because he would stay within himself and not make turnovers, while allowing a great defense and running game to control the game. This team leans too heavily on the QB after watching (no, literally watching) Denard blow defenses up and DG take over games...we need to be a running first and defense best team to win the BiG 10 and Griese would help that happen. Just sayin'.
No disrespect to our current O-Line, but a spade is a spade.
Fielding Yost. ....amassed a record of 165-29-10. Won 6 National Championships and 10 big Ten championships.
From 1901-1905 we outscored our opponents 2,821-42
but I've never seen a Michigan D Lineman play with the ferocity of Mark Messner. He was constantly blowing up plays by being in the backfield faster than opposing QB's could hand off or turn and throw. One man on the DL can make more of a difference than one man on the OL, so I'll go with Messner over any single O Lineman, despite that being the position of greatest need.
Others not mentioned above I'd like to see back, mostly so they could resume great careers interupted by injury, would include DB Tripp Welborne and RB Tony Boles. Those two were game-changers a quarter-century ago, both suffered career-ending injuries that nowadays could be repaired.
Still others I'd love to see back (whose Michigan careers were killed by injuries) would include Antonio Bass, Justin Fargas, and Matt Gutierrez. Bass because he was a fantastic athlete who potentially could have played several different positions at a high level. Fargas had one of the worst broken legs I've ever seen happen, yet he eventually came back after transfering to UCLA and played well there and in the NFL. Gutierrez was a victim more of bad timing than so much a bad injury; he was our starting QB going into '04 until a relatively minor shoulder injury benched him in favor of Chad Henne. Never ever got a chance to regain his starting job as Henne took advantage of his golden opportunity, but I was hugely excited before that season to see Gutierrez play. Went on to play as a backup QB for several seasons in the NFL after transferring out of Michigan to play 2 seasons for Idaho State.
One more (and i can't remember specifically why his Michigan career was so short) who I'd love to see back---David Bowens. Tremendously quick outside rusher who was also strong enough to be a force against the run. once he reached the NFL, I think he played mostly at ILB, and was very dominant there, too.
Tyrone Wheatley.