Rzr

December 3rd, 2021 at 12:24 PM ^

"Then in that early October, Sumner got either a call or text from Michigan running backs coach Jay Harbaugh. Sumner said to Wasson, “Oh my gosh, Jay Harbaugh’s coming down here to come take a look at Hassan.” Sumner said, “You had just hoped somebody’d see that in him. You just go, ‘Look at what this kid’s made of!’” He said, “It was just a sigh of relief, like, Gosh, somebody’s doing their homework like we’ve been begging people to do.”"

Jay Harbaugh does not get enough credit because his last name is Harbaugh.  This program will miss him one day.

 

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mjw

December 3rd, 2021 at 12:32 PM ^

Also, best part of the article for those you can't access it:

The whole scenario led to a hell of a one-liner Eureka assistant Tyler Wasson retold to Orion Sang of the Detroit Free Press in 2019: “We had a Big Ten school that comes in and watches him jump six-foot-seven and practice, and the guy told me, ‘Well, he can’t break sixty-yard runs. Maybe he’ll break a thirty.’ And I looked at him and said, ‘Well, give it to him twice.’”

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DairyQueen

December 3rd, 2021 at 2:31 PM ^

What does "jump six-foot-seven" mean??

Olympic High Jump?

EDIT: To start I'm happy to see Haskins get the recognition he deserves (and for him to give the O-line the recognition they deserve).

But it's wild how inattentive writing/journo has become. Not just bizarre and clunky, but opaque and even ignorant:

"Some said he ran too “tall,” a reminder of the bizarre world in which they dwell."

 “How about this: It was fun on the way up with the excitement,” Sumner said. “It was a bit longer going back.” (with zero elaboration)

"He saw all those things he always saw — “wonderful qualities and work ethic and skill set,” and “being that constant guy” — and he saw them featured in something that looked very much like a justice." ("like a "justice"??--judge? Elaborate or contextualize? Nope, nothing.)

"Then by last Saturday, Haskins had joined the foremost reasons Nov. 27, 2021, will live forever in Michigan football history." (Unreal clunky, doesn't even need to be it's own sentence, even sytlistically--just addend it to another sentence.)

I could go on and on, it looks like their was no editor, and I have to assume a word-minimum.

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901 P

December 4th, 2021 at 9:21 AM ^

I just took a look--yeah, the writing is pretty terrible. One thing about the "legacy" newspapers like NY Times and WaPo--whatever you think about the content, the writing and editing tend to be top-notch. I almost never find a typo in a NY Times story, which is pretty impressive. But this article--yikes. How about this sentence:

"And even while recruiting analysts tend to sort out inscrutable national puzzles with surprising accuracy, both these dignified men became those kinds of stories that inspire people and flatter the players who steadily create them: from the depths of the Friday night national star lists to the heights of the national fall Saturdays." 

Talk about inscrutable! 

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dickdastardly

December 3rd, 2021 at 12:33 PM ^

I truly hope he continues to have success off his hard work regardless of what he does. He's a shining example of what we don't see or have praised a lot any more. And that is HARD WORK.

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MGolem

December 3rd, 2021 at 1:48 PM ^

If we keep winning you will be familiar with Zamir White (number 1 on that list) very quickly; he is Georgia's de facto starter at RB though they have a stable of guys they use. Haskins would be at worst number 2 overall on this list upon re-rank. Well done Jaybaugh. 

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MGlobules

December 3rd, 2021 at 12:53 PM ^

Hassan is definitely now one of my all-time favorites, and I go back to Tom Harmon stories around the dinner table in my Michigan family. 

We get a lot of ideas for t-shirts around here, but make one with Haskins that says "Give it to him twice!" and I will buy a pile!

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CJW3

December 3rd, 2021 at 1:05 PM ^

Always love to hear good stories about Hassan, but my God, that's some of the clunkiest prose I've ever read. How does a guy like this get a writing job? 

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UMVAFAN

December 3rd, 2021 at 1:10 PM ^

If Chris Evans didn’t get suspended, would Hassan have moved back to offense? I wonder what kind of linebacker he would have been if he stuck on the defensive side of the ball? I’m happy he moved back to running back, but his move back to offense was due to a lack of depth at running back at the time as opposed to some insight that he’d have arguably the first or second best running back performance against OSU during his career at Michigan. Funny how things work out, and he deserves all the praise for being a humble, team first player.

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gweb

December 3rd, 2021 at 2:26 PM ^

Hassan has cemented his name into Michigan history. My son had a choice to make at the beginning of the season… who’s jersey did he want to buy?  

He made the right choice, 25!

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Bo Harbaugh

December 3rd, 2021 at 3:31 PM ^

Hassan Haskins is the manifestation of a RB from Jim Harbaugh's imagination.

Like one of Harbaugh's favorite players ever, Frank Gore, he takes away your will for 4 quarters.

He turns 2 yard gains into 5 yard gains.

Not only do DB's not want to tackle him by the 3rd quarter, LBs too start shying away from contact and making weak arm tackles.

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