Hooray. Michigan OL depth issues are in the rear view mirror.

Submitted by Blue boy johnson on

Making it through the 2012 football season without burning any of the 5 freshmen OL's RS was a stroke of great fortune. Going forward into 2013 and beyond Hoke and Co. will have the depth needed on the OL to conduct the physical practices they desire and have great competition at all positions.

Leaving Taylor Lewan out of the equation, with early enrollees, M should have around 15 OL for spring ball and 18 OL once summer arrives, which should allow Hoke to conduct practice as he sees fit. I am counting Bosch and LTT as early enrollees, and Kugler, Fox and one other OL arriving in the summer.

With only two seniors on the roster in 2013 (Schofield and Gunderson), and 5 more freshman arriving in 2013, going forward into 2014, M should have more than adequate depth on the OL from this point forward.

I am not making a judgement on how well the OL will perform in 2013 (too many unknowns), just commenting on the relative wealth of depth on the OL.

If Taylor Lewan returns, not likely IMO, then depth is that much better.

Spring ball should be awesome.

Returning Scholarship OL:    
1 Erik Magnuson OL FR
2 Ben Braden OL FR
3 Kyle Kalis OL FR
4 Blake Bars OL FR
5 Jack Miller OL RS FR
6 Chris Bryant OL RS FR
7 Michael Schofield OL RS JR
       
Walk On's who played and looked serivceable:
8 Burzynski, Joey OL RS SO
9 Glasgow, Graham OL RS FR
       
Incoming Freshman:    
10 Kyle Bosch OL HS
11 Chris Fox OL HS
12 Patrick Kugler OL HS
13 Logan Tuley-Tillman OL HS
14 Dawson/Lacy/Hunt OL HS
       
Walk-On's who add needed depth:  
15 Ben Pliska OL FR
16 Erik Gunderson OL RS JR
17 Kristian Mateus OL RS SO
18 Dan Gibbs OL FR

 

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November 30th, 2012 at 4:12 PM ^

Not seeing it yet. You have 12 scholarship OL for 2013 and that is without any attrition, injuries or non-qualifiers. Normally that should be more like 18 or so. Even granting Burzynski as a legit player you are giving a lot of credit to walk-ons. Attrition does happen too and was the source of this problem in the first place. We can't even put together a two deep next year without counting either 3 true freshmen and/or walk-ons. With an injury or two in spring the entire second string OL is walk-ons. We need to go through another recruiting class cycle where we add 4-5 guys to replace Schofield (and Lewan possibly). And with limited injuries or attrition. We're getting closer but the risk is still pretty big next year. 

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