Kirk Herbstreit and his Herbies

Submitted by MGoManBall on

I'm not sure if voting on these different preseason awards will effect the outcome but Michigan players are in 3 of the votes for Herbies.

Jeremy Gallon is in the discussion for Herbie's Best Kept Secret.

Derrick Green is one of the Fresh Faces nominees.

Devin Gardner is in the vote for the "Taking It To The Next Level" Herbie. 

I'm a little surprised to see UM didn't get in the discussion for his Best Defense Herbie over Florida State or South Carolina (one player doesn't make you good).. but whatever.

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O Fo Sho

August 21st, 2013 at 3:10 PM ^

Seems to be liking MSU to play in the Championship game vs. OSU.  Our season will be a complete fail if that happens.  I expect State's D to be good, however I don't think their offense is up to this level. 

MGoLogan

August 21st, 2013 at 3:32 PM ^

ESPNU had their Big Ten Preview on last night and both Tom Luginbill and Mike Bellotti picked OSU to win the Leaders and UM to win the Legends.  Bellotti picked OSU to beat UM in the CCG but Luginbill actually picked UM to win the conference.  Luginbill appears to be a huge Devin Gardner fan.  He actually picked Gardner to win the Big Ten Offensive Player of the Year and mentioned he thought he was the most impressive QB at the Manning Camp (which featured Johnny Manziel and Tajh Boyd, among others).

maize-blue

August 21st, 2013 at 3:55 PM ^

I'm not sure State's offense will be up to any level. I listened to an interview with a guy from SpartanMag and it sounded like they have 3-4 QBs who could potentialy be their starter. One of the QBs who looked the best was a true freshman.

I don't even know who their RBs are. They have maybe one decent WR. That offense stank last year and I think it will be worse this year.

Hi Gang

August 22nd, 2013 at 1:09 AM ^

Hill's best attribute is his speed.  Langford if faster and getting a LOT more carries in scrimmages than Hill - and he's producing.  Hill has trouble breaking tackles.  Langford is breaking tackles.

Langford was an ATH recruit.  Tried a few positions.  Now, making a really strong push for the starting RB roll.  Holmes (true freshman from Flint) is making some noise too.

Hill will probably be a return guy.

As for the passing game (as someone stated earlier), the WR's are catching the ball much more consistantly. 

MSU's back 7 on D are as good as any in the bigten.  Maybe the best in the bigten.

The front 4 are heavy in depth, but don't seem to be as good as recent years.  Calhoun is a projected breakout player.  Gholston sat a lot of 3rd downs last year, and Calhoun capatilized.

Lawrence Thomas at DT is the X-factor.  If he breaks out, like predicted, the front 4, with Rush, Calhoun, Thomas, and Hoover or Reynolds should be a +.

The corners are beyond solid, so there's room to blitz Allen - a natural blitzer.  And blitzing Allen freed Rush during his freshman year to make a lot of noise.

MSU will be better this year.

maize-blue

August 22nd, 2013 at 3:17 PM ^

IDK

I cannot be conviced MSU's offense will be anything other than inadequate this year.

Their defense will keep them in alot of games, like last year, but they will lose games like last year because they won't be able to score more than 1-2 TDs a game.

ahw1982

August 21st, 2013 at 7:37 PM ^

I find it hilariously ironic that this guy tries to make a living critizing others for doing a crappy job at their line of work, when this guy's website belongs in the Encyclopedia Of Poorly Designed Websites.  I couldn't read half the content of the article because it was blocked by pop-up video ads.

JTrain

August 21st, 2013 at 4:42 PM ^

And I like it when Spielman gives insight about the technical aspects of football, but otherwise I think he (Spielman) is sub-par calling games. Spielman is definitely the bigger "homer" of the two.

Agree about Pam Ward. Not a big fan of her calling football games.

Danwillhor

August 21st, 2013 at 8:00 PM ^

100% here. Wrote about it a while back. CS has changed since osu was put on probation. Really took off his objective glasses for scarlett colored ones. Herb can be mostly objective but it feels forced sometimes. Ward is just awful.

GoBlueRandy

August 21st, 2013 at 4:55 PM ^

I actually don't mind Herbie all that much. I feel he is fairly objective and no more of homer than Des is. Plus I can always watch the clip of him getting knocked out in the Big House if he says something I disagree with.

Bombadil

August 21st, 2013 at 5:06 PM ^

I will only say this now while downvoting is turned off but I'm a fan of Kirk Herbstreit, not as much as Desmond but I think he brings a lot to ESPN NCAAF coverage.