Lewan, Omameh, Hagerup earn first team all-B1G; Lewan OL of the year, Hagerup Punter of the year
Watching the all-conference selection show on BTN. Patrick Omameh was named first team all-conference by the coaches while Taylor Lewan was named first team all-conference by the media.
EDIT: Will Hagerup has been named first team all-conference. While Jake Ryan gets snubbed. Jake Ryan, Jordan Kovacs and Craig Roh receive second team honors.
EDIT EDIT: B1G Honorable Mention: Will Campbell, J.T. Floyd, Devin Funchess, Jeremy Gallon, Brendan Gibbons (Y NO FIRST TEAM?!), Denard Robinson and Roy Roundtree.
SUPER EDIT: Taylor Lewan receives the "Rimington-Pace" OL of the Year Award.
EDIT BONANZA: Will Hagerup wins the "Eddleman-Fields" Punter of the Year Award. But wasn't named 1st or 2nd team by coaches. Alrighty then....
No Jake Ryan. Awesome. Way to go BIG TEEEHNNN.
November 26th, 2012 at 7:09 PM ^
November 26th, 2012 at 7:09 PM ^
Interesting that Omameh got first team honors. I kind of thought he got a bit of a bad rap on here, although I'm not sure I would have pegged for first team...
November 26th, 2012 at 7:10 PM ^
Per Angelique, Lewan is first team for both coaches and media.
Pretty surprised about Omameh.
November 26th, 2012 at 7:10 PM ^
No Jake Ryan? Or haven't they named defense yet?
November 26th, 2012 at 7:12 PM ^
November 26th, 2012 at 7:14 PM ^
November 26th, 2012 at 7:20 PM ^
What a bunch of fucking horseshit. No Jake Ryan.
What do you expect from the BIG TEEHHN.
November 26th, 2012 at 7:21 PM ^
No Jake Ryan is a joke...
Even though Lewan may have gotten 1st team, I still think he's a bit overrated... Oh well
November 26th, 2012 at 7:22 PM ^
No Jake Ryan, No Ryan Shazier and No Braxton Miller on the coaches' first team. Talent evaluation isn't our thing apparently.
November 26th, 2012 at 7:27 PM ^
I'll give it to miller. He had a great year. Michigan did a great job containing him, but he is 10x better of a QB than Taylor Martinez. He looks like he's throwing a chicken with his throwing motion.
November 26th, 2012 at 7:35 PM ^
Sure, you can show a funny picture of him, but look at the stats:
TM - 63.3%, 2483 yards, 8.1 y/att, 21TD, 8INT, 148.3 rating
BM - 58.3, 2039 yards, 8.0, 15TD, 6INT, 140.5 rating.
BM outrushed TM 1271 13TD to 833 8TDs, but that still brings the total yardage and TDs to a small edge for Martinez, and they'll always weigh the passing stats a little heavier for QBs. Either way, it's not like Miller has a great argument, especially since he arguably played a weaker schedule.
November 26th, 2012 at 8:13 PM ^
for the props WolvinLA, and congratulations to the Wolverine players honored.
BTW, you owe me a beer. Guiness will do.
November 26th, 2012 at 8:46 PM ^
I mean, who would you rather have? Head-to-head Miller hung up 350+ yards and a few TDs, while Martinez turned it over three times and lost by four scores. I know it's not the be all, end all, but Miller probably gets invited to NY, and Martinez obviously has no shot.
November 26th, 2012 at 8:55 PM ^
is not who would you rather have. I would rather have Denard than either of those two, but placing Denard above those two on an All Big-Ten list is wrong (for this year, anyways).
November 26th, 2012 at 9:23 PM ^
we were lucky as fans to get to watch them in the same season. I know I loved watching Denard play and there was no bigger individual difference maker in the conference.
November 27th, 2012 at 12:35 AM ^
It depends. As a pure running QB, I'd probably take Robinson over Braxton or Martinez. If you're looking for someone who can run or pass, I'd take Braxton over Martinez or (healthy) Robinson. Robinson makes too many dumb throws. If he's up against a defense that can shut down the run, he's in trouble. Miller isn't the best passer - although he has his moments - but he's able to regularly put the ball where a defender can't get to it.
November 27th, 2012 at 1:05 AM ^
Except for that time when, as a first year starter, Denard put up better numbers than Miller or Martinez. He also was a 1st team All American.
November 26th, 2012 at 7:23 PM ^
Omameh? really? If thats the case this would suggest that Barnum and Mealer were literally the worst interior lineman in the BIG...no way we have two first team all conference lineman and a solid right tackle and run the ball like a 5 year old popwarner team.
November 26th, 2012 at 7:26 PM ^
Denard had great success rushing the ball
November 26th, 2012 at 7:37 PM ^
Denard's ypc was a full two yards better this year than last year through 12 games (7.6 to 5.6). It was also a yard better than his regular season total in 2010. He missed 2.5 games and had more rushing yards this year than last as well (and couldn't throw to keep teams honest in his last two games). If healthy he has a 1,500 yard season.
Obviously Denard is awesome but he was just as awesome in the past. Something really weird was going on with the way teams defended us or the way we blocked certain plays because his numbers really did shoot up compared to last year while Fitz and Co. saw a pretty much exactly corresponding drop in effectiveness (5.8 ypc to 4.0 for Fitz).
November 26th, 2012 at 7:49 PM ^
I think as a senior Denard pretty much had that running shit figured. I was always amazed by his patience and I think he took it up a notch as a senior. Denard could truly make chicken salad out of chicken shit.
November 26th, 2012 at 8:01 PM ^
Everyone on here is certain that Borges ruined Denard! How can his stats this year be better than last year!?!?
November 26th, 2012 at 8:24 PM ^
It was weird watching Fitz this year when he was running.. Rarely did I have those "wow" moments that I had last year. I hardly saw him do any jump cuts to avoid tackles..
This year he kind of just tried running to holes and got stuffed all the time..
November 26th, 2012 at 7:30 PM ^
To be honest I dont think Roh deserved to be on second, doesnt seem like he made that big of an impact.
November 26th, 2012 at 7:33 PM ^
Yeah honestly I forgot about him for a lot of the year. I guess that's good because he wasn't getting exposed, but he wasn't really making any big plays.
November 26th, 2012 at 7:35 PM ^
It seems like they took career playing time and seniority into account.
November 26th, 2012 at 7:32 PM ^
Surprised for Patrick, thought this was a down year for him, but he did some great things for us over the years.
November 26th, 2012 at 7:42 PM ^
Well done gentlemen. Would love to see Lewan stay,but I'm not sure this helps!
November 26th, 2012 at 8:03 PM ^
weird that campbell got honorable mention but washington didn't. he seemed to be the better d lineman throughout most of the year.
also baffled by the omameh selection.
November 26th, 2012 at 8:20 PM ^
November 26th, 2012 at 8:23 PM ^
The ladies love the Big Will but the Washington Monument is more impressive. QWash needed the single woman vote to make first team, but they sat this one out.
November 26th, 2012 at 8:05 PM ^
There seems to be a definite bias in favor of upperclassmen at play here.
November 26th, 2012 at 8:09 PM ^
Glad Denard got the HM... is that some manner of All Conference selection every year as a starter?
November 26th, 2012 at 8:29 PM ^
Omameh but no Jake Ryan? No wonder we're so far back of the SEC, our coaches have no idea on how to evaluate talent
November 26th, 2012 at 8:49 PM ^
Big Ten coaches not actually watching football explains a lot.
November 26th, 2012 at 10:14 PM ^
No Jake Ryan??? Da fuk? What a load of horseshit. Dude played at a first team All American level this year, let alone Big Ten all conference.
Nice to see Omameh get first team. He was our most consistant interior OL, although tbh I thought he regressed a bit this year. I would have though Q would get HM over Campbell but eh they kinda went back and forth this year between which one of those 2 were playing well on any given game.
Lewan didn't look too good against OSU, crossing my fingers he will pull a Jake Long and come back for his senior year to get the bad tase out of his mouth.
November 26th, 2012 at 10:05 PM ^
2 of our 5 offensive linemen are supposedly first team studs but we can't pick up 3rd and short for the life of us? Not buying it. Unless our other 3 linemen are made of paper mache.
Lewan had a horrible game against OSU, wouldn't be surprised to see him come back next year to avenge the loss.
November 26th, 2012 at 10:28 PM ^
Congrats to all the guys who received All-Conference recognition, regardless of team. Really glad someone like BWC was able to earn HM honors after such a tough start to his time at Michigan.
November 26th, 2012 at 10:29 PM ^
Congrats to all of these kids.
Hagerup was very good this year, no doubt, but I think that someone who focuses only on his average yards per punt (45.0) would overrate him. We bring in Wile for the short punts, which takes a lot of skill and drags down that per-punt average.
November 26th, 2012 at 10:35 PM ^
I saw somewhere that Hagerup wasn't eligible to be first or second team because he has too few punts this season.
November 26th, 2012 at 11:09 PM ^
It's not as much a snub as people are acting like. For a weak as the B1G is this year, it has a ton of very good LBs. And any team of any one of the players that were ahead of Ryan would have rightfully been upset that their guy wasn't on the first or second team.
November 27th, 2012 at 12:59 AM ^
Hagerup had 35 punts for an average 45.09 yards.
Ryan Allen of Louisiana Tech leads the nation with 45 punts for an average of 48.04.
If I sort the list of national punters by punts, the Alexander Kinal of Wake Forest leads with 95 (with an average of 40.71 ... not surprisingly, Wake Forest was 118th in 3rd down conversions), while the 100th punter was Chase Tenpenny of Nevada with 40.
So yeah, Hagerup falls below even that ... sorted by number of punts he'd be well below 100th in the nation. But by average he'd be 9th.
On the whole I'd rather be a team that doesn't punt that often. But bummer he's not getting the first-team recognition he deserves.
EDIT - this was supposed to go under the post above about some "minimum number of punts" to qualify. My bad for not paying attention to where the comment was going to go.
November 27th, 2012 at 10:48 AM ^
You know what the craziest thing? Omameh was a unanimous selection! Lewan, meanwhile, was not. Crazy but the lack of appreciation for the man that is Jake Ryan is sad, especially after the season he had.