Michigan vs. CMU (Postgame Thread)

Lot of young talent. Glen Mason sucks balls.  6 freshman playing special teams, can't wait to see all the bitching about burning redshirts.  Morris looked solid.  Looking forward to the first clown who suggests he redshirt NEXT year!!  O Line was solid, backs played well.  Lot of things coaches can use as teaching moments.  

Michigan is already starting to show depth...and most of the team is Fresh and Soph.  The future looks very very bright for Michgian football.  I thought both Green and Smith showed potential. 

Rawls looked really good and seemed to have an extra burst that he did not have last year.  Fitz looked like 2011 Fitz.

The OL played well as a unit.  I was impressed by Glasgow, he had a couple bad plays and penalties but he is an improvement over last years guards.

Great to take the fam to the game and enjoy a nice win at the Big House.

Best / scariest moment - during warmups when Michigan was punting from North End Zone and Norfleet ran into a CMU coach at the opposition's 40 yard line.  Norfleet and the CMU coach both got laid out (coach had three to assist him up).  But Norfleet came up a little gimpy.  Coaches and Hoke all came over and talked to him and he was fine by game time.  But Hoke immediately turned the drill around so we were punting into the North end zone.

Loved the excitement and the energy and the students and the packed House.  One thing that was a challenge for me was how LOUD the piped in music was during warm-ups.  My ears are literally still ringing.  I've been to a crap-ton of concerts and this was about the same.  Oh well, if that's the worst thing of the day, then it was a pretty kick-ass day!!  Go Blue!

I thought both Freshman RB's ran tough, not sure why some of you still seem to want to pit them against each other.

Anyways, interior OL was better than expected, may not be getting the push now we want however weren't getting pushed back like a year ago so that is nice to see.

Michigan Wolverines (1-0)

Passing
	CP/AT	YDS	TD	INT
D. Gardner	10/15	162	1	2
S. Morris	4/6	59	0	1

Rushing
	ATT	YDS	TD	LG
D. Green	11	58	1	30
F. Toussaint	14	57	2	20
D. Gardner	7	52	2	22
D. Norfleet	1	38	0	38
D. Smith	7	12	0	4
T. Rawls	3	12	1	9
D. Johnson	2	9	0	7
J. Hayes	1	7	0	7

Receiving
	REC	YDS	TD	LG
J. Gallon	4	47	1	16
D. Funchess	2	47	0	36
J. Reynolds	1	45	0	45
D. Dileo	2	43	0	36
J. Jackson	1	17	0	17
D. Norfleet	2	15	0	12
J. Butt	1	8	0	8
F. Toussaint	1	-1	0	0

Kicking
	FG	LG	XP	PTS
B. Gibbons	1/1	29	8/8	11

Punting
	NO	AVG	I20	LG
K. Allen	1	51.0	0	51

Kickoff Returns
	NO	AVG	TD	LG
D. Norfleet	4	27.0	0	39

Punt Returns
	NO	AVG	TD	LG
J. Gallon	1	2.0	0	2
D. Norfleet	2	-0.5	0	2

Defense
	SCK	INT	FF
C. Gordon	2.0	0	0
R. Taylor	0.0	1	0
C. Wormley	1.0	0	0
B. Beyer	1.0	0	0
M. Ojemudia	1.0	0	0

 

Offense was rusty. However, the OL played MUCH better overall than at any point last year. Fitz is back. Gardner needs to make better decisions and not force things. He did make better decisions and passes than Denard though. The secondary seems a little iffy. Hopefully Gordon back at safety will help. DL got good pushes up front, and our blitzes always got to the backfield. Overall, defense didn't let up all game, and the offense started clicking after a rough/rusty start. Bring on the Domers.

Rewatching now. And as of 8 min left in the second- Gardner does not look good

Beyer had a sack today and also a forced fumble.  Best game I've seen him play.

This is clearly Hoke's best team to open season. Score another for recruiting/player develpment. What is encouraging to me is that there is plently of room for improvement. 

Devin scrambling is good. Cut down picks and he is all Big 10. Shane throws a nice ball, especially rolling out. Looked confident, but it was CMU. Cam Gordon played really well. Good to see. He has been through a lot. Stribling looks legit. I was always confident in his recruitment. Screw the stars. Hail Mattison! Gedeon seems to be a pure football player. Number 42 seemed to be in on lots of special teams plays, and he was always around the ball when he got in on defense. Kalis was very solid. Norfleet HAS to eventually break one, right?? Guarantee he got his ass chewed for trying to field that rolling punt early on. Guarantee it won't happen again. Too many penalties and turnovers.

(Devin) started a little shaky. Got through that and was fine. Defense looked really good. Next week will be the test. I'm excited about these guys!

I liked beating CMU 59-9, but I will feel even better after beating ND next week.

I liked what I saw in Morris.  He is far more than a "serviceable backup" like ESPN wrote.

We had a t-storm and lost cable, and the stream I had to watch was pretty low-quality and I couldn't always get the numbers. Were any redshirts-in-doubt preserved? I'm not sure if McCray saw any action, for example.