Mgodiscgolfer

December 17th, 2015 at 8:18 PM ^

Well I was listening to Sam talk this QB up to Marcus Ray and Ray said he was a good practice QB. I was assuming that meant  lets see how he plays in the game  Now yoou guys are saying his freshman year he already had lit it up for 3000 yards in game conditions ...No worse 3000 yards as a freshman in game time conditions..

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Indonacious

December 17th, 2015 at 6:07 PM ^

Link says he is a Center. He is also looking at Alabama and UCLA. I think its moreso the staff's mindset regarding competition than a knock on Kugler at the only O-Line position of uncertainty.

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alum96

December 17th, 2015 at 6:24 PM ^

Shots fired... love it.  #Competition

We can't go to the JUCO route like 95%+ of CFB programs can to fill holes so this is the only way to go for us.

Are we still in it for Chad Linsday by the way?

Too soon?

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Danwillhor

December 17th, 2015 at 10:46 PM ^

and I hate to admit it (ha). Lindsay was a guy we REALLY needed and we'd just hired his old OC. We don't get him, he goes on to osu and then the NFL. Huge miss as I still think he could have meant another win or two in a trash year. Now, we can say it was for the best in the end but you can't think that way in CFB.

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Don

December 17th, 2015 at 6:26 PM ^

Raulerson redshirted his freshman season (2013), and played in 12 games in 2014. Since it's stated he's got two years of eligibility remaining, he must have played during 2015 as well. If he's a grad transfer, he's gotten his degree in three years, so he's a decent student. 

The UT website lists him as 6-4/295.  

http://texassports.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=5927&path=football

I remember his name from when we recruited him; he had offers from virtually every big-time program of note back when he committed to UT.

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alum96

December 17th, 2015 at 6:59 PM ^

Ok read through the 71 comments from his departure story - basically he came out of HS in the 260s, was forced to play his 2nd year and was tossed around and "rolled up on" all year on that awful 2014 Texas OL.  Then this year a bigger guy displaced him in year 3.

He is now up to 295 lbs which is fine for a center. 

Just took him a long while to get to the strength he needed and when thrown in early he suffered - sounds like a lot of our 2013 OL guys.

Finished B-school there in 3 years which the peeps are impressed with.

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Rabbit21

December 17th, 2015 at 6:25 PM ^

He'd be a good get, but UCLA is DESPERATE for a center and have a better immediate playing time sale than I think Michigan does.  That said it'd be nice to pull in an experienced Center to shore up depth on the line and provide some more competition when the current crop is either young or underwhelming.

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M-Dog

December 17th, 2015 at 6:33 PM ^

He's the kind of guy that benefits most from Harbaugh's development for the NFL.  Guys like Fournette don't need anybody to get them into the NFL.  But guys on the borderline benefit the most.  There could be lots of appeal for him to come play for Harbaugh, especially if he can do it for 2 years.

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Rabbit21

December 17th, 2015 at 6:50 PM ^

What we're not doing is graduating the one center who's gotten any playing time over the past four years, losing his highly touted freshman heir apparent to a transfer to Hawaii due to homesickness, and getting the only other center type player back from two shoulder surgeries.  Michigan absolutely can sell playing time, but our situation doesn't scream GAPING HOLE like UCLA's does.

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LKLIII

December 17th, 2015 at 6:33 PM ^

With 2 years of eligibility, it's also great timing since we are losing so much of that starting O-Line after next year.  If he cracks the starting line up next year, then in 2017 at the very least we'd have a veteran Mason Cole as well as this guy anchoring the line as some of the younger guys from the 2014 & 2015 recruiting classes filter in.  It would even-out the seniority on the O-Line so we wouldn't have this crazy feast/famine cycle where all the line is either veteran or brand new starters.

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alum96

December 17th, 2015 at 6:53 PM ^

Some blurbs on his departure from his last destination.  Looks like he would have stepped in as starter in 2016 as his competition was gone - but decided not to stick around. Hmm.

Sounds like he was small out of HS.

Outside of football UM's B-school may help get him here as he sounds very academically oriented (sorry Bama).

http://www.burntorangenation.com/2015/12/10/9887742/jake-raulerson-texa…

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  • The 6'4", 295-pound athlete made 11 appearances for the Longhorns in 2015 and has started five games in his two eligible seasons at Texas.
  • The consensus four-star prospect was considered the nation's No. 2 center by the 247Sports Composite rankings, but he was so undersized to play offensive line that his development was always going to take several years.
  • With senior center Taylor Doyle now out of his own eligibility, Raulerson was expected to step into the starting role next season after playing sparingly in 2015.
  • In 2016, the time spent maturing and getting stronger was supposed to pay off for Raulerson, but if that breakthrough happens, it will be at another school.

 

 

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alum96

December 17th, 2015 at 6:54 PM ^

From comments section sounds like they have their own version of Funk and are not happy with OL coachinG (no surprise, its been a disaster for 2 years)

On two different radio shows 1300 the zone in the morning and 104.9 the Horn in the afternoon. They were saying it has more to do with Raulerson not getting along with Coach Wickline and not liking his style of coaching. They said he was telling people he didn’t want to be apart of a rebuild and wanted to win and compete for something. Its just an opinion of theirs and that’s what i got out of the discussions from the two different stations.

Again I know my opinion isn’t very popular and good for him on getting a degree from the Red McCombs school of business. But man you where about to be the starting center. Now your gonna go to another school looking for PT and a school that more than likely has a lot more depth (every college in America) than what Texas does.

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DenverRob

December 17th, 2015 at 7:46 PM ^

I love the hands we are in with this program. I feel like other coaches can wake up at 2:30am and are already behind what Harbaugh has done for the day.
He is everywhere.



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Magnus

December 17th, 2015 at 9:57 PM ^

Michigan is not confident in their options at center. Defensive end is not really a need, at least not on the strong side. Plus, it would be very strange for them to recruit a grad transfer center to play defensive end. He hasn't played defensive end in three years.

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