Practice Pictures from Today
Lots of great pictures up on the U of M Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=264237&id=155034533624&ref=mf#!/album.php?aid=264237&id=155034533624
August 13th, 2010 at 11:24 AM ^
Cam looks lean and mean. And Mike Martin will be First Team Big Ten and Honorable Mention All-American. Same w Jonas.
August 13th, 2010 at 11:26 AM ^
Very nice, except that is Roy Roundtree, not Darryl Stonum.
August 13th, 2010 at 11:55 AM ^
Stonum still in jail?
August 13th, 2010 at 1:33 PM ^
Since asking about whether Stonum was in jail seems like such a provocation, wouldn't it be a weird coincidence, if "Govt Franzen" turned out to be a screen name for Tom Franzen, the Administrator for the Department of Economic Development for the City of Springfield, Ohio.
Here's the Springfield city government page that features Tom Franzen:
http://www.ci.springfield.oh.us/depts/ed.htm
And here's his LinkedIn page:
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/tom-franzen/4/8b2/34
Like, who knows if it might be true? I suppose the only way to find out might be to email Tom Franzen's boss, Springfield City Manager Jim Bodenmiller, and find out if Mr. Franzen was trashtlaking Michigan underclassmen from a city computer:
Or, maybe Springfield's Mayor, Warren Copeland might know (I think Mayor Copeland's email might go through an assistant):
Then again, perhaps the local newspaper can find out. In Springield, that would be the Springfield News-Sun:
August 13th, 2010 at 1:41 PM ^
August 13th, 2010 at 1:54 PM ^
Let's go over the groundrules. Rule number 1: No touching of the hair or face... AND THAT'S IT!
August 13th, 2010 at 1:52 PM ^
You have WAY too much time on your hands.
Johan Franzen=The Mule
Warren Haynes band=Gov't Mule
Gov't Franzen=A play on words
August 13th, 2010 at 11:32 AM ^
denard certainly added some girth.
August 13th, 2010 at 11:51 AM ^
Last year:
This year:
August 13th, 2010 at 11:55 AM ^
He does look bigger but I think most of that is what we call "pads."
August 13th, 2010 at 11:33 AM ^
Lostsa exhausted looking young men out there, hope this is hot enough for RR.
August 13th, 2010 at 12:31 PM ^
I'm glad it's not too hot up there in Ann Arbor. It's around this time of the year that I worry about players getting heat stroke. I had a flight yesterday and it was over 130 degrees on the tarmac! After that flight (which included a number of high G aerobatics), I'm pretty sure I'm not in shape to play D-1 football. Good to see the team working hard. September 4th can't come soon enough! (Now that we are flying 6 days a week here, I put in for leave on September 4th, just so I wouldn't get scheduled to fly!)
August 13th, 2010 at 2:43 PM ^
I'm at NAS Oceana and feeling the heat as well. Where are you at?
August 13th, 2010 at 11:39 AM ^
and baby, it smells like a winner!
August 13th, 2010 at 12:04 PM ^
So the first day in pads will be what the Big Ten Network guys will be analysing our entire season on?
August 13th, 2010 at 12:20 PM ^
Notice that in a couple of the photos Moundros is out there with the 1st team d.
August 13th, 2010 at 12:26 PM ^
FACEBOOK IS BANNED AT WORK SOMEBODY HELP
August 13th, 2010 at 12:32 PM ^
There's a photo of a touchdown catch, but apart from that, it's mostly photos of guys standing around, getting water, etc.
August 13th, 2010 at 12:36 PM ^
Yeah, sorry about that. As was mentioned, there's not a whole lot of action. My use of "great" was unwarranted, except for the fact that there are Michigan football players in the photos.
August 13th, 2010 at 12:33 PM ^
When's the UM preview on the BTN?
August 13th, 2010 at 12:35 PM ^
Because that hasn't been stated in 6 other threads now, or anything.
19th.
August 13th, 2010 at 12:58 PM ^
Thanks. I know it's hard to believe but I don't read EVERY single thread.
August 13th, 2010 at 1:39 PM ^
August 13th, 2010 at 12:35 PM ^
when the best action shot is of the two long snappers. (But it is a nice shot!)
August 13th, 2010 at 12:37 PM ^
FACEBOOK STALKER!!!
August 13th, 2010 at 2:09 PM ^
if i could like your comment, i would . . .
August 13th, 2010 at 12:42 PM ^
Interesting that one of the photos had Huyge lined up at LT. I obviously want the best guy at the position to protect our QB's blind side, but I was hoping that Lewan would seize that position and never let it go. Not that one photo from the first day in full pads means much.
August 13th, 2010 at 1:57 PM ^
With four guys (Lewan, Dorrestein, Huyge, Schofeld) competing for two tackle spots, the coaches are probably looking at different combinations. If they love Lewan and Dorrestein, they might be looking at sliding Perry to RT and having Huyge back up Lewan. Or they might be considering what to do if someone gets hurt later in the year and they have to shuffle the line-up. Or they wanted to see what Huyge looked like next to Schilling. Or he just got bored on the right side, and he wanted to see what things looked like from the other side of the formation. There are a billion possible reasons, so we'll just have to wait to see things unfold.
With that said, good catch. It could be nothing, or it could be a HUGE thing. We shall soon see.
August 13th, 2010 at 1:00 PM ^
I really liked one of the photos on their with Fitz Toussaint and Vincent Smith in the same huddle. The thought of Denard, Vince, and Fitz in the backfield at one time is insane.
August 13th, 2010 at 9:47 PM ^
Welcome to my NCAA 11 backfield
August 13th, 2010 at 1:10 PM ^
Has anyone seen a picture of Big Will yet? I am curious whether you can see if he added some obvious "bad weight" since last year.
August 13th, 2010 at 1:15 PM ^
He's in the background of this photo: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=264237&id=155034533624#!/photo.php?pid=6797929&id=155034533624&ref=fbx_album, but you can't really tell whether he's put on good or bad weight. He's just a mountain of a man.
August 13th, 2010 at 1:36 PM ^
Yeah I looked for number 73 as well, (back left of the shot) to see if he looked Boren-like or not. Hard to tell from the shot, but I don't see a pizza gut, so I am going to assume at least some of those 12 lbs are good ones.
August 13th, 2010 at 1:18 PM ^
August 13th, 2010 at 1:27 PM ^
Anybody know what's up with those guys? Who are they - volunteers? Why are they there? I've seen them around before but finally got around to asking.
August 13th, 2010 at 1:38 PM ^
Shsssh: they are QC staffers in disguise ...
[note to freepress mgoblog stalkers: this is a dark joke]
August 13th, 2010 at 1:47 PM ^
They are huge Michigan fans, so they try to help out whenever possible.
/adjusts tin foil Penn State hat