Spring Football Game

Submitted by TampaJake on

Does anyone have the details on the spring game?  I am thinking of flying up from Florida to see it.  The last one I attended was back in the Carr era.  No tickets, walk in, we even had some hooch with us.

UAUM

March 8th, 2011 at 1:53 PM ^

I'm comfortable with him not bringing her.  I found the full picture of Jake's avatar, and while she's not ugly at all, I think leaving her up to imagination is preferable to what she actually looks like. 

I mean, I am very happy that Jake found that avatar, but just sayin'

unWavering

March 8th, 2011 at 4:24 PM ^

Classic butterface.  Does that mean I think she's ugly?  Of course not.  It just means that her face is less attractive overall than the rest of her.  I wouldn't kick her out of bed.

Blue in Seattle

March 8th, 2011 at 2:04 PM ^

It's not that many letters different than this blog.  Good chance you'll find the latest information about the football team from the Universities web site.

well for topics other than detailed recruit tracking and guesswork on what the coaches are thinking that they don't want to tell us, but then again you clearly know how to get to this site.

 

bleuadams

March 8th, 2011 at 3:50 PM ^

I don't know if they're charging admission or not, but if you're going to go, it'd be nice of you to make some kind of a donation to Mott's Children's Hospital.

But anyways, I don't have enough points to start my own thread, so I'm going to HIJACK this one - I want to talk about spring depth charts.  I'll start with defense:

Defensive Line:

NT: Martin(Sr.), Washington(So.)?, Ash(Fr.)

3T: Campbell(Jr.), Talbott(Fr.), Heininger(Sr.)...Rock(R.S.)

SE: VanBergen(Sr.), Black(So.), Watson(Sr.)?...Heitzman(R.S.)

WE: Roh(Jr.), Wilkins(Fr.), Paskorz(Fr.)...Beyer(R.S.)

...This is a relatively easy position group to predict.  Martin, VanBergen and Roh are all guaranteed starters, IMO.  The only real position battle, I think, will be between BWC and Black (at SE, with VanBergen at 3T).  It sounds like Mattison and co. really like BWC at the 3T - I even heard Mattison liken him to Haloti Ngata there.  I guess we'll have to wait and see there, but if I had to guess right now, I'd guess that we go with BWC to improve our overall size and strength...but he's still going to need a lot of breathers, so Black should still get plenty of PT.  I guess there's also an outside chance that Beyer could arrive on campus as a full-fledged stud...moving Roh to SE, and VanBergen to 3T.

Linebackers:

SLB: C. Gordon(So.), Herron(Sr.), Bell(So.)...Clark(R.S.)

MLB: K. Demens(Jr.), Fitzgerald(Sr.), Ryan(Fr.)...Jones(R.S.), Morgan(R.S.)

WLB: Jones(So.), Hawthorne(So.), Leach(Sr.)...Poole(R.S.)

...This is a harder position group to predict.  I think that Demens is a guaranteed starter at MLB, and I'm confident - based on comments made by Mattison - that C. Gordon will at least get the first shot at SLB, but WLB is a position that's up in the air.  Jones is probably the leading "in-house" candidate there, but who knows.  Based on the film I've seen, I think that there's at least a decent chance that Poole steps in and plays a lot at WLB as a true frosh (Jones and Morgan are behind him, imo).  Then there are a ton of BS("box safety")/WLB hybrid types that could step in as well...Robinson, Furman, T. Gordon, even Kovacs.  It'll be really interesting to see how those two positions - WLB and BS - shake out.  For now, I'm just going to list the guys that were safties as safties until they're officially moved.

Defensive Backs:

BS: Kovacs(Jr.), T. Gordon(So.), Robinson(So.), Furman(Fr.)

DS: Johnson(So.), Vinopal(So.), Simmons(Jr.), Williams(Sr.)...Carter(R.S.)

CB: Woolfolk(Sr.), Christian(So.), Talbott(So.), Floyd(Jr.)...Countess(R.S.), Taylor(R.S.), Hollowell(R.S.), Brown(R.S.)

CB: Avery(So.)

...This is, by far, the hardest position group to predict.  I'll start with what I think this coaching staff views as the most important position - CB.  It'll be the best two man-to-man cover corners starting here.  I think that those two guys are Woolfolk and Avery.  It might end up being that we really need Woolfolk at DS("deep safety") though, in which case, competition on.  If that happens...or if we're just talking about a nickle-back here...I think that we'll have a battle between Christian, Countess, and maybe Taylor.  No idea who'll come out on top at this point.  Floyd is terrible in man-to-man coverage...and he's a terrible tackler as well, so I don't think that he'll factor in anywhere...unless he really improves.  Talbott, I think, is behind Christian in terms of man-to-man coverage skills.  And Hollowell and Brown, I just don't think that the coaching staff is all that high on.  Wow, getting to safety.  This is where it gets REALLY confusing.  Like I said before, we just don't know at this point how the WLB/BS candidates will shake out.  Some of the more athletic guys in that conversation - namely Robinson - could even end up at DS.  But for now, I guess that I'll leave it as a battle between Johnson and Vinopal.

Wolverine Devotee

March 8th, 2011 at 4:04 PM ^

What's gonna have now that the scoreboards (RIP) are being torn down as I type this? No score?