Who would win: Alumni or current team?
In the thread about NJ WR Bo Melton, someone mocked Rutgers because a team of Rutgers alumni beat the active team in 1996. I was curious how Michigan alumni would stack up against the current team. Here are some possible guys who are former Michigan players. Some of them are active in the league, some of them are retired, but still in decent shape, afaik. I think they would make the nucleus of a pretty good team. Curious who you would pick to win.
On offense:
- QB - Tom Brady (backup - Chad Henne)
- WR - Devin Funchess
- WR - Devin Gardner
- WR - Jason Avant
- RB - Denard Robinson
- RB - Fitz Toussaint
- OL - Taylor Lewan
- OL - Michael Schofield
- OL - Jake Long
- OL- David Molk
- OL - Patrick Omameh
On defense:
- DL - Alan Branch
- DT - William Campbell
- DE - Frank Clark
- DT - Mike Martin
- LB - Brandon Graham (backup Brennan Beyer)
- LB - David Harris (backup Cam Gordon)
- LB - Jake Ryan (backup Kenny Demens, LaMarr Woodley)
- S - Stevie Brown
- S - Jordan Kovacs
- CB - Leon Hall (backup Charles Woodson)
- CB - Ryan Mundy
Special Teams:
- P - Matt Wile
- PK - Brendan Gibbons
I love what Coach Harbaugh is doing, and I love the current team, but I think they would get whipped by Michigan alumni.
EDIT: I think it should be clear, but I'm asking, if the game were played RIGHT NOW, not when players were at their best, but today . . . say a month from now, who would win?
April 18th, 2016 at 11:37 PM ^
They could do a 16 team tournament with the rounds of 16 and 8 the first day, final four the day after. Games consist of 10-12 minute halves due to limited time and small rosters (5-7 players).
Yeah, schools like UK, Kansas and UNC would usually do the best. But it'd still be infinitely more entertaining than stupid obstacle-courses and whatever else they currently do. Not to mention, the amount of energy/effort guys put forth as a result of representing their colleges would be really interesting to see.
April 18th, 2016 at 11:41 PM ^
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April 19th, 2016 at 12:06 PM ^
My hypotethical 8 team bracket if everyone was willing to play (not seeded, designed to set up interesting matchups):
Left Side
Michigan (Burke, McGary, Hardaway) vs. MSU (Green, Harris, Randolph)
Duke (Parker, Okafor, Irving) vs. UNC (Carter, Felton, Barnes)
Right side
Kansas (Wiggins and Morris brothers) vs. Kentucky (Wall, Davis, Kidd-Ghilcrest)
Uconn (Drummond, Gay, Kemba Walker) vs. UCLA (Westbrook, Love, Lavine)
Tell me that this tournament wouldn't be the most entertaining thing of the weekend.
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April 19th, 2016 at 12:38 AM ^
How long before Jim tries to wrestle Tom to the ground on over who should start at QB? As long as we're going with the unreasonable here, you know damn well if he'd suit up and throw against the 49er defense, he'd include himself in that party.
April 19th, 2016 at 12:08 AM ^
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April 19th, 2016 at 12:27 AM ^
Alumni easily. Also would take Braylon or Breaston over Gardner at WR.
April 19th, 2016 at 10:22 AM ^
Tiny Harbaugh or full size Harbaugh?
Alumni team has the GOAT at QB, over before kickoff. Would absolutely love to see TB and Denard together. Made Dion Lewis (thank you!) a millionaire as a 3rd down scat back, can only imagine and fantasize Denard lining up behind Brady in Foxboro.
Too bad LLLLLLLoyd Carr never realized what he had in the GOAT.
Since current NFL players would never do this and risk injury, players would more likely be either older (i.e. Rick Leach, Wheatley, Ian Gold) or those who didn't quite make it to the next level (Gallon, Roundtree, Tloy Woolfork) ...game becomes a lot closer and I give a slight edge to the current team
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April 19th, 2016 at 10:03 AM ^
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April 19th, 2016 at 12:27 PM ^
believe.
Remember alumni team:
-have never played togther except in very few cases
-would have no system/scheme to work from....no playbook, just a pickup team with a few plays and a few formations on defense
Current team has been practicing/playing together for a long time and are becoming a well-oiled machine with an ever increasing set of schemes/plays.
April 19th, 2016 at 12:37 PM ^
Exactly. Unless the alumni team gets some practice time, even Tom Brady is going to struggle throwing to a bunch of RichRod/Hoke guys who played under completely different systems.
If you're going to set up a hypothetical game between the current team and a roster of alumni, except with the rule that the alumni can't be "wildly successful" in the NFL, then that's an even more speculative question than the original.
because I don't think there is any speculation worth it's weight in speculation that would think the students would beat the alums. Hypothetically I would always arrive at 'Alumni wins'. So yes, I definitely think expanding the alumni pool to include non-NFL talent would increase speculation of the results of the game.
The alumni team is clearly missing Willie Heston. You may say he's been dead for 53 years, but I still say he should be on the team.