Like CJGRAPE I was a freshman in an orientation led by Clayton in the summer of 1966.
Clayton was indeed a class act. It became instantly clear how much he was respected by all those in the orientation that knew him.
Frankly, I am shocked at his passing. Our impression was that Clayton was nearly bulletproof, and would never die, if for no other reason that he was too full of life to die. One of those.
From the stands, I could yell out his name. He always recognized me and said hi. Just a really remarkable guy.
I will remember him always. My best to his family.
At half time of the 1969 game, Bo's first against OSU, the team of the decade, the score was 24 to 12 Michigan. Back then the banners from each Big Ten school were raised around the stadium. After the half, the crowd lowered the OSU flag to half staff; and, the entire stadium began the "Good Bye Woody song except it went; "Good Bye Woody! F you Woody! Good Bye Woody! We hate to see you go!" You could hear it over the television broadcast!
And it went on and on. After a bit it stopped, but another good play by M, and it started up again and louder. For the rest of the game! The whole second half!
Woody came to speak in Plymouth years ago now. 2 prominent Plymouth businessman went to Woody's hotel room to pick him up for the ride to the event. Just as Woody was opening the door, one of the businessman offered the other a lifesaver he had just pulled from his pocket. The second businessman declined the offered lifesaver, and said, "I'll pass."
The first then offered a lifesaver to Woody, who quick as a whip responded, "I'll run."
Ray was still there. We knew he was a legendary old coach, but we had no idea of his story. He was a remarkable character then, and his story underscores just how remarkable a guy he was.
The notion that Hoke would avoid playing anyone to sidestep media scutiny is bizarre to me. I hope that is not where we are at, because if it is, good luck to us all.
by not disclosing Morgan's injury that involves ND having to needlessly spend time game planning believing that he will play? I think that's all it amounts to.
my brother in 1991; my father-in-law in 1992; my mother in 2003. There has not been a day pass that I have not thought of each of them in some way. I have discovered that it is the same for others as I expect it will be for you too. It is a good thing because you only think of the good times; and in this way, their spirit lives on. I wish you the best.
It happens every time. Presuming he pleads to a lesser charge (Impaired Driving), he will likely be placed on Probation where more rules will be in place during period of Probation. Courts take these Orders seriously. Rermember Stonum?
but it does not seem like M goes after these guys once they have decided otherwise and spent a year elsewhere.
Perhaps baggage accumulates and notions become preconceived and an unwarranted sense of entitlement comes with the kid. Best to let the ship pass and sail on inti the night.
in almost every way (no letters please). Except for its legality, weed is quick, clean, and no after effects. Your liver won't fall out and your brain and memory will remain in tact. Weed does not mess with your training unless that's all you do. On the other hand, alcohol really affects your conditioning. Simple.
to recruits. High school football players want to actually play once they get to college. They don't want to sit around and marrinate for a couple years. On the job training definitely has to be preferable especially if they are "star" players.
By playing freshmen, M lets them know that they will play if they compete, work hard, and are meritworthy. Just the right message in my view.
In any event, the really good ones are not likely to stay for 5 years. The less than good ones may wind up transferring. May as well get it sorted out right from the git go.
BB; do you get the feeling that the M staff has sort of missed the boat on RB recruiting for 2014, or is it just a function of class size and available schollies? Are these recruits (the Enwere's and Mack's and that type) the sort that M would have been recruiting at the outset or are they just filling out the class?
to learn that the M offense was running something like 42 different formations. Worrisome given the limited practice time and time players have with the coaches. How many different blocking schemes was that? Then there were the questions by reporters to Hoke about "what is your identity."
I'm hoping that Nuss brings a laser like focus on what we need to do and who we are; and then just repetitions the hell out of it.
to learn that the M offense was running something like 42 different formations. Worrisome given the limited practice time and time players have with the coaches. How many different blocking schemes was that? Then there were the questions by reporters to Hoke about "what is your identity."
I'm hoping that Nuss brings a laser like focus on what we need to do and who we are; and then just repetitions the hell out of it.
that so many apparently think so little of Brady Hoke that he would need or even accept his boss telling him how to run his team. It follows that the same can be said re Brandon. Does everyone believe that Brandon would hire coaches that are so weak or of so little character that he would need to tell them how to manage their teams? This whole notion is so antithetical to the M that I know going back to Crisler.
I would suggest that Brady is plenty enough to do what he feels is right for his team, and would more than bristle at anyone who had the temerity to tell him what he had to do. If it came to that for him, I am confident he would simply wave goodbye. Either you want the man as your coach or you don't. Simple as that. I expect for both Brady certainly and Brandon too.
especially the rampant negativism and repeated calls for coaches to be fired. Gotta be hard for any of the young men who play at M, or want to, to see this kind of stuff.
was not exactly a slam dunk. Maybe not 1 play, but Countess intercepted in end zone at end of game. Turn that around and maybe one more play and M loses.
Seems like the margin between very good seasons and very poor or mediocre seasons has been pretty small for quite a few years no matter how you slice it.
You have to like the perseverence of this group this year and yesterday for sure. No matter what had happened along the way, they kept at it. Pretty good.
EDIT; In 2006, you could say the hit out of bounds in the 4th quarter against Ohio was the one play and call that cost M that game. So I'd say our best that year was a trip to National Championship game, at least if "best" is meaning optimistic.
You gotta be able to run the football, and you gotta be able to stop the run. If you can't do either, you're in big trouble. If you can't do one or the other, still trouble. Little did we know way back when we were pissed at Bo because his offense was boring.
everywhere I look mistakes and missed assignments are being made. Criticism of the OL, the QB, and the RB's is all warranted on offense. Little or no gain on 1st and 2nd downs results in 3rd and long and predictability and then failure. It happens over and over now. Crazy.
The defense is better, but sooner or later a freshmen DB is gonna get burned by being out of position or missing a tackle, or just finishing a play. Unfortunately very reminiscent of RR year 1. Yikes!
Does not seem to be getting any better. Double yikes! Doesn't make that bill for seat licenses for next year's tickets any easier to swallow.
just like any private business builds itself. Although Radrick is owned by a public university, it is a private course run by the M AD and no you could not play it as a "taxpayer" even if you paid greens' fees. The tax dollars that go to M do not go to the AD or any part of it, and no rights arise or accrue to anyone who may be a taxpayer on that basis.
This "notion" that because I am a taxpayer and since M is a public institution I have a voice in how the AD is run at M is completely false. Your point ithat the M AD has benefitted from tax dollars is so indirectly obscure as to be almost non-existent. Yeah, tax dollars built the road to the stadium.....that's about it. Not surprised that you would draw conclusions about an "overall philosophy" from this....sheesh.
athletic competition is possible at Michigan because other schools AD rely directly on tax dollars taken from that school's General Fund, without which that school could not operate an AD or have a sports team, that's true. But if you are saying M's AD is somehow even indirectly dependent on tax dollars, that is just wrong.
For example, go out to Radrick Farms golf course (U owned and run by the AD) and tell them you are a taxpayer and demand that they allow you to play and see how far that gets you.
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Sorry to disappoint, but I was born in the 1940's and was happy with myself that I was able to do what I did!
So not spam, and only a memory. Take it for what it is worth and look it up your ownself.
I attended M because it was THE best athletically and academically. In 1966. Still is.
Like CJGRAPE I was a freshman in an orientation led by Clayton in the summer of 1966.
Clayton was indeed a class act. It became instantly clear how much he was respected by all those in the orientation that knew him.
Frankly, I am shocked at his passing. Our impression was that Clayton was nearly bulletproof, and would never die, if for no other reason that he was too full of life to die. One of those.
From the stands, I could yell out his name. He always recognized me and said hi. Just a really remarkable guy.
I will remember him always. My best to his family.
1. Bo's First; 1969 OSU; easy pick.
2. First ND Night Game with ND fan.
3. 2nd ND Night Game with same ND fan
Can anyone answer or does anyone know if X. Worthy came to Ann Arbor
to the school he is committed to, for the Wisconsin game
with all the other recruits on his own dime; or is he now
choosing to travel to Alabama on that same dime?
For a long…
Sure I met him.
For a long time he was a FOC attorney and referee with the Washtenaw County FOC.
I had different clients who appeared before him on various matters over the years.
He also developed and published alimony and child support Guidelines which are still in use today. Talked with him on the phone quite a few times.
Really good guy. Really smart guy.
1957. Jim Orwig was captain. Played MSU. Sell out crowd. Lost 35 to 6.
"There ain't a horse that can't be rode; there ain't a man that can't be throwed."
After the 1969 game and historic victory over Ohio State,
Bo presented Bump with the game ball saying he never
could have done it without Bump's support.
Wayman Britt and Steve Grote. Johnny Orr's team. Mid 70's.
At half time of the 1969 game, Bo's first against OSU, the team of the decade, the score was 24 to 12 Michigan. Back then the banners from each Big Ten school were raised around the stadium. After the half, the crowd lowered the OSU flag to half staff; and, the entire stadium began the "Good Bye Woody song except it went; "Good Bye Woody! F you Woody! Good Bye Woody! We hate to see you go!" You could hear it over the television broadcast!
And it went on and on. After a bit it stopped, but another good play by M, and it started up again and louder. For the rest of the game! The whole second half!
Great game! Great day! Bo's best!
Woody came…
A Woody story;
Woody came to speak in Plymouth years ago now. 2 prominent Plymouth businessman went to Woody's hotel room to pick him up for the ride to the event. Just as Woody was opening the door, one of the businessman offered the other a lifesaver he had just pulled from his pocket. The second businessman declined the offered lifesaver, and said, "I'll pass."
The first then offered a lifesaver to Woody, who quick as a whip responded, "I'll run."
Yes. Much less.
Telling.
Telling.
Ray was still there. We knew he was a legendary old coach, but we had no idea of his story. He was a remarkable character then, and his story underscores just how remarkable a guy he was.
a few days after the Iowa game. It was his last game period.
but beat MSU in the duel meet at Yost when Dave "Baby Hughy" Porter pinned at HWT in the last match!
with Grbac in his first season as head coach!
The notion that Hoke would avoid playing anyone to sidestep media scutiny is bizarre to me. I hope that is not where we are at, because if it is, good luck to us all.
So he is hurt/injured. Bellomy was running #2 in warmups. Simple.
by not disclosing Morgan's injury that involves ND having to needlessly spend time game planning believing that he will play? I think that's all it amounts to.
my brother in 1991; my father-in-law in 1992; my mother in 2003. There has not been a day pass that I have not thought of each of them in some way. I have discovered that it is the same for others as I expect it will be for you too. It is a good thing because you only think of the good times; and in this way, their spirit lives on. I wish you the best.
Good Morning America today setting up his new show which airs on Wednesday. Remarkable guy.
It happens every time. Presuming he pleads to a lesser charge (Impaired Driving), he will likely be placed on Probation where more rules will be in place during period of Probation. Courts take these Orders seriously. Rermember Stonum?
but it does not seem like M goes after these guys once they have decided otherwise and spent a year elsewhere.
Perhaps baggage accumulates and notions become preconceived and an unwarranted sense of entitlement comes with the kid. Best to let the ship pass and sail on inti the night.
it is still a violation of Federal law; the feds are just looking the other way for now.
and ridiculous NCAA involvement in eligibility issues. Nuts! Just plain nuts.
1. Alum
2. 48
3. 4
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5. No
6. Bonus Bonus; student ticket package for 6 games in 1966 was $12.
in almost every way (no letters please). Except for its legality, weed is quick, clean, and no after effects. Your liver won't fall out and your brain and memory will remain in tact. Weed does not mess with your training unless that's all you do. On the other hand, alcohol really affects your conditioning. Simple.
cotton pickin' maize and blue heart then watch the YouTube highlights!
but I'd like to think I would have done more than slam a couple lockers, especially if I had been a former victim of abuse.
to recruits. High school football players want to actually play once they get to college. They don't want to sit around and marrinate for a couple years. On the job training definitely has to be preferable especially if they are "star" players.
By playing freshmen, M lets them know that they will play if they compete, work hard, and are meritworthy. Just the right message in my view.
In any event, the really good ones are not likely to stay for 5 years. The less than good ones may wind up transferring. May as well get it sorted out right from the git go.
that you have the most favorable opinion about Jones of those that are left. Are you optimistic that M gets him?
BB; do you get the feeling that the M staff has sort of missed the boat on RB recruiting for 2014, or is it just a function of class size and available schollies? Are these recruits (the Enwere's and Mack's and that type) the sort that M would have been recruiting at the outset or are they just filling out the class?
Who does KenPom see winning the Championship!? Sheesh, some how some way every game is within a point of his prediction.
to learn that the M offense was running something like 42 different formations. Worrisome given the limited practice time and time players have with the coaches. How many different blocking schemes was that? Then there were the questions by reporters to Hoke about "what is your identity."
I'm hoping that Nuss brings a laser like focus on what we need to do and who we are; and then just repetitions the hell out of it.
EDIT: oops.
to learn that the M offense was running something like 42 different formations. Worrisome given the limited practice time and time players have with the coaches. How many different blocking schemes was that? Then there were the questions by reporters to Hoke about "what is your identity."
I'm hoping that Nuss brings a laser like focus on what we need to do and who we are; and then just repetitions the hell out of it.
that so many apparently think so little of Brady Hoke that he would need or even accept his boss telling him how to run his team. It follows that the same can be said re Brandon. Does everyone believe that Brandon would hire coaches that are so weak or of so little character that he would need to tell them how to manage their teams? This whole notion is so antithetical to the M that I know going back to Crisler.
I would suggest that Brady is plenty enough to do what he feels is right for his team, and would more than bristle at anyone who had the temerity to tell him what he had to do. If it came to that for him, I am confident he would simply wave goodbye. Either you want the man as your coach or you don't. Simple as that. I expect for both Brady certainly and Brandon too.
Brian to you and your family and the entire staff at MGoBlog.
spotter for years.
especially the rampant negativism and repeated calls for coaches to be fired. Gotta be hard for any of the young men who play at M, or want to, to see this kind of stuff.
was not exactly a slam dunk. Maybe not 1 play, but Countess intercepted in end zone at end of game. Turn that around and maybe one more play and M loses.
Seems like the margin between very good seasons and very poor or mediocre seasons has been pretty small for quite a few years no matter how you slice it.
You have to like the perseverence of this group this year and yesterday for sure. No matter what had happened along the way, they kept at it. Pretty good.
EDIT; In 2006, you could say the hit out of bounds in the 4th quarter against Ohio was the one play and call that cost M that game. So I'd say our best that year was a trip to National Championship game, at least if "best" is meaning optimistic.
with Jimbo Leyland and me!
You gotta be able to run the football, and you gotta be able to stop the run. If you can't do either, you're in big trouble. If you can't do one or the other, still trouble. Little did we know way back when we were pissed at Bo because his offense was boring.
everywhere I look mistakes and missed assignments are being made. Criticism of the OL, the QB, and the RB's is all warranted on offense. Little or no gain on 1st and 2nd downs results in 3rd and long and predictability and then failure. It happens over and over now. Crazy.
The defense is better, but sooner or later a freshmen DB is gonna get burned by being out of position or missing a tackle, or just finishing a play. Unfortunately very reminiscent of RR year 1. Yikes!
Does not seem to be getting any better. Double yikes! Doesn't make that bill for seat licenses for next year's tickets any easier to swallow.
you cannot advance a fumbled punt. Just the rule.
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just like any private business builds itself. Although Radrick is owned by a public university, it is a private course run by the M AD and no you could not play it as a "taxpayer" even if you paid greens' fees. The tax dollars that go to M do not go to the AD or any part of it, and no rights arise or accrue to anyone who may be a taxpayer on that basis.
This "notion" that because I am a taxpayer and since M is a public institution I have a voice in how the AD is run at M is completely false. Your point ithat the M AD has benefitted from tax dollars is so indirectly obscure as to be almost non-existent. Yeah, tax dollars built the road to the stadium.....that's about it. Not surprised that you would draw conclusions about an "overall philosophy" from this....sheesh.
athletic competition is possible at Michigan because other schools AD rely directly on tax dollars taken from that school's General Fund, without which that school could not operate an AD or have a sports team, that's true. But if you are saying M's AD is somehow even indirectly dependent on tax dollars, that is just wrong.
For example, go out to Radrick Farms golf course (U owned and run by the AD) and tell them you are a taxpayer and demand that they allow you to play and see how far that gets you.