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  Any word on why Delonte Hollowell get's no mentions when talking about secondary?  He seemed to make enough of an impact in practice last year to burn his red shirt.  Played decently against Nebraska and made a huge play in the Sugar Bowl.  I was expecting him to be at least the third corner if not pushing for the 2nd spot.  Then this spring has been crickets.  Anyone have insight?

I wish my boss had this type of reaction to writing a letter.

  "Don't look at my department, we've been busting our asses all month.  We had to write and send that one letter.  Had to stamp and address the evelope too!"

But after dealing with 50 replies arguing if the Dude had crashed the plane into the god damn mountain or not, I was just happy to tally anything.

I just want people to predict who they think will make "the leap" next year.  It's Feb and a fun and simple exercise.

I'd love for a more video talented member to make a reel of Carvin's tackles.  He and Cam both had a nasty mentality to me when making hits.  Sadly Cam would bounce off or fall down due to poor technique.  I forget exaclty which game it was, but I rember Carvin getting credit for a sack because his hit blew the quarteback behind the LOS.  He also had that get up quick and swagger about him after hits that showed how much he wants to hit.  That to me was one of the biggest elements missing in our defense.  That desire to blow people up.  Carvin's got it, and thanks for the data to back it up.  Dude was an undersized true freshman.  He's gonna be a true beast.

On a side note, I love how someone can post some previously discussed pointless topic on the board with a grammatical error and get 40 responses in 10 minutes.  This dude spent hours and hours putting together something actually useful and has 4 comments hours later.  Wow.

In my opinion, the best west coast QB of all time, Steve Young, was just a tad over 6' and was not as great a passer as Joe Montana was.  But he was able to make the 5-15 yard passes, and his scrambling/running ability was what truly made that early 90's 49ers offense the best in the league.  He would generally take off 4-8 times a game.  If Al Borges can work with Denard on picking his spots to scramble, design some roll outs where he can choose run or pass, I think Denard can be extremely dangerous in the West Coast.  Remember, it is the THREAT of running not just his actual running that makes him such a dificult QB to defend.  But above all, Denard has the one trait that is most important for all great QBs.  His improvement from freshman to sophmore could only be accomplished by someone who has that elite internal drive the pushes one improve.  He's got that.

   Also if he no longer has to worry about making reads on every single run play as well as pass plays, it seems to me that the West Coast may be a bit simpler for him to run.  Is that crazy talk?  I mean, in the RR offense, Denard had to learn and make the proper read on every single play.  In a pro-style, he can just hand the ball off roughly 50% of the time.  Wouldn't that allow him to concentrate more on pass reading during practice, thus allowing him to develop even more as a passer?

I think that is the obvious next step.  I might put together a look at the lineman at Wisc and MSU and see what it looks like.  My guess is start big, get bigger.

Duely Noted.  Much appreciated

He's one of the freshman I was hoping to get clarified, I thought I saw him on the field too, but not sure.  Thanks

Thanks, tried to clean it up.  As you can see by the barely legal point total, this is my first ever board posting.  So tips are appreciated.

  I concur about Washington, I've always been really bullish on him.  If he can become a true 300+ lb NT, I'm really really liking the DL next year

I feel that the majority of those fans that boo 19 year olds and scream for RR's head because the team lost to Sparty are fans who's involvement with the team crosses into personal self worth.  It matters little that the coach cares more about sitting a possibly injured player more than his job.  Could care less about how a coach molds players off the feild.  All they care about is that they need a comeback when some drunk Buckeye says at a bar "Michigan sux, ur gay."  Then they look at the W-L record, and feel inferior to the Buckeye fan.  This makes them very sad.  Buckeye fans high-five while the Michigan fan sheds an angry tear into his beer.  Then a Sparty fan pulls the same move and desperation sets in.  "How can my life be like this, RR is ruining my life"  It is a completely emotional response based on a crutch for self esteem.  And all the Mgoblog charts?!?, graphs, logic and what not is pointless because replying in a bar with "Yeah but Denard" and "Our offense's YPG is trending in a way that leads one to the conclusion that we will have a top 5 offense next year" does not stop the Sparty high-fives.  It only increases the "Michigan IS gay cause maths is gay" laughter.  Sparty and Buckeye high-five, Michigan fan looks across bar, sees a Domer who quickly avoids eye contact.  All is lost.

I will never forget a dude that has the same arms as Mike Martin yet only half the body.

As a Detroit native (who like the majority of my neighbors moved away in the 80's) that lives in San Francisco, I have two teams I now live and die with.  Michigan Football and SF Giants baseball.  What has been amazing is that the last few years for both teams has been remarkably similar.  Two tradition rich teams going from perenial contenders to pretty much laughing stocks overnight.  Everyone here is familiar with the Michigan saga, so I just wanted to write about my SF fandom for a bit .

    With the Giants, Barry Bonds "retired" and a team that was completely built around him had to find a new formula.  The Giants brought in Bruce Bochy who had done an amazing job with a horrible Padres team making them competitve every year and even won the Division.  He was a well respected manager around the league but never managed one the "big" teams.  He was an absolute failure for 3 seasons.  The team had the worst offense in the baseball for 3 years straight.   All the stat wizards were calling for Bochy's head and GM Brian Sabean's as well.  They were obviously idiots because eveyone saw that the players were playing terribly.  It had to be the coaches had no idea how to coach and the Management had no idea how to recognize talent.  The team was horrible to watch, for a reason exaclty like watching Michigan is horrible right now.  One part of the team was slowly becoming the best in baseball, while the other side was mired with no progress.  The pitching was becoming dominant, the hitting was a joke. People wanted to trade Tim Lincecum for Alex Rios.  People demanded trading Matt Cain for Prince Fielder.  In spring this year people wanted heads to role because Johnny Sanchez was not traded for even a mediocre bat.  Tim Lincecum won his second Cy Young wining only 15 games.  How, because he was the best pitcher in the NL but some of the lowest run support in all of baseball.  Who had lowest, oh Matt Cain who has a record of 14-8 with 2.89 ERA.  The offense was a complete joke.  We had John Bowker, Travis Ishikawa, Emanuel Burris, Fred Lewis, Eugenio Velez, Matt Downs......  A bunch of AA-AAA talent that we were forced to play with.  Trust me, watching a constant barage of 1-0, 2-1 losses is the exact feeling as watching the Iowa game. 

     But, I never wanted Bochy or Sabean to go.  I saw that if we just kept the amazing but young pitching staff intact and patiently waited for a few bats to arrive, we could build something special.  And this year it started to come together.  I really don't expect the Giants to win the WS this year.  But all the young pitching is here for years to come, and the offense is starting to come around.  By being patient, the Giants have built what looks to be a very special team that will compete for years and years.  There is hitting talent down on the farm that will add pop over the next few years.  What the Giants have right now I wouldn't trade for any other team in baseball.  And I feel the same way about Michigan.  Patience.  The high school kids playing D right now will turn into college players and the team will really become something special with the offense we have in place already.  Stay the course, because, oh man does it feel good when you've been preaching patience on the blogs for 3 years and the team did what you wanted and you find yourself 1-1 in the NLCS.

Seems to be living up to the hype, second on the team in tackles and leading the team in picks and break ups. 

Tom really helps me sleep at night by giving me wonderful things to dream about.

I was on the edge there, and then Al Backey stared at me with his amazingly consistent expression.  I will now sleep comfortably in a fantasy land where a young man from Ypsilanti walks on at michigan and becomes a new folk hero.  Good night sweet princes.

Two Thoughts.  I wish goalkeepers had to put water bottles on top of the goal like in hockey so Donovan's roofer would have exploded it.  And also dude, I wish I could hear the awesome Eastern European club beat that was at the heart of the Slovenian goal dance.

On a serious note though, Bob, what they hell is Benny doing in there over Holden?

According to that google image, Maliah and Mahorn will be the best box out combo in history.  

I really need to stop believing everything wayne tells me