Matt Godin interview
TTB Andrew did an interview recently with Matt Godin over at Touch the Banner. He's getting to be a big body already - which is good because Michigan needs size up front defensively.
(FWIW, I'm not a huge fan of posting links to my own site as MGoBoard topics...but the mods don't seem to care about these things, so I guess I'll join the fray.)
January 17th, 2012 at 8:19 AM ^
January 17th, 2012 at 8:21 AM ^
Okie dokie. Gracias.
January 17th, 2012 at 8:41 AM ^
What about me? [sadface]
January 17th, 2012 at 8:46 AM ^
He thinks you're a little too emotionally fragile.
January 17th, 2012 at 8:48 AM ^
I must prove him wrong, but don't have 100 posts yet. Good interview with Brices Recruiting. I liked it.
January 17th, 2012 at 8:54 AM ^
Gracias. They were some fun questions to answer.
January 17th, 2012 at 10:41 AM ^
I have to admit that I'm not a huge fan of the links either. I always appreciated your approach- generally listing your latest post in your signature.
But, as you mentioned, since the Mods are letting it happen, you might as well join in, too.
January 17th, 2012 at 10:47 AM ^
I'm glad I'm not the only one. I mean, I obviously appreciate the traffic to my site...but I'm just afraid that the MGoBoard is going to become a steady string of advertisements, in a way.
January 17th, 2012 at 8:24 AM ^
If that kid is that big already, I feel a lot better about our depth at the SDE. Bigger,faster, and stronger seems to be what is headed our way on the D and O line. Manball is coming to a Big House near you.
January 17th, 2012 at 8:27 AM ^
"My goal is to add good weight, maybe a little bit of fat in my stomach, but good weight all around."
So opposite of my goal, yet so perfect for him.
January 17th, 2012 at 8:33 AM ^
That's what I was thinking, too. The thought has never occurred to me "I wish I was a little fatter in the belly area."
January 17th, 2012 at 1:39 PM ^
If this tread catches fire I will be a sex god!
January 17th, 2012 at 8:35 AM ^
I might be a bit delusional right now because I just got done my morning exercise, but does that say he is 6'8 right now? Rivals has him at 6'6. I knew he was a big boy, but not that big. If that is the case, and he really is 6'8, I'll more than gladly accept it.
January 17th, 2012 at 10:48 AM ^
for some reason I did not think he was nearly that tall. He and Wormley are going to be monsters.
January 17th, 2012 at 5:02 PM ^
Andrew corrected the hgt as 6'6" in later comments.
January 17th, 2012 at 5:27 PM ^
Yeah, it was an oopsie. He's still tall at 6'6" . . . just not as tall as we thought a few hours ago.
January 17th, 2012 at 8:35 AM ^
Why are we asking high school kids about controversial topics like the Tennessee situation? I feel like that is setting them up for an answer they regret
January 17th, 2012 at 8:39 AM ^
I didn't do the interview, so I might not be the person to ask...
But Godin is good friends with Danny O'Brien, who is committed to Tennessee. My guess is that a conversation about Tennessee happened to arise through the conversation, and discussion about Dooley happened to be part of it.
Again, you'd have to get clarification from TTB Andrew (who reads but doesn't post on MGoBlog but will likely respond to comments on the Godin post).
January 17th, 2012 at 9:16 AM ^
Having an answer doesn't mean it needs to be published. Rosenberg wasn't doing the interview. As it happened, he handled it well.
January 17th, 2012 at 8:37 AM ^
6'8"!!!!!!!!!!!!! Tom Gholston who?
January 17th, 2012 at 9:22 AM ^
January 17th, 2012 at 8:45 AM ^
TTB also did a great interview with Erik Magnuson not too long ago as well. I'd check it out if you wanted to get to know him better.
January 17th, 2012 at 8:49 AM ^
Here's the link to that one if anyone's interested:
January 17th, 2012 at 8:47 AM ^
can you clarify a bit what the 5-tech role is, who is that on the current team or on recent teams? 6'-8" is pretty tall for interior DLine, no?
January 17th, 2012 at 8:52 AM ^
Van Bergen was this year's 5-tech. He's the strongside end with C-gap resonsibility (between the TE and OT). He's almost like you would expect a 3-4 end to be - a combo between defensive tackle and defensive end. He'll rarely drop into coverage, unlike the weakside end.
6'8" is a little tall for an interior defensive lineman, but I think he'll be fine. We've had some pretty tall defensive linemen before (Pat Massey, for example), and even though that's probably not the ideal height, they can still be effective.
January 17th, 2012 at 8:57 AM ^
does this mean that our defense will forever be doing the pre-snap alignment adjustments like they did this year? in the sugar bowl, VT used this to their advantage at least once. is this adjustment scheme driven or personnel driven?
January 17th, 2012 at 9:04 AM ^
Yes, that's probably what it means. But I wouldn't worry too much. Teams often tried to take advantage of that (especially early in the season), and most of the alignment issues didn't hurt us after WMU. Virginia Tech tried to hurt us with it, but the guys read the motion and adjusted so quickly that it didn't affect us that much.
Also, keep in mind that when teams go in motion to get our guys to move, that also makes it difficult for the offensive line to figure out who they're blocking. If Van Bergen comes sprinting over to the other side in place of Frank Clark, for example, those are two very different players with potentially different gap responsibilities.
Flipping sides isn't a big deal unless the guys on defense are young and inexperienced, which was a problem for us early, since it was the first year in that system. That's probably one reason that Carvin Johnson struggled to see playing time early...until his off-the-field issues, anyway.
January 17th, 2012 at 8:53 AM ^
6' 8" is pretty tall for anyone on the feild in any position.
January 17th, 2012 at 8:57 AM ^
I'm hoping we can get Zach Banner. Then we'll have two 6'8" guys and a 6'9" guy.
January 17th, 2012 at 9:22 AM ^
We could also borrow the VT playbook and put one of them at QB.
January 17th, 2012 at 10:23 AM ^
I think we should recruit this guy, who is seven stories tall:
http://rivals.yahoo.com/michigan/football/recruiting/player-John-Mariot…
January 17th, 2012 at 9:02 AM ^
I think whomever did the interview got the height wrong. I talked to him the other day and he said he was 6'6".
January 17th, 2012 at 11:14 AM ^
I hope your right, I'd prefer a 6'6 DL. That would mean he's also more stout at 275lb.
January 17th, 2012 at 12:51 PM ^
Matt Godin is as stout as a can of olives.
January 17th, 2012 at 8:52 AM ^
...Godin interview. Again, the other Michigan blogs are really filling a void in coverage with these 2012 recruit interviews. This is still the place to discuss them because of the superior user interface and large community, so posting about one's own site seems ok to me (it's what I did with my son's VT position group reviews at maize pages.com).
January 17th, 2012 at 8:54 AM ^
I agree. You can never have enough recruiting ninjas....
January 17th, 2012 at 9:10 AM ^
"This is still the place to discuss them because of the superior user interface and large community"
until about 10am when it starts to get a little spazzy around here
January 17th, 2012 at 10:48 AM ^
I've never seen this level of recruiting coverage before. With all the sites combined, they are making Rivals, Scout and 247 look like amateurs.
January 18th, 2012 at 8:29 AM ^
The guys who run those sites should come to MGoBlog to see how things get done.
January 17th, 2012 at 11:23 AM ^
There's not a lot going on. And people still come here to find and/or discuss, so it's still getting page hits. If anything, it's doing the work and making Brian the money for little return. And probably gets more hits than a hockey post. So I can't see why anyone would object.
January 17th, 2012 at 11:07 AM ^
Touch The Banner is part of my regular Michigan Blog roundup that I check once a day (unless Magnus found yet another woman with an incredible personality and I might check back again later) none the less if you have a quality contribution on your site I see no reason not to post a direct link here as it by no means will reduce traffic to MGoBlog. Quite the contrary as it just further solidifies that this is the blogshphere hub where all great Michigan information congregates.
Post one post all!
January 17th, 2012 at 11:10 AM ^
MGoRecruit later today. I might post it if it's ok with everyone.
January 17th, 2012 at 11:28 AM ^
Just think...if everyone in the whole world would just hit my site once a day, that's like 7,000,000,000 page views daily.
Everyone pitch in and do your part to make this world a better place.
I haven't seen that many zeroes since I looked at a list of MSU's run-ins with the law...
January 17th, 2012 at 11:23 AM ^
FWIW, TTB Andrew noted over on the post that the 6'8" thing was a typo. So Godin is actually 6'6" and we can put our Pat Massey fears to bed.
January 17th, 2012 at 11:26 AM ^
Magnus, over at TTB, you've given ratings to all recruits committed to Michigan. Almost all, that is. You haven't rated the WR commitments, or AJ Williams. Are you going to get around to this? (There's a note about Williams being incomplete, so I assume the data set isn't sufficient for you to give him a ranking.)
Also, since we're so close to signing day, how do you rank Garnett, Reeves, Wright, Grant, & Diamond? At least a couple of these seem the most likely guys still remaining on the board to commit to Michigan.
January 17th, 2012 at 11:30 AM ^
I fixed that. It was an oversight on my part concerning Darboh/Chesson.
I just haven't seen enough video of A.J. Williams to make a determination. I've only seen a few short clips, and he's playing fullback in most of them.
January 17th, 2012 at 11:45 AM ^
You're pretty high on Darboh. Also glad to see Wilson and Ross rated well. Two more rating questions:
- How would you rate Garnett, Reeves, & Grant?
- Are you pretty meh about Houma, Clark, and Gant?
January 17th, 2012 at 11:57 AM ^
1. No offense, but I only rate players who commit to Michigan. I don't want to start rating a bunch of players who aren't committed, because that could turn into a big commitment. If I do that, I might as well quit my job and start my own Rivals/Scout-like site. I like Garnett more than Reeves and Reeves more than Grant.
2. I'm pretty meh on Gant. Houma is a fullback, so I just don't know how great he can be. And I'm in the middle on Clark. He could be anywhere from all-conference to a career special teamer.
January 17th, 2012 at 12:28 PM ^
I greatly appreciate your taking the time you do, and sharing your football coaching expertise in evaluating players, schemes, coaching, etc. Thanks.
p.s. And your comment on Garnett > Reeves > Grant is more than sufficient for now.
January 17th, 2012 at 12:06 PM ^
What is your sense on how we stand with Reeves? Did he enjoy his visit here? He tweeted something about Greg Mattison dancing to Rihanna - I guess that's a good thing provided Mattison wasn't groping his boobs) Or is he an OSU lean? (People at 11w think Reeves is going to join them)