Gregg Henson practice report
Screw it, I'm posting this. Gregg Henson had a few "insider tips" from how practice has been progressing so far. I don't want to quote the whole thing and swipe clicks that I feel he deserves, so I'm going to link to it here:
http://bighousenation.com/inside-michigans-spring-practice/
Well, there. The stuff is pretty good.
Does spicyweiner and Rescue_Dawn have the same guy in their profile pic?
copy pasta
Honestly, the QB report is not the least bit surprising. Next year could be interesting under center...
We still have a 2015 season and you're talking about 2016...
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I don't know, the criticism of Hoke is all over the place these days. I'm trying to remember which guys fans thought deserved more playing time. Drake Johnson comes to mind, and he lost time early in the season to younger guys. The same goes for Dennis Norfleet and would have gone for Desmond Morgan.
I'm not sure the "didn't give young guys a shot" criticism is fair. And it definitely wasn't responsible for Hoke's downfall. You could make a case for poor handling of the QBs or shitty assistant coaches or lack of attitude/edge, but it definitely wasn't the upperclassmen first thing.
One more burned redshirt that I hate is Royce Jenkins Stone. I can't believe he's already a senior...
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I have no idea how good he looked in practice last year, but maybe he would've fared better. He couldn't have done worse.
Either way, the options were limited considering Bellomy showed no progress in all his years here. At least some guys we could say regressed because we saw something good in their play at one time or another.
Bingo. Looked like a straight up copy and past job from the insider post this weekend. EVERYTHING he just "reported" was here three days ago.
I don't remember the third bullet about JH being unhappy about conditioning and am waaay too lazy to go back and check. Was that part of the inside scoop?
You're right, and actually the word on here was that the coaches were happy with the conditioning. Seems that may have just been them saying the right things to the media.
Have we reached the point where, when there's a conflict between Henson's "insiders" and other "insiders", we automatically assume Henson's version is correct?
What? You mean to tell me that Gregg Henson's "insiders" might simply be copying-and-pasting information from other sites?!?
I kid (a bit), but yeah, nothing here is new. You could find-replace with Hoke and Harbaugh and the QBs and publish the same thing from last year.
He gets some slack from me. He was right about Harbaugh, he was early with it, and he stood behind it when everybody balsted him for it. He's not a total hack.
Exactly right M-Doggy. Guy had the JH story nailed from the beginning and stood behind his information throughout the process. Him being a punch line around here is a littile over the top imo.
I always take spring stuff with a grain of salt, but I like the part about practice tempo and who's impressing. Need playmakers at those spots. Disconcerting to hear about Morris, though.
I kind of thought with the coaching change the light would come on with Morris and perhaps it is still to come. Seems like not that long ago folks were counting down the days until he took over.
I watched him a ton the summer before he enrolled and it very highly evident he needed a lot of work before he was going to be a college QB. That's why he dropped in a lot of rankings too. No one wanted to listen to it though because they had 5-stars in their eyes.
The NFTC camps and The Opening were all before he had mono, and he had all of the same accuaracy and touch issues at those camps. I was at all of them and saw it first hand. He started to drop then. Getting mono didn't help, but he was recovered from that by the time he played and practiced at the Under Armour game, and had all of the same issues. Maybe he improves his senior year if he doesn't get mono, but from what we've seen so far, I kind of doubt it.
to ignore it. A story or two before he got here, not alarming. A couple people saying same things his freshmen year, a bit of a concern. Friend drives cab in A2. I mention Morris and first thing he says, "kids a drunk. i pick him up all the time wasted". Ok, this isn't coincidence. This is a problem!
I don't expect to ever see Sugar Shane starting at Michigan. Unfortunate.
This is much more interesting than reading about people with alcohol problems in another thread on the board.
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performing well so far. Not sure if that's due to the QB change, coaching change, just time, or a combination of all three.
Not for me.
Nice to see that three of the four names making good initial impressions are WRs.
He was on WDFN today, here's the podcast.
Basically everything we've been hearing. Morris just seems broken by incompetent coaching, and who the heck knows what else.
Every year I hear about how practices are "X" and how that is different than "Y" last year. I think the hating on Hoke, especially now that he isn't here to defend himself, is becoming a bit excessive. I would not be surprised if practices were slower and less intense than other programs', but I remember hearing the same thing about RR and how Hoke's practices were much more "physical". So I'll take any discussions on that topic with a grain of salt.
I have yet to hear of a coach who comes into spring ball content with his team's conditioning.
Co-signed. I'm sure things are run better today but if you believe everything you hear now Hoke's practices were all juice box, orange slices and participation trophy tough.
Yup... here is an article about Hoke's focus on toughness from 2011
No that was Lloyd's regime at the end, and you forgot GrrAnimals...
Then people said RR was too mean and vulgar, and that plus his tempo drove players away...
Hoke re-introduced physicality, but the pace was too slow and the players lost the conditioning "edge"...
And now, like Goldilocks in the forest, we've found "just right"...
And happiness shall reign, but I'm afraid not for Shane.
Accuracy is pretty important at SS too... find another comp. Water balloon fights?