RG is Ciulla in Mitchell's absence.
Very, very interesting.
So instead of one undersized TE...now we have a junior, a sophomore, two freshmen and two-three incoming freshmen tight ends.
Jesus, like two weeks ago, I though we'd be hurting at the position...now I'm wondering if any of these guys can play linebacker.
Brian,
Hate to be that guy, but it's "Gandhi," not "Ghandi."
Hey, he's the father of my motherland! It's a pet peeve!
Brian, it was Rey Maualuga's hit on Cowan that was praised
How do reporters not get pissed off that Charlie Weis talks to them like they're retarded?
"Down here we do a lot of Olympic lifts – squats, power clings, hang clings and things like that - and I hadn't done that type of stuff since high school," Mundy said.
So long Ryan. FYI, squats aren't Olympic lifts. And it's "clean" not "cling", although I suspect that we should chalk that up to the writer trying to bullshit his way through.
The Butler development will have a great impact on the team, especially if he keeps clean. He looked like he had the potential to be the best Michigan TE since Joppru. Even an AA with his athleticism, providing he keeps progressing. He looked damn good for a freshman.
The Henne thing is not an issue at all. Nobody ever has confused him with a leader, but since Mike Hart is in the same class, its never been a big deal. Without Hart it might be a problem but thats a moot point.
Yikes, they really need to change the lifting program
Yeah it was USC's Maugaluga on UCLA's Cowan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N...h?v=NTct4-
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Son of a bitch! I hadn't seen the slow-mo replay of Maugaluga's hit before, but that was WAY worse than Crable's.
If I have ever seen a helmet to helmet hit or "leading with the helmet"...whatever the f*** Crable was called for, Maluga just displayed what it looked like.
Yeah, that's a joke. After watching Crable's hit vs. Maualuga's, it's obvious Maualuga's was a lot worse. Crable's hit looks innocent compared to the USC-UCLA game hit.
Like always, OSU has to cheat to win. Frickin' cheaters!
No, we lost because our D couldn't do squat and gave 42 points. Chris Graham covered the Colts #1 WR pick ( this year ) in a few plays. Go figure.
Get over it.
"cheat"? WTF, dude? Even leaving aside the obvious fact that Michigan couldn't check OSU's receivers or chase down Troy Smith, the penalty on the Crable hit was a call made by the referees. Unless you're going to present heretofore unknown evidence that someone paid off the refs, "cheat" isn't remotely what happened.
Is an "eeeeeeeee" comment appropriate for Butler's return ?
Hmmmm...hard to joke or show sarcasm on a message board. Everybody calm the fuck down, ya whiny bitches.
lol carl...if it's any consolation, I felt the sarcasm.
So, do McLaurin and Criswell escape from TE purgatory?
Hmmmm...hard to joke or show sarcasm on a message board.
Sorry, I bit hard on that one.
Carry on.
Hey,kgh10, if I can reach even one soul with my hilarious and witty posts I feel like I've done some good in the world.
True, squats are not an olympic lift. The true olympic lifts are Clean and Jerk and Snatch. However, the squat is the cornerstone of any strength and flexibility program. Olympic lifts and it's related lifts are for strength, explosiveness, quickness, speed and flexibility. The program Michigan currently uses (from what I have gathered) is for getting big and weightroom strong. The difference is something that is actually used during a game and the other is to pat yourself on the back from how much you can bench. Another person commented that Michigan has started to switch to more of an olympic style program the last couple of months....which is a good thing IMO. By the way, McGuffie would be an Olympic weightlifting coach's dream. I really believe that he could be a world class olympic weightlifter if he went that route. In Russia/China, the #1 thing they evaluate when recruiting a kid to become a weightlifter is vertical/horizontal jumping ability. And I think the video of McGuffie flipping over that lineman would impress. Sorry this got long.
Mundy came out and said that they do S/C differently than Michigan, never said that their method was better!!
Anybody with a passing interest in S/C knows that we do S/C differently, in fact only about 5% of Div I schools follow our system of S/C. So these statements are nothing new or a cause for concern!, just states what we already know.
NOw, comparing the two systems and arguing which is better/more relevant to football/eplosiveness/speed is a totally different matter!
I for one am totally against our approach to S/C, but that's just my opinion!!
Carl, you need to stand behind your statment!! OSU cheated by causing the refs to call "helmet to helmet." I've got the evidence but, unforunately, I can't post it in a blog comment section. All I can say is it involves Jim Tressel...
Let us speak no more of that game until it is avenged. I'd much rather hear English tell us what he learned from it. But first, I'd like to hear what Andy Moeller learned from the Rose Bowl.
So if no flag is thrown, its 4th down and OSU has to punt. Maybe OSU never scores more than 35 points as a result? But it's awful hard to say what would've happened after that because circumstances would've been different. The Butterfly Effect, if you will.
Sure, the refs gave the home team a gift there, but that happens all the time. That's why it's called "home field advantage." Refs are human and get influenced by a vocal crowd's reaction to events. It was a split second decision by the ref, albeit a wrong one.
Now why didn't the ref throw a flag on that USC guy? THAT was a blantant penalty.
Okay, i am not defending anybody but just saying,
Maualuga's hit was not behind the LOS, Cowan was a runner and was like 10 yards downfield.
Carble's hit was behind the LOS (but still outside of the tackle box) and was right after Smith had delivered the pass, so...there is a little bit of difference!!
And i think that the late hit/leading with the helmet call was BS, but....
Crable's "sick" of hearing about it (according to the freep writer), Brian's gotta stop thinking about it (but not before bitching about it some more), and all w/ less than two weeks before THIS season starts...sounds like a good hindpsychologist might be in order.
Hey, let's be careful here. Michigan got its ass kicked in Columbus last year. I was there, and it was not as close as the final score or the Crable hit would suggest. They gave us many gifts in the second half and it still was not close. That was a coaching loss, a failure to adjust on defense. Let's not let time and the 3 point difference convince us this was a back and forth battle won by a hair.
The more we rewrite, the more we emulate Michigan State.
No doubt that changes still need to be made to UM's S & C program but I've heard of at least some positive changes recently. They are reportedly using kettlebells in the training which, if done properly, would be a nice addition and achange from the mostly machine based crap they have done in the past.
Even if they never included oly lifts in the program,(which I'd like to see) if they would just start squatting that would make a huge improvement to the player's lower body strength and likely to their overall power outputs. They do too much training that is more bodybuilding than it is true strength and power development appropriate for training athletes. Not enough heavy work with free weights. It seems that everything is too high rep based.
I agree that Mundy is not really telling us anything we don't already know but it's good to get this stuff out, imo, every now and then. I had to laugh about the power clings and hang clings. I know there is static cling and klingons but no power/hang clings that I know of. I guess the reporter just heard it that way from RM's mouth?
A little bit of diversion:
http://detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll...1131/
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Look like Sparties are re-inventing the wheel. We seem to be starting to use elements of spread because smashmouth falls into the hands of eager Big 10 defenses. I'll be glad if Sparties do "re-believe" in 3 yards and a cloud of dust football. They don't have the personnel and even if they do, it won't be effective against Big-10 defenses ( think UM, OSU, Wisc and PSU )
/ I am interested in this game because they are really starting to believe that they can beat us this year.
OH Meeechigan Dan, it was the field man. Didn't you get the memo????
Crable's hands touched Smith a split-second before his helmet did. Even if it was helmet2helmet or whatever, it would have been extremely close and then a penalty should not have been called.
All right, stop the debate. Meeechigan Dan was at the game. That PROVES he knows what he's talking about! All of you who watched on TV were actually watching something completely different.
Sarcasm man, you think the game was close? Explain how.
http://sports.espn.go.com
Check out Mark May, who thinks we'd finish no better than third if we were playing in the Pac-10, behind the likes of USC and UCLA.
He really is a douche nozzle.
i too was at the game and while it did seem generally out of reach, that hit was a turning point and if we get a stop there we have the chance to take the lead and turn it around... our offense was pretty unstoppable too. the field, burgess being injured and the hit contributed to the loss but OSU did outplay us in the end and thats that.
why do we have to bring it up though? it hurts still.
I find it humorous that Meech Dan backed up his "not even close" argument with the qualifier that "he was there". I guarantee that TV viewers got a much better view of the game and likely a better understanding of how close or "unclose" it really was. I thought it was pretty damn close. If OSU doesn't cheat(!!!!) on that bullshit call on Crable we've got something entirely different going on. OSU stopped us only once more than we stopped them. If the ref doesn't suck his own nuggets on that call we've suddenly drawn even on the stops and thus a possible different outcome.
I agree with Dan that Michigan got their asses kicked, but I also think the game was winnable down the stretch. It probably shouldn't have been, but it was winnable due to miscues by OSU and a very good performance by most of the players.
I do put that loss on coaching more than any one reason. There were no adjustments, and almost 10 years after McNabb, Michigan still can't handle a mobile QB. OSU's game plan was very very good and Michigan was caught with their pants down, which is the case more than people would like to admit when Michigan plays against a team with similar talent level.
Sorry guys--I agree with Meech Dan. I watched the game on TV and it did not seem as close as the score would indicate.
Here's my question, why was English surprised by what OSU did? I don't scrub film, sit in coaches meetings, or design game plans but I wasn't THAT surprised by a quick passing spread offense. Also, just for curiousity's sake, what did they expect OSU to do? Tressel always has something new for UM so I refuse to believe they were expecting exactly what they'd seen on tape. Why couldn't UM rush Smith like Florida did?
Even more perplexing why wasn't UM ready for heavy blitzing by USC? Here I tend to wonder if Moeller doesn't just suck which is a possibility I refuse to consider for English.
I hate the fact that I will never know the answers to these questions.
Everyone keeps talking about the fumbles making the game not as close as it really was. Hogwash. The game that was between two teams with great defenses (UM's was better) turned into an offensive shootout because OSU had the field turned into the mudbowl, and OSU was prepared for this. I thus believe that the results did not really reflect either team's skill level. Had the field not been falling apart, then the game would have had a much lower score. Mich would prob shut down the ground game, although the spread offense would pose a challenge.
OSU will soon have artificial turf, so Tressel will have to come up with new ways to cheat.
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LMAO......Cheat, like he did in 2001,2002, 2004,2005...mmmmmmkay
Hmmmm...I see this cheating thing is more widespread than I originally thought. I wanna change my stance from the earlier post that I got ripped for and state that I was not joking or in any way being sarcastic, you cheating cheaters.
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