Football team departures

[hungry]

Josh Uche is entering the draft

Jordan Anthony is entering the transfer portal

 

[hungry]

Apparently, Uche plans on playing in the bowl game.

 

[hungry]

senior bowl invitees:

Josh Uche

Ben Bredeson

Sean McKeon

Josh Metellus

I wonder which other seniors are leaving and which ones can stay for a 5th year...

 

[bphillips4gg]

I thought I saw somewhere that they thought they could get another year for Kemp. Bredeson is going to be tough to replace. A 4 year starter on the OL whose name was never said in a game so guard or not he was really good.

 

[hungry]

I thought I saw somewhere that they thought they could get another year for Kemp. Bredeson is going to be tough to replace. A 4 year starter on the OL whose name was never said in a game so guard or not he was really good.

Yeah. I read that about Kemp, also. I hope he comes back.

Bredeson has been awesome

Did I ever tell you guys my Bredeson story?

My friends and I were tailgating at the spring game about 6 or 8 years ago. This dude about our age walks by with a tall, fat high school kid. My buddy stops the adult and starts chatting with him. Turns out the kid is Ben Bredeson on a visit. They stay for a while, Dad eats some food and drinks some beers with us. Then they walk away towards the stadium.

My buddy says that Bredeson is going to turn out to be a really good football player for some team. I told him that he would never play a down for Michigan (kid was from Wisconsin and I figured he would go to Wisconsin.) A million things can happen from 8th or 9th grader to freshman year of college. I bet him a beer. I lost...

Needless to say, Ben improved quite a bit after that, though. Looked just like your typical fat kid from high school. (not that there is anything wrong with that)

 

[bphillips4gg]

That's pretty cool. He may have been the best player Jim has recruited so far. I have nothing to back that up other than the fact I can't recall a single time I heard anyone say that he missed a block or blew a protection and I don't remember him getting called for holding or false start. If you play that position for 4 years and have as few mistakes as he has, you're doing a damn good job. And he's never been in trouble or injured that I can recall either. I'll take consistently great over occasionally elite any day.

 

[wheels002]

This one is going to hurt! How will we ever recover?

Michigan punter George Caratan has entered the transfer portal.

 

[TheVictors]

Carlo Kemp is a good kid and it wouldn't surprise me if he returned. He chose Michigan (his family said) for the degree, first.

 

[thewolverines24]

Carlo Kemp is a good kid and it wouldn't surprise me if he returned. He chose Michigan (his family said) for the degree, first.

It would be nice if we recruited some DTs so he could play SDE. He is not a DT. He's fighting his ass off on the inside, but the coaches are doing him a disservice by forcing him to play there through their recruiting shortcomings.

 

[rumseyhouse77]

Yeah. I read that about Kemp, also. I hope he comes back.

Bredeson has been awesome

Did I ever tell you guys my Bredeson story?

My friends and I were tailgating at the spring game about 6 or 8 years ago. This dude about our age walks by with a tall, fat high school kid. My buddy stops the adult and starts chatting with him. Turns out the kid is Ben Bredeson on a visit. They stay for a while, Dad eats some food and drinks some beers with us. Then they walk away towards the stadium.

My buddy says that Bredeson is going to turn out to be a really good football player for some team. I told him that he would never play a down for Michigan (kid was from Wisconsin and I figured he would go to Wisconsin.) A million things can happen from 8th or 9th grader to freshman year of college. I bet him a beer. I lost...

Needless to say, Ben improved quite a bit after that, though. Looked just like your typical fat kid from high school. (not that there is anything wrong with that)

I'm sure you have seen the video of the 4th and 1 showing Bredeson running through the huge hole in the right side of the line and Haskins running to the left. If only he Haskins had followed Bredeson.....

 

[thewolverines24]

I'm sure you have seen the video of the 4th and 1 showing Bredeson running through the huge hole in the right side of the line and Haskins running to the left. If only he Haskins had followed Bredeson.....

Could have only lost by 22. What could have been?!

 

[rumseyhouse77]

Could have only lost by 22. What could have been?!

With how wide open the field was Haskins may have scored on that play. The momentum was shifting to Michigan's side at that point in the game, that play ended that. OSU was given a short field and scored. But my post was really intended to contribute to the importance of Bredeson's role on the O line.

 

[hungry]

I'm sure you have seen the video of the 4th and 1 showing Bredeson running through the huge hole in the right side of the line and Haskins running to the left. If only he Haskins had followed Bredeson.....

Yeah. I wish Haskins was better

 

[hungry]

out of eligibility

Shea Patterson
Tru Wilson
Jon Runyan
Ben Bredeson
Michael Onwenu
Mike Danna
Jordan Glasgow
Khaleke Hudson
Lavert Hill
Josh Metellus

(reading the write-up about this over at MgoBlog. Amazing how many walk-ons and underclassmen got significant playing time this season. )

 

[bphillips4gg]

Yeah. I wish Haskins was better

I heard Devin Gardner talking about that play. He said he hates wildcat and always has (he did say that when they first started using it). He said that it screws up the timing and the vision for running backs that are used to having another half second and a few more yards to see a hole. No clue how much that makes a difference for Haskins, but I thought it was interesting and it makes sense because he hasn't had that issue until the wildcat. I don't think he did at least.

 

[thewolverines24]

With how wide open the field was Haskins may have scored on that play. The momentum was shifting to Michigan's side at that point in the game, that play ended that. OSU was given a short field and scored. But my post was really intended to contribute to the importance of Bredeson's role on the O line.

I know. I was just joking. We have to be able to laugh at ourselves.

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[rumseyhouse77]

I know. I was just joking. We have to be able to laugh at ourselves.

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What dya mean? I laugh at you all the time.

 

[rumseyhouse77]

I heard Devin Gardner talking about that play. He said he hates wildcat and always has (he did say that when they first started using it). He said that it screws up the timing and the vision for running backs that are used to having another half second and a few more yards to see a hole. No clue how much that makes a difference for Haskins, but I thought it was interesting and it makes sense because he hasn't had that issue until the wildcat. I don't think he did at least.

I think Haskins just went the wrong way. Did he know the play? Did he know which side of the line the hole was going to be opening up on? If so, I think it can be chalked up to combination of inexperience and poor coaching. Moving on from that loss now.

 

[thewolverines24]

What dya mean? I laugh at you all the time.

Good. The village idiot should be laughed at.

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[hungry]

I heard Devin Gardner talking about that play. He said he hates wildcat and always has (he did say that when they first started using it). He said that it screws up the timing and the vision for running backs that are used to having another half second and a few more yards to see a hole. No clue how much that makes a difference for Haskins, but I thought it was interesting and it makes sense because he hasn't had that issue until the wildcat. I don't think he did at least.

I'm not a big fan of the wildcat. It always seems chaotic to me. Yes, the theory is that you get 1 extra blocker running the wildcat and you don't have to worry about the QB/RB exchange, but you're right. I think it just seems unnatural to them. Then again, they used it about 20 times this year and it probably worked in about 16 of them...I'm just guessing on that, though. I seem to remember it working more often than not.