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2007 TSUN News

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QB - Henne, good when protection is perfect... Hart-centered playcalling often limits his production
RB - Hart is a rock, but Grady is gone, and Brown will likely transfer schools rather than positions to shore up depth. Minor has some ability, but that sure is pretty thin for a run crazed Debord.
WR - MM returning from injury, AA is on his millionth (but supposedly last) strike, Mathews is a possession WR. Fortunately they have some nice young talent in Clemons & Hemingway.
TE - Most dangerous weapon is gone in Butler... Massey is okay, as long as it isn't the end of the game (UM 04, Alamo 05).
OL - Boren issues mentioned by CBF40
LB - I'll believe Graham is dependable when I see it.
DB - Will UM finally stop underachieving this year? The big ten is stacked with WR talent, will all the new QBs mature in time?
 
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crazybuckfan40;809192; said:
Yes and I agree with both of you guys...I just can't figure out all the optimism coming from writers and their fans...
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If they lose this year... I can't imagine the fanbase expectations (on both sides) heading into '08, where OSU returns virtually everyone (save probably Jenkins & Gholston), & UM loses Henne, Hart, Long, and possibly both AA & MM (no draft depth next year)...
 
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jwinslow;809197; said:
QB - Henne, good when protection is perfect... Hart-centered playcalling often limits his production
RB - Hart is a rock, but Grady is gone, and Brown will likely transfer schools rather than positions to shore up depth. Minor has some ability, but that sure is pretty thin for a run crazed Debord.
WR - MM returning from injury, AA is on his millionth (but supposedly last) strike, Mathews is a possession WR. Fortunately they have some nice young talent in Clemons & Hemingway.
TE - Most dangerous weapon is gone in Butler... Massey is okay, as long as it isn't the end of the game (UM 04, Alamo 05).
OL - Boren issues mentioned by CBF40
LB - I'll believe Graham is dependable when I see it.
DB - Will UM finally stop underachieving this year? The big ten is stacked with WR talent, will all the new QBs mature in time?
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Yeah I forgot about how thin they are at TE and Massey isnt that good...
 
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jwinslow;809197; said:
TE - Most dangerous weapon is gone in Butler... Massey is okay, as long as it isn't the end of the game (UM 04, Alamo 05).
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Were you thinking of Tyler Ecker (no eligibility left) here? He was the guy that didn't lateral to Breaston at the end of the Alamo Bowl. He also had the last catch and stayed in bounds at the end of The Game in Ann Arbor in 2005.
 
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BB73;809274; said:
Were you thinking of Tyler Ecker (no eligibility left) here? He was the guy that didn't lateral to Breaston at the end of the Alamo Bowl. He also had the last catch and stayed in bounds at the end of The Game in Ann Arbor in 2005.
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Good call... hopefully Massey fills his shoes nicely :)
 
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Yes, no one is very optimistic in the UM camp. Any career ending injury is a big deal... but one NFL scout felt he was the best athlete he'd seen since Woodson, and Bass was only a year or two removed from HS when he was observed.
 
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Buckeyedynasty;809295; said:
Don't know for sure but I thought that there was talk that his injury could be a career ending type of thing. Again don't know for certain though.
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Thanks.... Just did a google and This Thread came up 9th. Pretty cool (that the thread came up 9th on google, I mean)

Then, there was This on the "news" link .... from March 16, 07. Carr not optimistic, but not giving up on him.
 
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Bass suffered the same type of injury that Desmond Reed of USC did. Reed was able to comeback from it, wether or not Bass does is something that only time will tell. It doesn't look optimistic and information is tough to come by, but Carr recently said in a presser that Bass is not giving up, so neither is he, he said Bass is still with the team and on scholarship.

I also remember reading in The Sporting News about an NFL Scout who said he felt Bass was the best all-around athlete that he had seen at Michigan since Charles Woodson. An announcer, think it was Bob Davie, alluded to this on TV while broadcasting one of the Michigan games in Bass' freshman year.

Grady is likely done for the season. I do think that Brandon Minor will be able to pick-up the slack, I thought he performed better than Grady last season and has better vision than Grady. Grady's injury hurts though, no question about it. Carlos Brown is homesick and frustrated, wasn't at practices two days in a row, but that doesn't mean he's gone either. He was looking good at the practices. I got the blurb about him from somebody who was at some of the practices- he actually coaches football in Ohio. I'm not convinced that he's gone, and that entire "he's gone" crap has been coming from one source, and it's been coming from that source for 2+ weeks. They claimed he had already left, but funny thing is my buddy (who I got the blurb from) saw Brown the next day practicing, and doing very well I might add, as did several others. That publication is now pushing "he's likely gone", IMO I'll wait and see and not take their word. They are known to be unreliable.

Whoever told you that Boren is struggling, couldn't be farther from the truth. Boren is doing just fine. Ryan Mallett is having trouble taking snaps though. Maybe that's where they got the Boren is struggling thing from? Long and Kraus are our best lineman and both are being held out.

I never get too worked up over spring at Michigan. For several reasons. One is that information is extremely hard to come by, and the GBW's and Wolverine's of the world report conflicting information all the time. They also always tend to pimp some players only for that player to do nothing in the fall or in the actual season- and the funny thing is they don't actually get this info first hand because none of them attend the practices. Carr is very closed doors with everything. The information they push around spring isn't very credible.

Oh, not to mention there is no spring game. It's just a bullsh*t practice that is open to the public. Secondly, Carr tends to hold out players who aren't even injured, so it's hard to tell how they are progressing and it's hard to really have your best practices because you don't get to see a Brandon Graham go toe to toe with Jake Long. Thirdly is there are always, always, freshman who come in during the fall and impress and wind up getting lots of playing time during the season or wind up starting. It has happened literally every year under Carr.
 
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The info about Boren is not that he is not going to be bad or something like that, but it is hard for some that have never done the center thing to be able to adjust, and as of now I have heard from people that he is struggling with his first step out of the snap, which if not quick he will get knocked back into the QB no matter how good of an olineman he is...

Some people struggle with the center thing, I know from first hand experience, and I never could get the transistion down...
 
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When it comes to running backs, that is probably the position I'm least concerned about, even with Grady out. Minor can handle the load if Hart goes down, I saw enough out of him last season to be reassured of that.

I'm with super mario though....spring practice is never anything to get worked up about no matter what the team. It's just not something you can learn anything reliable from because coaches are either genuinely playing a wait-and-see game with position battles, or telling the media they are so they'll go bother someone else.
 
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