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2007 TSUN News

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STRONGEST AREA: With three starters back, the line may be the best in the Big Ten. The anchor is tackle Terrance Taylor, who is a fireplug in the middle. Will Johnson is ready to emerge as a force next to Taylor inside. The end tandem of Brandon Graham and Tim Jamison may be fearsome; the duo combined for 14 sacks last season. The keys are keeping Jamison healthy and getting Graham to play hard every down.
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To quote a famous man, "Lol."
 
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Speaking of human turnstiles, I didn't see any mention of our best friend Morgan Trent. All the talk I have heard from AA is that he and Warren are the best set of corners in the B10 (I couldn't make this stuff up, someone just has to say it).

Bottom line to me is that scUM will have a good but not great defense in '08. It will be nowhere near good enough to overcome the holes the offense will consistently put it in however.
 
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OregonBuckeye;1197200; said:
They also said Javon Ringer may be the best back in the Big-10. Makes you wonder just what the hell they watch on Saturdays.
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Jaxbuck;1197210; said:
Speaking of human turnstiles, I didn't see any mention of our best friend Morgan Trent. All the talk I have heard from AA is that he and Warren are the best set of corners in the B10 (I couldn't make this stuff up, someone just has to say it).

Bottom line to me is that scUM will have a good but not great defense in '08. It will be nowhere near good enough to overcome the holes the offense will consistently put it in however.
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I have it on good authority (Tom Lemming) that U-M is recruiting some very fast players to fit their new system. Now, the consensus seems to be that they may not actually be very good players, but they are very, very fast, which should address the glaring problem they've had the past two years that directly contributed to their losses to OSU: running down Beanie in the open field.
 
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Dryden;1197224; said:
I have it on good authority (Tom Lemming) that U-M is recruiting some very fast players to fit their new system. Now, the consensus seems to be that they may not actually be very good players, but they are very, very fast, which should address the glaring problem they've had the past two years that directly contributed to their losses to OSU: running down Beanie in the open field.
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sound logic indeed.

Lost in all this talk the past few years about speed, and more recently in all the talk about RR's scheme with all its emphasis on speed coming to the B10, is the flipside of the coin.

No one ever seems to want to talk about what happens when you have a team built for speed that gets the tempo dictated to them by the team built for power.

All across CFB I see teams loading up on the smurfs and just keep thinking to myself that the Wisconsins of the world don't care. They aren't going to change and they will eventually get your 5'8" speedster trying to avoid 300 lb linemen and tackle their 250 lb RB's.

Obviously speed is important but thats nothing new, I think a lot of people in CFB are starting to take it to the extreme and soon someone is going to go opposite of the crowd and just physically humiliate teams that went a bit too small to get their speed.
 
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An excellent point. WVU had a lot of success running around the Marylands and Marshalls and East Carolinas and Syracuses and Connecticuts and so forth that were always on their schedule. But oddly enough, they always looked a step slower - more hesitant - when it came time to play the Virginia Techs, South Floridas and Pittsburghs, all teams which know a little bit about how to play defense.
 
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Jaxbuck;1197233; said:
sound logic indeed.

Lost in all this talk the past few years about speed, and more recently in all the talk about RR's scheme with all its emphasis on speed coming to the B10, is the flipside of the coin.

No one ever seems to want to talk about what happens when you have a team built for speed that gets the tempo dictated to them by the team built for power.

All across CFB I see teams loading up on the smurfs and just keep thinking to myself that the Wisconsins of the world don't care. They aren't going to change and they will eventually get your 5'8" speedster trying to avoid 300 lb linemen and tackle their 250 lb RB's.

Obviously speed is important but thats nothing new, I think a lot of people in CFB are starting to take it to the extreme and soon someone is going to go opposite of the crowd and just physically humiliate teams that went a bit too small to get their speed.
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There are lots of flip sides... The teams going primarily after supersonic speed might be thinking they'll take the occasional humiliation by Wisky's offense while meting out more doses of humiliation by running by a half dozen 250-300 lb defenders whose legs appear to be stuck in concrete.

So we land back into the familiar notion that probably the most resilient and versatile/adaptable scheme in the long run (of an entire season or two) is one that balances speed and power.
 
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Their starters on the DL are very good. My question is what happens if any one of them go down...especially DE. Jamison hasn't been the model of health during his career. This is a major problem with their defense. They lost their best two safeties and linebackers. I gues Harrison and Brown will be their starting safeties? They lack depth horribly. Their defense cannot afford to lose anybody. There is not a defense is the country who will not sustain at least one injury that cost a player a few games...especially defensive players.
 
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