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2014 TSUN Football News

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Another starting LT candidate emerges:

@ESPN_BigTen
Another early enrollee opening eyes at Michigan is OL Mason Cole. Competing for starting LT job. Funk says Cole has great chance to play.
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The good news is that the impact of a 6'5" 275 lbs. true freshman starting at LT will be mitigated by all of the elite RBs and WRs on their roster.
 
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Given the heated competition for starting LT between an underweight true freshman, a RS freshman guard that couldn't crack the starting lineup on last year's stellar unit, and whatever player can't seem to keep them down on the depth chart (Erik Magnuson?), I decided to look more into the 2014 OL situation at tsun and found this video.

http://www.mgoblue.com/allaccess/?media=442408

It reminds me a lot of the defense during the Rodriguez era. They're going to be better because they have more experience and they're going to be better because they are implementing a brand new system.

They're not going to get worse because they have the same terrible players learning a brand new system, of course.
 
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http://college-football.si.com/2014/04/04/ohio-state-michigan-florida-state-texas-spring-practice/

There’s nothing like a little verbal sparring between Ohio State and Michigan. Buckeyes offensive line coach Ed Warinner took a shot at Wolverines coach Brady Hoke at an Ohio State fundraising event this week. Warinner made a comment concerning Michigan allegedly losing its playbooks, saying, “I heard Brady [Hoke] was upset because he hadn’t finished coloring them.”
Hoke shot back during a radio interview with WTKA-AM in Ann Arbor on Thursday.

“Obviously there’s enough people that keep you informed of what’s going on,” Hoke said. “The one thing around here is we try and always stay in between the lines. That’s important with how you handle your program.”
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It is important to keep the barbecue grill inside the white lines.
 
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maximumblitz said:
http://college-football.si.com/2014/04/04/ohio-state-michigan-florida-state-texas-spring-practice/

“Obviously there’s enough people that keep you informed of what’s going on,” Hoke said. “The one thing around here is we try and always stay in between the lines. That’s important with how you handle your program.”

It is important to keep the barbecue grill inside the white lines.
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Or Like this?


When Michigan coach Brady Hoke said Dec. 23 that kicker Brendan Gibbons would miss the Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl because of family reasons, it quietly raised a few eyebrows.

Gibbons had been the subject of a washtenawwatchdogs.com report in August, which stated that Gibbons had been arrested in November 2009 following an alleged sexual assault against a female student. Ann Arbor police investigated but never charged Gibbons, but some very troubling allegations had been made against the kicker.

Then came The Michigan Daily report Tuesday that Michigan had expelled Gibbons for violating its sexual misconduct policy following an incident in November 2009. Although the university and the athletic department declined to comment about Gibbons, citing privacy laws, documents obtained by The Michigan Daily showed that Gibbons was notified in a Dec. 19 letter that he had been "permanently separated" from the school.

The Michigan Daily now reports that a signed agreement from Gibbons, confirming his permanent separation from Michigan and waiving his right to an appeal, was faxed from the Michigan football office on Dec. 19. An athletic department spokesman confirmed to the newspaper that Gibbons "came to talk" to athletic officials on that day.

http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/95155/michigan-must-address-gibbons-questions
 
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Hard to judge anything from a practice,

but the offensive line still looked like crap.

I still think Funchess would be better utilized staying at TE.

Canteen has some wheels, just needs to add some weight.

Smith should overtake Green at RB at some point.

Gardner locks onto one WR, still.

defensive line looked solid, granted it was against our own offensive line.

secondary looked a lot more aggressive than in years past.

Jake Ryan at MLB seems to be working just fine.



Just some of the stuff I noticed.
 
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Will say this again: Anything more than 8-4 will surprise me, with 7-5 being the smart money. I don't see how they beat Notre Dame, Penn State, MSU, Northwestern, and OSU especially with 4/5 coming on the road. Hoke really just doesn't get it, whatever it is. His teams will always flail and underwhelm against any team that has a pulse. And I love every second of it.
 
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shiznit7 said:
Will say this again: Anything more than 8-4 will surprise me, with 7-5 being the smart money. I don't see how they beat Notre Dame, Penn State, MSU, Northwestern, and OSU especially with 4/5 coming on the road. Hoke really just doesn't get it, whatever it is. His teams will always flail and underwhelm against any team that has a pulse. And I love every second of it.
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I think "it" is the ability to coach. I'm serious--I think Hoke is good enough to have flash in the pan seasons at a mid-major type program. I remember being amazed that Michigan was willing to hand the program over to a guy with no proven track record of success. He's just in over his head, as I predicted he would be.
 
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buckeyesin07 said:
I think "it" is the ability to coach. I'm serious--I think Hoke is good enough to have flash in the pan seasons at a mid-major type program. I remember being amazed that Michigan was willing to hand the program over to a guy with no proven track record of success. He's just in over his head, as I predicted he would be.
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Or scUM with a powderpuff schedule handed to him.
 
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WolverineMike said:
Hard to judge anything from a practice,

but the offensive line still looked like crap.

I still think Funchess would be better utilized staying at TE.

Canteen has some wheels, just needs to add some weight.

Smith should overtake Green at RB at some point.

Gardner locks onto one WR, still.

defensive line looked solid, granted it was against our own offensive line.

secondary looked a lot more aggressive than in years past.

Jake Ryan at MLB seems to be working just fine.



Just some of the stuff I noticed.
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Funchess is not a TE. Or at least shouldn't be one up there given the swing-gate OL. scUM needs a TE that can help blocking. Funchess most certainly cannot do that. He's a matchup nightmare as a WR. As a TE, he's a WR that cannot block lining up off the terrible OL.
 
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