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Upon Further Reviewy Hokepointsy Thing: Kickoffs
So I kind of misunderstood a direction by Brian when I said I wanted to address special teams—he wanted stats on dinosaur punting and I thought he meant UFR all the things he doesn't. What sparked my...
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Picture Pages: Maybe A Third Of Why We Suck At Running
Estimates are approximate. Michigan's spent maybe half of their snaps in the shotgun/pistol on running downs this year, running about five things: jet sweeps to Norfleet, QB draws, speed option, the...
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Tuesday Presser Transcript 9-24-13: Brady Hoke
Bullets: Jake Ryan! Won't be back for Big Ten opener. Maybe by Penn State. "Mid-october" is the target. The only way Graham Glasgow gets moved to center is if there's a capable guard to replace...
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This Week's Obsession: The Borges Leap
Oh boy.Our roundtable's obsession this bye: what to do if you're Borges. The cast:Scott Bakula as Brian Cook, a quantum physicist who becomes trapped on the internet following an experiment with trying...
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Picture Pages: All It Takes Is One Guy
SITE NOTE: as is traditional during a bye week, the UFRs will be delayed a day, allowing us to ruminate in some more detail on a couple more plays that seem to be representative of larger trends.Today...
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Basketball Recruiting: Domino Time
Sounds like Donte Grantham is your next Hello post.After months of poling down the Mississippi, taking in the sites while chewing on a piece of wheat comes a frenetic burst of machine-gun commitments....
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Upon Further Reviewy Hokepointsy Thing: Kick Return: First Four Games
Unlike other UFRs you may have read, this one comes with about 20x the NORFLEET! Michigan kickoffs were on Tuesday. Here's kick returns.Michigan's deep set is usually Gedeon, Houma and Rawls then Dileo...
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Thursday Recruitin' Explores The South
McDowell Lines Up OfficialsMalik McDowell (#67) relaxes before playing Farmington (Bryan Fuller)Southfield top-50 DL Malik McDowell has been quiet throughout the recruiting process to the point that...
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Upon Further Review 2013: Offense vs UConn
FORMATION NOTES: UConn did some weird stuff. My lingo on these is probably bad but this was "5-1 nickel split" with a 3-4 front that has two OLBs flanking the line:And I just gave up when this...
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The Weekly Six-UConn
This may or may not have been one of the top six swing plays (it was) via Mgoblue.com 1. The Six Factors Exp ScoreEarly ConvBonus YdsAvg 3rd DistAdj 3rd ConvRed ZoneOffense 29.8 57% 95 7.0 -22%...
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Tomorrow Night in Chicago, an Evening With…
Join us tomorrow night (November 15), from 6-9 pm at Moe's Cantina River North for an evening of beer, bitching about Borges, and basketball.Bullets!Q&A Session with Brian Cook and Todd Howard and...
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Upon Further Review 2013: Defense vs Nebraska
FORMATION NOTES: Michigan abandoned the two-high look for most of this game in favor of seven or seven and a half man fronts depending on whether Nebraska was in standard or three-wide personnel....
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Fee Fi Foe Film: Northwestern Defense
Previously: Northwestern OffenseWLB Chi Chi Ariguzo is asked to make a lot of plays in space, and make plays he does.I'll be perfectly honest—I couldn't bring myself to get through this whole game for...
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Michigan Offers Vic Enwere And Jhonny Williams
Contrary to popular perception recruiting is not over. The Michigan coaches have offered 2014 prospects RB Vic Enwere and DE Jhonny Williams.Vic EnwerePosition: Running BackHt/Wt: 6'1"/215...
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Dear Diary Has Moved on to Appreciation
This isn't a stage of grief but it is a stage of life: at some point during the long process of disintegrating into a grotesque version of yourself, you stop asking rhetorically when the kids will...
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Mailbag: More Sad Football Things, All Caps Sad Football Section
Bryan FullerHi Brian,I don't pretend to know the intricacies of football but during the Nebraska game it seemed that Toussaint, in pass protection, would wait for his blocking assignment to come to him...
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Preview: Northwestern 2013
Other stuff here: Ace FFFF: Offense(!), Defense(!)EssentialsWHATMichigan vs NorthwesternWHERERyan Field Evanston, ILWHEN3:30 PM Eastern November 16th, 2013THE LINENorthwestern -3TELEVISIONBTNWEATHERmid...
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Punt-Counterpunt: Northwestern 2013
Something's been missing from Michigan gamedays since the free programs ceased being economically viable: scientific gameday predictions that are not at all preordained by the strictures of a column in...
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Offensive Line Experience: Short Ride in a Broken-Down Machine
[Ed: BUMP]A moment comes when you first start listening to minimalist music—for some people it comes quickly, for some people it never clicks at all—when your perception of time changes. As a musician...
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When your attempts at Chaos are repeatedly unsuccessful, try deploying some basic counters, which can be found in the Chaos Mitigation Playbook.Powered by Blyve
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