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Fielding Yost had a problem. After four years of dominating college football many other teams had learned his speed-'em-up and spread-'em-out offense, and were coming up with new ways to use the attack. Single-wing football was taking over, and the old way of matching seven players on the offensive line with seven defensive linemen was starting to get run around. The guy who solved it for him was center Adolf "Germany" Schulz. Rather than limit himself to taking on interior l...

Previously: Podcast 15.0A, 15.0B, 15.0C. The Story. Quarterback. Running Back. Wide Receiver. Tight End. Interior OL. Defensive Interior. Edge. LINEBACKER: LINEBACKING IS HARD Not a Depth Chart Middle Linebacker Yr. Weakside Linebacker Yr. Junior Colson Jr. Michael Barrett Sr.** Jimmy Rolder So. Ernest Hausmann So. Micah Pollard So. Jaydon Hood So.* It's a fair bet the plurality of position-specific praying in 2022 was for the linebackers. Michigan went into the season with two playable opt...

Previously: Last year’s profiles, K Adam Samaha, S Brandyn Hillman   Youngstown (Chaney), Ohio – 6'3"/195   [Twitter] 247: 6'3/195                3.69* 3*, 88, NR overall #67 S, #21 OH Rivals: 6'3/190                3.77* 3*, 5.7, NR overall #35 ATH, #20 OH ESPN: 6'2/195                3.46* 3*, 75, #121 MW #95 S, #37 OH On3: 6'3/195                3.53* 3*, 87, NR overall #97 S, #28 OH Composites:    ...

It felt inevitable once former star Michigan assistant/Paramus HC/very good LB coach Chris Partridge was returning, but now it appears official. Per Bruce Feldman, current LBs coach George Helow won't be back next year. SOURCE: Michigan and Wolverines LB coach George Helow have mutually agreed to part ways to pursue other opportunities. Helow who arrived in 2021, helped UM rank in the Top 15 in yards per play both YRs and developed Junior Colson into Freshman All-American and an All-Big Ten...

The freshman class that Michigan signed last week is ranked 17th in the 247 composite rankings, 17th to Rivals, and 19th to On3, The class has, pending their pursuit of 5-star Nyckoles Harbor in the later signing period, zero top-100 players. This is quite clearly below the level Michigan normally recruits at. To have a class like that after a second straight year of beating Ohio State by three scores, winning the Big Ten championship, and going to the Playoff is, without question, a disappointm...

So this is unprecedented. As of writing this Michigan has already brought in five transfers in the week since the portal opened. They are widely expected to be adding a sixth in Indiana TE AJ Barner. What is going on? Did something change? Did we become the new Portal U? Well, I thought we should talk about it. PORTAL? Much of what Brian went through last week is still true. Zach Shaw of 247 wrote a comprehensive assessment of Michigan's needs yesterday that isn't behind a paywall so I...

[Patrick Barron] 9/1/2018 – Michigan 17, Notre Dame 24 – 0-1 Ah so it's this bit again. The bit where some people pick up on a factoid and yell about it a lot and other people yell at them about it. The bit where everyone's mad and trying to take it out on someone. I mean, I get it. Any properly scientific assessment of which football program it is the least fun to be a fan of will find a way to exclude Kansas for not actually being a football program and stick Michigan at the top....

Previously: Podcast 14.0A, 14.0B, 14.0C. The Story. Quarterback. Running Back. Wide Receiver. Tight End. Offensive Tackle. LT Yr. LG Yr. C Yr. RG Yr. RT Yr. Ryan Hayes Jr** Trevor Keegan So** Olu Oluwatimi Sr** Zak Zinter So* Trente Jones So** Jeffrey Persi Fr** Reece Atteberry So* Greg Crippen So Gio El-Hadi Fr* Karsen Barnhart So** Tristan Bounds Fr* Alessandro Lorenzetti Fr Raheem Anderson Fr* Connor Jones Fr Andrew Gentry Fr The Joe Moore Award was started in 2015 by some Notre Dame OL with ...

We are still playing catch-up, and hopefully I’ll have time to get through them all this week and put out a general recruiting update. Next up in the order they committed, 3* AL linebacker Tim “Deuce” Spurlock Jr. A name that Courtney Morgan suggested when he came onboard, Spurlock was invited to Michigan’s camp in June, hit it off with LBs coach George Helow, earned an offer, and seemed on the verge of committing in July before Michigan apparently told him to hold off while they pursued...

Previously: Last year’s profiles. S Damani Dent, S/Nk Zeke Berry, S/HSP Keon Sabb, CB Myles Pollard, CB/Nk Kody Jones, CB Will Johnson.   Madison, AL – 6'2”, 220   [EJ Holland, via Rivals] 247: 6'2/200     3.47* 3*, 86, #108 LB, #41 AL Rivals: 6'2/220     3.40* 3*, 5.5 not ranked ESPN: 6'2/200     3.59* 3*, 78, #334 SE #52 OLB, #30 AL On3: 6'2/220     3.52* 3*, 86, #35 ATH, #37 AL Composite:     3.56* 3*, 0.8560, #1014 ovr #93 LB, #41 AL Other Suit...