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UFR Glossary: Here. Sorry this took so long to get out. If you're wondering, it was the 3rd and 2 when Mazi Smith turned down a free sack that caused a three-month rage quit. Video Note: It looks like Gfycat is dying. I got half of the videos uploaded before uploading stopped working. They're still hosting for now, but I moved to Streamable to complete the job. Feedback appreciated. Substitution Notes: Michigan started in a dime with all three CBs and Turner the dimeback, and used that...

The short version is I don't know anything. But I can't focus on UFR, and threw out a Neck Sharpies, and already updated my starts and snaps data for the year, so we might as well talk about it. What's the evidence that Harbaugh is pursuing NFL jobs? Credible reporters say so. Bruce Feldman reported "multiple sources close to Jim Harbaugh" believe he would take an NFL coaching job if it was offered. One source used the "done deal" phrasing. “I think it is a d...

TCU Links: Preview, The Podcast, FFFF Offense (chart), FFFF Defense (chart). Neck Sharpies on that defense. If you're in or around Ann Arbor, the Game Watch party's at Venue. 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 which one writer takes a positive tack and the other a negative one… something like Punt-Counterpunt. PUNT...

THIS IS NOT A BASKETBALL COACH! I've had this written for days but feared coaching news will hit the moment I post it. So maybe this will jog the coaching news. One of the great questions this spring is how Gattis plans to incorporate the stuff Michigan's been doing with his ideas. Draw up a play coach twitter already found this one and drew it up: Boundary Pin & Pull RPO is already tough for the Defense to Diagnose! ➕ Adding Swing from the Pistol RB really puts the Overhang Def...

Substitution Notes: DT rotation featured lots of Graham in the 5-2, and plenty of Benny and Grant rotation even in the 1st Q. DE was Morris and a mix of (in order of snaps) Harrell, Upshaw, Okie, and a drive each for D.Moore and McGregor. LB was Colson and Barrett exclusively until garbage time. Will Johnson got starter snaps at CB with Turner, with Green rotating in for both. Safety was Moore and Moten, who gave up a couple of drives to Quinten Johnson. Here's the roster for the last drive...

FORMATION NOTES: Rutgers uses a blizzard of different fronts but spends the game in a nickel with said nickel over the slot almost all the time, and then that guy gets nosy in the box almost all of the time. Here they've shifted their line over to the strength of the formation and the nickel is the littlest LB closes to the center of the field. SUBSTITUTION NOTES: Usual at QB, obviously. Edwards got more carries earlier than usual; seemed like Corum may have been ill and Michigan was trying...

About Last Week I feel bad for Mel Tucker right now. Not THAT bad, of course. There is a limit to how bad you can feel for someone making $26,000 per day to produce Indiana-level results. But I do have some sympathy. After all, while many things that have been his fault this year, this one is on the previous regime. Mark Dantonio built a machine. An amazing machine. A powerful machine. A wonderous, marvelous, fantastical Michigan-Hating Machine. An energy-producing perpetual aggrievement device ...

The UFR Glossary. Substitution Notes: Smith most of the way, Jenkins was in for about half, Graham got his usual quarter-ish, and Rayshaun Benny got more play than usual, with Grant and Goode getting some run late. End was a rotation led by Morris. Harrell got in first and as much as Okie but the balance shifted towards Upshaw later, with 2 drives for D.Moore and McGregor. Linebacker was Colson and Barrett until garbage time. At CB, Turner went the whole way, and Sainristil most of it moving ou...

The UFR Glossary. Substitution Notes: Penn State spent most of the day with multiple TEs on the field but used them primarily as receivers. Michigan was answering with nickel personnel. DT snaps were ~90% Smith, 60% Jenkins, 40% Graham, 25% Benny and a few appearances of Grant but not Goode. Edge saw more Okie than Harrell and lots more Upshaw and Moore, with McGregor not playing till the last drive. LB was Colson/Barrett with Mullings in on a couple of 2nd half passing downs and Rolder playing ...

The UFR Glossary. Substitution Notes: Edge was the most interesting; Morris and Upshaw were the starters and played 2/3 of snaps but Okie rotated in for 4-down fronts and outplayed McGregor and Upshaw. D.Moore came in to pass rush when Morris was inside. Paige started over Moore then rotated drives with Moten. CBs were the usual Turner/Green with Johnson spelling each for a drive. Sainristil came off for an extra DL when Iowa went to 2WR sets. LBs were mostly Colson and Barrett but Rolder and Mu...