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2020: The Year that Forged and Created the 3-Peat

(This originally was supposed to be a forum topic but it got a lot longer with more insight so it is a diary. If deemed inappropriate or too “feelingsball” please neg, but I wanted to share and feel many can also bring more insight or recognition)

Tennessee , United-states , Michigan , Ohio , Quinten-johnson , Makari-paige , Sherrone-moore , Olu-oluwatimi , Joe-milton , Jeff-persi , Michael-barrett , Don-brown

Preview 2023: Interior Offensive Line

Previously: The Story. Quarterback. Running Back. Wide Receiver. Tight End. INTERIOR OL: YOU'VE COME A LONG WAY, BABY LT Yr. LG Yr. C Yr. RG Yr. RT Yr. Karsen Barnhart Sr.* Trevor Keegan Sr.* Drake Nugent Sr.* Zak Zinter Jr.* Trente Jones Sr.* LaDarius Henderson Sr. Gio El-Hadi So.* Greg Crippen So.* Reece Atteberry So.* Myles Hinton Jr. Jeffrey Persi So.* Amir Herring Fr. Raheem Anderson So.* Connor Jones Fr.* Andrew Gentry Fr.* Michigan's offensive line is coming off back-to-back Joe "Sherrone" Moore awards. They get back six guys who started games last year and added two of the Pac-12's best OL, plus a former five-star with a season and change of starting experience. Cocky? Nah. Call it confid— On Zinter's proposed formation with 10 offensive linemen and a running back You know, I get ... every day the linemen are sending me plays and formations. I'm like, 'can you guys just worry about what you got to do?' Ok, cocky. I am rapturous about Sherrone Moore rolling into the building every morning only for Keegan and Zinter to confront him with their latest ludicrous offense against God and football. They are both wearing full pads and helmets. Keegan sports his trademark faceful of eyeblack. They show him a play where three offensive linemen pull in different directions and then the ball is lateraled to a fourth OL. Moore tries very hard to remember that these guys are his ticket to a head coaching job next year and says he'll take it under advisement. Zinter and Keegan high five, elated. Exit stage right, repeat every day of the summer. In addition to those two guys, Michigan added a two year starter and All Pac-12 honorable mention center to go with two more guys who I'd be perfectly comfortable starting. And the top backup at guard looked like he'd start at a majority of Big Ten schools last year, when he was a redshirt freshman. Sometimes I think back to that time Rich Rodriguez got the Michigan job and arrived to find out he had a total of seven scholarship OL, one of whom was immediately lost for the season. This section's title is a riff on old lady cigarette ads, and I assume Rodriguez smoked several packs of lady cigarettes upon beholding the roster. That's over! ALL OF THAT IS OVER. Michigan's offensive line is now a zombie apocalypse. You can shoot as many guys in the head with a shotgun as you want but the pile is gonna lurch forward with you under it. [After THE JUMP: there is a PFF intern who deserves a whoopin']

Washington , United-states , Michigan , Hawaii , Wisconsin , Columbus , Ohio , Nebraska , Indiana , Maryland , Iowa , Illinois

2023 Recruiting: Drake Nugent

2023 Recruiting: Drake Nugent
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Denver , Colorado , United-states , Michigan , Virginia , Utah , Alex-drain , Indiana , Oregon , Arizona , Tampa-bay , Florida

2023 Recruiting: Drake Nugent

2023 Recruiting: Drake Nugent
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Indiana , United-states , Oregon , Denver , Colorado , Arizona , Alex-drain , Michigan , Miami , Florida , Tampa-bay , Utah

So You Wanna Draft A Wolverine: Olu Oluwatimi

Hello, fan of an NFL team. MGoBlog excruciatingly scouts every Michigan play, and scores them to inform our coverage. Since mi atleta es su atleta now, here we share what we're sharing. Quickly: Brainy, hard-working leader of the offensive line who made his mark in one season at Michigan as a mauling center who tossed blockers aside and centered the best OL in college football in spite of limited athleticism. Draft Projection: Oluwatimi right now seems to project towards the back-end of the draft overall. He's firmly a Day 3 prospect according to many draft boards, based largely on perceived low upside, connected to his less-than-ideal athleticism for an NFL center. Moreover, Oluwatimi is exclusively a center, with very little guard experience, so teams are likely ranking him lower on their boards than someone who seems more suited to fill in at multiple IOL positions. The lack of versatility hurts Oluwatimi in particular as someone who scouts do not project as a starter... if you're going to be a backup, it helps to be a backup with the ability to plug in multiple places. NFL Comp: As I've done for my other write-ups, I'm offering up comps I saw while collecting material for the "what others are saying" section. For Oluwatimi those include Matt Paradis and Ted Karris. What's his story: Oluwatimi was born to Nigerian parents living in the DC metro area, playing HS football at multiple schools, eventually landing at powerhouse DeMatha Catholic. Despite playing with notable future stars at DeMatha including Chase Young, Oluwatimi was not seen as much of anything at the NCAA level, a meager two-star recruit. He wasn't on Michigan's radar, or anyone in the P5 for that matter, choosing to enroll at Air Force but after one season, decided that the military lifestyle wasn't his thing. He transferred back to the DMV area and finally had interest from a P5 school, Bronco Mendenhall's UVA Cavaliers, originally as a walk-on. Oluwatimi would end up being a multi-year starter with the Cavaliers, being incredibly decorated as a senior at UVA, All-America honors and a finalist for the Rimington Trophy for the nation's best center. With Mendenhall retiring after the 2021 season, Oluwatimi put his name in the transfer portal and Michigan zeroed in on him as a plug-and-play stopgap. The Wolverines were set to lose veteran center Andrew Vastardis to graduation and felt that the next wave of young centers on the depth chart were a bit green and not ideal to start yet. Oluwatimi, bringing one year of eligibility and a sterling track record, was the perfect player to add to the roster. It also made sense for Oluwatimi, as he was coming from a pass-heavy program in Virginia and wanted to go to a run-heavy team that could help him put a bunch of run-blocking clips on tape for the NFL Draft. He committed to Michigan just after Christmas 2021 and hype began building almost instantly. By spring practice 2022, there was buzz that Oluwatimi was already a leader and arguably the best offensive lineman on the OL, hefty praise considering the reigning Joe Moore line had three starters returning. The spring game was a tantalizing look at this and then once the season began, we learned that the offseason hype was not an ounce of hyperbole: Oluwatimi was actually that good. The combination of Oluwatimi and right guard Zak Zinter was the crux of Michigan's vaunted rushing offense, using those two maulers to combo a defensive tackle and open a hole so large that a Mack truck could drive through. Oluwatimi's grades at the center position were phenomenal on our end, harkening back to Michigan center Cesar Ruiz (2017-19), and fittingly Oluwatimi was crowned the Rimington Trophy winner in 2022, Michigan's third winner of the award. Positives: Incredibly smart center who has years of experience at the position, snaps the ball well, sets the line calls and reads the play well, and has shown off strong run and pass blocking ability at the NCAA level. Negatives: Lacks desired athleticism for an NFL center and may be limited in his positional versatility having played exclusively center in college. [AFTER THE JUMP: What others say, grading, video, conclusion]

Virginia , United-states , Michigan , Colorado , Indiana , Ohio , Maryland , Hawaii , Nebraska , Illinois , Nigeria , America

So You Wanna Draft A Wolverine: Olu Oluwatimi

Hello, fan of an NFL team. MGoBlog excruciatingly scouts every Michigan play, and scores them to inform our coverage. Since mi atleta es su atleta now, here we share what we're sharing. Quickly: Brainy, hard-working leader of the offensive line who made his mark in one season at Michigan as a mauling center who tossed blockers aside and centered the best OL in college football in spite of limited athleticism. Draft Projection: Oluwatimi right now seems to project towards the back-end of the draft overall. He's firmly a Day 3 prospect according to many draft boards, based largely on perceived low upside, connected to his less-than-ideal athleticism for an NFL center. Moreover, Oluwatimi is exclusively a center, with very little guard experience, so teams are likely ranking him lower on their boards than someone who seems more suited to fill in at multiple IOL positions. The lack of versatility hurts Oluwatimi in particular as someone who scouts do not project as a starter... if you're going to be a backup, it helps to be a backup with the ability to plug in multiple places. NFL Comp: As I've done for my other write-ups, I'm offering up comps I saw while collecting material for the "what others are saying" section. For Oluwatimi those include Matt Paradis and Ted Karris. What's his story: Oluwatimi was born to Nigerian parents living in the DC metro area, playing HS football at multiple schools, eventually landing at powerhouse DeMatha Catholic. Despite playing with notable future stars at DeMatha including Chase Young, Oluwatimi was not seen as much of anything at the NCAA level, a meager two-star recruit. He wasn't on Michigan's radar, or anyone in the P5 for that matter, choosing to enroll at Air Force but after one season, decided that the military lifestyle wasn't his thing. He transferred back to the DMV area and finally had interest from a P5 school, Bronco Mendenhall's UVA Cavaliers, originally as a walk-on. Oluwatimi would end up being a multi-year starter with the Cavaliers, being incredibly decorated as a senior at UVA, All-America honors and a finalist for the Rimington Trophy for the nation's best center. With Mendenhall retiring after the 2021 season, Oluwatimi put his name in the transfer portal and Michigan zeroed in on him as a plug-and-play stopgap. The Wolverines were set to lose veteran center Andrew Vastardis to graduation and felt that the next wave of young centers on the depth chart were a bit green and not ideal to start yet. Oluwatimi, bringing one year of eligibility and a sterling track record, was the perfect player to add to the roster. It also made sense for Oluwatimi, as he was coming from a pass-heavy program in Virginia and wanted to go to a run-heavy team that could help him put a bunch of run-blocking clips on tape for the NFL Draft. He committed to Michigan just after Christmas 2021 and hype began building almost instantly. By spring practice 2022, there was buzz that Oluwatimi was already a leader and arguably the best offensive lineman on the OL, hefty praise considering the reigning Joe Moore line had three starters returning. The spring game was a tantalizing look at this and then once the season began, we learned that the offseason hype was not an ounce of hyperbole: Oluwatimi was actually that good. The combination of Oluwatimi and right guard Zak Zinter was the crux of Michigan's vaunted rushing offense, using those two maulers to combo a defensive tackle and open a hole so large that a Mack truck could drive through. Oluwatimi's grades at the center position were phenomenal on our end, harkening back to Michigan center Cesar Ruiz (2017-19), and fittingly Oluwatimi was crowned the Rimington Trophy winner in 2022, Michigan's third winner of the award. Positives: Incredibly smart center who has years of experience at the position, snaps the ball well, sets the line calls and reads the play well, and has shown off strong run and pass blocking ability at the NCAA level. Negatives: Lacks desired athleticism for an NFL center and may be limited in his positional versatility having played exclusively center in college. [AFTER THE JUMP: What others say, grading, video, conclusion]

Maryland , United-states , Nebraska , Colorado , Nigeria , Illinois , Hawaii , Michigan , Ohio , Virginia , Indiana , Nigerian

Is this Class the 2018 Class?

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 disappointment. I'm one of the people who kept saying over the first half-decade of Harbaugh that beating Ohio State was the key to unlocking a higher level of recruiting. So far, it has not. This has led to two major questions about the 2023 class, which might be seen as the optimistic and pessimistic versions of the same question: Pessimist: Why is a 13-0 Michigan recruiting like 8-5 Michigan? Optimist: Is this class like the 2018 class? Every other question is another form of what this all signifies. Is Michigan doing something wrong? Is Michigan systemically disadvantaged in a new pay-for-play world? Was this wound self-inflicted, bad luck, overstated, or even worth discussing? Is Warde Manuel a second Fritz Crisler who's too cheap, too conservative, and too obstinately attached to outdated ideals of amateurism to keep up in a landscape rapidly reshaping to a new more capitalist order, while simultaneously too revered to be dispensed with? I can't answer all of that. But I can tell you what happened with the 2018 class, and what that means for the very similar 2022 class. [After THE JUMP: the 2018 recruiting tag is revived]

Georgia , United-states , Alabama , Nevada , Missouri , Texas , Kentucky , Minnesota , Florida , Farmington-hills , Michigan , Wisconsin

Michigan's Olu Oluwatimi: How one November week proved he's an anchor for Wolverines

Oluwatimi arrived in Ann Arbor with three clear goals, and after a season riddled with heartbreak, he's almost finished.

Charlottesville , Virginia , United-states , Georgia , Ann-arbor , Michigan , Nigeria , Nebraska , Washington , Illinois , Maryland , Wisconsin

Triumph and tragedy - Michigan center Olu Oluwatimi's journey

On his way to multiple awards and a berth in the College Football Playoff, the Virginia transfer watched tragedy from afar.

Charlottesville , Virginia , United-states , Georgia , Ann-arbor , Michigan , Nigeria , Illinois , Maryland , Ohio , University-of-virginia , Nigerian

Maize&BlueReview - Column: Michigan recruiting, transfer portal, for 2023 and beyond

Analyzing Michigan's 2023 recruiting, transfer portal usage, and what it means for their strategy in the future.

Michigan , United-states , Nebraska , Luke-schoonmaker , Trevor-keegan , Colston-loveland , Andrew-vastardis , Donovan-edwards , Drake-nugent , Zak-zinter , Ernest-hausmann , Myles-hinton