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 money who wanted to honor their old line coach. Mike DeBord's career spanned roughly the same time period as Joe Moore's, and by any metric was as successful. Had Jeff Backus thought to endow an award before former ND tackle Aaron Taylor, it might have been the Mike DeBord Award. This would have been a superior development. It rhymes, for one. Two, I wouldn't have to keep specifying first names when differentiating between the line coach the award is named for, and the line coach
Previously: Podcast 14.0A, 14.0B, 14.0C. The Story. Quarterback. Running Back. Wide Receiver. Tight End. [Bolded player rules: not necessarily returning starter, but someone we've seen enough of that I'm no longer talking about their recruiting profile (much, anyway). Extant contributor.] 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 Tim Drevno put out fantastic, mauling offensive lines at Stanford. The guys they recruited were 3-stars, but they were smart, and didn't have to start until they were redshirt sophomores or juniors, by which time they'd been sufficiently drilled to run Drevno's complicated list of calls and checks. At Michigan he fruitlessly chased after recruits who didn't want his
Previously: Quarterback, Running Backs, Receivers Welcome to Opponent Preview week! Next week is the real preview week of Michigan Football, but this week will be mostly about the opponents, as I've got four more The Enemy pieces lined up, and I believe we should have the conclusion to Opponent Watch as well. If you like reading about Michigan's opponents, this is the week for you. We are now on to the offensive line, which is a little bit longer of a piece because there are more names to talk about. I provide the depth chart below each team, showing the starters and a couple reserves who may see the field or are of note. Ideally, these are the first up at guard or tackle. A quick note about the format: bold refers to a returning starter while italics refers to a starter at another school who has transferred in. For this piece, I lean heavily on PFF grades for the non-conference teams because traditional stats don't exist for OL and I didn't really watch any of
Previously: Spring. Fall 2021. See, people asking about HTTV? If we had it done on time you'd have all this incorrect roster data on it! Good news is the phonebooks are here. ======THINGS THAT QUALIFY AS NEWS======== Since time immemorial this is the time we discover graduated guys who slipped out after finishing their careers in spring. This time only DE Gabe Newburg was missing. He was +3/-3 in our charting in four appearances in 2020, and didn't play last year, which was his fourth season. That means they're two over their 85-man scholarship limit heading into fall camp, which is usual, though with instant transfers it's more relevant now that guys have to sit out 2021 if they leave this close to the season, unless they get a waiver. The portal deadline for Fall 2022 sports was May 1. ======THE ALL WEIGHT GAIN OR LOSS IS GOOD SECTION======== Where all weight gained is musculature, and all weight lost was esters of fatty acids. Weights when they were recruits ar