My Offensive grades from yesterday's spring practice

Quarterbacks
Tate Forcier well didn't play as well as I hoped, he had a tendency to look right at the receiver he was going to throw to for forever! From what the volunteers said he was having an off day but all I can say is that I hope he was because he wasn't too hot today. He was really accurate but sometimes miss read what the receiver was doing, he should get better at that come fall though. David looked better than I expected but wasn't anything special he got the ball there, but that's really all that he did. But I still have to say that it was better than what it was last year, but that's not saying much. Overall grade: C+

Running backs
The running backs looked really good yesterday Brandon Minor ran as hard as ever. Carlos Brown showed that he still has that break away threat with a 60 yard run for a touchdown. The guy who was a big surprise to me was a guy like Forcier entered college early, from Florida Vince Smith (#2) has AMAZING agility yesterday he slipped out of a tackle kept running then got sandwiched between 2 defensive players and STILL was running and scored a touchdown! This guy has some serious skill he's only 5'6" or 5'7" but if he stays healthy he's going to be a great one for Michigan.
Final grade: A-

Wide receivers
The wide receivers were okay sometimes they would drop a pass but they were pretty good they had a hard time getting open at times with our corner backs but still made some pretty good catches Greg Mathews made this terrific catch and run for 30-40 yards! But they are about average at this position. Final grade B

Linemen
Let me start off by saying that more than half the reason we had a 3-9 season was because of these guys being inexperienced. But this year they look pretty solid on a lot of the runs during the scrimmage there were really good holes which will be a nice change from last year. There were a couple of plays where there was pressure on the quarterback but nothing major like all of last year. Final grade B+

Michigan Coaching Clinic

Tomorrow my dad and I are going to the Michigan Coaching Clinic! Which should be fun seeing the wolverines practicing before anyone can see them. I'm going to spend sometime watching Tate Forcier and see how well he's doing with the process, another thing I'm going to check out is the wide receivers because no one knows how good they are since last year they didn't have a quarterback.

sick of school

We've had no days off school for several weeks now and it's KILLING ME!! Next week we have a 4 day week then Easter break. (Thank you!!). Another thing that has been making the time go slowly for this period of time is that Mrs. T hasn't been absent in like 3 weeks! Usually she misses one day every week but no she decides to finally go on a run of 3 weeks during the longest part of the year! Ugh I feel like my brain is melting!

New prospects now have Michigan high on their list!

Michigan's first spring practice was this week and with it came a lot of top prospects from around the country. Seantrel Henderson (Offensive tackle) the top prospect in the country was there and very impressed by the visit and said "I loved it better than any college I've been to so far." Some other prospects that have recently added Michigan on their list of favorites are RB Austin White, RB Mack Brown, and DB Latwan Anderson. Austin White was ranked in the top 250 players in the nation but was cut from the new list. He has 2 brothers that went to Michigan St but even with that Michigan seems to be the team to beat for White. Mack Brown has recently shown a lot of interest in Michigan he's ranked 44th best player in the nation. Latwan Anderson is a safety from Ohio and it is rumored that his 2 favorites are Michigan and Michigan St.

Dior Mathis: Possible Next star corner at Michigan??

Dior Mathis is a former teammate of soon to be freshmen Defensive tackle William Campbell, Defensive back Thomas Gordon, and running back Teric Jones. Mathis is also a former teammate to sophomore defensive back Boubacar Cissoko. Dior Mathis is ranked 134th best player in the country. He still hasn't cut his list favorites but I'd expect Michigan to be at least in the top 3. He plays for Detroit class tech and I believe is going to end up committing to Michigan but he's also pretty high on Miami so we'll have to see.

Change

you've probably noticed that I changed my blog color-wise well that's just because I kinda got bored with it. If you don't like what I did to it don't worry I'll probably change it as soon as I get bored.

Running back prospects for 2010

Michigan is going to need another good talented running back in this recruiting class. That's because Brandon Minor, Carlos Brown, and the very disappointing Kevin Grady are all leaving! So far it looks okay for Michigan at running back recruiting not as good as quarterback but still some good talent. 2 guys that I'd keep my eye on is Brennan Clay from California, and Nick Hill from Chelsea Michigan.

Brennan Clay (#24 and #15) was a teammate to incoming freshman Tate Forcier and has been offered by Michigan. He's ranked the 112th best player in the country is really good at catching the ball from the back field and getting yardage (over 1,000 yards receiving). Michigan is in his top list along with Oregon, Wisconsin and San Diego St. He's got the hands to really be a threat in Rich Rodriguez's spread offense.

Nick Hill ran for over 2,000 yards for his high school this year and can he play! He was originally in the top 250 players in the country but wasn't in it in the latest issue. He really likes Michigan I really believe that he's going to commit to Michigan anytime now.