Justin Feagin showed a few things as well. It is going to be a competition that may continue to go throughout the season. I hope that we have at least two that we feel that we can win with that is the goal. Not so much as finding a starter as finding two that we feel that we can win with. - Rich Rodriguez, yesterday (from Scout)
Certainly a cop out posting roundups on back to back days, but hey, I'm not allowed into practice, so I'm relegated to repurposing the blog world for your benefit...
First up, ESPN is not surrendering their sports coverage to the Big Ten blogosphere just yet, and has put together some great coverage on a blog of their own. They covered Michigan's first day on the field with vigor. Highlights include...
Walking through Michigan's weight room on the way out, I stopped to check out the team-high totals for several categories. Johnson tops the bench-press chart at 500 pounds, Taylor squatted a team-best 625 pounds and cornerback Morgan Trent ran a 4.13 in the 40-yard dash.
Morgan Trent...4.13?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!? OK, OK, let's put this in perspective...
Olympic sprinter Ben Johnson ran a 9.79 sec 100 meter in the 1988 Olympics in Seoul. His gold medal and world record was stripped after failing a post-race drug test. He went through 40 yards that day in 4.38 seconds.
So, considering the method to time the athletes gives a plus or minus .5 sec..let's assume that the 4.13 was downhill, wind-aided, and that the stopwatch was in the hands of someone with muscle spasms. Otherwise, Morgan should leave the team immediately and head to Beijing.
Kevin Grady was at practice, and while the rest of the team is fast asleep, it is safe to assume that Kev is still practicing.
His next court date is set for Aug. 14, and he faces up to 93 days in jail if convicted.
Junior running back Carlos Brown returned to the field for the first practice of fall camp and took snaps at quarterback and running back. Brown missed spring and summer workouts with a finger injury.
Finally, MLive gives us a taste of McGuffie:
Sam McGuffie's got the moves. Again, insert the no-pads caveat, but YouTube video star McGuffie, a running back from Texas, sure looks like he's going be a slippery ball-carrier.
Here's what happened while you watched the Tigers die.
"...I don't want our team to expect to win; I want our team to deserve to win, and there's a big difference in that. That's our focus for our players and our staff and everybody in our program to deserve to win football games and to win it the right way. I know everybody who is involved in this great university knows that they do things here the right way, and we will do things here the right way and we will want to deserve to win."
- Rich Rodriguez - December 17, 2007
The most sought after manila envelope in the free world arrived in my mailbox today, and earlier than I ever remember. And the switch flipped. It's no longer too far away to talk about. Perhaps the prices tell a story. Utah and Miami of Ohio are worth but $50 of your hard earned money, while Wisconsin earns itself a $9 premium. And oooooh pretty, that Wisconsin ticket is fully adorned in maize, indicating that the illustrious "Maize Out" is in effect for September 27th. $9 premium for the Illini's visit as well, which is also stamped with the word HOMECOMING. Back to $50 when the Rockets roll up on 23 for that mid-season MAC-tastic matchup. $65 for Michigan State, the crown jewel of the home season, followed by a $55 pricetag on the home finale with Northwestern.
A fleeting four weeks from now, the anticipation will consume us as we pine for answers to so many questions. The scary thing is that the answers to the questions will change over the course of this 30 days. But we've been here before. We are better left in the dark. Surprises work for us. And we are about to get our fair share of surprises, and of a higher magnitude than ever before. The type of magnitude that makes Matt Gutierrez not starting an insignificant blip on the radar of Michigan history. The type of magnitude that makes the surprise entrance of a midget of a man named Mike Hart midway into a loss at Notre Dame a fleeting memory. There are names you don't know, or perhaps that you know but only as printed on paper. Some of these names will become faces. Some of these faces will become heroes.
You can find me here waiting. Waiting as a Youtube legend and a man that may contend to lead this pack of Wolverines on offense take their first steps on campus. With them, 22 more fresh faced signees are scheduled to arrive...yes, that's a total of 24 brand new players...ready to be given direction by our new leader of men. A man that wasn't hired to be the lovable old man with the dusty playbook filled with tradition, but to continue the only tradition that matters to anyone...winning. He, like us, has only 30 days. While we wait, he will mold young minds to believe in and learn a system. While we wait, The Barwis will mold bodies into machines that are faster and stronger than they ever have been.
In 30 days, they will come together. They will pour out of that tunnel and touch that banner. They will pile up in that imperfect perfect circle near the sideline. Then, and only then, will you find the answers to your questions.
Practice starts Monday.
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