The Michigan Football program has been on quite a ride for the past 6 months or so. It all started with the team underachieving during the year and the first sign of that was the blow out loss to a mediocre Notre Dame team in September.
Throw in the two Cokes for a ticket promotion, concussion-gate, Brandon's emails and the eventual Brandon firing. You could write a book just on David Brandon and how he failed at his job (btw: I'm pretty sure John U. Bacon is) and most of the content would have come from the 2014 season.
With Michigan's season in decline the Wolverines couldn't beat Maryland at home which guaranteed them staying home for the holidays. That also pretty much guaranteed Brady Hoke and staff would be looking for a new gig. That happened soon after the Ohio State game.
The courting of Jimmy began and took most of December. Every NFL insider said it wasn't happening and thank goodness Duke's David Cutcliffe turned down the job!! Jimmy and the 49'ers separated and Michigan hired it's man.
Then it was all hands on deck to hire a staff in the recruiting dead period. Once the staff was in place, it was a scramble to fill the 2015 class in just a few weeks. With a couple surprises on signing day, the Michigan staff did a decent job in filling out the class with recruits and a couple of transfers.
We have been on a wild ride folks and now the news is very light coming out of Schembechler Hall. Spring practice is on deck and 2016 recruiting is underway. News will be probably light for awhile and thank goodness it is. It think we all appreciate the program back on solid ground and not making headlines any longer.
NFL Wolverine Combine News
Jake Ryan, Devin Funchess and former Wolverine Frank Clark were the only three invited to the combine in Indy this past weekend. I was a very big supporter of Frank Clark before his domestic violence charge. I'm also torn on him being at the combine. I know he isn't guilty of anything yet, but he took a spot over someone who deserved it.
Jake had a good 40 time at: 4.65, did 20 reps at 225 pounds and was the top performer in the 60 yard shuttle.
Frank ran a 4.79, did 19 reps at 225, was the top performer in the vertical jump, 3 cone drill, 20 and 60 yard shuttle.
Devin ran a 4.70 and did 17 reps at 225. Which were disappointing for the projected first rounder. His hybrid position might help or hurt his overall draft ranking. Nobody expected him to be fast but a 4.7 is very slow for a WR (was the slowest time for WR at the combine). His vertical of 38.5 is not bad but teams might now consider him more of a TE then a WR.
BBall Beats Ohio State
Michigan finally beat a top 25 team this year when they upset Ohio State at Crisler yesterday. This was bit of ray of sunshine in a cloudy season. Michigan continues to be on the bubble of the NIT as they sit at 14-13 overall and will need to stay above .500 to get the NIT bid.
- Russell Bellomy will play for Larry Coker at University of Texas-San Antonio next year. They play in Conference USA.
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