Michigan Monday: UConn Loses a Key Defensive Player

UConn's starting defensive end Marcus Campbell tore his ACL this weekend in a non-contact drill at UConn's fall camp.  Greg Lloyd the other starting DE has an ACL injury of his own and will redshirt this year.  Now the depth chart falls to freshman and sophomores at that position.   Of course this isn't an ideal situation when you play a spread team in 19 days.

• TomVH at Mgoblog catches up with Florida OL James Elliott this weekend:   JAMES: Man, that was the most amazing school I've ever seen in person.
  TOM: It went that well?
  JAMES: We actually stayed a little longer than expected just so we could see everything, and meet Coach Rodriguez. We didn't realize he was in Seattle, so we wanted to stay to meet him. We got to see practice and talk with him about the visit. It was just great.
  TOM: What specifically has you so amazed?
  JAMES: One thing that did it for me was the players. Every time I met one, they would tell me about themselves, and where they were from. They found out I was from Florida, and they all went crazy. I met some kids from Pahokee, which is a school we played in the playoffs. It was cool to see how all the players were so nice like that.  I'm thinking that his nickname will be "Jumbo" if he becomes Blue of course.  James is 6'4 305 pounds.

• Tune into this weeks, "Hard Knocks with the Jets" on HBO.  A coach calls out Donovan Warren and says something to the effect, "If you tackled like that last year at Michigan, they would have won a few games".  This weeks show premiers on Wednesday.  Look for him tonight as well on ESPN for Monday Night Football as the Jets take on the Giants.

• Dee Hart's offical visit will be in 19 days to Ann Arbor for the UConn game.  Dee is on commitment watch for that weekend.  CB Avery Walls might also visit Michigan that weeked as well.  Both players have been to A2 before.  Dee 3 times and Avery one other time.  It also seems that 5 star safety Clinton-Dix might make the trip to Ann Arbor with Dee for the UConn game.

• A guy getting some good buzz from fall camp is running back: Fitzgerald Toussaint.  He is a guy that has speed and power.  Fitz redshirted last year due to some injuries and probably would have gotten some playing time as a freshman if he didn't get hurt.

Did someone say 19 days?  Notice no Tate highlights.  They are either keeping the wraps on him or he is in the doghouse.