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FORMER PLAYERS
TE Erick All (Iowa): All tore his ACL in week seven. He led the Hawkeyes in all receiving categories, catches (21), yards (299), and touchdowns (3) by a wide margin at the time of his injury.
WR Andrel Anthony (Oklahoma): Anthony is out for the season. He caught 27 passes for 429 yards and 1 touchdown this season before the injury.
QB Alan Bowman (Oklahoma State): Bowman completed 17/34 passes for 286 yards, 2 touchdowns, and 1 interception in a 45-13 win over Cincinnati.
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P George Caratan (UConn): Caratan punted 4 times for 185 yards (46.3 yards/punt) in a 21-14 loss to Boston College.
S Damani Dent (Charlotte): Dent did not play in a 38-16 loss to FAU.
CB Darion Green-Warren (Nevada): Green-Warren had yet to play this season and is no longer listed on Nevada's roster.
TE Louis Hansen (UConn): Hansen did not record any stats in a 21-14 loss to Boston College.
QB Ren Hefley (Middle Tennessee): Hefley has yet to play this season for 2-6 Middle Tennessee State.
WR A.J. Henning (Northwestern): Henning made 5 catches for 52 yards and 4 carries for 10 yards in a 33-27 win over Maryland.
LB Nikhai Hill-Green (Charlotte): Hill-Green made 2 tackles in a 38-16 loss to FAU.
WR Giles Jackson (Washington): Jackson did not play in a 42-33 win over Stanford.
CB George Johnson III (UMass): Johnson made 4 catches for 33 yards in a 21-14 win over Army.
DE Aaron Lewis (Rutgers): Rutgers (6-2) had a bye. Lewis has 30 tackles, 4 tackles for loss, 3 sacks, 3 quarterback hurries, and 1 pass breakup this year.
QB Cade McNamara (Iowa): McNamara is out for the season with an injury. He completed 46/90 passes (51.1%) for 4 touchdowns and 3 interceptions in five games.
QB Joe Milton (Tennessee): Milton completed 17/20 passes for 227 yards and 1 touchdown in a 33-27 win over Kentucky. He also carried the ball 10 times for 26 yards.
Joe Milton ➡️ Chad Nimrod for the TD
— Amateur Sports Takes (@AmateurFBTakes) October 29, 2023
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I don't really take Joe Milton seriously as an NFL prospect, but his arm strength is geuinely hilarious.
— Nick Martin (@themicknartin) October 31, 2023
Far hash, release point at about the 20 yard line, all the way to the opposing teams 13 yard line and outside the numbers. pic.twitter.com/sUjX9QWKdr
S Jordan Morant (Mississippi State): Morant made 1 tackle in a 27-13 loss to Auburn.
S R.J. Moten (Florida): Moten did not play in last week's game, which is probably the primary reason Florida lost to Georgia, 43-20.
DE Eyabi Okie-Anoma (Charlotte): Okie-Anoma 8 tackles, 2 tackles for loss, and 1 quarterback hurry in a 38-16 loss to FAU.
DT George Rooks (Boston College): Rooks made 2 tackles in a 21-14 win over UConn.
CB Andre Seldon (New Mexico State): Seldon made 3 tackles in a 27-24 win over Louisiana Tech.
CB Myles Sims (Georgia Tech): Sims made 4 tackles and 1 pass breakup in a 46-42 win over NOrth Carolina.
LB Deuce Spurlock (Florida): Spurlock did not play in a 43-20 loss to Georgia.
RB Christian Turner (Indiana): Turner did not record any stats in a 33-24 loss to Penn State.
DE Taylor Upshaw (Arizona): Upshaw made 3 tackles, 1 tackle for loss, 1 sack, and 1 quarterback hurry in a 27-24 win over Oregon State.
TE Dan Villari (Syracuse): Villari made 4 catches for 37 yards and 1 touchdown in a 38-10 loss to Virginia Tech.
Shrader hits Villari for the 6-yd score.
— Syracuse Football (@CuseFootball) October 27, 2023
📺 ESPN pic.twitter.com/81mHUa3RWr
DE Julius Welschof (Charlotte): Welschof did not play in a 38-16 loss to FAU.
LB Cornell Wheeler (Kansas): Wheeler made 5 tackles and 2 tackles for loss in a 38-33 win over Oklahoma.
FORMER COMMITS
DE Collins Acheampong (Miami): Acheampong did not play in a 29-26 win over Virginia.
LB Aaron Alexander (Michigan State): Alexander did not record any stats in a 27-12 loss to Minnesota.
RB Tim Baldwin, Jr. (UMass): UMass (1-7) had a bye. Baldwin has yet to record any stats this year.
DE Ethan Burke (Texas): Burke did not play in a 35-6 win over BYU.
CB Te'Cory Couch (Miami): Couch made 3 tackles in a 29-26 win over Virginia.
S Taylor Groves (Ole Miss): Groves did not play in a 33-7 win over Vanderbilt.
OLB Stephen Herron, Jr. (Louisville): Herron made 1 tackle in a 23-0 win over Duke.
LB Tyler Martin (UMass): Martin made 2 tackles in a 21-14 win over Army.
DT Davonte Miles (Bowling Green State): BGSU (4-4) had a bye.
TE Andrew Rappleyea (Penn State): Rappleyea did not play in a 33-24 win over Indiana.
S Myles Rowser (New Mexico State): Rowser made 8 tackles and 1 pass breakup in a 27-24 win over Louisiana Tech. Also, he changed his name officially to Myles Ghost Rowser.
DT Quintin Somerville (UCLA): Somerville did not play in a 28-16 win over Colorado.
DT Alex VanSumeren (Michigan State): VanSumeren did not play in a 27-12 loss to Minnesota.
DT Denver Warren (New Mexico State): Warren did not play in a 27-24 win over Louisiana Tech.
LB Raylen Wilson (Georgia): Wilson did not record any stats in a 43-20 win over Florida.
WR Xavier Worthy (Texas): Worthy made 4 catches for 27 yards in a 35-6 win over BYU. He also returned 2 punts for 89 yards, including a 74-yard touchdown.
College Football’s Fastest Five of the Week:
— Reel Analytics (@RAanalytics) October 31, 2023
5. @TexasFootball WR Xavier Worthy (@XavierWorthy) 21.2 mph #ReelSpeed #HookEm
🎥: @LonghornNetwork
🔗 https://t.co/UFKB2eWAzC pic.twitter.com/BBoStyG4sm
FORMER COACHES
Don Brown (Head Coach, UMass): UMass improved to 2-7 with a 21-14 win over Army.
Dan Enos (Offensive Coordinator, Arkansas): Enos, who was on Michigan's staff for about two weeks at one point, was fired from Arkansas. He lasted just half a season at Arkansas after spending 2021-2022 at Maryland.
Jedd Fisch (Head Coach, Arizona): Arizona improved to 5-3 with a 27-24 win over Oregon State.
Brady Hoke (Head Coach, San Diego State): SDSU (3-5) had a bye.
Mo Linguist (Head Coach, Buffalo): Buffalo is now 3-6 after a 31-13 loss to Toledo on Halloween.
Scot Loeffler (Head Coach, Bowling Green State): Loeffler and his Falcons had a bye and are at 4-4 for the year.
Curt Mallory (Head Coach, Indiana State): Indiana State is 0-8 after a 36-33 overtime loss to North Dakota.
Jim McElwain (Head Coach, Central Michigan): McElwain and his Chips are 5-4 after a 37-31 win over Northern Illinois.
Biff Poggi (Head Coach, Charlotte): Charlotte is now 2-6 after a 38-16 loss to FAU.
Rich Rodriguez (Head Coach, Jacksonville State): Jacksonville State is 7-2 after a 41-16 win over FIU.
Tyrone Wheatley (Head Coach, Wayne State): Wayne State improved to 3-6 after a 41-17 win over Northern Michigan.
Jedd Fisch is making some progress at Arizona: #46 nationally in scoring offense, and #38 in scoring defense, and a 5-3 record. I've watched precisely zero Arizona games, so I'm not really sure what fuels that team. But good for him.
ReplyDeleteArizona is officially feisty. Hat's off to Fisch. I was skeptical.
DeleteI've watched a little bit of Arizona, and they're fun to watch. Not great or anything. They have an accurate QB who was kind of a big deal coming out of high school, and I like their running back. Like Lank said, they're feisty.
DeleteInteresting situation with Giles Jackson. They had planned to red-shirt him after a pre-season injury but then he was back for the Oregon and OSU games and the plan was "on hold". But UW is set to lose their 3 starting WRs so could still benefit from having a vet like Jackson in '24.
ReplyDeleteSo GJ was a healthy scratch against Stanford and still has just the 2 games played on the season. Coaches are openly saying they want Jackson back next year (for year 6) and are looking at the red-shirt...but they play ranked opponents each of the next 3 weeks and then have an Apple Cup game to close the year...and then the post-season.
Interesting one to me. I think most programs would just burn the red-shirt and not worry about it. Washington may be making calls, during the game itself, to figure out if they want to use Jackson or don't need him. Almost like an over-taxed relief pitcher in baseball.
Harbaugh does a great job with hiring assistants generally but it seems like he sometimes needs a sanity check - like Enos and Schemmy. Those additions/near additions were immediately critiqued and resulted in consensus head-scratching. Seems good those things didn't work out.
ReplyDeleteDon't forget one...Connor Stalions! I mean, he wasn't an assistant, but then again, neither was Schemmy.
DeleteProbably the weirdest one, though, was former Penn State defensive coordinator Bob Shoop, who was on staff for a year...but never coached a game. I still don't know what happened with Shoop, whether it was a medical issue or some kind of legal/personal issue.
Connor who? Never heard of him.
DeleteThunder, I am curious to hear your take on the sign stealing issue. It seems one hell of a coincidence that Michigan’s most successful seasons coincide with these allegations. Do you think the success in the past 2 seasons was linked to the sign stealing?
ReplyDeleteI started a post on the sign stealing...
Delete...and then with new info coming out every day, it was just too difficult to keep up with.
First of all, I think stealing signs can be a HUGE advantage. And I'm talking about the "illegal" kind where you film opponents at their games, not the in-game or TV copy stuff. The "everyone does it" thing only really applies to...you know...what EVERYONE does, which isn't as elaborate as what Connor Stalions is alleged to have done.
Second, I don't think Michigan's success is necessarily connected. Michigan was already good under Jim Harbaugh prior to COVID. (NOTE: I have been on record since 2020 saying that season was a fluke, and I put zero stock in 2020 whatsoever. There are a lot of people who wanted Harbaugh gone after that year, and I was definitively not one of them.)
Aidan Hutchinson, D.J. Turner, Daxton Hill, all these guys getting drafted to the NFL and playing well are proof that Michigan can identify and develop talent.
IN MY OPINION, the truth is that Michigan built a recruiting and development structure based on Harbaugh's success in 2015-2019 to bring in "next level"-talented players who would then buy into the process because they saw what happened with their predecessors. Now Michigan is kind of in that Alabama/Georgia tier (not quite because they haven't won a championship, but close) where players are buying in because they believe in the process. And if you can get talented kids who buy into the transformational-not-transactional idea, you're going to have a chance to do great things.
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DeleteI have to agree that some of the "sign stealing doesn't matter" takes out there fall on deaf ears. I didn't play college football but enough guys who did are saying they won games by stealing signs that it seems obvious that it CAN make a big difference. That said, it is legal to do it. That part tends to get lost in the shuffle with our rivals and in the press. It sounds bad: STEALING!. Stealing is bad. It should be called what it is: sign scouting.
The part that is (probably) unknowable is how much incremental advantage it is to scout signs in person vs just going off tape. It is very obvious to me that this in-person rule is completely obsolete in the smart phone era. Michigan would get an army of volunteers to engage in sign stealing and put it on youtube for free if they put it out there as something they wanted. And it wouldn't be illegal at all.
So this is really a formality in my mind... except for the part about any game(s) that Stallions attended in person. This is clearly against the rules whereas getting game tape isn't. How much does it matter to get in person scouting vs conventional scouting that occurs via tape? I would guess not very much but let's be real - the cameras on TV are NOT focused on getting the others team signs. The "sign tape" is going to look a lot different than the TV tape, all-22, etc.
Ultimately. sign stealing is scouting. We're in trouble for scouting beyond the prescribed limits. It does remind me of when we got in trouble for stretching. That's innocuous at face, but it's also clear that extra stretching allowed for extra practice. This IS AN ADVANTAGE. An incremental one, but a real one. Calling it "stretchgate" is mischaracterization IMO - Michigan was pushing the limits to get however many extra minutes of practice time they could get.
Harbaugh is clear about pushing the limits and going the extra mile to get that edge. This is an extension of that mentality. I don't know if any of the staff knew if/how Stallions was going the extra mile, but that seems like the key issue now. Was it Stallions alone? Or was he encouraged/supported to break the rules? Even if he wasn't directly told to do it I think there's a plausible argument that Harbaugh supports a culture of pushing the limits. Barring evidence otherwise, this is a JE-level reeeeeeeeeeeach.
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The bit about changing outcomes -- yeah that's obviously BS when OSU, TCU, and presumably others KNEW we were doing it in 2022. When we are whipping up on Northwestern and Indiana sign stealing doesn't matter either - be serious. Sign stealing - and again we mean more specifically being incrementally better at sign stealing due to advanced scouting of signs -- doesn't change the fact that Michigan has elevated under Harbaugh in many respects. We were already elevated in 2016, for those not paying attention. (JT was short!)
But can any of us be sure it didn't flip a game we won narrowly in 2021 or 2022? I don't think we can say that for sure.
I am not a fan of "both sides" arguments all that often, but in this case it seems like some Michigan apologists out there are not recognizing the fact that this is advantageous while Michigan haters are dramatically exaggerating how much of advantage extra sign scouting is.
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A couple bigger picture things are clear:
OSU/Ryan Day are ninnies tattling to the teacher because they lost. If you don't want to be called SOFT you don't do stuff like this.
The PR firm handling this is CRUSHING IT and should be the biggest winner by far.
Michigan should have done this first. There have been rumblings for years about Michigan "investigating" OSU's various forms of cheating so maybe the PIs MIchigan hired suck or maybe they just aren't as well funded. Maybe OSU just got so worked about about losing to Michigan that their fanbase/alumni are bank-rolling a much bigger effort. Regardless - it worked for them. It didn't work for us. That bites.
Another essay, another JE obsession ... rent free indeed
DeleteJE telling on himself edition 108484. Essay hurts your brain. Responding to every Lank post.
DeleteNo emoji this time? Too small. Too tired.
LyinLank, desperate for attention, throws in a je reference, hoping for a response ... watching the time. Frustrated that he must wait
DeletePitiful, but not surprising
Everytime. Reads every word. Responds to every post. Trolling. JEverytime.
DeleteNobody cares about your Lank obsession except you JEmoji.
Desperate 😂
DeleteResponds to every post. Everytime
DeleteObsessed ... responding to posts I make three weeks earlier
DeleteDesperate 😂
http://touchthebanner.blogspot.com/2023/10/preview-michigan-vs-indiana.html
Everytime!
Delete🙄
DeleteIt's a friday night. Time to post emoji's on an internet message board to show how obsessed somebody else is.
Deletee.v.e.r.y.t.i.m.e.
LyinLank: you don't have anything football related to talk about. You're a troll. You're obsessed
Deletealso LyinLank: scours a month's worth of TTB posts, to troll GameDay observations
also, also LynLank: y0u'Re pRoJecTiNg
The truth hurts so you pretend it's a lie. Telling on yourself over and over and over. Keep the fantasies going emoji-man.
Deletedesperate. obsessed.
DeleteThanks Thunder. While I agree with you, I find it hard to believe that Harbaugh does not have an inkling that such a thing is happening under his watch. I liken it to being a CEO of a bank and one of your trader is always placing the right bet before an announcement. At some point, you have to suspect something.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I think somebody knew, and based on the HC ultimate responsibility rule, believe Harbaugh is likely to face some level punishment
DeleteI'm not sure I agree with Thunder on this one. As Prime says, you still gotta stop the play. Everyone knows Hurts is gonna get a tushpush (except when he didn't!), but even professionals can't stop it. We had a hammering panda & a bench mason ...
If the NCAA really considered removing this rule, and only put it in place bc some schools couldn't afford it, the advantage is limited
Story is overblown IMO