I previously posted the single-game leaders (LINK). Here are the top receptions leaders for a season:
- 97 - Braylon Edwards (2004)
- 89 - Jeremy Gallon (2013)
- 86 - Marquise Walker (2001)
- 85 - Braylon Edwards (2003)
- 82 - Jason Avant (2005)
- 76 - Jack Clancy (1966)
- 72 - Mario Manningham (2007)
- 72 - Roy Roundtree (2010)
- 71 - David Terrell (1999)
- 67 - Tai Streets (1998)
- 67 - David Terrell (2000)
- 67 - Braylon Edwards (2002)
- 67 - Adrian Arrington (2007)
- 63 - Desmond Howard (1990)
- 62 - Desmond Howard (1991)
- 62 - Devin Funchess (2014)
- 58 - Steve Breaston (2006)
- 58 - Amara Darboh (2015)
- 57 - Amara Darboh (2016)
- 54 - Amani Toomer (1994)
- 53 - Bennie Joppru (2002)
- 52 - Jack Clancy (1965)
- 51 - Jim Mandich (1969)
- 51 - Anthony Carter (1980)
- 51 - Jake Butt (2015)
This was originally posted on June 21, 2019.
Nico Collins...... oh, never mind.
ReplyDeleteJack Clancy appears for two seasons: 1965 and 1966. He played a number of roles at Michigan, including QB, HB, and ultimately TE. Wikipedia says of him:
ReplyDelete"At the time of his graduation, he held the school records for most receptions and receiving yards in a career, season and game. His 1966 total of 197 receiving yards against Oregon State remained Michigan's single-game receiving record until November 6, 2010."
He went on to play for the Miami Dolphins and the Green Bay Packers. He played in the NFL for four years.
I love these outlier stories. In an era when it truly was "three yards and a cloud of dust," there are cases where the ball was put into the air.
Jack Clancy was born in Iowa, attended Michigan, played in the NFL, and then moved to Norway in 1980, where he worked in the oil services industry. He's now 77, and I presume he's still there in Norway.
He said once he stopped playing football, he stopped watching games and going to games. He fished and played tennis.
An article from 2010 on Jack Clancy:
http://www.annarbor.com/sports/um-football/as-his-receiving-record-fell-former-michigan-end-jack-clancy-heard-about-it-by-e-mail/
Not much for elite WRs (or QBs) to choose MICHIGAN
ReplyDeleteNo post about Juwan Howard yet?
ReplyDeleteWe don't do basketball much here
DeleteBut, if the choice were mine, he'd be gone. Best guess is he gets a suspension
Wisconsin basketball has a culture problem. It came up in offseason with all the reports about Gard and you could see it in how their coaches and players acted yesterday. They're not dumb - they won't cross the line like Howard did - but they'll do everything in the power to lean into and over that line without stepping over it. They're the guy yelling "I'm not touching you!" while they invade your space and talk shit.
DeleteJuwan will deserve his suspension because he took the bait. But let's not pretend the bait wasn't put out there deliberately and part of the systematic issue with that program.
1. First things first - Juwan started this. Wisconsin is always shady in how they play basketball but on this day there was nothing overtly untoward. Meanwhile, Juwan had his starters out there pressing way beyond when the game was decided to avoid getting blown out. That annoyed Gard. He said as much.
2. Gard escalated it. Calling the timeout was a dick move and Gard knows it. Even if his intent was pure (doubtful) he knows how that would be interpreted. He did it anyway because that's how he coaches his guys to be. Goad. Antagonize. Make sure you have plausible denial but run your ass up to the line and lean over as far as you can. Por ejemplo - Davidson wants to go sing a song in Michigan's faces as they walk into the locker room. This is in the heat of the moment - it's how they are wired, by design.
*Wisconsin fans mad about how Howard played this part should acknowledge that what Gard did was a clear escalation. You can't be mad about a minor slight in decorum and ignore a bigger one immediately thereafter.
3. Juwan had something to say but it wasn't physical. He wanted to breeze by and say "I'll remember this." And that's his right to do. Juwan can be a sore loser all he wants.
4. Gard started a physical altercation. If somebody is obviously mad at you and you step in to block their path as they're walking away and grab them by their shirt...that's asking for a fight. If that happens in front of a restaurant with two people - that's a fight. You didn't throw the first punch but you started it.
5. Juwan wagged his finger in Gard's face. I'm sure he wanted to deck him right there but that was restraint. That's asking for a fight too but Juwan knows Gard is going to do that.
6. The Wisconsin assistants escalated. Running over and getting in players faces who weren't doing anything wrong and bumping and shoving into players is idiotic. None of the Michigan assistants or staff escalated anything. Several Wisconsin staff did. You're on the staff your job is to descalate. This is worse than players throwing punches. It's engrained in their culture.
7. The slap. That supersedes everything. That punk absolutely deserved getting slapped but Juwan can't be that guy. You're the head coach - act like it. He deserves his suspension. If he had stayed composed there the story is that Wisconsin basketball is still filled with petty assholes and instead it's an embarrassment to the program.
I love Juwan and always will but he made a big mistake yesterday. Should have just left the court without shaking hands like the Pistons. Now an already disappointing season is trending towards a disastrous one. Juwan has an opportunity to lead, rally, and turn the thing around but it's a tremendous challenge that doesn't look all that likely at the moment.
Really just a classic example of conflict. Some minor annoyance keeps escalating if both sides take that tact. End up in a war because someone didn't have the right table manners.
DeleteStrong people - or people on the side of character - have no need for a show of force. Weak people do (either physically, mentally or emotionally)
DeleteJuwan is what, 6'10? What is the Wisc Coach, 5'10-6'? In his opportunity to clarify his thoughts, JH proclaimed he was upset about the timeout, and had to defend himself from the W coach contact ... WTF? There's at least 10 seconds and five feet between them when JH swings at an assistant who also posed no immediate threat
Cool so you've never been in a fight IRL and you just like talking on the internet. Trolls gonna troll.
DeleteJuwan's height is irrelevant. He didn't start an altercation with Gard, Gard started it with him.
The assistants was pushing and shoving Michigan players. He's the one who should be suspended. He's 6'7 I believe. Immaterial but FYI.
How was my post trolling? Who was it trolling?
DeleteI grew up in the D. Fought regularly from K-12, sometimes in self defense but mostly because I too was mentally & emotionally weak (and a bit of a bully). As an adult, my fighting has been limited to the absolute destruction of immediate threat, wearing man-dress, but armed with AK-47, RPG, etc
JH's size might not have anything to do with it, except that his first & only statement was in that he had to defend himself ... from a little man, at least five feet away and 10 seconds after dude touched his elbow. The W assistant never touched JH, nor did he present a threat to any M player
No need for show of force, except for AK-47, RPG, etc? Hmmmm. Maybe reflect on that one.
DeleteI respect that you acknowledge the misjudgments of youth. I also agree that restraint reflects maturity and requires strength. Insecurity drives conflict. That's all fine and valid. But I think you're sidestepping the basic reality that a grown man does not grab another grown man like that. Instead you're focusing on trivial issues like who is taller than who.
Neither Howard nor Gard were threatened in any meaningful way. They're rich middle aged guys, at work, on a basketball court, and on national TV, surrounded by officials, assistants, police, and students all around them. This is not a late night street corner or a back alley. Gard knows this and you can bet your ass he wouldn't have grabbed Howard like he did if it was.
Juwan felt disrespected and challenged. That is the sense that he was defending himself. I think you're trolling by suggesting that a grown man physically grabbed by another grown man is nothing at all. I don't know you IRL but I think you're lying if you say that put in a similar position, say if you step out of a restaurant with your kids and someone blocks your path and grabs you, that you're just going to say nothing at all shake hands and walk away.
Your argument isn't even coherent. Howard didn't go after Gard even though Gard grabbed him and blocked his path. They were face to face inches away. He's short so not a threat but then a 6'7 assistant who came at him and his players should be ignored as well, because he's 5 feet away (Juwan with the wingspan!).
Like I said above, Juwan was wrong to slap but absolutely right to take offense at these punks. Gard is an a-hole and so is half of his coaching staff who did nothing but throw gas on the fire. They are not blameless when they are getting in the faces of kids and escalating everything.
It's nice to say "be the bigger man and walk away" but we all have a line that can't be crossed. Where it gets drawn is an individual thing and I don't think Juwan's is at an inappropriate level as person, but it is for a person who holds that position.
Lank, you're doing that thing again where you argue points not made. I never said I carried an AK-47, but let's move on
DeleteI'm not focused on size. That is one of many things I mentioned above, because it was glaringly obvious as grabbed the little guys shirt, then pointed a finger at him. To say he needed to defend himself after the two had already been separated - without mentioning his players and their well-being - demonstrates JH was still highly emotional, and probably shouldn't have even been in that presser so soon after
He hardly grabbed him. Less than a second, and only to explain why the timeout was called. JH didn't want to hear it, which is understandable. But a tiny hand on an elbow is no big deal, and would not have made news
What's incoherent? W coach put his hand on JH's elbow, and got his shirt grabbed and finger pointed as a result. The W assistant posed no threat to JH or the M players, but Juwan swinging may have resulted in a brawl that got a lot of people hurt
As for me, I took my kids to the Lions- Oakland Raiders game a long time ago. We were all wearing Lions swag, with my youngest in a Barry jersey. A raider fan came up and gave my 10y/o son the finger, and said "F*ck Barry Sanders" I grabbed my kids, and we walked away, to enjoy the game. On the way home we talked about restraint
A few years ago, my GF & I were at a club. Dude tried picking up on her, and I motioned him away. He put his hand on my left shoulder, and I gave him a look - that's it. He walked away. I work with at risk youth, and right before Thanksgiving, a punk and his buddies surrounded me, pointing & swearing, threatening to jump me. I talked them down
I'm 6'2, 210. Not as fit as I was on active duty, but I am very confident that in any of the three scenarios I would have created some serious bodily harm had I lost my temper. So I did not. I can hold my head up high, because neither of my sons have been in a fight (24 & 21). I set an example that'll keep them from being like I was
Juwan Howard made a powerful apology. I have been a big fan of his for 30 years, and I believe him
DeleteFor those who made excuses for his conduct (and there are many), was his apology not sincere? Was it FoS, and an attempt to help get this behind him?
My hope is that it was the former. If not, we'll likely have another incident some day
"As an adult, my fighting has been limited to the absolute destruction of immediate threat, wearing man-dress, but armed with AK-47, RPG, etc"
Delete"I never said I carried an AK-47, but let's move on"
I applaud your restraint.
DeleteDeeply disappointed in the outcomes of the suspensions. Juwan handled it with class of course but no Wisconsin assistants facing any punishment for escalation is awful. And the statement from Wisconsin AD is reprehensible. The culture there is a problem and it comes from the top down. Dirtbags.
Delete@ Lank 3:27 p.m.
DeleteI take that to mean that je93 didn't carry an AK-47, but he took on people carrying AK-47s.
Basically, he's saying he fought in Afghanistan/Iraq.
I don't have much to say about the Juwan Howard thing that hasn't been said by others. Sometimes these things happen that are so big that I feel like whatever I have to say is redundant.
DeleteI wonder if Gattis being out will increase chances of a single WR getting a bigger share of touches. The egalitarian approach seems a bit more modern to me and we have tremendous depth (thanks to excellent WR recruiting). So perhaps not, but I have the sense that Gattis was always a share-the-wealth advocate and that aligns with Harbaugh.
ReplyDeleteNot saying it won't be a run first offense as long as Harbaugh is here just that playcalls might feed one guy more. In the last few years when Gattis ran offense we never produced a WR who got even a quarter of team receptions (Ronnie Bell in 2019 was highest in the Gattis era.) Early in the Harbaugh era there was a more clear top 3, but that was when we had a FB.
The year before Harbaugh, Funchess had almost a third of catches. Gallon even more the year before that. Even Rodriguez had Roundtree pushing towards a third of receptions.
So hard to say if this is a Harbaugh thing, a Gattis thing, or just the personnel that they have had worked out this way.
Thinking aloud about this because of one thing -- the McCarthy-Anthony connection seems like it could be special.
The receiver thing existed before Gattis, so I have to assume it's going to exist after Gattis. Plus the new passing game coordinator, Matt Weiss, comes from a Baltimore offense where they didn't force feed anyone the ball except TE Mark Andrews. Last time Weiss was in the NFL, the Ravens had tight ends (Andrews, Boyle, Hurst) as 3 of their top 5 receivers, and the top two wideouts were #2 and #3 on their receptions list.
DeleteI know we've discussed this before, but a lot of what we saw in 2021 for Michigan comes straight from that Baltimore offensive mentality and scheme. I expect more of the same in 2022.