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Michigan will line up with 4-5 WR and test our pass defense skills while leaving Denard the option to beat us with his feet. Our Dline will eat Michigans oline, and our edges should beable to contain Denard while hitting him often.

It's going to come down to our secondary, Denard doesn't have the skill to pick us apart, but he can get the ball near his recievers, if we can play average pass defense we will be in great shape.

Also, our offensive line will maul their defensive line, I expect to put on a show running the ball. Theyre going to have to cheat up to stop us from averaging 9 yards per carry, and Golson has the arm to go over the top.

If ND doesn't turn the ball over 6 times we should win. Our defensive line will eat Denard up, also, practicing against Golson will be much more beneficial than practicing against Rees.
 
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UM will lose to MSU, ND, Nebraska, and OSU this year.
 
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A link to every snap of alabama offence vs michigan's defense (found on mich blog). Clearly dominate o-line, but wonder if this is a recipe for ND. The qb stayed very contained. Golson could make almost all of these throws. Much of the gains were on short passes or runs where the wr or rb made a defender miss. Also seemed like Ala always called the right play on every blitz.

2012 Michigan Defense vs. Alabama Every Snap - YouTube
 
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Interesting, and did you notice the play of Michigan's other corner.
 
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There's a big difference between our O-line and Alabama's O-line. Bama has 3 2013 first rounders on their offensive line.
 
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dshans said:
I noticed the same thing and did not like it – not at all. I've decided to go with the "even a blind pig finds a truffle now and again" attitude. The Irish just need to plug his snout with turf on every play.
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Excuse me good sir, I do believe pigs use their sense of smell to find truffles. I am not sure being blind would impare their truffle seeking ability. However, blind squirrels have a difficult time finding nuts.

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johnnykillz said:
We have one.

Two next year.
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None of the current offensive linemen for Notre Dame are expected to be first round picks. Cave and Martin should be middle to late round picks, but neither of them are close to being as good as the Bama linemen. Barrett Jones is one of the better linemen to ever play college football.
 
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RDU Irish said:
Excuse me good sir, I do believe pigs use their sense of smell to find truffles. I am not sure being blind would impare their truffle seeking ability. However, blind squirrels have a difficult time finding nuts.

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Not at all. My ex-wife was an expert.

I congratulate you on sniffing out my mixed and mangled metaphor.

Oh, and I hate squirrels almost as much as I hate wolverines. The evil little rodents build nests in my catalpa tree (it's a large tree – a squirrel high rise), screech at me and drop crap on me when I'm in the yard. In the fall they bury bits of bread and tortilla shells (no nut bearing trees around) that melt away over the winter and then dig numerous holes in the spring in a futile effort to find them.
 
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Rhode Irish said:
Didn't Golson run the scout team last year, and not this year? And isn't the scout team offense the offense that the starting defense sees in practice?
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Correct. Kelly will have someone small and fast run the offense for the scout team that week. Maybe he'll have Gunner do it (even though he's pretty tall) and have him scramble more to simulate Robinson.
 
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Rack Em said:
Correct. Kelly will have someone small and fast run the offense for the scout team that week. Maybe he'll have Gunner do it (even though he's pretty tall) and have him scramble more to simulate Robinson.
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Buuuuuttt... Gunner is a better passer than Denard... soooooo.....
 
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dshans said:
Not at all. My ex-wife was an expert.

I congratulate you on sniffing out my mixed and mangled metaphor.

Oh, and I hate squirrels almost as much as I hate wolverines. The evil little rodents build nests in my catalpa tree (it's a large tree – a squirrel high rise), screech at me and drop crap on me when I'm in the yard. In the fall they bury bits of bread and tortilla shells (no nut bearing trees around) that melt away over the winter and then dig numerous holes in the spring in a futile effort to find them.
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VARMINTS! I had a severe squirrel problem living in the Milwaukee suburbs over a decade ago. I relocated dozens and don't think it put a dent in the population around my house. I may have single handedly reintroduced squirrelous obnoxiousness to downtown Milwaukee though. A friend commented once that he never saw a squirrel downtown for the decade he worked there and started seeing them all the time after my attempts to reclaim my yard. Our neighbor's kooky grandma from eastern Europe would feed them and was convinced we were eating them. Otherwise I would have used a bucket of water and the garbage can to empty my live trap.

Best thing about the new construction neighborhood we are in now, NO SQUIRRELS!!!
 
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Bogtrotter07 said:
Interesting, and did you notice the play of Michigan's other corner.
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I just noticed one safety (number 30) get burned and missed 2-3 wide open tackles. The other cb I think is 8, looked ok. Was fixated on the line.

There were several times when Michigan really penetrated that oline, and the qb either threw it out of bounds, took the sack, or rolled-out and made small plays. Much of the rest of the time, he just got it off quickly, particularly rolling out. It just seemed like this was the type of gameplan that would work for golson. Our oline should be able to hold up if that is the game plan. On the run, it seems that the secondary had trouble tackling (partially because those WRs for Ala were delivering monster blocks), and that ND might have luck running outside.

ND can't compare to Alabama oline perhaps, but it seems like this is the best unit on our team and might be a top 10 (top 5 unit?) even without first rounders. Even Golic played like a beast on saturday and they just looked elegant as a unit.
 
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Rack Em said:
Correct. Kelly will have someone small and fast run the offense for the scout team that week. Maybe he'll have Gunner do it (even though he's pretty tall) and have him scramble more to simulate Robinson.
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Yeah, a lot of times with running QBs they use a non-QB to simulate the QB in practice, too. They could use a guy like Toma or Cam to simulate the size/shiftiness of Robinson. Obviously it is rare to have an exact replica of another team's player on your practice squad, so you pick a guy that can best simulate the actions you are most concerned about/designing the gameplan to stop.
 
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Is Michigan Too Smart for College Football? - The Triangle Blog - Grantland

An alien that comes down from Mars or New Haven might think America’s public universities are full of football-loving morons. This is deeply unfair. Our rivals are far greater morons than we are, and, during the college football season, it’s up to us to point it out. I like to call this practice “academic smack talk.”

I saw a good deal of academic smack talk after Alabama beat Michigan, 41-14, on Saturday night. A Wolverines fan named “MGlobules” took to the excellent MGoBlog and complained of an uneven playing field. “Brent Musberger is never going to give a **** that we graduate more kids or have a school attached to our football factory,” MGlobules wrote. He/she added, “Should we just go all Ivy League and not give a crap about the SEC?” I think that part was a joke.

Over at Rivals.com’s The Wolverine (subscription required), a poster called “fordm63” recounted a meeting at the game with an Alabama yokel who didn’t know his university had a college of engineering.

A Wolverines poster named SalemBlue was on the same page: “[M]ore important than the wins, [coach Brady Hoke] does things the right way. Complete integrity and clearly with the focus on life lessons, academics, and football — not just football as at many schools.” Get the gist? Bama’s T.J. Yeldon may have imprinted his cleats on the chests of Michigan’s defensive ends, but at least U of M’s diplomas are worth something.

Academic smack talk has a rich history. When he was coaching at Stanford, former Michigan quarterback Jim Harbaugh zinged his alma mater. “Michigan is a good school, and I got a good education there,” Harbaugh said, “but the athletic department has ways to get borderline guys in, and, when they’re in, they steer them to courses in sports communications.” Notice the power move: Stanford was asserting its place in the hierarchy above Michigan, just as Michigan would later do with Alabama. This offseason, someone at Ohio State posted a chart at the athletic center comparing the majors of Buckeyes players to those of Michigan’s. The chart said that 24 Michigan players listed “general studies” as their major. The Buckeyes’ top two majors were communication and “family resource management,” but never mind. OSU was trying to obscure the U.S. News & World Report college rankings, which in the world of academic smack talk serve as the true Top 25.

Why do this? The first reason is tribal. While a Michigan fan’s normal smack talk begins with last year’s win over Ohio State, it expands to include Michigan’s reputation as a top-drawer public school, like Berkeley, UCLA, North Carolina, and Texas (probably the spot to admit that I have done this, too). Nate Silver, an East Lansing native who runs the New York Times political blog FiveThirtyEight, taunted Michigan fans on Twitter during Saturday’s game. Jonathan Chait, a Michigan alum and New York magazine writer, responded, “Once upon a time Michigan State was good at academics ... oh, wait, that’s not true.”

Second, academic smack talk is an exercise in victimhood. If only we had the atrocious standards of our rivals, we could win some football games ... This is what former Notre Dame tailback Allen Pinkett was getting at last week when he complained the Irish hadn’t recruited enough “criminals.”

This is a pretty shaky argument. The NCAA has minimum grades and test scores its football players must achieve in high school. Most football powers take the minimum standard as their own. Where schools like Michigan say they exercise discretion is by turning down marginal students who might have trouble staying eligible. But a 2008 Ann Arbor News investigation found that over a three-year period, one Michigan psychology professor taught 251 independent-study courses to athletes. The players earned a GPA in his courses that was a full point higher than their other courses. So even if Michigan admits better students on average, it’s not above using SEC-style (or Big 12–style ... or MAC-style) tricks to keep them eligible.

Finally, academic smack talk helps us fans rationalize the very existence of college football. Nearly everyone thinks the NCAA’s “student-athlete” designation is bogus. Some of us might feel it’s a title under which a player is forced to work an unpaid job; some might feel that the “student-athlete” designation is basically OK, but the NCAA does a poor job of enforcing it.

By arguing that our classes are tough, that our single engineering major is the face of the squad, we feel cleaner about a dirty enterprise. We may lose to Bama, we say, but in 10 years their guys will be asking ours for jobs. This is our solace. Hail to the brainiacs.
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OSU was trying to obscure the U.S. News & World Report college rankings, which in the world of academic smack talk serve as the true Top 25.
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Only for lazy sports "journalists". Who needs research and statistics when you've got hand-waving and Jersey Shore references? Welcome to Grantland. Thanks for lowering the bar, Simmons.

Among public universities, Michigan is a very good school. When you include elite private universities in the comparison, Michigan is nothing special. And given their mediocre GSR figures, they aren't even note-worthy among BCS schools.
 
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Michigan has great academics, but their athletes are not held to the same standards and the mediocre GSR figures back that up.
 
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