Summer is the time of year where teams can either come together or break apart. Coaches are not allowed to coach and freshman are arriving on campus. Team leaders need to organize unofficial practices and all players need to continue to hit the weight room.
With this dead time for the coaches, they have to do anything they can do to send messages to the players to get better or get passed by. Jimmy seems to be doing it with all the walk-on talk.
Jimmy this week speaking on the roster: "We posted it for the squad, so they know who was in the 110 as of June 1 and who is not in the 110. There already are scholarship players who aren't in the 110 and there are walk-ons, preferred walk-ons and tryout guys who are in the 110."
At Stanford, he posted results of guys working out, showing up to watch tape, and doing drills on their own. Jimmy gives everything a scoreboard, which he feels is the difference between winning football and 8-5.
He is now clearly doing the same thing for these next couple of months with talking about walk-on's non-stop. We have heard about Tru Wilson as the 3rd string RB who is going to play a lot. Jeff George's son just walked-on as QB for two years (with no clear path to playing) and WR Jake McCurry has been getting a ton of buzz from the coaches. Jimmy has also mentioned senior TE Joey Files from Cranbrook as being a guy that the coaches love because during Spring Practice he played 3 days with a broken collarbone before finding out it was broken. I'm sure these are solid players but my guess is, he is trying to reach a few players at these positions.
Insiders are saying that Jimmy personally took Jeff George Jr. around campus on his visit last weekend. Of course, he probably knows his dad well, but Jimmy is really pushing this competition thing hard at all positions. Brian at Mgoblog feels that Jeff is coming in to learn how to be a football coach for two years, I think Jimmy wants as many QB's he can get his hands on to continue to push his top guys. Bo was sort of like this, I think he would of had 200 players on the team if he could have.
It was clear that Jimmy wanted to focus on the walk-on program when he arrived in Ann Arbor and bringing in guys that could contribute to the program and winning football. That means providing depth in practice, being able to have good players on the scout team, playing on special teams, etc. We might be starting to see the results of that project pay off.
Happy Fathers Day to all the Big House Blog Dad's!
from The BIG HOUSE Blog http://mbighouse.blogspot.com/2018/06/michigan-friday-jimmy-is-clearly.html
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