Spring Game to be only situational practice
Nick Baumgardner @nickbaumgardner · 40m Michigan's spring game stuff will technically start at 5:45 p.m. at Michigan Stadium. BTN/IMG broadcast will run from about 7-9 p.m. This is a situational scrimmage. Michigan won't be splitting into two teams this year. No draft, full game, etc.
April 10th, 2018 at 11:33 AM ^
It's always just a practice. They will scrimmage though.
April 10th, 2018 at 11:39 AM ^
April 10th, 2018 at 11:40 AM ^
They scrimmaged there as well, though. They go live for some amount of time in many, if not most, practices.
Scrimmage doesn't mean going live. That happens nearly every practice. Scrimmage means one team vs another team (not even O vs D, but teams). Not situational O vs D which will happen here.
I think we're arguing semantics here. All I mean when I say "they will scrimmage" is that they will go 11 v 11 with tackling at some point.
April 10th, 2018 at 11:39 AM ^
April 10th, 2018 at 12:20 PM ^
You always speak in definites, yet never state your source.
Notice how reshp1 sites Harbaugh's podcast where haurbaugh specifically said it wouldn't be a game this year.
Congrats on being first to post though.
April 10th, 2018 at 12:32 PM ^
Thanks, it's a big moment for me.
April 10th, 2018 at 12:49 PM ^
I got a chuckle out of "You ALWAYS speak in definites, yet NEVER..."
there use to be steaks for the winners and hot dogs for the losers !!! No reason not to make it a game ...
This will hurt attendance - as will the weather. ugh
Go Blue!
I don't think there are going to be that many people there.
April 10th, 2018 at 11:37 AM ^
April 10th, 2018 at 11:39 AM ^
Damn. Good time to get that injury, though, I suppose.
April 10th, 2018 at 11:51 AM ^
April 10th, 2018 at 11:54 AM ^
Yeah, there's not a ton to do about meniscuses, I don't think. They don't really ever heal (IIRC from my football trainer/PT friends) and all you can really do is "clean up" the injured area.
As far as Gentry goes though, just let him do absolutely nothing for a few weeks. Do NOT mess with a groin injury - groins are champion lingerers up there with backs and hamstrings.
senior year at Newtown. Played on it for a while, but they shut him down for the high school post season. He will have it scoped out again and then rehab. Should be fine for summer camp unless injury requires a more invasive surgery.
April 10th, 2018 at 12:11 PM ^
Nobody wants "slight" and "groin" in the same sentence.
April 10th, 2018 at 11:55 AM ^
I tore mine at 30, repaired at 31, and still bothers me to this day at 32. Ahh to be young.
April 10th, 2018 at 12:48 PM ^
You still are, young fella :)
Avoid knee chondroplasty and/or microfracture surgery.
It. SUCKS. Had chondroplasty surgery 4 years ago and it still feels like a knife is being driven into my kneecap and I'm only 27.
April 10th, 2018 at 12:40 PM ^
Is this the Jake Rudock episode where he says this? Want to make sure i listen to the right one.
It's the Butt episode.
April 10th, 2018 at 12:12 PM ^
I concur.
I coach a team of 11-year olds and, while we were talking about practice, I went into a version of AI's rant. Almost all of them knew what I was referencing, which is odd for something that is 15 years old. It confirmed for me two things:
- The rant really speaks to people -- sometimes you just can't believe people are talking that way about practice
- The youth of America watches a ton of YouTube and also love memes
"sometimes you just can't belive people are talking that way about practice"
Do you mean that you shouldn't give 110% during practice or that there are people who don't get that you play like you practice. (with perhaps AI being the one exception.)
I only have them for 1.5 hours of practice each week so you try to fit a lot in -- but they're 11, have the attention span of a gnat, and just want to "GO!".
They always want to scrimmage (when their fundamentals and other drills are far more important) for a 1/4 of the practice time, and so when they say "but scrimmaging is like a game. It will get us ready!", that's when I went into "we're talking about PRACTICE...not a game...PRACTICE" to emphasize practice prepares you for the game -- you won't get better unless you work on specific skills or sets in a controlled environment, instead of a scrimmage, which tends to devolve into a mess of just running up & down the court.
We had a losing record, but we improved and were the only team to beat a higher seed in the playoffs, so I think I'm ready to take over for Bacari Alexander at U of D.
Also, beyond this quote, I'm not sure how many of them have seen AI play -- they just all want to be Steph Curry (which is another problem; they all want to jack 3's and basically none of them can).
Got it. My foggy memory of AI's quote was that [Larry Brown?] was dogging him for not working hard in practice. Kids (and everybody) need to work hard on fundamentals (supposedly what is helping Charles Matthews). Didn't initially get that your team just wanted to play games instead of drills.
April 10th, 2018 at 11:44 AM ^
pretty much is nothing more then a glorified pracitice/scrimmage. Part of many practices are offense going against defense, so I would expect some of that again on Saturday.
April 10th, 2018 at 11:48 AM ^
kind of over the Spring Game, to be honest.
April 10th, 2018 at 11:48 AM ^
I'd rather watch it this way. 1 vs 1's and so on rather than some randomly shuffled team based on a draft. At least that way I can watch the OL work together with the dudes they'll probably be playing with. Not that I really have much of an idea about what the OL is doing most of the time but at least I can figure out if they blocked a stunt or not.
April 10th, 2018 at 11:54 AM ^
I don't mind there being teams and "drafts" but it should be by position group rather than by individual players for exactly this reason.
April 10th, 2018 at 11:54 AM ^
April 10th, 2018 at 11:57 AM ^
Sure, if the weather's good, it's nice to sit in the stadium in the sun and watch the team go through some drills, but in terms of the actual action on the field, it's barely more interesting than watching videos on MGoBlue of practice workouts.
Its value is primarily as a sign that the end of the offseason is within sight and winter is finally over.
As for that second point, the joke's on us this year.
April 10th, 2018 at 12:06 PM ^
April 10th, 2018 at 12:12 PM ^
It's absolutely nothing to obsess about, or look too far into. But it is one of 13-16 times Michigan Football is on TV/can be viewed in a stadium each year. I'd be really disappointed if it was gone.
April 10th, 2018 at 11:59 AM ^
Until Harbaugh, who is clearly pussifying Michigan football and will soon make Schembechler Hall a safe space where no players are allowed to launch microaggressions at one another or express opinions out of line with a radical feminist agenda. In conclusion, Millennials, Black Lives Matter, Tucker Carlson.
*throws you the "/s" you forgot*
BTW what impression did you come away with from the Michigan Amazon documentary? I really liked it...warts and all. I did not play sports in college and it was pretty awesome to take a peek into the lives of student athletes.
April 10th, 2018 at 12:16 PM ^
I hope not. Was hoping to attend if the rain holds off. It's not looking too good.
April 10th, 2018 at 12:17 PM ^
This is a Chat Sports guy that reported this. I would wait to see what the real insiders say before I adjust plans.
Michigan's spring game stuff will technically start at 5:45 p.m. at Michigan Stadium. BTN/IMG broadcast will run from about 7-9 p.m.
— Nick Baumgardner (@nickbaumgardner) April 10, 2018
This is a situational scrimmage. Michigan won't be splitting into two teams this year. No draft, full game, etc.
Who could have? Jim Harbaugh just stated this on the podcast released this morning. Ira on the Michigan Insider showsaid the same thing this morning, and only knew because he helps produce that podcast (just recorded yesterday).
It's my opinion that Jim Harbaugh would love to have a game. Regardless of his weirdness shown in the Amazon series, he is uber competitive and wouldn't pass up on an opportunity to put on a competitive game. Normally it shifts from a game to situational scrimmage based on injuries. My personal guess is that Harbaugh finally relented the chance of people healing in time to get 2 rosters together. Either that or it's better for the team to practice 1v1, 2v2 etc instead of mixing OLs just for fan entertainment.
April 10th, 2018 at 12:23 PM ^
April 10th, 2018 at 12:25 PM ^