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Thursday Quick Hits: Questions Remain at Quarterback
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3 Comments- Inside Michigan Football’s first episode debuts tonight at 8 p.m. on FSN Detroit.
- With a little more than a week until the season opener, the biggest question mark for Michigan still is the quarterback situation. Nothing has changed (Tate Forcier, Denard Robinson, and Nick Sheridan are all listed at the top of the depth chart), but Rich Rodriguez has still had to answer a ton of questions about his QBs, and I’m sure that will continue into the season until someone solidifies himself as the starter. Considering no one has done that yet, the plan is for all three QBs to be used against Western Michigan. Whether or not that actually happens is left to be seen. It very well could, but hypothetically speaking, if Tate Forcier plays first and is doing an exceptional job, would he be benched in favor of Sheridan or Robinson? I doubt it. There are a ton of variables that will affect Rodriguez’s plans for the opener, so we really won’t know who will play and for how long until the game is actually played.
- Jason Olesnavage and Brendan Gibbons are battling it out for the starting kicking job, and Olsenavage may have a small lead right now in the competition. Despite struggling in the spring game, he is doing quite well in practice. Of course, kicking in an actual game in front of over 100,000 people is nothing like kicking in practice, but Michigan’s situation at that position seems much better than originally anticipated.
- To make sure he is healthy when the regular season starts, Brandon Minor “will occasionally be limited” in practice over the next week.
- Kelvin Grady has already moved ahead of Roy Roundtree and Terrence Robinson at slot receiver.
- Michael Rothstein thinks Robinson is slightly separating himself from the other punt returners.
- The preseason BlogPoll has been released.
- Michigan’s first online yearbooks/record books are out.
- For money reasons only, Indiana has moved its home game against Penn State in 2010 to FedEx Field, the home of the Washington Redskins. Indiana will get $3 million for moving the game, which basically becomes a Penn State home game. PSU has a large alumni base in the Washington, D.C. area and is less than four hours away from the stadium. IU, on the other hand, is nearly eleven hours away, which makes this beyond ridiculous. I understand they want a quick and easy payday, and yes, chances are that Penn State will win regardless of where the game is held. Even so, you should not be able to sell your home conference games, especially when they give the supposed away team a huge advantage.
Mitch Wilson believes that Michigan will upset Ohio State this year -
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/242892-ten-things-that-might-surprise-you-this-college-football-season/page/2
What and the hell is going on in college football these days? The next time I hear we can’t have a playoff because it would kill the tradition of the game, I am going to flip.
I can’t believe the conference is going to let this happen; Indiana is actually selling a conference home game! It would be one thing to move the game to Indianapolis, but half way across the country? Come on! I hope the NCAA steps in and stops this madness, but they won?t because they are all hypocrites. Jim Delany is the worst of them too. He sits there and does nothing but obstructs a playoff for ?the good of the game?, but turns an eye when a Big 10 team moves a conference home game half across the country. What a complete joke!
Indiana’s decision is not unprecedented. In the 1970s and ’80s, Northwestern played Michigan in Ann Arbor on several occasions when it was their turn to host the Wolverines in Evanston.