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As someone who's entering design at a rather fast and wholly enjoyable pace, much of my work revolves around typography, and with a rather limited library as of now and some money tucked away for such expenditures, I'd really like some help about which foundries are the best to buy from.
By "best" i mean what this foundry offers in terms of language support, opentype features, hinting quality, best pricing, best library, and the overall quality of the design of the typefaces.
So from experience can some of you veterans help me out here?
A hard question to answer. I've found some of the most reputable foundries to produce faces that – all the while amazing conceptually and technically – doesn't really cut it when you put them to actual use (perhaps the technical bar was misguided?). Likewise, the best technical productions are not necessarily very creative. When you also throw hinting into the criteria mix, the whole thing is flipped upside down.
Are there any foundries that you have looked at that you have either dismissed or have reservations about? As Frode has pointed out, you have presented a very wide range of criteria and will encounter problems if trying to match all of them.
It would also help if you were able to specify what styles of typefaces and for what purposes (e.g., web design, print publications, ebooks, etc) you are looking for, if that is something you can do at this point.
Choose a foundry that allows you to freely modify the fonts (although of course keeping the resultant fonts to yourself).
@Karl Strange
Currently im looking at Linotype, Berthold, Font Bureau, and ParaType.
For one example im looking at buying Akzidenz Grotesk, Berthold offers BQ and BE versions (can anyone elaborate on the difference between the two?) and Linotype offers Basic Commercial; which would be the best route?
Also im planning on doing a mix of digital/web/print work (most likely mostly digital/web work) if that helps at all.
A more modern (and imo better) take on AG: Founders Grotesk and/or National by Kris Sowersby. Available at Village (a very nice foundry).
A more modern (and imo better) take on AG ...
... is not AG any more. (What makes AG unique is the sum of its oddities.)
Another slightly earlier modern take, Lineto's Akkurat.
I think that degree of distinguishment is illusory; any typeface is always an idea to a great extent. Otherwise you end up having to believe that only a given size of a given face, printed on a given paper, etc. is the "real thing".
Choose a foundry that allows you to freely modify the fonts
What's the percentage of type users who actually modify their fonts regularly?
Concerning the original questions: What's the best car manufacturer to buy from? No one can answer that in general. It depends on your specific needs or the requirements of a certain project when it comes to type.
What's the percentage of type users who actually pay for their fonts regularly?
From Huxley's post it's clear he's not a typical user - he's picky. And picky people like to tweak things.
At the very least people like Huxley should be made much more aware that most foundries don't allow free modification; it's almost like a hidden charge, something I'm firmly against.
"And picky people like to tweak things."
A generalization, jumped to most likely for the purpose of "discussion enhancement", but that's cool. It could also be that the picky user chooses a few foundries for exactly the opposite reason — they don't want to be compelled by fondness of form into making any mods due to faults in function, and they want to minimize that possibility via their choice of foundry.
"...almost like a hidden charge, something I'm firmly against."
How should founders expose this 'hidden' possibility of an extra licensing requirement for those who may possibly want to take our work and partially or wholey make it look otherwise, for better or worse, something we don't know up front 100% of the time? :)
they want to minimize that possibility via their choice of foundry.
Good point.
Sometimes though overall quality doesn't preclude the need to tweak. Adobe fonts are high-quality, but I still once got a commission to extend Garamond Premier with some esoteric accented characters, something I could do legally.
How should founders expose this 'hidden' possibility
Good question - I'm not sure how to do that elegantly. Mainly I worry that some foundries are happy to keep it hidden. And the reason it's "hidden" is because I believe most font buyers don't expect a no-mod restriction to be there. So it's a matter of education (which is what I'm trying to do, in a small way). And I think when enough buyers realize that restriction has become the rule (AFAIR it didn't used to be) then foundries will be pressured to be more accommodating, or at least more transparent. Why do I care, as somebody who tries to sell fonts and rarely needs to buy them? Because I think ethical behavior is something that comes around when it goes around. And as I've opined before, there's something vaguely unethical with being draconian about user modification, since any font we make owes things to others anyway.
BTW, about "discussion enhancement": Although I firmly believe in publicly going out on a limb with borderline opinions, they're always on my side of the border - I don't say something I don't believe in just to get people riled up, I actually believe in it. That said, beliefs change, and that's OK (it's probably even good).
Even though we specifically allow font modification in our EULA, I don't think this point matters much in choosing fonts and foundries. (Quite unlike embedding permission, media restrictions and things like that.)
Well sell software tools — ready to use — no assembly required. You can't even open and "save" a font non-desctructively like you can with a Word file. A normal type user would always mess something up. If you want your users to change the fonts you should give them your original files from FontLab, Fontographer, Glyphs, RoboFont, ...
So the requirement to be allowed to change the font files only applies to a tiny percentage of type users, mostly those who are type designers themselves.
>what this foundry offers in terms of language support, opentype features, hinting quality, best pricing, best library, and the overall quality of the design of the typefaces.
I'm going to say with complete unbiased authority that the foundry that best meets all of these criteria is Microsoft. If you'd included modification rights and/or weight variation availability, that would not have been the case. If you'd excluded language support I would have nominated The Font Bureau.
Ralf, a type user would hire a type designer to do the mods.
Best […] overall quality of the design does not sound like Microsoft to me. I guess it depends on how you define "quality design" though. Technical, sure. Creative … umph.
Is Microsoft even a foundry?
I think so, since they pay for the making of "own-brand" fonts.
Microsofts web fonts are great. No question about that.
>Creative … umph.
Are you familiar with the work of John Hudson, Ross Mills, Matthew Carter, Luc (de) Groot, Vincent Connare, Steve Matteson, Jeremy Tankard, Gary Munch, Diane Collier, Mamoun Sakkal, Fiona Ross, etc., etc., ;-)
Which would you say are Microsoft's most creative type designs, Si?
For one example im looking at buying Akzidenz Grotesk, Berthold offers BQ and BE versions (can anyone elaborate on the difference between the two?)
I think that both BE (possibly, 'Berthold Exclusivs') and BQ (again possibly, 'Berthold Qualität') versions are based on Postscript Type 1 digitisations by Adobe but with a split in the licensing, with Adobe selling the BE versions through their Font Folio collection up until version 8 and the BQ versions only available through Berthold and a variety of third party distributors.
Both versions are now available through the Berthold web site but the following notice is posted to distinguish between them, "The BQ and BE OpenType Basic versions correspond to the Berthold BQ and Adobe BE PostScript Type 1 Legacy versions." Further, the BE versions in OT are only available with basic language support, roughly (if not exactly) equivalent to Adobe's defined Std character support, while the BQ versions are available with with Pro and Pro + WGL language support.
Perhaps someone else here could elaborate on this, but this is very much my own understanding and opinion based on information cobbled together over several years.
As to whether to invest in either of these, well personally I would probably go with a more contemporary take on this style of typeface. Also, to the best of my knowledge, there are currently no web font versions available and the cost and restrictions associated with digital embedding and licensing are not clearly defined on their website.
What actually constitutes the foundry? Ascender? The bundled Win/Office fonts sure includes some gems, but overall it's not a pinaccle of contemporary type design.
Some good points, some need for border pa-troll.;)
Hrant: "...it's "hidden" is because I believe most font buyers don't expect a no-mod restriction to be there..."
In the years ive been around, none of our customers "buy" a font, so I'm afraid I'm out of you experiential league.
(proper terminology being a matter of education, which is what I'm trying to do, in a small way)
And: "Ralf, [said Hrant] a type user would hire a type designer to do the mods."
So, should we put that in the licensing agreement?
(if all goes as planned, we should be able to reap legal definitions of "foundry", "type designer", and "creative" from a single thread — Imagine.)
As you imply, educating consumers on "buy" versus "license" is part of the conundrum. But the reality on the ground is that when somebody plops down the dough to get something, they think of it as "buying". Virtually nobody knows what an EULA is, much less go to the trouble of reading the thing. It's just not humanly natural; nobody would go for having to read (and understand!) an EULA before being allowed to use the product. Now, we certainly can't change human nature, and we probably can't change the sue-happy trench we're stuck in in the West, but my main point is we shouldn't take advantage of lack of education. And to me the "no-mod" clause stands out as particularly potentially dishonest; I'm starting to think we need an explicit opt-in on it, to be sufficiently ethical.
I'm starting to think we need an explicit opt-in on it, to be sufficiently ethical.
If so, this should apply to truly unexpected limitations in the EULA, that affect normal type use.
For example: Type users are often shocked to find out, that the license they purchased doesn't cover the creating of a logo or the embedding of the font in a regular subsetted PDF. These limitations might require an extra warning or checkbox during the purchase.
But like I said: Changing a font file is not normal type use. If you license something, you expect to be able to use it as is. If I license a software tool like InDesign, I don't expect to be allowed to reverse-engineer it. I expect to be able to use it "normally".
And if a few type users really want to make changes to a font, they can just ask the foundry. The foundry either allows it (despite what their EULA says) or they make you an offer to do the modifications you want. No big deal.
>Which would you say are Microsoft's most creative type designs, Si?
1.able to create: able to create things
2.new and original: using or showing use of the imagination to create new ideas or things
3.resourceful: making imaginative use of the limited resources available
For 2, Gabriola, Aldhabi, Verdana, Arabic Typesetting, Segoe Script, Marlett, Nirmala
For 3, pretty much everything else.
If so, this should apply to truly unexpected limitations in the EULA, that affect normal type use.
Good point - agreed.
The foundry either allows it (despite what their EULA says) or they make you an offer to do the modifications you want.
At double, triple market prices, is my point. And if they're too busy to bother, they sometimes just say No. These complications wouldn't be so bad if users knew about them before purchase; but we don't really try to be transparent about it...
And I think there's actually more font modification going on than we think, because users just do it without telling us. Besides ethics I think there might actually be material gains to be had by being fully open about modification issues. And most of all, you don't want a user getting in the habit of breaking the law (at your expense). If a user comes to terms with breaking your EULA by modifying a font, next time he might break the EULA by not even bothering to pay for the thing...
Hrant: "If a user comes to terms with breaking your EULA by modifying a font, next time he might break the EULA by not even bothering to pay for the thing..."
...and before you know it, the user's in your garage stealing your chain saw oil, claiming it's his 'cause he's already stolen your chain saw. . .
This is not what the no-mod eula is made to prevent. We, and many others. including the MS foundry, are trying very hard to make it so that every one of the tens of 1,000's of fonts that have the same name (sometimes the millions of fonts that have the same name), when given the same composition specification, exhibit the same behavior.
If the default in our eulas were otherwise, i.e. mod-away and name-as-ya-please, then what'd happen?
(In terms of 'language support, opentype features, hinting quality, best pricing, best library, and the overall quality of the design of the typefaces', i.e. if the user is not interested in mod making, which this user is not, sorry for the tangent to nowhere... I tried. :)
I'm aware of the "tech support" dimension (especially when it comes to MS) but -for anybody bothering to read the EULA anyway- why not say "change the name" instead of "don't modify"? BTW I would add a clause that a copy of the modified version must be sent home (and cannot be redistributed). I think "go ahead, just rename it and give me a copy" would actually increase control one has over "errant" versions, compared to saying Nyet (which often causes people to pretend you don't exist).
What's the percentage of type users who actually pay for their fonts regularly?
From Huxley's post it's clear he's not a typical user - he's picky. And picky people like to tweak things.
hrant --- I'm a designer and lover of typography, but not a typeface designer. Still, it seems pretty simple to me:
-- You purchase a license to use a font under conditions you agree to.
-- If you don't like those conditions, or you have a concept for a rethinking of an existing typeface, you can make your own font. Go ahead. Software is available.
-- If you don't have the skill or time to design a typeface and build a font, then you should choose an available option.
Modification is not difficult to accomplish. You've already said you'd be willing to pay a type designer to make the modifications for you. So why not contact the originator of the font you like and contract for the modifications you want to make? I think you'll find them to be open to the concept and pleasant to work with. But you have to pay them for their work.
My point is most people don't realize they're agreeing to any such thing, it's not really their fault, and sometimes their ignorance is being taken advantage of. And sometimes the people taking advantage ignore their own "public domain" cultural debt.
Let me try this angle:
What did you think of the iPhone's "covert" logging of location info?
Understood that pedestrian users don't read EULAs. But then those folks probably don't often consider modifying fonts. Folks that have knowledge enough to consider font modification can reasonably be expected to know what a EULA is and why we have them. Most chefs haven't read every line of their local health code, but they know not to scratch their ass with the spatula.
Scrolling down the dictionary to noun:
(Business / Marketing) a creative person, esp one who devises advertising campaigns
The design community has a different understanding of what "creative" means than the standard dictionary adjective definition (which could apply to suits, to our chagrin), hence a face like Verdana, despite the innovations of its design process and functionality, will never be considered truly creative—it looks too plain and corporate. Designers like to talk up utility, but at the end of the day it's a visual medium, and creative has to look creative to be creative.
Jeremy Tankard has designed many creative faces; Microsoft has published Corbel, not Fenland.
To your original question -- I hesitate to answer. There are some tremendous foundries, but none that are the best option for all challenges. Each offers advantages -- quality of design, quality of function, preferred genre, voice, support, technical chops, customization options, price. The relative values depend on your needs.
Best advice I can offer re searching for foundries:
-- Enjoy the ride. There's a lot to learn, and no end to it. Sounds like a bad thing, but it's not.
-- Familiarize yourself with the foundries and designers out there. Study their typefaces. Study their approach and typical offerings.
-- Learn as much about font technology as you need (it's a rabbit hole). Enough to understand what you're asking for.
-- Shop for designers and foundries (as you are), not fonts. Match sensibilities. Build relationships.
-- Build your own opinions from an educated foundation.
>Designers like to talk up utility, but at the end of the day it's a visual medium, and creative has to look creative to be creative.
"Creative" wasn't one of Huxley's criteria for identifying the "best" foundry. I was responding to Frode's "Technical, sure. Creative … umph." comment. Microsoft branded fonts, and the licensed fonts will never have the appeal of a boutique foundry's offerings, not because it's all utilitarian (Gabriola being a good example of a visually and technically creative typeface) but because of near-instant over-use by 500,000,000 users.
That should've been "umph … well … yeah … ok. There are some gems for sure! Well done!"


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Five years after a federal judge tried and failed to force Microsoft Corp. to split into several pieces, the company has decided to do the job itselfthough the pieces will remain under the same roof. Microsoft last week announced a major reorganization into three divisions designed to streamline decision making and speed to market. The Redmond, Wash., company will realign several existing units into three core divisionsPlatform Products & Services, Business, and Entertainment & Devicesthat better represent Microsofts goals, said Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer.
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by Andrea Albin in Behind the Scenes, Food Network Magazine, November 27th, 2012
Hors d'oeuvres and appetizers are often the best part of a meal to me. Maybe it's because finger foods are just more fun to eat or because they're usually paired with a cocktail. When Food Network Kitchens were coming up with ideas for 50 Easy Appetizers (page 166) for the November issue of Food Network Magazine, the possibilities seemed endless.
We ended up developing more recipes than we could ever possibly fit, but I thought the two below were too good not to share. The Blistered Peppers (pictured above) are popping up on trendy bar menus everywhere and couldn't be more simple, while the Date Bites (pictured below) are a sophisticated twist on the classic Devils on Horseback (dates wrapped in bacon).
Blistered Peppers: Heat 1 tablespoon olive oil in a large skillet over medium-high. Add shishito or baby bell peppers and cook, stirring occasionally, until blistered and tender. Sprinkle with lemon juice and sea salt.
Date Pistachio Prosciutto Bites: Stuff pitted dates with 2 pistachios each, then wrap in a thin slice prosciutto. Top with chopped pistachios.
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Henrico resident Larry Loving, Jr., will compete with three other locals – Thomas Scribner (Richmond), Roscoe McGhee (Midlothian) and Larry Loving (Richmond) in the Liberty Mutual Insurance Invitational National Finals at TPC Sawgrass, in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., Feb. 26-Mar. 1. The foursome qualified for the national golf tournament by winning the Liberty Mutual Insurance Invitational, held at Whiskey Creek Golf Club in Ijamsville, Md. on June 11. That event supported the RiteCare Center for Childhood Language Disorders.
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It was another win for Willow Lawn when Travinia Italian Kitchen and Wine Bar opened there six months ago, nestled in the heart of the re-made shopping center. The contemporary American Italian restaurant boasts 13 locations up and down the East Coast, with the Henrico location opening in August.
In the same week, I hit up Travinia twice, once for lunch and once for a late dinner. At lunchtime on a weekday, I was overwhelmed by the smell of garlic and by the number of working professionals in nice suits on their lunch breaks. When we first walked in, I was concerned our meal would be a little too pricey based on the décor – it's a really nice place. Luckily, the menu has a variety of options for every budget. > Read more.
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At one point we burrow into the brain of our boxy yellow hero and discover the inner workings of his brain: googly-eyed cakes and candies that giggle and sing. All of which is extremely appropriate for a film like Sponge Out of Water. Because not only is the movie sweet (the "awwww" kind of sweet), but it's the equivalent of a 30-candy bar sugar rush, zipping between ideas like a sponge on rocket skates.
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The University has reached a settlement that ends the lawsuit over Michigan Stadium's accessibility to disabled fans - and, for the time being, will end the Big House's reign as the largest football stadium in the country.
Capacity will drop to 106,201 in 2008 and 2009 before the boxes and such restore some number of lost seats. The Detroit News cheerily says "no problem, we're still #1", but the Daily wonders:
The pre-settlement project estimate said the stadium's capacity by the conclusion of the project in 2010 would top 108,000, an addition of 500 seats from the start of the project. But because today's settlement will remove an estimated 1,500 seats from the bowl, it's unclear whether that will be enough to make Michigan Stadium the biggest again."Over time, we again expect to have the largest capacity of any stadium in the country," Hage said. "We have to wait until 2010 to see how the new seating shakes out."
(FYI: The Daily article is the most informative and in-depth of any provided by news-gathering organizations, which continues a trend started earlier in the year: the Daily out-covered everyone on the Michigan Stadium renovations. Not bad.)
Sounds like there is going to be some hurried rejiggering in the works. I don't know where Hage & Co are going to shake 1,000 extra seats out of the renovation plans unless they cut down on the individual seat expansion. Slimfast for everyone!
I already have requests for snark in both text and t-shirt form in my inbox, but in a foray into Actual Journalism undertaken last summer I conversed with the Bernstein in charge of the case
and came away under the impression that the university was going to have to give ground to a real concern. Notre Dame Stadium is far closer to the 1% mendoza line mandated by the ADA; so is Ohio Stadium. There was no way Michigan was going to weasel out of similar compliance. (Given the parameters of the renovation, the "but it's just repair!" line provided by the U was definitely weaselly.) So no snark here.
Hurdled. Michigan's been working on the renovations for three months now, but the lawsuit still hovered as a possible roadblock to the luxury boxes. With yesterday's resolution, the final hurdle has been cleared and the disingenuous teeth-gnashing of John Pollack -- hero of Tienanmen Square -- and the rest of the "Save" The Big House crew is now wholly impotent and, as such, can be enjoyed in a spirit of schadenfreude. It's a go. Hurrah.
(Why yes to luxury boxes? See here.)
Mailbag addendum. A theory forwarded along from the OZone:
He's never been a guy who recruits blue chips. He runs a system that depends on selfless guys who play team ball and shoot 3s. He's always been a guy who beats you with inferior talent.
But the big advantage of coaching at UM is proximity to Detroit, which produces a ton of blue-chip talent. So how does he make sense there?
Now you have Bielien going out of state to recruit mid-major talent that fits his system. Usually you see the opposite -- coaches in areas that don't produce a lot of 5-star types going out of state to recruit them. Weird.
Sort of reminds me of Eldon Miller -- great at coaching plucky overachievers, lousy at coaching NBA prospects. Wonder if Bielien is another guy who can mold bad talent into a decent team, decent talent into a decent team, and great talent into a decent team.
This, of course, re: the recruitment of Zack Novak and other decidedly melanin-light players. Disagreements:
- Michigan already needed plenty of help going into the year, then lost Kendrick Price, Jerrett Smith, and K'len Morris during the year. Since almost everyone with decent offers signs in the fall period, Beilein has few options other than the "mid-major" talent that's still hanging around. All the high major talent is signed.
- Though the state of Michigan has a rep for producing basketball talent, the 2008 class suuuuuuuuuuucks. There are two top 150 guys, a Utah commit (who, naturally, Tommy Amaker was wary of) in the 80s and MSU commit Draymond Green at #122. Everyone else in-state is Zack Novak at best.
- Michigan is still scared to death of the Ed Martin thing from ten years ago and is running a program so squeaky-clean they've basically written themselves out of every high profile basketball recruit ever. All you need to know about Michigan's paranoia is this: Tommy Amaker was hired by Harvard and immediately ratcheted up the skeeziness.
The point about the "all talent -> decent team" thing may be true but we don't know it yet. IMO, Beilein gets a pass for this recruiting class as long as the kids he brings in are system fits and contributors. If the 2009 class looks similarly uninspiring -- and with Michigan not being mentioned by any high profile players, that seems likely -- I'll be concerned. If the 2010 class is a third, I'll be worried.
Wiggle? Western College Hockey notes an interesting decision in the women's ice hockey bracket: Clarkson was excluded in favor of Dartmouth despite Clarkson being ahead in the PWR and winning the Clarkson-Dartmouth comparison. The PWR is usually followed to the letter when choosing and seeding NCAA hockey tournaments, but the committee does have some leeway.
Some years ago the first-place Atlantic Hockey team could have guaranteed its crappy conference two bids by losing in the AH playoff final, which would have made the playoff champ a TUC and thus boosted the first-place team's TUC record high enough to make it a 3-seed. The committee made it clear that even if the upset transpired only one AH team was getting into the tourney.
Might this open the door for, like, a non WCHA team a bit? There are still seven WCHA teams in the tourney and there remains a strong possibility someone with a record below .500 will squeeze in. Declaring team X out by fiat would open a can of worms, but... maybe said worms should be opened?
Injury. Scooter Vaughn broke his jaw wrestling playfully with a teammate. Which... like. Jesus. He's out this weekend but may return next week or the week after, depending on the type of surgery and the amount of pain he's in.*
On the other side of the coin, Chad Kolarik continues to make noise like he is available this weekend:
"We'll see as the week goes on," Kolarik said. "... It's not 100 percent, but it's getting there."Kolarik continues to get treatment on his hamstring twice a day.
He's hoping to make a final appearance at Yost Ice Arena this weekend, something that didn't look possible when he crumpled to the ice there in mid-February.
"I didn't want to go out getting carried off the ice like that," Kolarik said. "It's definitely a goal of mine to be out there and hopefully win a playoff series."
With Vaughn out, Eric Elmblad draws into the lineup for the first time in his Michigan career. He might steal five or six minutes against UNO's fourth line; expect to see a lot of the other five guys. Danny Fardig, normally a fourth-line forward, is also a possibility.
A final item: Max Pacioretty was named to the CCHA All
-Rookie team, so good for him, but wasn't Aaron Palushaj jobbed out of a spot? Palushaj tied NMU's Mark Olver for most points by a freshman in all games and was second to Pacioretty if only conference games are considered. Meh.
*(Side note: I scalped a ticket for the Friday Ferris game, and after the transaction the black scalper-guy I got the ticket from gave us a hearty "Go Scooter!")
Etc.: M stuff starts to populate the adidas store, though it's way less cool than the stuff at MGoStore); more Comcast-BTN optimism.
Brian,It's probably too early to have much of a take on 2009 recruiting at this point but MSU's two recent RB "commitments" got me to thinking... For as long as I can recall, UM has dominated in-state recruiting. In the past it hadn't been that big a deal because the state would produce about one bigtime recruit each year and maybe a couple other decent ones if we were lucky. Here's how I remember it off the top of my head (UM commits in bold, others in red):98 Drew Henson99 TJ Duckett00 Charles Rogers01 Ernest Shazor; other notable - Kelly Baraka02 Gabe Watson; other notable - Drew Stanton (was he in this class?)03 LaMarr Woodley; other notables - Doug Van Dyke (Purdue), Jake Long, Jim Presley04 Will Johnson; other (sort of) notables - Morgan Trent,Roger Allison, Alex Mitchell [correction, Mitchell was the top prospect in the state. Allison was like 8 or 9. -ed]05 Kevin Grady; other notables - Terrance Taylor, Antonio Bass06 Brandon Graham07 Ronald Johnson (USC); other notables - Dionte Allen (FSU), Joseph Barksdale (LSU)08 Nick Perry (USC); other notables - Boubacar Cissoko, Dann O'Neill09 William Campbell...Basically, that's major pwnage from 98 until 06 (Duckett was an MSU legacy and Rogers was from Saginaw, and a shady prima donna). But in more recent years, as the State of Michigan has been producing more topflight talent, UM's grip on in-state recruiting has loosened. Normally this would only be mildly bothersome and written off as aberrational (such were my thoughts in 07 and w/re: Perry this year).But with the coaching/offensive philosophy change, I wonder what's going to happen as we move forward. Simply put, certain offensive players won't want to go to UM anymore -- e.g. dropback passers, certain WRs, and bigger RBs like Edwin Baker and Larry Caper in the 09 class. Maybe that's not such a big deal. A quick look back shows that the only guys UM would have missed out on over the last decade or so are Henson, Duckett, Grady, and Johnson, two of whom they lost anyway. And indeed, the biggest fish of 09 has already committed to UM (though he's a defensive player). But here's what I worry about:UM used to offer every in-state player who was any good, regardless of position. With the spread, however, more thought is put into personnel that "fits" the offense. That's fine, but it's my belief that such emphasis on fit will eventually hurt UM's place in the in-state recruiting. Obviously, MSU will never surpass UM in the long run but now there is much more opportunity for them to gain momentum in any one year.Look at this year -- they already have commitments from two of the (arguably) best players in the state. It doesn't matter that UM didn't really want those guys because it sets up the illusion that "something special" is happening at MSU. Such an attitude is completely unfounded but could spread to other recruits. Then, all of a sudden, guys who should be UM locks might [stupidly] start looking at MSU as a viable option. And if MSU is able to get something going, then what stops other (read: better) schools from getting in there too. Just look at what USC has done the last few years. Frankly, I am uncomfortable with other programs thinking they can come in and try to get recruits that in the past would have been Blue all the way. I prefer the old design, where MSU knew its place and was content with nothing better than UM's scraps; and where other schools knew not to bother because all of the bluechippers were pegged for UM.Anyway, that's a super long email. I'm actually not too panicked about any of this because it's probably not a huge deal. But I just wanted to see if someone else had an opinion on these concerns. What do you think?Best,Mark BilskiUM '01
Mark points out one of the hidden costs of moving to the spread offense: a partial withdrawal of the boot Michigan placed firmly upon State's neck after the Charles Rogers class. The instate dynamic now returns to something like the days when John L Smith was running his crazy, sometimes crazily effective, spread offense and Michigan was running the pro-style attack it adopted in the late 80s. Certain players who were Not A Fit for Michigan but pretty good prospects in their own right found an attractive instate option under the mad hatter. Similarly, State now has free reign to nail down Michigan's new Not A Fit prospects -- quarterbacks with a tendency to chew their cud, Caulcrick/Hunt style mashers, and uninterestingly slow tight ends -- without interference from big brother. Call this the "Better Fit Effect."
How big of an effect is it? Eh... the results of Michigan State's better-fit haul under JLS: QB Keith Nichol, a top 100 QB who liked the idea of being the next Stanton and committed to MSU his junior year. (JLS would be fired before Nichol signed his LOI; he decommitted and went to Oklahoma.) That's, like, a guy in four years. Off the top of my head I can't think of a single other player State picked up because of the divide in offensive philosophy. Heck, Antonio Bass was a top 50 recruit who wanted to play quarterback and he still chose Michigan.
Michigan State's already got at least one guy from the BFE this year: the instate QB named Maxwell, a true water buffalo sort. If Carr and Co. were still around Maxwell might be holding out for a camp offer or something; with Rodriguez he knows the chances of picking up an offer are none and none. Depending on what you believe about Larry Caper and Michigan's Jonas-Gray-like interest in him, he might be a second.
So at most it appears to be a couple kids here and there. Defenders and offensive linemen won't care. Fast little bastard wide receivers and dual-threat QBs will pick Michigan if Michigan is interested. Traditional wide receivers will probably be unaffected. Running backs will split based on perceived fit and opportunity. Michigan's ceded the lumbering sorts that make a power running game go. Okay.
The instate recruiting swing because of a better offense never materialized under JLS despite the same split between offensive philosophies, and it won't happen under Dantonio -- or if it does, it won't be because of the spread and shred.
There's another salutary factor here: the past three years have provided an unheard of bumper crop of recruits. Michigan has the two top-rated backs in-state (for the moment, at least) and Michigan doesn't even have to leave the State to find the guy who turned in the fastest 40 time at the Army All-American combine. That would be Will Campbell's Cass Tech teammate Teric Jones.
This is the third year in a row that Michigan will be pursuing a half-dozen plan A recruits within state borders. That's a remarkable turnaround from the 2006 class when Michigan had little interest
in anyone other than Brandon Graham until they turned up a few prospects at summer camp, or the 2005 class when Michigan swept the three top-100 guys and then grabbed Chris McLaurin and Carson Butler as late sleeper sorts, or 2004, when Michigan again swept the top three and then got picky because future immortals Carl Grimes, Dwayne Holmes, and Justin Hoskins were the next three kids in the rankings. In the past it was extremely important for Michigan to lock down the two or three real in-state blue chips; now they can miss a few and still find the 6 or so kids instate they usually do.
That's the long way of saying I'm not particularly concerned. State's exploited a one-time window provided by the staff switchover to good effect; now that a young, energetic, and exciting Michigan staff is building relationships in the state things should return to normal.
Hi Brian,
I know I wrote to you about our gymnastics team once before. At the risk of being terribly annoying, I have to try just one more time because I think this is worth mentioning. Our gymnasts continue on undefeated, even after facing the #1 team in the country last Saturday.
"The University of Georgia women's gymnastics team came into Michigan's Crisler Arena on Friday night as the three-time defending NCAA champion and the No. 1-ranked team in the GymInfo national poll. The Bulldogs went home with a 197.6-196.95 loss to the No. 4 Wolverines." mlive.com
I am a recent alumnus of the University of Michigan. I was raised in the Wolverine tradition of academic and athletic excellence. I have extreme pride in not only our football program, but in all Michigan sports. This gymnastics team is no exception. They are OUTSTANDING this season and have been outstanding for as long as I can remember. Since I am also a Pats fan, I'm a little wary of planning a parade while my team is 15-0, but isn't that an amazing accomplishment? I can only hope the best is yet to come at the Big Ten and NCAA Championships. Let's give these fine young ladies the recognition they deserve.
Go Blue,
Jessi Ferri
Indeed, it is. I linked the gymnastic team's accomplishments in the sidebar but they deserve a broader hearing. Heck, their fans are getting harassed for being too rowdy when they go on the road (for a given definition of "rowdy"); non-student basketball fans could learn a thing or two from them.
Their next home meet is at 6:00 next weekend, the 22nd. This is an unfortunate overlap with what will hopefully be the hockey team's shot at the CCHA playoff crown, but the Big Ten championships are the next weekend at 2. Bound to be less depressing than the basketball team.
This next one is a reference to the home video footage of the 1959 OSU game posted in this space a couple weeks ago. I wondered what the students were assembling with their placards; I got a pretty cool reminiscence of Michigan football of old:
The "Polarbear" 1959 Michigan-Ohio State footage brought back some pleasant memories. That game was during my junior year. I was in the student section on November 21st, 1959, hoping for but not really expecting a Michigan win. In those years Michigan had sunk to a second-tier B10 program. In the late 50s and early 60s, Wisconsin (B10 Champion in '59), Iowa (B10 co-Champion 1960), and Minnesota (NC 1960) were among the first-tier teams. In 1959 M finished 4-5, but the Buckeyes did even worse, at 3-5-1.
Anyway, a couple things still stand out about that game, which the Wolverines won 23-14. First, the limited substitution rule was in effect, which meant that many of the team members were two-way players. Michigan QB Stan Noskin played safety when M went on defense. During that '59 game Stan intercepted a pass in the end zone that was otherwise a sure Buckeye TD. It was a game-changing play: maybe not quite up to Charles Woodson standards, but it went a long way toward preserving the Michigan victory.
Second, before each game the stadium staff would set up wooden folding chairs along both sidelines. I don't remember who was supposed to sit in them, but there they were, neatly lined up on either side of the player's benches. At one point during that '59 game Woody, clad as always in his white short-sleeved shirt and his blue cap, became so frustrated with what was occurring on the field that he picked up one of those folding chairs and flung it about 15 yards down the eastern sideline, toward the north end zone. Fortunately no one was injured.
As far as what the card section was supposed to display in that film, I can't help much. I recall that the efforts to organize and to implement the card section were at best only partially successful. Few students were really interested in holding up cards during the game when they could be drinking and socializing. In 1959 the rules regarding what liquid refreshment one could bring into the stadium were lax to nonexistent. Beer-filled coolers were not uncommon; some students would even bring gin and vermouth into the stadium and enjoy a martini or two during the game. It was a different time.
There's also this:
The placards were done by the students in the Card Section. Ran from about the 20-30 yard line. If you were a Freshman ( as I was that year), it got you seats on the 20 as opposed to behind the goal post. You flashed cards during half time. I do not remember when they stopped but I was in it for 3 years. As I recall, we won that game in Bump Elliott's first year. It went down hill for the team after that until the 1964 team that went to the Rose Bowl and if not for a 1 point loss to Purdue ( Bob Griese), we would have won the National Championship.
Ron Grabois
The general conclusion is "who knows what's on the damn flashcards? Let's have a martini." Word.
Unverified Voracity Snaps Depression-Era Necks
Really really? Like really? The Free Press cites an anonymous source and cribs from the subscription-only Sports Business Journal about the Big Ten Network potentially coming to an irritating corporate monolith near you:
The Big Ten Network appears on its way to most homes in Michigan.
According to a source close to the negotiations, Comcast and the BTN have made significant progress toward a deal and only an unforeseen setback would prevent it from being on the cable system by football season.
This would appear to be Comcast caving on their sport-tier-only proposal... mostly:
Sports Business Journal, which reported a deal was close in its Monday edition, said Comcast has agreed to place the network on expanded basic in most of the Big Ten footprint, but not all.
That's odd. What areas of the Big Ten footprint wouldn't be covered? Parts of Pennsylvania, maybe, and Ames, Iowa, I guess.
A wholly uneducated hunch on the Comcast reversal: with AT&T bringing U-Verse online and Verizon's FIOS service rapidly expanding its footprint, Comcast doesn't want to give the apartment-bound and tree-blocked a further reason to switch.
As always, take this with a hefty dose of skepticism.
Update! Might want to ratchet down the skepticism. The Sporting News has the full text of the SBJ article, and it's convincing.
Tell me about the rabbits. EDSBS linked up this ESPN feature on Muck City, Florida, where they 1) play football, 2) play football, and 3) chase rabbits around. This is the home of incoming WR recruit Martavious Odoms:
Super secret alias. So if you go puttering along for information on new basketball recruit Zack Novak, you get this near-blank AAU profile page that reveals the secret true identity of "Zack Novak"...
More serious like, there's a surprising profusion of information on a guy who claimed offers from Ball State, Colorado State, Valpo, Oakland, and the Fort Wayne version of the confusing "Indiana-Purdue" chain of alphabet soup public schools at the time of his commitment.
One: dude scores lots, averaging over 28 points a game and shooting better than 40% from three. Two: he is either a 6'5" shooting guard or a "smallish 6'3" swingman"; given the offers it's probably the latter. Three: he is "a smart kid and an American," according to the same article. Good to know Indiana (motto: "Easy to leave!") remains a part of the union. Four: uh...
"Coach (Bob) Buscher told me I had a nice butt," Novak said. "Guys might be bigger than me but I can get lower to the ground."
So there you go.
In the realm of effusive quotes we have Bob Gibson:
"Novak is an outstanding catch-and-shoot wing player," ESPN.com's national recruiting director Bob Gibbons said. "He appears to be an ideal player for coach John Beilein's style of play."
Head coach Tom Peller:
"You know the rule, give it to Zack and get out of the way," Peller said. "In my opinion, he's the best all-around player in Northwest Indiana. His outside shooting is so much more consistent. He's very, very good inside and he has a tremendous driving game. He's truly the complete package now."
The same coach who was checkin' out Novak's assets earlier:
"He's the best player in the conference and by far the best warrior," he said. "We tried to stop him but he plays all over the court. We should take a lesson from him."
Some guy named "Bigfoot" on a Ball State message board who knows the family:
I would add to what PL BSU said that Michigan recently had Zach go through some sort of a work out highlighting his ball handling and shooting skills. I heard they are looking to improve their outside shooting and feel Zach may fit that bill. I also was told that Zach really lit the gym up in this workout with his outside shot to the point that he got in a groove that even Zach was surprised about. I was told he hit 16 of 21 shots from what would be the equivalent of an NBA 3 from various spots on the floor. I guess in the shooting side of the work out he hit nearly 80% of his shots from various ranges.
I understand he an the Michigan Coach even chuckled about it but none the less it was a very impressive shooting performance.
Someone mentioned a comparison of Novak to Tom Coverdale which strikes a cord with me. Zach would be a much bigger version but there are similarities. Zach would be more versatile player IMO as he can go down low and score in a crowd with his strength (has strong thighs and calves) as well as upper body for a HS kid. I would see Zach as a real threat with a three guard offense in particular. It would take a very athletic defender with size to handle him at a small three position.
I also heard Zach is still growing not that his current 6'4" height wouldn't work already for us.
If we can sign him I think people will some day wonder why he was not better known. Being
a four year starter at a large school like Chesterton that plays in a tough league speaks volumes about his ability. He was not only a starter in his early years but was a prolific scorer even then.
Another one for the potential whitewash down the road. I'll reserve judgement on Beilein's recruiting until these guys actually get in and play for a year or two; though their rankings are universally meh Beilein has made his living finding and coaching up kids like this.
Outposts. Spartans have finally started slouching into the blogosphere, and though they're the last Big Ten school to find representation their initial attempt is a good one: Spartan Weblog is a tempo-free-focused basketball blog in the vein of Big Ten Wonk that hates Drew Sharp and has affectionate, obscure acronyms for dear, departed Wonk. Recommended.
Also, frequent MGoBlog commentator gsimmons85 has started up his own blog. The prose is rough but the technical detail is... uh... detailed. As an honest-to-god football coach, his knowledge outstrips mine; also recommended. Sample posts here and here.
Finally, there is a blog called MGoSwim that covers Michigan swimming. Check the freaky banner: it moves.
Update: NYT on scholarships and such; Yost Built checks out Nebraska-Omaha.
Weekend Items
Hockey. Michigan had a bye week as the bottom eight teams in the CCHA opened the playoffs. The top seeds all held so Michigan gets #8 Nebraska-Omaha, which is a significantly tougher draw than any of the potential matchups against teams 9-12. Despite finishing eighth, UNO was just a couple games below .500 in-conference and played Michigan tough in their series earlier in the year. Yost Built has details.
In PWR news, North Dakota finally cooled off with a pair of draws against St. Cloud and dropped behind Michigan, but Colorado College swept Denver and moved into first. Michigan remains second; third-place New Hampshire split with Vermont.
In practical terms Michigan is about a half-game behind CC and a half-game ahead of UND. I think UNH's loss means Michigan will hold the comparison against the Wildcats as long as they reach the Joe.
Operation "Let's Not Play Wisconsin" took the week off, as the Badgers had a bye. St. Cloud's split against UND did push them past UW, so the Badgers will have to travel to St. Cloud in the first round of the WCHA playoffs.
Kolarik is skating around but still in pain; I highly doubt we see him this weekend.
Bracket. FWIW, the rejiggered brackets straight 1-16:
16 AH Autobid
8 St. Cloud
2 Michigan
15 CHA Autobid
7 Clarkson
10 Michigan State
6 Denver
11 Minnesota State
4 North Dakota
13 Wisconsin
5 Miami
12 Minnesota
BU is now the last team in the tournament; we still have 7 WCHA participants. Any time there are more than four teams per conference the NCAA will accept a first-round intraconference matchups, so we don't have to break the DU-Minnesota State or UND-UW games, but UNH and BU have to be split. If we flop UW and BU we break two intra-conference matchups and get an attractive bracket for Madison, but attendance nightmares in the East: Clarkson and BU are the only Eastern teams.
Does screwing Michigan help? (Remember, the committee loves screwing Michigan.) Maybe.
Option #2: If BU gets flopped with the CHA autobid, UNH can go to Worchester and Albany will have Clarkson and BU to go with the two Michigans. This scenario has an extra intra-WCHA first round game, though.
Option #3: flip Wisconsin into the M bracket, then flip BU into the UND bracket. This puts M in Madison against UW and allows UNH to stay home but creates an Albany bracket with 2 WCHA teams, Miami, and someone like Army.
Given last year's slavish adherence to their rickety system over attendance and logic, I think they'll go with the first option but swap the AH team into it for what marginal attendance and travel benefits it provides, leaving Michigan in this bracket:
1. Michigan
4. Army (-ish)
2. Clarkson
3. Michigan State
I dislike the idea of Michigan State our bracket since they clearly know how to frustrate Michigan into a bad game; other than that, fairly appealing.
As always, this exercise was wholly useless.
Basketball. I did end up using those tickets that loomed in my drawer and was rewarded with a couple of wins and generally competitive basketball (fortunately, I was hundreds of miles away from Crisler during the Northwestern debacle), but the last ten minutes yesterday left a sour note. I can't summon the energy to construct a coherent column-thingy, but that's what bullets are for:
- Manny Harris had seven turnovers and no assists; nominal point guard Kelvin Grady had five and five. Twelve turnovers and five assist from the starting backcourt with nine points between them, all from Harris. Bleah, bleah, bleah. Did either of these guys improve as the season progressed?
To me, the key sequence in the game -- one that was emblematic of the entire season -- came midway through the second half. The score was tied and Purdue was inbounding from behind the Michigan basket. Harris and Grady got confused, leaving a soon-to-be red hot Purdue guard with a wide open three, which he nailed. Grady then took the ball out of bounds, panicked when he saw Harris being overplayed, and threw it directly to a Purdue defender instead of taking one of the 46 timeouts allotted. Result: layup, five point deficit that would quickly balloon to ten, lost game. It was strikingly reminiscent of the Boston College game earlier in the year, wherein Michigan hung around for approximately 30 minutes, then imploded in an Amakerian spurt of turnovers and stupidity.
He moves very well without the ball and also can create his own shot. But the thing that stood out the most was his passing ability, he is a very unselfish player for the high school level. I saw all those kids last year play that went to Purdue in this area and I would put him right up there with them.
Beilein still has two scholarships left for either '08 or '09; the general thought was he would take one more '08 kid and try to balance the classes somewhat but the Novak offer and commit when a couple higher-profile guys like Kyle Cassity are still out there implies that Beilein thinks he needs help now and will be taking a fourth '08 kid.
A dispiriting year for the basketball program. No one expected miracles but beating Harvard and Central and Northwestern shouldn't fall in the category of "miracle". From time to time the team showed a semblance of offensive organization not present under Amaker. Turnovers did fall dramatically. But a number of things did not change: Michigan was awful defending the three-pointer and on the boards, and for all the complaints about the Amaker offense consisting of 30 seconds of aimless dribbling and an off-balance three pointer, at no time did Michigan decide to launch so many ill-advised bombs as they did this year. After a 7 of 26 brickfest against Purdue, Michigan is now the 45th most three-happy team in the nation... and 310th in making 'em.
But, hey... free white guys!
Pryor... hasn't decided on a school, but has gotten in another fight after a basketball game. These red flags are reproducing like chlorine-fixing bacteria in an anaerobic environment.
Unverified Voracity Has Daddy Issues
Pryor. It's been quiet on the Pryor front of late, mostly because everyone's given up and assumes he's headed to OSU. A Mike Farrell story provides a glimmer of optimism in the form of a potential visit...
"I'd like my mom to see both places and Penn State," he said. "So we're talking about a day trip to both Ohio State and Michigan, and she'd come along with me on my Penn State trip."
...but not much of one. Pryor says he'll decide by April 1st.
I get this question a lot: "when does Pryor have to sign by?" The answer is "never." If Pryor is going to sign a LOI, he has to do it by the end of the month, but the LOI doesn't actually do anything for the player. If Pryor doesn't sign he can still show up on a college campus this fall and get an athletic scholarship.
In other Pryor news: weird guys make figurines, and there's no way to say it that doesn't sound like sour grapes, but... uh... I don't know if Pryor's much of a warrior-poet. You've probably seen the Bleacher Report thing about that near-riot at a basketball game, which was at least partially substantiated by a newspaper columnist:
That's when a Jeannette assistant exited the Jayhawks' locker and complained about the conduct of the South Fayette students. That's something he had a right to do.
One officer, however, did not appreciate the direction of the conversation. He was present when Pryor accosted the South Fayette fans.
"You're lucky we didn't take your kid (Pryor) in," the officer said. "He threatened to go into the crowd."
A Penn State friend mentioned that there was a pretty horrifying account of Pryor's behavior posted on one of the PSU premium boards by someone who was at the game, and sent it along. It's pretty convincing, especially because at the time Penn State fans were hopeful Pryor would pick them.
Then there's this Plain-Dealer piece Run Up The Score noted:
Sharon, Pa. — Day 28 since the Day of No Decision. Subject No. 1 — Pryor, Terrelle — seems aloof Wednesday night, at times disinterested. He applies himself only when necessary — and when a fast-break dunk appears possible.
"He plays as well as he needs to play," says his basketball coach at Jeannette High School, Jim Nesser. "I don't know if that sounds good, but if he needs to take it to another level, he can do that."
And then, like, uh...
"I'm a Pryor," he says. "My dad used to hit me when I lost at anything, at fights, anything. I mean, your dad is supposed to make you a man, right? That's what he did."
Not that this last quote reflects poorly on Pryor himself. It's just weird.
Ohhhhhhhhhhhh... Iowa says CYA to a couple of the infamous Facebook guys, and others are pointedly not on the roster. It looks unlikely that any of the guys we've all seen 1) displaying lots of money, 2) putting lots of money on their head, or 3) eating lots of money will ever see the field at Iowa again. BHGP is, of course, crushed:
In other suspension-tastic news, Penn State tight end Andrew Quarless is probably hanging by a thread after a DUI charge, his second alcohol related run-in with the law in a year, and Indiana's Kellen Lewis has violated some team rules.
BONUS speculation on the Quarless incident can be found over at Black Shoe Diaries:
An insider on a message board has just indicated there is more to this story which will come out in time. And it's not good. He didn't give details so don't ask me what it is.
Begin rampant speculation now.
This might have something to do with the car Quarless was pulled over in: a white BMW.
Updated. Made a couple fixes to the depth chart by class: I miscounted the OL (there are 15, not 14) and erroneously asserted that Troy Woolfolk redshirted last year. He did not. Other assertion made that I believe is incorrect: Moosman, Zirbel, and Stewart are in their final years of eligibility. IIRC, all redshirted. Other assertion made that I can't confirm: Marell Evans didn't redshirt. Which would be, like, WTF.
Etc.: UMHoops interviews Stuart Douglass; Rodriguez "lectured".
Michigan Depth Chart By Class
Shamelessly reappropriated from Rocky Top Talk.
Position | Incoming (c/o 2012) |
Freshmen (c/o 2012) |
Sophomores (c/o 2011) |
Juniors (c/o 2010) |
Seniors (c/o 2009) |
QB (3) | Justin Feagin | Steven Threet* | David Cone* | ||
RB (7) | Sam McGuffie Mike Cox Michael Shaw |
Avery Horn* | Kevin Grady* Brandon Minor Carlos Brown |
FB (1) | Vince Helmuth Mark Moundros(W) |
WR (6) | Darryl Stonum Roy Roundtree |
J. Hemingway Toney Clemons |
Greg Mathews L. Savoy* |
Slot (3) | T. Robinson M. Odoms |
Zion Babb | |||
TE (6) | Brandon Moore Kevin Koger |
Steve Watson* | Martell Webb | Carson Butler* | Mike Massey* |
OL (15) | Dann O'Neill Kurt Wermers Patrick Omameh Ricky Barnum Elliot Mealer Rocko Khoury |
David Molk* Mark Huyge* |
Steve Schilling* Perry Dorrestein* |
Mark Ortmann* Tim MacAvoy* David Moosman* Cory Zirbel* |
DT (7) | Mike Martin | John Ferrara* Jason Kates* Renaldo Sagesse Marques Slocum |
Terrance Taylor Will Johnson* |
DE (6) | R. VanBergen* | Greg Banks* | Brandon Graham Adam Patterson Andre Criswell* |
Tim Jamison* | |
LB (11) | JB Fitzgerald M. Witherspoon K. Demens Taylor Hill |
B. Herron* | Obi Ezeh* Jonas Mouton* Marell Evans |
J. Thompson* Austin Panter Brandon Logan |
CB (8) | B. Cissoko JT Floyd |
D. Warren James Rogers Troy Woolfolk |
Morgan Trent* Brandon Harrison Doug Dutch |
S (5) | Brandon Smith | Mike Williams* | Artis Chambers | Charles Stewart* Stevie Brown |
P/K (2) | Bryan Wright* | Zoltan Mesko* | KC Lopata (W) | ||
returning starters in bold, projected starters in italics, redshirts denoted with * |
Total allotted: 79.
Sorry for the slow day; I'm painstakingly assembling all the articles about 2009 recruits I have stored up so that the 2009 recruiting board can make a debut soon. Corrections appreciated.
At first glimpse: there are five unused spots, ten scholarship players see their eligibility expire, and there are two or three potential fifth years who probably won't be asked back. 18 or so scholarships are available right now and with normal attrition Michigan should again be signing close to a full class.
/strong> Miscounted the OL; there are 15. Troy Woolfolk did not redshirt last year. Yes, there are twelve starters on each side of the ball.
Update: Removed Boren, moved Evans to sophomore -- he did not redshirt.
Update: Removed Quintin Patilla, who transferred to GVSU.