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greg paulus will be given a shot to compete for the qb job at michigan
i myself have been hating on paulus as a point guard for years..but
the kid could ball in highschool and was suppose to go to Notre Dame to qb before he chose duke bball
as a wolverine fan im nervous..again
hope this works
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=4073430
i myself have been hating on paulus as a point guard for years..but
the kid could ball in highschool and was suppose to go to Notre Dame to qb before he chose duke bball
as a wolverine fan im nervous..again
hope this works
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=4073430
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Michigan really has nothing to lose by offering him a scholarship. But I would be really surprised if Paulus can compete with Forcier, and he would have to win the job to see any significant time under center. I'm discouraged by the fact that he wasn't even good enough to compete for the starting QB spot at Duke, and Duke's football team isn't even close to being considered a strong program, let alone elite. But I guess we'll see what happens.
I heard the basketball program would not let him play both sports.
Not sure what to think about the QB sit. there. Seems like a bit of a stretch, but maybe it'll pan out.
Interesting
The Rodriguez experiment is off to a rocky ass start
They better start winning and soon :roll:
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i worked with a kid named chris..we nicknamed him paulus because of he sucked and didnt know it..kinda like paulus as a pointguard
In all honesty, the Big Ten really isn't relevant to college football anymore.
Speaking as a huge Ohio State fan, I fear you might be right... about athletics generally. 2 out of the last 3 years a Big Ten team has been in a national title game for basketball and football. Every single time they've been humiliated. Ohio State in basketball and twice in football, and Michigan State in basketball.
I know it. I'm not an anonymous hater, I'm a Michigan fan (as difficult as that is to own up to these days...). I don't understand how the conference got bypassed by pretty much everyone in football. It was like, for forever the B10 was a power conference, but now they aren't even in the top 3. The SEC, PAC10 and Big 12 are all better.
It all works in cycles, Big Ten will be back. Michigan might take a little longer- but until RichRod gets his guys in there, no one will know. This is his first real recruiting class comming in, so it will be interesting to see how the team develops. But it is a good time for him to rebuild, since Florida, Texas, and Oklahoma will be loaded this year.
but if white can do it at 6'1 or whatever so can paulus
you know paulus ran a 4.6 in highschool and duke does football influenced speed drills so i doubt hes lost a step. all we need is speed
When I was in school (not too long ago), Ohio State, Michigan, Iowa, and at times Wisconsin and Michigan State were always solid teams. The conference was always a huge battle and come bowl selection there were always B-10 teams in the big bowl games...AND they'd always show up.
-Ohio State will win the conference, go to a big bowl game and get destroyed.
-Michigan is more or less an average college football team/program now.
-Iowa has ups and downs. They'll take down a #2 team only to lose to Northern Illinois (or similar) the following week.
-Michigan State always just seems like a spoiler. hahaha
-Wisconsin will go half the season at a time 10-15 ranking only to lose the next 4 games by 20 points each.
-Penn State played well last year, but for the most part they haven't been that great.
I hope it goes in cycles and the conference can start doing well and as a result of that...start drawing better recruits.
Go Hawkeyes!
True, and to be fair to the Big Ten, they seem to overachieve many years. Mich State was something of a Cinderella story, ditto for the Buckeyes when they went in basketball(that and the team was being carried by Oden). In football, OSU played Texas pretty damn good last season in the Bowl game and everyone thought they belonged in the title game. And the Big Ten overall handled itself pretty well... even Northwestern almost knocked off Missouri. The year before, OSU had no business in the title game, but still put up a decent showing against an LSU team that clearly outclassed them... but that wasn't their fault... everyone else stumbled and they just happened to be standing atop a weak Big Ten. Michigan pulled off an upset on Florida.
They just need to stop making it to title games... they can't seem to deliver there.
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While I will concede that the Wolverines are underwhelming to say the least, under RichRod the team has already eclipsed last season's win total. The program still has a long, long way to go before even being close to be considered relevant, but to call the regime change a "horrible mistake" a season and a half into the transition may be jumping the gun.
"Life Is What Happens To You When Your Busy Making Other Plans" John Lennon
I think they have a good shot at beating Purdue, although they will probably lose at Wisconsin and against Ohio State. That would finish them at 6-6 and put them in a bowl game. And it would be a significant improvement from last season. And in the third season, I think, is where people would expect to see the bulk of the transition improvement.
Also- another reason I think they will give him a little latitude is that its just so hard to replace a college football coach. When you consider the fact that if they bring in another Pro-Style coach, they are going to be stuck with a bunch of players tailored to run the spread for the next few years. And, Michigan's AD is on the way out, so if they hired someone new right now, they would be hamstringing whoever takes over the AD position with a football coach they didn't hire.
I bet RichRod gets at least one more season after this one, and more likely even a fourth to try to turn it around.
I think RichRod gets next year for sure, if they get in a bowl he'll get a 4th year, I would say that if they don't get a New Years day bowl or better in his 4th year he'll be on shaky ground. Michigan is used to high profile bowl game, not the little caesars bowl. I know quite a few Michigan fans and so many seem so content on just becoming bowl eligible, it only takes 6 wins to get a bowl birth.
"Life Is What Happens To You When Your Busy Making Other Plans" John Lennon
Ohio State won a national title in Tressel's second season. just saying.
And been embarrassed in just about every major game played since :(
And been embarrassed in just about every major game played since :([/quote]
i wouldn't go quite that far. everybody wants to harp on the FL, LSU and USC games. yes FL was a blowout. yes USC was a blow out last year, but no matter what anybody says, the Buckeyes were in the LSU game. a couple of critical mistakes led to that loss.
as far as Richie goes, IMO, he is a terrible coach. you go to a school that is built to run a certain offense, you don't just scrap it over night to run your spread. there has to be a transition period where you run the offense that the players were recruited to run.
i wouldn't go quite that far. everybody wants to harp on the FL, LSU and USC games. yes FL was a blowout. yes USC was a blow out last year, but no matter what anybody says, the Buckeyes were in the LSU game. a couple of critical mistakes led to that loss.
as far as Richie goes, IMO, he is a terrible coach. you go to a school that is built to run a certain offense, you don't just scrap it over night to run your spread. there has to be a transition period where you run the offense that the players were recruited to run.[/quote]
I would have much rather kept the same offensive philosophy.
"Life Is What Happens To You When Your Busy Making Other Plans" John Lennon
I'm not saying they're a bad team, I'm saying any time they get into a high profile game against an elite program they end up looking like chumps. Either becos they fold at the last second (Texas, USC) or just play so embarrassingly sloppy that they hand the game to their opponent (PSU, LSU). They just look inept any time they play a quality opponent and I think that falls on Tressel as the coach. He cannot seem to get his team to hang tough in big games. They've shown time and again that they can't take a lead and hope to hold it... there's too much "play defense and hope to hold on" and not enough killer instinct and competitiveness.