2024 Michigan Season Thread

[Mdot21]

any forum member here makes that catch - the only way it gets dropped is he would so shocked it was right to him

Lolwut? 

Will Johnson read the play and and read it so fast he jumped the route and out-maneuvered and out-muscled a 6'4, 210 pound freak who was just the #4 pick in the NFL draft and the best college WR I've seen in at least 15 years for that INT and beat said freak WR to the spot before the ball was even out of the QB's hand. 

there is literally no one on this forum that could've made that play. lol.

you do realize that Will Johnson is going to be a top 10 pick in the 2025 draft, right? 


https://twitter.com/ryanwilsonCBS/status/1823028738898149558

https://twitter.com/NFL_DF/status/1791530777110335870


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdukkcouE-g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsx5IScw5hk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IcYAcZWKfI

[Honestbuckeye]

Yes- best DB in CFB IMO.    Might be top 3 pick. 

Watching him and Marvin go at it was a real treat. 

[Mdot21]

Yes- best DB in CFB IMO.    Might be top 3 pick. 

Watching him and Marvin go at it was a real treat.

I’ll say he’s the best corner, easily. But Caleb Downs has an argument for sure if we’re talking all DB’s and not just corners. Downs was so good at safety as a true frosh it’s scary. 

Marv & Will didn’t line up 100% of the snaps but it for sure was an absolute treat watching them go at it for it two years. Marv simply put was amazing- some of those catches he made on Will were insane. Incredible player. 

[MrNubbz]

Lolwut?

Will Johnson read the play and and read it so fast he jumped the route and out-maneuvered and out-muscled a 6'4, 210 pound freak who was just the #4 pick in the NFL draft and the best college WR I've seen in at least 15 years for that INT and beat said freak WR to the spot before the ball was even out of the QB's hand.

You have the peculiar faculty of realizing hallucinations,If you can't laugh at yourself let me do it for you. Look at McCord thicko Johnson didn't jump anything being the tinman Kyle stared down marvin from the start like he'd been doing since HS,never looking off him thru it right  to him Ray Charles could of read that. A crap pass that Johnson hung on to - nothing other dbs wouldn't do. Just like Stanley jackson in the '97 completing strikes to the wrong guys.  When you're done fellating this guy clean his cack out of your eye sockets ffs. Even the Michigan fans next to us at the Pub said Thanx for the gift

[Mdot21]

https://twitter.com/PFF_College/status/1770435190663299445

PFF ranks Jaishawn Barham as the 5th best LB in 2024. Kid looks even more twitchy and explosive than Junior Colson- who was a stud ILB at Michigan and was just picked in the 3rd round of the NFL draft. Oh Barham is also 6'4, 248 pounds. Kid certainly looks the part. For sure. And he's been getting a crazy amount of buzz all offseason from coaches, players, insiders, practice observers. Michigan's front 7 is just going to be really damn good. 

Everyone is talking all about Mason Graham, Kenneth Grant, Josaiah Stewart and the transfer Barham, meanwhile Derrick Moore and Ernest Hausmann are kinda being slept on. Moore is a former top 50 overall recruit and had 5 sacks last year as a true sophomore "co-starter" splitting snaps with Braiden McGregor- Moore will get vast majority of the snaps this season and has a legit shot to hit double digit sacks this year. Ernest Hausmann was a true freshman starter at Nebraska and was the best player on that defense before being ranked as the #4 player available in the transfer portal in the 247 transfer portal rankings and coming to Michigan last year where he was essentially a "co-starter" ILB as a true sophomore and racked up 45 tackles. Their starting front 7 is nuts.

Derrick Moore whipping the #7 pick in the NFL draft for a sack.


https://twitter.com/MaizeCrusader/status/1812493515261165863


Jaishawn Barham clip from Maryland....


https://twitter.com/MichiganOnBTN/status/1737525888143757562

[Mdot21]

RB Donovan Edwards and H-Back Max Bredeson voted captains of the offense, safeties Rod Moore and Makari Paige voted captains of the defense.

[Mdot21]

not to mention he bench pressed the #7 pick in the NFL draft OT JC Latham into the backfield with one arm and into Jalen Milroe to seal the victory on 4th down in OT.


https://twitter.com/JimNagy_SB/status/1826596089358619049

[SuperMario]

I think there's a lot of people slightly overlooking the Michigan defense. They see JJ, Jenkins, Sainristil, Colson and Corum gone and a ton of players drafted and don't see some of the elite talent still on the defensive side of the ball. Yes, QB play will be an impactful position, but there were many Bama teams we watched a defense could be so good, even mediocre QB play was all that was needed because the defensive talent was so dominant. This team could certainly have that potential. 

[Mdot21]

I think there's a lot of people slightly overlooking the Michigan defense. They see JJ, Jenkins, Sainristil, Colson and Corum gone and a ton of players drafted and don't see some of the elite talent still on the defensive side of the ball. Yes, QB play will be an impactful position, but there were many Bama teams we watched a defense could be so good, even mediocre QB play was all that was needed because the defensive talent was so dominant. This team could certainly have that potential.

yeah their defense is going to be nasty. the only thing that really hurts is losing Rod Moore. he was sooooo good at deep safety. there were only a handful of safeties in the country better than him. 

Jaishawn Barham & Ernest Hausmann at ILB is going to be possibly be the best ILB duo in the conference, at worst they are in the top 3. The depth behind those two is a little bit concerning however. 

The defensive line is going to be elite. Rayshaun Benny coming back healthy really helps the depth, he would start at defensive tackle on most other B1G teams and would at Michigan most years but: Mason Graham & Kenneth Grant. A pair of RS Frosh on the inside seem to be getting some real buzz right now, Enow Etta and Trey Pierce. Etta was a very highly rated edge recruit that has now moved inside. Pierce was a guy they flipped from Wisconsin last year who the previous staff was extremely high on. 

Josaiah Stewart and Derrick Moore are a great EDGE duo, but they're gonna have to rebuild the depth. TJ Guy is a guy who has been getting lot of buzz the past couple seasons, saw little bit of playing time last year and he'll probably be first man up in the rotation. Dominic Nichols is a 6'5, 260 pound true freshman that has been getting the most buzz of probably any freshman on campus. Sherrone Moore singled him out specifically and said that kid is going to be a future superstar. His words not mine. He hasn't really spoken about any other true freshman on his team quite like that with the exception of the RB Jordan Marshall.

Will Johnson is the best CB in the sport and a top 10 pick in 2025. Guy I'm really excited about is RS Frosh Jyaire Hill, and he's won the job and has been proclaimed CB2 starter over the other guys they've had on the roster and over the two upperclass transfers they took. Key again will be building depth, but I think they should have it because of the experienced veteran transfers they took. Nickel will be fine between Zeke Berry and Ja'Den McBurrows. I think Berry is going to win the job, he was a highly ranked 4* former top 100 overall recruit and he's just been stuck behind Mikey Sainistril- who was maybe the best nickel in the country the last 2 seasons. 

Not having Rod Moore really hurts but the safety room is still very good with Makari Paige and Quentin Johnson returning for their senior seasons and having the two safety transfers they took Wesley Walker and Jaden Mangham. Michigan State's defense sucked last year, but Mangham is an interesting player. He's very athletic and super rangy and twitchy and fluid at pushing nearly 6'4. Very intriguing player and had 4 INT's last year as a true sophomore on a really bad defense. 

[FearlessF]

if Ernest Hausmann was still in Lincoln, folks wouldn't be saying the same things about him, but good for that kid.

Taking that opportunity and making the most of it.

[Mdot21]

if Ernest Hausmann was still in Lincoln, folks wouldn't be saying the same things about him, but good for that kid.

Taking that opportunity and making the most of it.

he's really good. very underrated on the national landscape in large part because he wasn't a full-time starter. 247Sports rated him as the #4 player overall in their 2023 transfer portal rankings after he had a really good true freshman season at Nebraska. And I can see why. He's built like a brick shit house and twitched way up, he has some wheels and he's a heat seeking ball of muscle missile. He accelerates and closes on the ball as fast as any LB'er I've seen at Michigan and when he comes he comes with bad intentions. 

Thanks Nebraska. 

[CatsbyAZ]

...and a nobody guy in Stalions, making $55,000 a year and standing two feet from the defensive coordinator, is giving him this info in real time as the DC calls the new defensive play for UM.

Speaking of Connor Stalions, did anyone catch Netflix's documentary released earlier this week, focusing on Stalions' central role in Michigan's Sign-Stealing Scandal?

Entertaining and informative - highly recommend. I saw several comments dismissing the Netflix Doc as "nothing we didn't already know," but for as much as I followed the scandal last fall (along with Mel Tucker's unceremonious termination), the Doc does offer details I wasn't aware of, especially as provided from the prospective of Connor Stalions himself, who received the most camera time.

For example:

-I was aware Stalions attended the Naval Academy and later served as a Marine Corps Officer but I did not know Stalions learned to decipher signs during volunteer sideline work for the Navy Midshipman's football team under Coach Ken Niumatalolo starting in 2014.

-Stalions was immensely dedicated to Michigan football. Once he established himself as a sideline volunteer on Harbaugh's staff in 2018, he would fly on his own dime from Southern California (where he was stationed with the Marine Corps at Camp Pendleton) to wherever Michigan's game was to fulfill his volunteer sideline duties for that weekend.

-As Stalions walks the viewer through his thoroughness, meticulousness, and creativity with which he created sophisticated databases (his "gameday sheets") to store, track, and share signals, you realize just how hyper-focused, determined, quick-thinking, and intelligent Stalions is.

-Sign-stealing is a dedicated underground community in college football. It is within the rules of college football to collaborate within the community to track and share signals of teams they've scouted. But "advanced scouting" such as sending staffers to other games to video-record the sidelines of upcoming opponents is against the rules, which is among the rules Stalions is accused of breaking.

-I was not aware of the 'Ohio State counter-angle' in all of this, namely that incriminating information received by the Washington Post was collected by a third-party firm who might've been hired, encouraged, and enabled by Ohio State to hack Connor Stalions' emails (all unconfirmed).

-Finally, for us Message Board folks, the Documentary gives us our due, delving into the clever sleuthing that unfolded on college football message boards as Michigan's scandal deepened last Fall. If anything, the Doc celebrates the delirium of both college football and its fans.


https://twitter.com/netflix/status/1828404049382699102

[MrNubbz]

[MaximumSam]

Speaking of Connor Stalions, did anyone catch Netflix's documentary released earlier this week, focusing on Stalions' central role in Michigan's Sign-Stealing Scandal?

I haven't watched it, maybe I will give it a spin. I thought it was odd that they had an "Ohio State fan" dressed in disguise calling himself Brohio, given that there are approximately 10 million OSU fans who would have willingly gone on camera. Any reason given for that?