Where no spring practices hurts Michigan the most
The Michigan Insider
247Sports, Michigan Football, Michigan Wolverines, Michigan, Michigan athletics, College Football
4.6 • 855 Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we look at how the mass cancellation of all sports activities, including the Michigan football team’s spring practices, most hurts the Wolverines.
Breaking the impact into four parts, we first begin by looking at Michigan’s quarterback battle. We discuss why the battle hurts one competitor more than the other, how the Wolverines approach the contest now that there are 15 fewer practices and what each competitor must do now.
Then, we break down how the lack of spring practices hurts Michigan’s early enrollees. We discuss the three incoming freshmen it hurts the most, and where the freshmen go from here. We also discuss position battles that will be delayed a few months, and how Michigan must make up for that lost time.
We close with a discussion about the Wolverines’ new defensive coaches — and potentially major tweaks to Michigan’s defense — and why losing the opportunity to experiment and work on things in the spring is costly.
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| 0:00.0 | Are you working? What kind of work? |
| 0:01.7 | Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Wolverine 24-7 podcast, your audio source for all things Michigan football, basketball, and recruiting. |
| 0:07.8 | I'm our host, Zach Shaw, Steve Florence, here with me. |
| 0:10.5 | We'll be discussing during this pandemic of COVID-19. We'll just be bringing up different topics, different things that we're thinking about, things that are on our mind. |
| 0:20.0 | Of course, we'll have lots of stories still. |
| 0:22.1 | Our workload is unchanged and we're happy about it. |
| 0:26.0 | You can check it all out at the Michiganinsider.com and Michigan.247 sports.com. |
| 0:32.4 | And in this episode, I think it's time because they would be starting football practice, spring |
| 0:37.4 | practices right around now. I think the's time because they would be starting football practice, spring, spring practices right around now. |
| 0:39.0 | I think the way we should break this down is kind of looking at the key areas Michigan will, |
| 0:45.7 | don't mean this in a bleak way, but the areas where they miss spring practice the most, |
| 0:52.1 | which maybe touching on which players might miss it the most, |
| 0:55.7 | but also kind of which areas was Michigan really hoping to iron out heading into spring ball. |
| 1:00.9 | So the first one that comes to mind, obviously, is quarterback. |
| 1:04.0 | This was, you know, this was going to be a open competition. |
| 1:08.0 | They were really excited about it being an open competition. |
| 1:10.0 | I know Josh Gaddis said that was a point of emphasis for him heading into spring ball between Joe Milton |
| 1:16.4 | and Dylan McCaffrey because I think I think Dylan McCaffrey probably I think it's fair to say he has |
| 1:22.7 | more game experience. He has a little bit more college experience, a little bit more polished. |
| 1:28.7 | I, for one, just seeing little glimpses of practice down in Orlando for the citrus bowl, |
| 1:35.0 | I was very intrigued by what Joe Milton would bring this spring. |
| 1:38.8 | And now, I mean, you know, they can still work on things, just not at the team facilities. |
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