Almost immediately after the 2011 season came to a close, Michigan football coach Brady Hoke and defensive coordinator Greg Mattison came to a consensus. Craig Roh needed to switch positions, and the defense would be better for it in the end. After spending his junior season as a weak side ...
The Michigan football team jumped 93 spots in the overall defensive rankings last year, and nothing was more closely correlated to that ascent than the play of the front four. The line struggled to apply pressure early in the season, and the overall defense played pretty well. But as the ...
The Michigan football team seems to have already taken its first step toward addressing the massive losses it sustained along the defensive line. The Wolverines will be without three starters from last year's 11-2 season: tackles Mike Martin and Will Heininger and end Ryan Van Bergen. Their only returning starter ...
NEW ORLEANS -- Michigan football coach Brady Hoke said Michael Schofield "obviously" is the starter at left guard. The sophomore officially has beaten out oft-injured Ricky Barnum for the team's Sugar Bowl matchup on Tuesday against Virginia Tech (8:30 p.m., ESPN). Barnum was listed on the depth chart as the ...
When Greg Mattison first sat down for a meeting with the Michigan football team's defensive players prior to spring practice, he drew a line in the sand. You could be a baby rabbit or an armadillo. One group plays, the other watches. There is no in between. "You can't have ...
There was no way Courtney Avery was running out of gas. After struggling last season as a freshman cornerback on a Michigan defense that was ranked 110th in the country and became the butt of more than a few national jokes, there was no way he was stopping short of ...
Craig Roh's tackle stopped more than the ball carrier. It ended talk, for at least a day, of the Michigan football team's slow first-quarter starts. Roh, a defensive end, shed his blocker Saturday on a third-and-one play deep inside San Diego State territory on the Aztecs' opening drive. Roh stopped ...
Michigan football coach Brady Hoke speaks endlessly about wanting to "feel" his defensive line's impact throughout the course of a game. Hoke felt his front four more Saturday. And so did San Diego State quarterback Ryan Lindley, the Aztecs' offensive line, running back Ronnie Hillman and basically any of the ...
For the first time in Craig Roh's football career, someone told him he wasn't perfect. And told him. And told him. And told him. He broke down. He eventually hit rock bottom. He cried. "In the first game, I didn't perform that great," Roh said. "I just had that break ...
Michigan junior quarterback Denard Robinson doesn't need help running the football. Through three games, he's averaged 117.3 rushing yards and has an average of 7.0 yards per rush. But in the Wolverines' new hybrid offense, he's being asked to have two facets. And that other part isn't working for him ...
The Michigan football team is 2-0 despite a largely ineffectual start from the defensive line. Craig Roh has pulled the biggest disappearing act of all.
Craig Roh took the sledgehammer, wielded it in his massive hands and struck down into the concrete with all the force he could muster. Over and over again for nearly a week straight. The Michigan defensive end turned into a construction worker. Far from his Arizona home and his college ...
With the Michigan football team's storied rivalry game against Ohio State coming Saturday (noon, ABC), coach Rich Rodriguez and several players -- offensive lineman Stephen Schilling, linebacker Craig Roh, defensive end Ryan Van Bergen, defensive tackle Mike Martin and quarterback Denard Robinson -- had plenty to discuss at Monday's press ...
Michigan wide receiver Darryl Stonum grimaces in pain after being hurt on a fourth quarter kick return on Saturday. Vincent Smith tried to cut block a Wisconsin defender late in the fourth quarter and, in doing so, took himself out of the game. As the 5-foot-6 sophomore running back made ...
Flustered by their season-long inability to put pressure on opposing quarterbacks, the Michigan football team made two changes on defense heading into last Saturday’s game against Illinois. Based on the results, they’ll become permanent. Michigan coach Rich Rodriguez liked the way the defense played with Craig Roh moved to defensive ...
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