The Michigan football team loses only six starters from last season, making it one of the more veteran teams in the Big Ten. But it might take just one loss to reshape the Wolverines' passing game philosophy. Junior Hemingway was Michigan's most reliable receiver last season, especially downfield. He often ...
Former Michigan football star and Heisman Trophy winner Desmond Howard will have a presence once again for the Wolverines in 2012. Michigan announced Friday that senior receiver Roy Roundtree will wear Howard's No. 21 "Michigan Football Legend" uniform next season. Prior to its game against Notre Dame last season, Michigan ...
Roy Roundtree wants to wear the No. 1 jersey for the Michigan football team, and not just because of the prestige attached to it at his school. He grew up idolizing the last guy who wore it. And that guy, Braylon Edwards, enlisted Roundtree to coach in his charity basketball ...
Michigan receiver Roy Roundtree moved from the slot to split-end last year, and he suffered the worst drop in wideout production in school history. Now he's on the move again, after offensive coordinator Al Borges announced Monday the senior is moving to the flanker position that was occupied last year ...
Update at 11 a.m. Wednesday: Michigan linebacker Kenny Demens also tweeted at high school linebacker Mike McCray, writing after 9 p.m. Tuesday "@MJM92013 Welcome to the Maize & Blue my dog." Michigan alerted its compliance. A Michigan football program spokesman said Tuesday night the school's compliance department was notified after ...
One of the loudest ovations inside the Crisler Center on Wednesday was awarded to the Michigan football team. The Wolverines were honored during the first half of the Michigan basketball team's 66-64 win over Northwestern, taking a collective bow with the 2012 Sugar Bowl trophy in hand.
NEW ORLEANS — Michigan receivers coach Jeff Hecklinski looked around the film room before the Nebraska game, and made a simple request. "'Hey, somebody needs to knock (star linebacker LaVonte David) out of the game,'" recalls Roy Roundtree. "'Who’s it going to be?’" "We all looked around like, ‘Challenge is ...
Michigan senior receiver Junior Hemingway has, and always will have, one glaring advantage against opposing defensive backs. "Junior's a big guy," Michigan coach Brady Hoke said Saturday following a 42-24 victory at Northwestern. "We call him an offensive guard sometimes." The 6-foot-1, 222-pound Hemingway wasn't lining up in a three-point ...
With his team trailing by three points and 8 seconds left, Roy Roundtree had one thing to tell Denard Robinson in the huddle before one of the biggest snaps of his career. “He told me in the huddle, ‘Denard, I got to get ‘em, I got to get ‘em,’ and ...
The headline was changed to fix a spelling error. Junior wide receiver Roy Roundtree, who led the Michigan football team with 72 catches for 935 yards and seven touchdowns last season, is on the 75-member Biletnikoff Award preseason watch list. The annual award is presented to the nation's best receiver. ...
Of all the Michigan football team’s new position coaches, Jeff Hecklinski has the most returning talent to work with. The question will become, what does the new receivers coach do with it all? In a recent video profile posted by MGoBlue.com, Hecklinski recalled a conversation he had with quarterback Denard ...
By most accounts, Roy Roundtree had a breakthrough season for the Michigan football team. The redshirt sophomore led the Wolverines with 63 catches for 882 yards and six touchdowns, and earned second-team all-Big Ten honors. By his own account, Roundtree knows he could have finished the season with even better ...
After opening words from the Gator Bowl chairman Steve Tremel, Michigan athletic director Dave Brandon and Rich Rodriguez give their thoughts on the Michigan football team's invitation to play in the Gator Bowl against Mississippi State on New Year's Day. Rodriguez and players -- defensive tackle Mike Martin, wide receivers ...
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - There was no snake oil Saturday, just a lot of rain and wind. But in Roy Roundtree’s first visit to Purdue as a player on the field since he decommitted from the Boilermakers just before signing day in 2008, he left with something more important. A ...
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Michigan receiver Roy Roundtree needed to be conscious of his feet. It had nothing to do with his footwork, though. He literally had to make sure he lifted them during every stride. In a slippery, sloppy 27-16 Michigan victory against Purdue that included 10 turnovers and ...
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