Michigan Football: Tidbits for Summer Camps, Freshman, and Recruiting
Posted at 6:00am — 6/20/2008
Michigan Football: Tidbits for Summer Camps, Freshman, and Recruiting
As many has heard there is some bad news regarding Slocum right now and we will leave it to that for the time being until some things get released officially.
Regarding the all the football camps. The summer camp seems to be more for the younger players for the coach’s to get an idea who to look out for in the next couple of years so not sure a lot of offers or commits will come out of it compared to the last coaching staff. The elite camp that was before the summer camp will be a time for kids that will be seniors to come in and show what they have and I am betting that Coach Rod and staff will probably have a lot more of these types of camps to see prospects.
Also a lot more junior days as well compared to the old staff. Be interesting to see how the new kicking camp goes over especially having more of a Michigan connection instead of having others in charge of it. I am willing to bet they will offer at least one kid possible two once they see them in person after this camp and hopefully be able to land a kicker in this years recruiting class.
The 7 on 7 camp might be something that needs to be changed or get more people involved because this came out late and a lot of these tournaments have been going on for along time and some are the same weekend. The Indianapolis Colts have a big tournament the same time along with other colleges in the area so they might want to change the tournament to before all the camp stuff instead of after.
The freshmen are making their way to Ann Arbor if they are not there yet. They are all supposed to take summer classes and work out with Barwis. The thing is the freshman might be in for a rude awakening with the workouts during the summer because Barwis is not going to slow down for them. The workouts are actually harder than in the winter with the workouts themselves along with the temperature as well. Seems like almost everybody is buying into the program now and this will be a key factor from here on out to instruct the new incoming freshmen how things are done now.
It will be interesting to see how this team comes together during the summer and into fall practices. One thing this year we need to keep injuries to a minimum this year especially at the offensive line in particular.
Recruiting needs to focus in on the defensive side of the ball especially the defensive line and a few offensive linemen would help as well. We need great/elite players here and not just bodies.
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